Researcher basic information

• PhD (Science), Kyoto University, Mar. 2016

• https://researchmap.jp/yassatojpn?lang=en

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6466-723X
• https://jglobal.jst.go.jp/detail?JGLOBAL_ID=201601017029419667
• https://yassato.github.io

• 10777949

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6466-723X

• N-7939-2013

• 201601017029419667

• Genetics
• Entomology
• Plant Biology
• Ecology

• Life Science, Plant molecular biology and physiology, Functional genomics
• Life Science, Ecology and environment, Plant-animal interaction

• Bachelor's degree program, School of Science
• Master's degree program, Graduate School of Environmental Science
• Doctoral (PhD) degree program, Graduate School of Environmental Science

Research activity information

• Apr. 2026, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan, The Young Scientists’ Award, The Commendation for Science and Technology
  Yasuhiro Sato, Japan
• Feb. 2018, Inoue Foundation for Science, Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists
  Yasuhiro Sato, Japan
• Dec. 2016, The Society for the Study of Species Biology, Kataoka prize
  Yasuhiro Sato
• Mar. 2016, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ikushi prize
  Yasuhiro Sato
• Apr. 2015, JASSO scholarship, Refund Exemption for Excellent Students
  Yasuhiro Sato
• Apr. 2013, JASSO scholarship, Refund Exemption for Excellent Students
  Yasuhiro Sato

• Negative frequency-dependent selection underlies overyielding through neighbour genotypic effects in Arabidopsis thaliana
  Yasuhiro Sato
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 381, 1952, 20250179, 20250179, The Royal Society, 11 Jun. 2026, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, Abstract
  
  Negative frequency-dependent selection (FDS) can increase both genetic diversity and population-level mean fitness. While the dual consequence of negative FDS has been theoretically recognized, its genomic basis remains unknown. To explore a genetic link between negative FDS and overyielding, I conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of neighbour genotypic effects on the growth of 98 Arabidopsis thaliana genotypes. By incorporating neighbour genotypic similarity, this GWAS analysis detected the most significant single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) on the fifth chromosome of A. thaliana, which was 6 kbp from a known locus responsible for indirect genetic effects. I found negative FDS on the most significant SNP, where individual plants increased their biomass in the presence of neighbours with a dissimilar allele. I also observed overyielding in which a biallelic mixture of the most significant SNP showed a 3% increase in biomass compared with monoallelic conditions. Furthermore, I focused on the genomic region near the most significant SNP and found a signature of balancing selection near a negative regulator of ethylene responses, SIRTUIN 2. The present analysis uncovered a quantitative trait locus linking balanced polymorphisms and overyielding in A. thaliana, providing a proof of principle to understand the maintenance of polymorphism and its positive impact on population productivity.
  
  This article is part of the theme issue ‘Exploring negative frequency-dependent selection across levels: from genetics to ecology and back again’., 48108211;45573661;42210117
• Spatial heterogeneity of disease infection attributable to neighbor genotypic identity in barley cultivars
  Iqra Akram; Lukas Rohr; Kentaro K Shimizu; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Yasuhiro Sato
  in silico Plants, 8, 1, diaf023, Oxford University Press (OUP), 21 Jan. 2026, [Last author, Corresponding author], ［Internationally co-authored］, [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, Abstract
  
  Pest damage exhibits considerable spatial heterogeneity among individual plots in the field. Such spatial heterogeneity has often been treated as a nuisance in crop breeding trials; however, a part of among-plot variation may be explained by genetic factors such as neighboring genotypes. To test whether neighboring genotypes accounted for spatial variation in disease infection, we applied two methods, Spatial Analysis of Field Trials with Splines (SpATS) and Neighbor Genome-Wide Association Study (Neighbor GWAS), to barley cultivars. Having compiled the CIMMYT Australia ICARDA Germplasm Evaluation (CAIGE) data, we first applied SpATS to three disease phenotypes such as the net form net blotch, spot form net blotch, and scald damage. This SpATS analysis showed extraneous phenotypic variation unexplained by smooth spatial trends, thereby leading us to focus on neighboring genotypes as an extraneous biological factor. We then applied the Neighbor GWAS model and found that neighbor genotypic identity explained 0.1-0.3 fractional variation in the three disease phenotypes. The Neighbor GWAS method also detected two significant variants on the barley 7H chromosome, which were associated with neighbor genotypic influence on the net form net blotch and scald damage. These variants were estimated to have beneficial effects that could reduce disease damage by their allelic mixtures. Our findings suggest that neighbor genotypic identity can account for spatial variation in disease infection and its genetic architecture may provide a key to multiline cultivation for pest management., 48108211;45573661;42210117
• Extending genomic prediction from individuals to a population and community
  Yasuhiro Sato; Iqra Akram
  Advances in Ecological Research, Elsevier, 2026, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [International Magazine]
  English, In book, 48108211
• Ecology and evolution: genetic and molecular dynamics of plants in nature
  Takashi Tsuchimatsu; Eriko Sasaki; Yasuhiro Sato; Vincent Castric
  Plant and Cell Physiology, 66, 4, 427, 430, Oxford University Press (OUP), 03 Apr. 2025, ［Internationally co-authored］, [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, 45573661
• Reducing herbivory in mixed planting by genomic prediction of neighbor effects in the field
  Yasuhiro Sato; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Kazuya Takeda; Bernhard Schmid; Atsushi J Nagano; Kentaro K Shimizu
  Nature Communications, 15, 1, 8467, 8467, 07 Oct. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author], ［Internationally co-authored］, [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, Genetically diverse populations can increase plant resistance to natural enemies. Yet, beneficial genotype pairs remain elusive due to the occurrence of positive or negative effects of mixed planting on plant resistance, respectively called associational resistance or susceptibility. Here, we identify key genotype pairs responsible for associational resistance to herbivory using the genome-wide polymorphism data of the plant species Arabidopsis thaliana. To quantify neighbor interactions among 199 genotypes grown in a randomized block design, we employ a genome-wide association method named "Neighbor GWAS" and genomic prediction inspired by the Ising model of magnetics. These analyses predict that 823 of the 19,701 candidate pairs can reduce herbivory in mixed planting. We planted three pairs with the predicted effects in mixtures and monocultures, and detected 18-30% reductions in herbivore damage in the mixed planting treatment. Our study shows the power of genomic prediction to assemble genotype mixtures with positive biodiversity effects., 42210117;45573661;25796766;11761898;11380980
• The genetics of plant-plant interactions and their cascading effects on agroecosystem – from model plants to application
  Yasuhiro Sato; Samuel E Wuest
  Plant and Cell Physiology, 66, 4, 477, 489, Oxford University Press (OUP), 10 Sep. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author], ［Internationally co-authored］, [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, Abstract
  
  Plants are typically surrounded by neighboring individuals in agricultural fields or natural environments. In such circumstances, plant-plant interactions (PPI) are ubiquitous and represent not only important evolutionary forces but also have consequences on (agro-)ecosystem functioning, such as increased productivity and resistance. However, many mechanisms underlying these PPIs remain poorly understood. Recently, new genomic technologies and tools, such as genome-wide association studies, have facilitated genetic approaches to study PPIs, particularly among conspecific individuals. Here, we highlight emerging issues and advances in the field by focusing on three different aspects. First, we overview the current status of genetic mapping studies on PPIs and pinpoint that these studies open a new opportunity that is relevant to agriculture and breeding. Second, we introduce two proof-of-concept studies in Arabidopsis thaliana, in which genetic differences among plants improved the functioning of genotype mixtures. Both studies were able to predict effective mixtures with different experimental designs applied to different outcomes (productivity increase vs. herbivory mitigation). Third, we discuss implications from these case studies about how PPIs have cascading effects that propagate to higher levels of biological organization, such as populations or communities. At the population level, plant yield or resistance can be optimized through breeding that achieves reduced competition or push-pull protection systems, respectively. At the community level, these population-level changes may have further beneficial effects on plant-associated organisms. Overall, we suggest that the increasing availability of genomic resources will improve our understanding of PPIs and thereby contribute to the management of crops or semi-natural ecosystems., 42210117;45573661;11761898
• Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory
  M. L. Robinson; P. G. Hahn; B. D. Inouye; N. Underwood; S. R. Whitehead; K. C. Abbott; E. M. Bruna; N. I. Cacho; L. A. Dyer; L. Abdala-Roberts; W. J. Allen; J. F. Andrade; D. F. Angulo; D. Anjos; D. N. Anstett; R. Bagchi; S. Bagchi; M. Barbosa; S. Barrett; C. A. Baskett; E. Ben-Simchon; K. J. Bloodworth; J. L. Bronstein; Y. M. Buckley; K. T. Burghardt; C. Bustos-Segura; E. S. Calixto; R. L. Carvalho; B. Castagneyrol; M. C. Chiuffo; D. Cinoğlu; E. Cinto Mejía; M. C. Cock; R. Cogni; O. L. Cope; T. Cornelissen; D. R. Cortez; D. W. Crowder; C. Dallstream; W. Dáttilo; J. K. Davis; R. D. Dimarco; H. E. Dole; I. N. Egbon; M. Eisenring; A. Ejomah; B. D. Elderd; M.-J. Endara; M. D. Eubanks; S. E. Everingham; K. N. Farah; R. P. Farias; A. P. Fernandes; G. W. Fernandes; M. Ferrante; A. Finn; G. A. Florjancic; M. L. Forister; Q. N. Fox; E. Frago; F. M. França; A. S. Getman-Pickering; Z. Getman-Pickering; E. Gianoli; B. Gooden; M. M. Gossner; K. A. Greig; S. Gripenberg; R. Groenteman; P. Grof-Tisza; N. Haack; L. Hahn; S. M. Haq; A. M. Helms; J. Hennecke; S. L. Hermann; L. M. Holeski; S. Holm; M. C. Hutchinson; E. E. Jackson; S. Kagiya; A. Kalske; M. Kalwajtys; R. Karban; R. Kariyat; T. Keasar; M. F. Kersch-Becker; H. M. Kharouba; T. N. Kim; D. M. Kimuyu; J. Kluse; S. E. Koerner; K. J. Komatsu; S. Krishnan; M. Laihonen; L. Lamelas-López; M. C. LaScaleia; N. Lecomte; C. R. Lehn; X. Li; R. L. Lindroth; E. F. LoPresti; M. Losada; A. M. Louthan; V. J. Luizzi; S. C. Lynch; J. S. Lynn; N. J. Lyon; L. F. Maia; R. A. Maia; T. L. Mannall; B. S. Martin; T. J. Massad; A. C. McCall; K. McGurrin; A. C. Merwin; Z. Mijango-Ramos; C. H. Mills; A. T. Moles; C. M. Moore; X. Moreira; C. R. Morrison; M. C. Moshobane; A. Muola; R. Nakadai; K. Nakajima; S. Novais; C. O. Ogbebor; H. Ohsaki; V. S. Pan; N. A. Pardikes; M. Pareja; N. Parthasarathy; R. R. Pawar; Q. Paynter; I. S. Pearse; R. M. Penczykowski; A. A. Pepi; C. C. Pereira; S. S. Phartyal; F. I. Piper; K. Poveda; E. G. Pringle; J. Puy; T. Quijano; C. Quintero; S. Rasmann; C. Rosche; L. Y. Rosenheim; J. A. Rosenheim; J. B. Runyon; A. Sadeh; Y. Sakata; D. M. Salcido; C. Salgado-Luarte; B. A. Santos; Y. Sapir; Y. Sasal; Y. Sato; M. Sawant; H. Schroeder; I. Schumann; M. Segoli; H. Segre; O. Shelef; N. Shinohara; R. P. Singh; D. S. Smith; M. Sobral; G. C. Stotz; A. J. M. Tack; M. Tayal; J. F. Tooker; D. Torrico-Bazoberry; K. Tougeron; A. M. Trowbridge; S. Utsumi; O. Uyi; J. L. Vaca-Uribe; A. Valtonen; L. J. A. van Dijk; V. Vandvik; J. Villellas; L. P. Waller; M. G. Weber; A. Yamawo; S. Yim; P. L. Zarnetske; L. N. Zehr; Z. Zhong; W. C. Wetzel
  Science, 382, 6671, 679, 683, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 10 Nov. 2023, ［Internationally co-authored］, [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, Interactions between plants and herbivores are central in most ecosystems, but their strength is highly variable. The amount of variability within a system is thought to influence most aspects of plant-herbivore biology, from ecological stability to plant defense evolution. Our understanding of what influences variability, however, is limited by sparse data. We collected standardized surveys of herbivory for 503 plant species at 790 sites across 116° of latitude. With these data, we show that within-population variability in herbivory increases with latitude, decreases with plant size, and is phylogenetically structured. Differences in the magnitude of variability are thus central to how plant-herbivore biology varies across macroscale gradients. We argue that increased focus on interaction variability will advance understanding of patterns of life on Earth., 11380979
• UV RESISTANCE LOCUS 8–Mediated UV-B Response Is Required Alongside CRYPTOCHROME 1 for Plant Survival in Sunlight under Field Conditions
  Reinhold Stockenhuber; Reiko Akiyama; Nicolas Tissot; Stefan Milosavljevic; Misako Yamazaki; Michele Wyler; Adriana B Arongaus; Roman Podolec; Yasuhiro Sato; Alex Widmer; Roman Ulm; Kentaro K Shimizu
  Plant and Cell Physiology, 65, 1, 35, 48, Oxford University Press (OUP), 27 Sep. 2023
  English, Scientific journal, Abstract
  
  As sessile, photoautotrophic organisms, plants are subjected to fluctuating sunlight that includes potentially detrimental ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation. Experiments under controlled conditions have shown that the UV-B photoreceptor UV RESISTANCE LOCUS 8 (UVR8) controls acclimation and tolerance to UV-B in Arabidopsis thaliana; however, its long-term impact on plant fitness under naturally fluctuating environments remain poorly understood. Here, we quantified the survival and reproduction of different Arabidopsis mutant genotypes under diverse field and laboratory conditions. We found that uvr8 mutants produced more fruits than wild type when grown in growth chambers under artificial low-UV-B conditions but not under natural field conditions, indicating a fitness cost in the absence of UV-B stress. Importantly, independent double mutants of UVR8 and the blue light photoreceptor gene CRYPTOCHROME 1 (CRY1) in two genetic backgrounds showed a drastic reduction in fitness in the field. Experiments with UV-B attenuation in the field and with supplemental UV-B in growth chambers demonstrated that UV-B caused the cry1 uvr8 conditional lethal phenotype. Using RNA-seq data of field-grown single and double mutants, we explicitly identified genes showing significant statistical interaction of UVR8 and CRY1 mutations in the presence of UV-B in the field. They were enriched in Gene Ontology categories related to oxidative stress, photoprotection and DNA damage repair in addition to UV-B response. Our study demonstrates the functional importance of the UVR8-mediated response across life stages in natura, which is partially redundant with that of cry1. Moreover, these data provide an integral picture of gene expression associated with plant responses under field conditions.
• Genome-wide association study of aphid abundance highlights a locus affecting plant growth and flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana
  Chongmeng Xu; Yasuhiro Sato; Misako Yamazaki; Marcel Brasser; Matthew A. Barbour; Jordi Bascompte; Kentaro K. Shimizu
  Royal Society Open Science, 10, 8, 230399, The Royal Society, 23 Aug. 2023, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author], ［Internationally co-authored］, [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, Plant life-history traits, such as size and flowering, contribute to shaping variation in herbivore abundance. Although plant genes involved in physical and chemical traits have been well studied, less is known about the loci linking plant life-history traits and herbivore abundance. Here, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of aphid abundance in a field population of Arabidopsis thaliana . This GWAS of aphid abundance detected a relatively rare but significant variant on the third chromosome of A. thaliana , which was also suggestively but non-significantly associated with the presence or absence of inflorescence. Out of candidate genes near this significant variant, a mutant of a ribosomal gene (AT3G13882) exhibited slower growth and later flowering than a wild type under laboratory conditions. A no-choice assay with the turnip aphid, Lipaphis erysimi , found that aphids were unable to successfully establish on the mutant. Our GWAS of aphid abundance unexpectedly found a locus affecting plant growth and flowering., 11761898
• Detecting frequency-dependent selection through the effects of genotype similarity on fitness components
  Yasuhiro Sato; Yuma Takahashi; Chongmeng Xu; Kentaro K. Shimizu
  Evolution, 77, 4, 1145, 1157, Oxford University Press, 01 Apr. 2023, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author], ［Internationally co-authored］, [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, Frequency-dependent selection (FDS) is an evolutionary regime that can maintain or reduce polymorphisms. Despite the increasing availability of polymorphism data, few effective methods are available for estimating the gradient of FDS from the observed fitness components. We modeled the effects of genotype similarity on individual fitness to develop a selection gradient analysis of FDS. This modeling enabled us to estimate FDS by regressing fitness components on the genotype similarity among individuals. We detected known negative FDS on the visible polymorphism in a wild Arabidopsis and damselfly by applying this analysis to single-locus data. Further, we simulated genome-wide polymorphisms and fitness components to modify the single-locus analysis as a genome-wide association study (GWAS). The simulation showed that negative or positive FDS could be distinguished through the estimated effects of genotype similarity on simulated fitness. Moreover, we conducted the GWAS of the reproductive branch number in Arabidopsis thaliana and found that negative FDS was enriched among the top-associated polymorphisms of FDS. These results showed the potential applicability of the proposed method for FDS on both visible polymorphism and genome-wide polymorphisms. Overall, our study provides an effective method for selection gradient analysis to understand the maintenance or loss of polymorphism., 25796766;11761898
• Phenotypic variation of a new synthetic allotetraploid Arabidopsis kamchatica enhanced in natural environment.
  Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Aki Morishima; Beatriz Mourato; Kentaro K Shimizu; Yasuhiro Sato
  Frontiers in plant science, 13, 1058522, 1058522, 2022, [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, The phenotypic variation of vegetative organs and reproductive organs of newly synthesized and natural Arabidopsis kamchatica genotypes was investigated in both a controlled environment and a natural environment in an experimental garden. When we compared the variation of their leaf shape as a vegetative organ, the synthetic A. kamchatica individuals grown in the garden showed larger variation compared with the individuals incubated in a growth chamber, suggesting enhanced phenotypic variation in a natural fluctuating environment. In contrast, the natural A. kamchatica genotypes did not show significant change in variation by growth condition. The phenotypic variation of floral organs by growth condition was much smaller in both synthetic and natural A. kamchatica genotypes, and the difference in variation width between the growth chamber and the garden was not significant in each genotype as well as among genotypes. The higher phenotypic variation in synthetic leaf may imply flexible transcriptomic regulation of a newly synthesized polyploid compared with a natural polyploid.
• Using a two-stage convolutional neural network to rapidly identify tiny herbivorous beetles in the field
  Hironori Takimoto; Yasuhiro Sato; Atsushi J. Nagano; Kentaro K. Shimizu; Akihiro Kanagawa
  Ecological Informatics, 101466, 101466, Elsevier BV, Oct. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author]
  English, Scientific journal, Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been adopted to help beginners identify insect species from field images. However, the application of these methods on the identification of tiny congeneric species moving across heterogeneous background remains difficult. To enable rapid and automatic identification in the field, we customized a method involving real-time object detection of two Phyllotreta beetles. We first performed data augmentation using transformations, syntheses, and random erasing of the original images. We then proposed a two-stage method for the detection and identification of small insects based on CNN, where YOLOv4 and EfficientNet were used as a region proposal network and a re-identification method, respectively. Evaluation of the model revealed that one-step object detection by YOLOv4 alone was not precise (Precision = 0.55) when classifying two species of flea beetles and background objects. In contrast, the two-step CNNs improved the precision (Precision = 0.89) with moderate accuracy (F-measure = 0.55) and acceptable speed (ca. 5 frames per second for full HD images) of detection and identification of insect species in the field. Although real-time identification of tiny insects remains a challenge in the field, our method aids in improving small object detection on a heterogeneous background., 11761898;25796766
• Neighbor GWAS: incorporating neighbor genotypic identity into genome-wide association studies of field herbivory
  Yasuhiro Sato; Eiji Yamamoto; Kentaro K. Shimizu; Atsushi J. Nagano
  Heredity, 126, 4, 597, 614, 29 Jan. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, An increasing number of field studies have shown that the phenotype of an individual plant depends not only on its genotype but also on those of neighboring plants; however, this fact is not taken into consideration in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Based on the Ising model of ferromagnetism, we incorporated neighbor genotypic identity into a regression model, named "Neighbor GWAS". Our simulations showed that the effective range of neighbor effects could be estimated using an observed phenotype when the proportion of phenotypic variation explained (PVE) by neighbor effects peaked. The spatial scale of the first nearest neighbors gave the maximum power to detect the causal variants responsible for neighbor effects, unless their effective range was too broad. However, if the effective range of the neighbor effects was broad and minor allele frequencies were low, there was collinearity between the self and neighbor effects. To suppress the false positive detection of neighbor effects, the fixed effect and variance components involved in the neighbor effects should be tested in comparison with a standard GWAS model. We applied neighbor GWAS to field herbivory data from 199 accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana and found that neighbor effects explained 8% more of the PVE of the observed damage than standard GWAS. The neighbor GWAS method provides a novel tool that could facilitate the analysis of complex traits in spatially structured environments and is available as an R package at CRAN ( https://cran.rproject.org/package=rNeighborGWAS )., 11761898;11380980
• Neighbor QTL: an interval mapping method for quantitative trait loci underlying plant neighborhood effects
  Yasuhiro Sato; Kazuya Takeda; Atsushi J Nagano
  G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 11, 2, Oxford University Press (OUP), 23 Jan. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  English, Scientific journal,
  Phenotypes of sessile organisms, such as plants, rely not only on their own genotypes but also on those of neighboring individuals. Previously, we incorporated such neighbor effects into a single-marker regression using the Ising model of ferromagnetism. However, little is known regarding how neighbor effects should be incorporated in quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping. In this study, we propose a new method for interval QTL mapping of neighbor effects, designated” neighbor QTL,” the algorithm of which includes: (i) obtaining conditional self-genotype probabilities with recombination fraction between flanking markers; (ii) calculating conditional neighbor genotypic identity using the self-genotype probabilities; and (iii) estimating additive and dominance deviations for neighbor effects. Our simulation using F2 and backcross lines showed that the power to detect neighbor effects increased as the effective range decreased. The neighbor QTL was applied to insect herbivory on Col × Kas recombinant inbred lines of Arabidopsis thaliana. Consistent with previous results, the pilot experiment detected a self-QTL effect on the herbivory at the GLABRA1 locus. Regarding neighbor QTL effects on herbivory, we observed a weak QTL on the top of chromosome 4, at which a weak self-bolting QTL was also identified. The neighbor QTL method is available as an R package ( https://cran.r-project.org/package=rNeighborQTL ), providing a novel tool to investigate neighbor effects in QTL studies., 11761898;25796766
• Metal accumulation and its effect on leaf herbivory in an allopolyploid species Arabidopsis kamchatica inherited from a diploid hyperaccumulator A. halleri
  Rie Shimizu‐Inatsugi; Silvija Milosavljevic; Kentaro K. Shimizu; Gabriela Schaepman‐Strub; Keitaro Tanoi; Yasuhiro Sato
  Plant Species Biology, Dec. 2020, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author]
  English, Scientific journal
• Insect Pest Detection and Identification Method Based on Deep Learning for Realizing a Pest Control System
  Hiroaki Kuzuhara; Hironori Takimoto; Yasuhiro Sato; Akihiro Kanagawa
  2020 59th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE), IEEE, 23 Sep. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
  English, International conference proceedings
• Plant trichomes and a single gene GLABRA1 contribute to insect community composition on field-grown Arabidopsis thaliana
  Yasuhiro Sato; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Misako Yamazaki; Kentaro K Shimizu; Atsushi J Nagano
  BMC Plant Biology, 19, 1, 163, 163, Apr. 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, BACKGROUND: Genetic variation in plants alters insect abundance and community structure in the field; however, little is known about the importance of a single gene among diverse plant genotypes. In this context, Arabidopsis trichomes provide an excellent system to discern the roles of natural variation and a key gene, GLABRA1, in shaping insect communities. In this study, we transplanted two independent glabrous mutants (gl1-1 and gl1-2) and 17 natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana to two localities in Switzerland and Japan. RESULTS: Fifteen insect species inhabited the plant accessions, with the insect community composition significantly attributed to variations among plant accessions. The total abundance of leaf-chewing herbivores was negatively correlated with trichome density at both field sites, while glucosinolates had variable effects on leaf chewers between the sites. Interestingly, there was a parallel tendency for the abundance of leaf chewers to be higher on gl1-1 and gl1-2 than on their different parental accessions, Ler-1 and Col-0, respectively. Furthermore, the loss of function in the GLABRA1 gene significantly decreased the resistance of plants to the two predominant chewers; flea beetles and turnip sawflies. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, our results indicate that insect community composition significantly varies among A. thaliana accessions across two distant field sites, with GLABRA1 playing a key role in altering the abundance of leaf-chewing herbivores. Given that such a trichome variation is widely observed in Brassicaceae plants, the present study exemplifies the community-wide effect of a single plant gene on crucifer-feeding insects in the field., 11380980
• Transcriptional Variation in Glucosinolate Biosynthetic Genes and Inducible Responses to Aphid Herbivory on Field-Grown Arabidopsis thaliana.
  Yasuhiro Sato; Ayumi Tezuka; Makoto Kashima; Ayumi Deguchi; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Misako Yamazaki; Kentaro K Shimizu; Atsushi J Nagano
  Frontiers in Genetics, 10, 787, 787, 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author], [International Magazine]
  English, Scientific journal, Recently, increasing attempts have been made to understand how plant genes function in natura. In this context, transcriptional profiles represent plant physiological status in response to environmental stimuli. Herein, we combined high-throughput RNA-Seq with insect survey data on 19 accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana grown at a field site in Switzerland. We found that genes with the gene ontology (GO) annotations of "glucosinolate biosynthetic process" and "response to insects" were most significantly enriched, and the expression of these genes was highly variable among plant accessions. Nearly half of the total expression variation in the glucosinolate biosynthetic genes (AOPs, ESM1, ESP, and TGG1) was explained by among-accession variation. Of these genes, the expression level of AOP3 differed among Col-0 accession individuals depending on the abundance of the mustard aphid (Lipaphis erysimi). We also found that the expression of the major cis-jasmone activated gene CYP81D11 was positively correlated with the number of flea beetles (Phyllotreta striolata and Phyllotreta atra). Combined with the field RNA-Seq data, bioassays confirmed that AOP3 was up-regulated in response to attack by mustard aphids. The combined results from RNA-Seq and our ecological survey illustrate the feasibility of using field transcriptomics to detect an inducible defense, providing a first step towards an in natura understanding of biotic interactions involving phenotypic plasticity., 11380980
• Associational effects and the maintenance of polymorphism in plant defense against herbivores: review and evidence
  Yasuhiro Sato
  Plant Species Biology, 33, 2, 91, 108, Blackwell Publishing, 01 Apr. 2018, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  English, Scientific journal, 11380980;11380979
• Geographical co-occurrence of butterfly species: the importance of niche filtering by host plant species
  Ryosuke Nakadai; Koya Hashimoto; Takaya Iwasaki; Yasuhiro Sato
  Oecologia, 186, 4, 995, 1005, Springer Verlag, 01 Apr. 2018, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author]
  English, Scientific journal
• Optimal foraging by herbivores maintains polymorphism in defence in a natural plant population
  Yasuhiro Sato; Koichi Ito; Hiroshi Kudoh
  Functional Ecology, 31, 12, 2233, 2243, Dec. 2017, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  English, Scientific journal, 11380980;11380979
• Herbivore-Mediated Interaction Promotes the Maintenance of Trichome Dimorphism through Negative Frequency-Dependent Selection
  Yasuhiro Sato; Hiroshi Kudoh
  American Naturalist, 190, 3, E67, E77, Sep. 2017, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  English, Scientific journal, 11380980;11380979
• Fine-scale frequency differentiation along a herbivory gradient in the trichome dimorphism of a wild Arabidopsis
  Yasuhiro Sato; Hiroshi Kudoh
  Ecology and Evolution, 7, 7, 2133, 2141, Apr. 2017, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  English, Scientific journal, 11380979
• Evolutionary ecology of plant defense: Integrating different spatial scales within and among species
  Yuzu Sakata; Yasuhiro Sato
  Japanese Journal of Ecology, 67, 3, 287, 306, Tohoku University, 2017, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author]
  Japanese, Scientific journal, 11380979
• Presence of substitute diets alters plant resistance to specialist and generalist herbivores: a meta-analysis
  Yasuhiro Sato; Hiroshi Kudoh
  Ecosphere, 7, 11, Nov. 2016, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  English, Scientific journal, 11380979;11380980
• Associational anti-herbivore defense in the trichome dimorphism of Arabidopsis halleri subsp. gemmifera (Brassicaceae)
  佐藤安弘
  理博第4196号, Kyoto University, 23 Mar. 2016, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author]
  English, Doctoral thesis, 11380979
• Associational effects against a leaf beetle mediate a minority advantage in defense and growth between hairy and glabrous plants
  Yasuhiro Sato; Hiroshi Kudoh
  Evolutionary Ecology, 30, 1, 137, 154, Feb. 2016, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  English, Scientific journal, 11380979
• Spring Temperature Predicts the Long-term Molting Phenology of Two Cicadas, Cryptotympana facialis and Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)
  Yasuhiro Sato; Shunsuke Sato
  Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 108, 4, 494, 500, Jul. 2015, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  English, Scientific journal
• Tests of associational defence provided by hairy plants for glabrous plants of Arabidopsis halleri subsp gemmifera against insect herbivores
  Yasuhiro Sato; Hiroshi Kudoh
  Ecological Entomology, 40, 3, 269, 279, Jun. 2015, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  English, Scientific journal
• Frequency-dependent herbivory by a leaf beetle, Phaedon brassicae, on hairy and glabrous plants of Arabidopsis halleri subsp gemmifera
  Yasuhiro Sato; Tetsuhiro Kawagoe; Yuji Sawada; Masami Yokota Hirai; Hiroshi Kudoh
  Evolutionary Ecology, 28, 3, 545, 559, May 2014, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  English, Scientific journal
• Fine-scale genetic differentiation of a temperate herb: relevance of local environments and demographic change
  Yasuhiro Sato; Hiroshi Kudoh
  AoB Plants, 6, plu070, 01 Jan. 2014, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author]
  English, Scientific journal
• Relative strength of phenotypic selection on the height and number of flowering-stalks in the rosette annual Cardamine hirsuta (Brassicaceae)
  Yasuhiro Sato; Hiroshi Kudoh
  Journal of Ecology and Environment, 36, 3, 151, 158, Sato Yasuhiro; Kudoh Hiroshi, Sep. 2013, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  English, Scientific journal
• Dominant Occurrence of Cleistogamous Flowers of Lamium amplexicaule in relation to the Nearby Presence of an Alien Congener L. purpureum (Lamiaceae)
  Yasuhiro Sato; Koh-Ichi Takakura; Sachiko Nishida; Takayoshi Nishida
  ISRN Ecology, 2013, 476862, 1, 6, Hindawi Limited, 07 May 2013, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author, Corresponding author]
  English, Scientific journal, Here we document a novel phenomenon that, based on field observations in central Japan, cleistogamous flowers (or closed flowers) of an annual herb Lamium amplexicaule were dominantly expressed near an alien congener L. purpureum. The proportion of cleistogamous flowers in an individual L. amplexicaule increased with the frequency of L. purpureum occurring in the same patches but did not increase with the total density of Lamium plants and their own size. To confirm the consistency of the effect of the coexisting alien species, we assessed the cleistogamous frequency at the patch level for three other populations. In these populations as well, the proportion of L. amplexicaule producing cleistogamous flowers increased with the frequency of L. purpureum. Our transplant experiment at one site found no effect of the nearby presence of L. purpureum on the seed set of L. amplexicaule and therefore did not support the hypothesis that the adverse effect on the reproduction via interspecific pollination favored cleistogamous flowers that accepted no external pollen. Further studies must be conducted to examine the negative interactions between the related species before and after seed development.
• Frequency-dependent herbivory on hairy and glabrous morphs of a perennial herb Arabidopsis halleri subsp. gemmifera
  Yasuhiro Sato
  9503号, Kyoto University, Mar. 2013, [Lead author]
  English, Master thesis

• Ecology of plant defense against herbivores
  Yasuhiro Sato, Chapter 7: The maintenance of trichome dimorphism through associational effects: a case study of Arabidopsis halleri and a leaf beetle (in Japanese).
  Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppan, Feb. 2024, 9784829962114, Japanese, Scholarly book, 11380979, [Peer-reviewed], [Contributor]
• Trans-Scale Biology of Plants: Integrating genomics, phenomics, and ecology to unveil biodiversity
  Yasuhiro Sato; Tomoaki Muranaka
  Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppan, Aug. 2023, 9784829962107, 339p, 図版ivp, Japanese, Scholarly book, [Joint editor]

• 〔Major achievements〕Ecological genetics of intraspecific plant-plant interactions
  Yasuhiro Sato
  日本育種学会第148回講演会, 10 Sep. 2025, Japanese Society of Breeding, Japanese, Invited oral presentation
  10 Sep. 2025 - 11 Sep. 2025, Sapporo, Japan, W06「若手研究者による農学的興味の広げ合い第4回」における招待講演, 50926657;48108211, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
• Spatial Patterns of Disease Infection in Barley: A Genotypic Neighborhood Perspective
  Iqra Akram; Yasuhiro Sato
  The 11th EAFES International Congress, 20 Jul. 2025, English, Poster presentation
  19 Jul. 2025 - 22 Jul. 2025, 48108211, [International presentation]
• Linking frequency-dependent selection and overyielding through genome-wide association study of plant neighborhood effects
  Yasuhiro Sato
  Evolution 2025, 30 May 2025, Society for the Study of Evolution, English, Oral presentation
  29 May 2025 - 30 May 2025, Virtual Conference, United States, 48108211;25796766;45573661, [International presentation]
• Exploring the genomic basis of plant-plant interactions in field crops
  Iqra Akram; Yasuhiro Sato
  72nd Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, 18 Mar. 2025, English, Poster presentation
  15 Mar. 2025 - 18 Mar. 2025, Japan, 48108211, [Domestic Conference]
• Genomic prediction of neighbor effects identifies key genotype pairs responsible for reduced herbivory in mixed planting
  Yasuhiro Sato; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Kazuya Takeda; Bernhard Schmid; Atsushi J. Nagano; Kentaro K Shimizu
  72nd Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, 17 Mar. 2025, Ecological Society of Japan, English, Oral presentation
  15 Mar. 2025 - 18 Mar. 2025, Sapporo, Japan, 48108211;11761898;45573661;25796766;42210117, [Domestic Conference], ［Internationally co-authored］
• Statistical genetic approach to design beneficial genotype mixtures
  Yasuhiro Sato
  Botanical Society of Hokkaido 2024, 14 Dec. 2024, Botanical Society of Hokkaido, Japanese, Invited oral presentation
  14 Dec. 2024 - 14 Dec. 2024, Sapporo, Japan, 48108211, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
• シロイヌナズナの成長と開花に関わる遺伝子座の発見：アブラムシ密度のGWASから
  Chongmeng Xu; Yasuhiro Sato; Misako Yamazaki; Marcel Brasser; Matthew A. Barbour; Jordi Bascompte; Kentaro K. Shimizu
  第56回種生物学シンポジウム, 01 Dec. 2024, Japanese, Poster presentation
  01 Dec. 2024 - 01 Dec. 2024, 岡山（ハイブリッド）, Japan, 48108211;42210117, [Domestic Conference], ［Internationally co-authored］
• Detecting frequency-dependent selection through the effects of genotype similarity on fitness components
  Yasuhiro Sato; Yuma Takahashi; Chongmeng Xu; Kentaro K. Shimizu
  biology24: The largest conference of organismal biology in Switzerland, 19 Jan. 2024, English, Poster presentation
  18 Jan. 2024 - 19 Jan. 2024, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Switzerland, 25796766, [Domestic Conference], ［Internationally co-authored］
• Genome-wide neighbor effects predict genotype pairs reducing herbivory in mixed planting
  Yasuhiro Sato; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Kazuya Takeda; Atsushi J. Nagano; Kentaro K. Shimizu
  Biodiversity Convention - From Science to Implementation, 27 Jun. 2023, URPP GCB and EAWAG, English, Oral presentation
  26 Jun. 2023 - 29 Jun. 2023, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, 42210117;25796766, [International presentation], ［Internationally co-authored］
• 〔Major achievements〕Keystone pairs of Arabidopsis accessions increase plant resistance to field herbivory.
  Yasuhiro Sato; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Kazuya Takeda; Atsushi J. Nagano; Kentaro K. Shimizu
  The 33rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2023), 07 Jun. 2023, In Concurrent 15: Arabidopsis relatives from laboratories to natural fields (organized by Prof. K.K. Shimizu and H. Kudoh), English, Invited oral presentation
  05 Jun. 2023 - 09 Jun. 2023, Chiba, Japan, 42210117;25796766;11761898;11380980, [Invited], [International presentation], ［Internationally co-authored］
• Detecting frequency-dependent selection through the effects of genotype similarity on fitness components
  Yasuhiro Sato; Yuma Takahashi; Chongmeng Xu; Kentaro K. Shimizu
  The 70th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, 17 Mar. 2023, Japanese, Oral presentation
  17 Mar. 2023 - 21 Mar. 2023, 仙台（オンライン）, 25796766, [Domestic Conference], ［Internationally co-authored］
• Neighbor eGWAS: Incorporating neighbor genotypic identity into field transcriptomics of Arabidopsis thaliana
  Yasuhiro Sato; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Kentaro K. Shimizu; Atsushi J. Nagano
  64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists, 13 Mar. 2023, English, Poster presentation
  10 Mar. 2023 - 17 Mar. 2023, 仙台（オンライン）, 25796766, [Domestic Conference], ［Internationally co-authored］
• Keystone genotype pairs increase plant resistance to herbivory
  Yasuhiro Sato; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Kazuya Takeda; Atsushi J. Nagano; Kentaro K. Shimizu
  Gordon Research Conference: Plant-Herbivore Interaction 2023,, 02 Mar. 2023, English, Poster presentation
  26 Feb. 2023 - 03 Mar. 2023, Ventura, CA, United States, [International presentation], ［Internationally co-authored］
• 〔Major achievements〕Keystone genotype pairs increase population-level resistance to herbivory
  Yasuhiro Sato; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Kazuya Takeda; Atsushi J. Nagano; Kentaro K. Shimizu
  SwissPLANT 2023 Symposium, 23 Jan. 2023, English, Oral presentation
  23 Jan. 2023 - 25 Jan. 2023, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, ［Internationally co-authored］
• Neighbor GWAS: incorporating neighbor genotypic identity in genome-wide association study of field-grown Arabidopsis thaliana
  Yasuhiro Sato; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Atsushi J. Nagano; Kentaro K. Shimizu
  Plant Science Center Symposium 2022, 07 Dec. 2022, English, Poster presentation
  07 Dec. 2022 - 07 Dec. 2022, Switzerland, [Domestic Conference], ［Internationally co-authored］
• 〔Major achievements〕Detecting frequency-dependent selection using a genetic marker regression of fitness components
  Yasuhiro Sato; Yuma Takahashi; Chongmeng Xu; Kentaro K. Shimizu
  The 2022 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Aug. 2022, English, Oral presentation
  Aug. 2022 - Aug. 2022, Prague, Czech Republic, [International presentation]
• 〔Major achievements〕Genomics of within-species mixed planting against insect herbivores
  Yasuhiro Sato; Atsushi J. Nagano; Kentaro K. Shimizu
  World Biodiversity Forum 2022, Jun. 2022, In: Symposium MON3-b “From the species to the individual: investigating plant diversity on the scale that matters most (organized by Drs. P. Villa and M.C. Schuman), English, Invited oral presentation
  Jul. 2022 - Jul. 2022, Davos, Switzerland, [Invited], [International presentation]
• 正の連合効果をもたらす植物のゲノム基盤とその拡張可能性
  佐藤安弘
  第69回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2022, S07:植物-植物相互作用の多様性と普遍性：植物群集の統合的理解に向けて（企画：内海俊介准教授; 山尾僚准教授）, Japanese, Invited oral presentation
  Mar. 2022 - Mar. 2022, 福岡（オンライン）, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
• 近傍個体を考慮したQTL解析の開発と虫害への応用
  佐藤安弘; 武田和也; 永野惇
  第68回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2021, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Mar. 2021 - Mar. 2021, 岡山（オンライン）, [Domestic Conference]
• Insect pest detection and identification method based on deep learning for realizing a pest control system
  Hiroaki Kuzuhara; Hironori Takimoto; Yasuhiro Sato; Akihiro Kanagawa
  The SICE 2020 Annual Conference, Sep. 2020, English, Oral presentation
  Sep. 2020 - Sep. 2020, Chiang Mai, Thailand, [International presentation]
• Neighbor GWAS: incorporating neighbor genotypic identity into genome-wide association studies of field herbivory on Arabidopsis thaliana
  Yasuhiro Sato; Eiji Yamamoto; Kentaro K. Shimizu; Atsushi J. Nagano
  第61回日本植物生理学会年会, Mar. 2020, English, Poster presentation
  Mar. 2020 - Mar. 2020, 大阪, [Domestic Conference]
• Neighbor GWAS: incorporating neighbor genotypic identity into genome-wide association studies of simulated traits and field herbivory
  Yasuhiro Sato; Eiji Yamamoto; Kentaro K. Shimizu; Atsushi J. Nagano
  第67回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2020, English, Poster presentation
  Mar. 2020 - Mar. 2020, 名古屋, [Domestic Conference]
• 近傍個体を考慮したGWASの開発と虫害への適用
  佐藤安弘; 山本英司; 清水健太郎; 永野惇
  第5回農学中手の会研究集会, Dec. 2019, 企画：内藤健博士, Japanese, Public discourse
  Dec. 2019 - Dec. 2019, 滋賀, [Domestic Conference]
• 使ってみよう先端技術！-オミクス解析と形質測定で迫る植物の生き様
  佐藤安弘; 村中智明
  第51回種生物学シンポジウム, Dec. 2019, 企画者：佐藤安弘; 村中智明, Japanese, Public symposium
  Dec. 2019 - Dec. 2019, 宮崎, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
• 動画像からの病害虫の検出・識別に関する検討
  葛原宏章; 滝本裕則; 佐藤安弘; 金川明弘
  第21回IEEE広島支部学生シンポジウム, Nov. 2019, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Nov. 2019 - Nov. 2019, 岡山, [Domestic Conference]
• Genomic basis of neighbor effects in Arabidopsis defense against insect herbivores
  佐藤安弘; 清水(稲継)理恵; 山﨑美紗子; 清水健太郎; 永野惇
  日本進化学会第21回大会, Aug. 2019, S03企画シンポジウム：オミクスから見た表現型多型・頑健性と倍数体種分化-進化学・生態学・育種学の統合を目指して（企画：清水健太郎教授）, English, Invited oral presentation
  Aug. 2019 - Aug. 2019, 札幌, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
• Field GWAS of neighbor effects and its potential application to targeted polycultures in anti-herbivore defense
  Yasuhiro Sato; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Misako Yamazaki; Atsushi J. Nagano; Kentaro K. Shimizu
  URPP Global Change and Biodiversity Conference, Jun. 2019, English, Poster presentation
  Jun. 2019 - Jul. 2019, Ascona, Switzerland, [International presentation]
• 植物個体間の相互作用を考慮した虫害の全ゲノム関連解析
  佐藤安弘; 清水(稲継)理恵; 山﨑美紗子; 清水健太郎; 永野惇
  第66回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2019, Japanese, Oral presentation
  Mar. 2019 - Mar. 2019, 神戸, [Domestic Conference]
• Incorporating neighbor identity into a genome-wide association mapping of insect herbivory
  Yasuhiro Sato; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Misako Yamazaki; Kentaro K. Shimizu; Atsushi J. Nagano
  第60回日本植物生理学会年会, Mar. 2019, Japanese, Oral presentation
  Mar. 2019 - Mar. 2019, 名古屋, [Domestic Conference]
• 植物防御の連合効果を考慮したゲノムワイド関連解析
  佐藤安弘; 清水(稲継)理恵; 山﨑美紗子; 清水健太郎; 永野惇
  第50回種生物学シンポジウム, Dec. 2018, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Dec. 2018 - Dec. 2018, 八王子, [Domestic Conference]
• ゲノムワイド関連解析を応用した混植効果の推定と虫害予測
  佐藤安弘; 清水(稲継)理恵; 山﨑美紗子; 清水健太郎; 永野惇
  予測モデリングとその周辺 -機械学習・統計科学・情報理論からのアプローチ-, Nov. 2018, 企画者：小森理准教授; 深谷肇一博士, Japanese, Nominated symposium
  Nov. 2018 - Nov. 2018, 成蹊大学, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
• 深層学習に基づく動画像からの病害虫の検出
  葛原宏章; 滝本裕則; 佐藤安弘; 金川明弘
  第20回IEEE広島支部学生シンポジウム, Nov. 2018, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Nov. 2018 - Nov. 2018, 鳥取, [Domestic Conference]
• 植物のゲノム多型を用いた遺伝子型間相互作用の推定と虫害予測
  佐藤安弘
  第34回個体群生態学会, Oct. 2018, S1-03企画シンポジウム：種多様性と遺伝的多様性の対比からみる多様性-機能関係（企画：高橋佑磨助教; 村上正志教授）, Japanese, Invited oral presentation
  Oct. 2018 - Oct. 2018, 東京, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
• アブラナ科植物を食害する微小昆虫の野外調査と動画像計測の試み
  佐藤安弘; 滝本裕則
  平成30年電気学会 電子・情報・システム部門大会, Sep. 2018, MC：農学・植物科学研究における計測技術（企画：七夕高也博士; 磯部祥子博士）, Japanese, Invited oral presentation
  Sep. 2018 - Sep. 2018, 札幌, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
• Using personal legacy data to reveal the molting phenology of Japanese cicadas
  Yasuhiro Sato
  The 8th EAFES International Congress, Apr. 2018, In: S19 “Ongoing cicada research in East Asia” (organized by Prof. J. Yikweon), English, Invited oral presentation
  Apr. 2018 - Apr. 2018, Nagoya, Japan, [Invited], [International presentation]
• Field transcriptome reveals natural variation in constitutive and inducible responses to insect herbivory on Arabidopsis thaliana
  Yasuhiro Sato; Ayumi Tezuka; Makoto Kashima; Ayumi Deguchi; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Misako Yamazaki; Kentaro K. Shimizu; Atsushi J. Nagano
  第59回日本植物生理学会年会, Mar. 2018, English, Poster presentation
  Mar. 2018 - Mar. 2018, 札幌, [Domestic Conference]
• 寄主植物の共有が日本列島に分布する蝶類の共起パターンに与える影響
  橋本洸哉; 中臺亮介; 岩崎貴也; 佐藤安弘
  第65回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2018, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Mar. 2018 - Mar. 2018, 札幌, [Domestic Conference]
• 植食者の最適採餌からみたハクサンハタザオのトライコーム多型の維持
  佐藤安弘; 伊藤公一; 工藤洋
  第65回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2018, Japanese, Oral presentation
  Mar. 2018 - Mar. 2018, 札幌, [Domestic Conference]
• 野外栽培したシロイヌナズナの遺伝子発現からみた食害応答の恒常性と可塑性
  佐藤安弘; 手塚あゆみ; 鹿島誠; 出口亜由美; 清水(稲継)理恵; 山﨑美紗子; 清水健太郎; 永野惇
  第49回種生物学シンポジウム, Dec. 2017, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Dec. 2017 - Dec. 2017, 福井, [Domestic Conference]
• Associational effects and the maintenance of trichome dimorphism in a wild Arabidopsis
  Yasuhiro Sato; Koichi Ito; Hiroshi Kudoh
  The 2017 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Aug. 2017, English, Poster presentation
  Aug. 2017 - Aug. 2017, Groningen, Netherlands, [International presentation]
• Quantifying the variability of insect communities among Arabidopsis thaliana genotypes: tests for the effects of trichomes and glucosinolates
  Yasuhiro Sato; Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi; Misako Yamazaki; Kentaro K. Shimizu; Atsushi J. Nagano
  第64回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2017, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Mar. 2017 - Mar. 2017, 東京, [Domestic Conference]
• 植食者の最適採餌からみたハクサンハタザオのトライコーム二型の維持
  佐藤安弘; 伊藤公一; 工藤洋
  第48回種生物学シンポジウム, Dec. 2016, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Dec. 2016 - Dec. 2016, 北海道, [Domestic Conference]
• 微細な変異から紐解くシロイヌナズナ属植物の対被食防御
  佐藤安弘
  第48回種生物学シンポジウム, Dec. 2016, 片岡奨励賞選考委員会, Japanese, Keynote oral presentation
  Dec. 2016 - Dec. 2016, 北海道, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]
• Modeling the effects of optimal foraging herbivores on the maintenance of trichome dimorphism in a wild Arabidopsis population
  Yasuhiro Sato; Koichi Ito
  URPP Global Change and Biodiversity Conference, Aug. 2016, English, Poster presentation
  Aug. 2016 - Sep. 2016, Ascona, Switzerland, [International presentation]
• 植食者を介した頻度依存選択がハクサンハタザオの細毛多型の維持を促す
  佐藤安弘; 工藤洋
  第63回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2016, Japanese, Oral presentation
  Mar. 2016 - Mar. 2016, 仙台, [Domestic Conference]
• 複数植食者からなる食害傾度に応じたトライコーム二型の地理的変異
  佐藤安弘; 工藤洋
  第47回種生物学シンポジウム, Dec. 2015, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Dec. 2015 - Dec. 2015, 岐阜, [Domestic Conference]
• Herbivore-mediated interaction promotes the local coexistence of trichome dimorphism in a plant population
  Yasuhiro Sato; Hiroshi Kudoh
  第31回個体群生態学会大会, Oct. 2015, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Oct. 2015 - Oct. 2015, 彦根, [Domestic Conference]
• 被食防御の連合効果がハクサンハタザオにおける細毛二型の存続性に与える影響
  佐藤安弘; 工藤洋
  進化群集生態学シンポジウム2015, Sep. 2015, 企画：門脇浩明博士; 金尾太輔博士, Japanese, Invited oral presentation
  Sep. 2015 - Sep. 2015, 京都, [Domestic Conference]
• Associational antiherbivore defense promotes the coexistence of hairy and glabrous plants
  Yasuhiro Sato; Hiroshi Kudoh
  100th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of America, Aug. 2015, English, Poster presentation
  Aug. 2015 - Aug. 2015, Baltimore, MA, United States, [International presentation]
• 被食防御の連合効果がハクサンハタザオのトリコーム多型を維持する
  佐藤安弘; 工藤洋
  第62回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2015, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Mar. 2015 - Mar. 2015, 鹿児島, [Domestic Conference]
• 植物と植食性昆虫の相互作用が生み出す進化・生態現象を俯瞰する
  坂田ゆず; 佐藤安弘
  第62回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2015, 企画：坂田ゆず; 佐藤安弘, Japanese, Nominated symposium
  Mar. 2015 - Mar. 2015, 鹿児島, [Domestic Conference]
• 被食防御の連合効果がもたらすハクサンハタザオのトリコーム多型の維持
  日本生態学会近畿地区第2回例会, Dec. 2014, Japanese, Oral presentation
  Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2014, 大阪, [Domestic Conference]
• Associational anti-herbivore defence and the maintenance of hairy and glabrous plants in Arabidopsis halleri subsp. gemmifera
  Yasuhiro Sato; Hiroshi Kudoh
  Bristol-Kyoto Plant Sciences Workshop, Sep. 2014, English, Poster presentation
  Sep. 2014 - Sep. 2014, Bristol, United Kingdom, [International presentation]
• Factors responsible for plant resistance to a shared herbivore: a meta-analysis of herbivore responses between choice and no-choice conditions
  Yasuhiro Sato; Hiroshi Kudoh
  Bristol-Kyoto Plant Sciences Workshop, Sep. 2014, English, Poster presentation
  Sep. 2014 - Sep. 2014, Kyoto, [International presentation]
• The presence of substitute diets alters plant resistance to a shared herbivore: a meta-analysis of herbivore responses under choice and no-choice conditions
  Yasuhiro Sato; Hiroshi Kudoh
  第61回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2014, English, Oral presentation
  Mar. 2014 - Mar. 2014, 広島, [Domestic Conference]
• となりの餌の存在が植物の植食者に対する抵抗性を変える：メタ解析による餌選択実験の結果の統合
  佐藤安弘; 工藤洋
  第45回種生物学シンポジウム, Dec. 2013, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Dec. 2013 - Dec. 2013, 別府, [Domestic Conference]
• ハクサンハタザオの有毛型と無毛型に対する食害の頻度依存性
  佐藤安弘; 川越哲博; 工藤洋
  第60回日本生態学会大会, Mar. 2013, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Mar. 2013 - Mar. 2013, 静岡, [Domestic Conference]
• ハクサンハタザオの有毛型と無毛型に対するハムシの頻度依存餌選択
  佐藤安弘; 川越哲博; 工藤洋
  第44回種生物学会シンポジウム, Dec. 2012, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Dec. 2012 - Dec. 2012, 滋賀マキノ, [Domestic Conference]
• 有毛型・無毛型の頻度がハクサンハタザオの被食防衛効果を変える
  佐藤安弘; 川越哲博; 工藤洋
  第28回個体群生態学会大会, Oct. 2012, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Oct. 2012 - Oct. 2012, 千葉, [Domestic Conference]
• A test for frequency-dependent herbivory on two trichome morphs of Arabidopsis halleri
  Yasuhiro Sato; Tetsuhiro Kawagoe; Hiroshi Kudoh
  The 5th EAFES International Congress, Mar. 2012, English, Poster presentation
  Mar. 2012 - Mar. 2012, Otsu, Japan, [International presentation]
• 近縁外来種との共存がホトケノザの閉鎖花に与える影響
  佐藤安弘; 高倉耕一; 西田佐知子; 西田隆義
  第42回種生物学シンポジウム, Dec. 2010, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Dec. 2010 - Dec. 2010, 京都, [Domestic Conference]
• 近縁外来種の存在がホトケノザの閉鎖花率に与える影響
  佐藤安弘; 高倉耕一; 西田隆義
  第26回個体群生態学会大会, Sep. 2010, Japanese, Poster presentation
  Sep. 2010 - Sep. 2010, 横浜, [Domestic Conference]

• Nov. 2024 - Present
  Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan
• Dec. 2020 - Present
  European Society for Evolutionary Biology
• Mar. 2018 - Present
  THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGISTS
• Oct. 2017 - Present
  American Society of Naturalists
• Jan. 2012 - Present
  THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
• Nov. 2010 - Present
  THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SPECIES BIOLOGY

• rNeighborQTL: Interval Mapping for Quantitative Trait Loci Underlying Neighbor Effects
  The Comprehensive R Archive Network, Yasuhiro Sato; Kazuya Takeda; Atsushi J. Nagano, 04 Jun. 2020 - Present, To enable quantitative trait loci mapping of neighbor effects, this package extends a single-marker regression to interval mapping. The theoretical background of the method is described in Sato et al. (2021) ., [Software]
• rNeighborGWAS: Testing Neighbor Effects in Marker-Based Regressions
  The Comprehensive R Archive Network, Yasuhiro Sato; Eiji Yamamoto; Kentaro K. Shimizu; Atsushi J. Nagano, 15 Apr. 2020 - Present, To incorporate neighbor genotypic identity into genome-wide association studies, the package provides a set of functions for variation partitioning and association mapping. The theoretical background of the method is described in Sato et al. (2021) ., 11761898, [Software]

• 植物間相互作用の制御に向けた量的生態遺伝学の創生
  2024 - 2031
  佐藤 安弘
  植物は動けないという性質上、周りの個体や他の生物から逃げられません。植物たちは、周りの植物と水や光を巡って競争したり、外敵に対する化学シグナルを使って時には協力したりもします。植物たちの正や負の関係を司る遺伝子がわかれば、お互いに競争しない作物や病害虫に襲われにくい植物をデザインすることも夢ではありません。そうした技術を実現するために、量的遺伝学を駆使した植物間相互作用の生態学を進めます。
  科学技術振興機構, 戦略的な研究開発の推進/創発的研究支援事業, 24837994
• From Varieties to Variety Mixtures: Measuring and Modeling Interactions and Developing Methods for Optimizing Variety Combinations
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  Apr. 2025 - Mar. 2029
  岩田 洋佳; 佐藤 安弘; 磯部 祥子; 大森 良弘; 濱崎 甲資; 郭 威
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), The University of Tokyo, Coinvestigator, 25H00928
• Establishment of quantitative ecological genetics for the control of plant-plant interactions
  Fusion Oriented REsearch for disruptive Science and Technology (FOREST)
  Oct. 2024 - Mar. 2028
  Yasuhiro Sato
  Japan Science and Technology Agency, Hokkaido University, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, JPMJFR233L
• Joint analysis of plant-plant interactions using field GWAS and RNA-Seq
  Grant-in-aid for Early-career Scientists
  Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2027
  佐藤 安弘
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-aid for Early-career Scientists, Ryukoku University, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 23K14270
• Using open data to reveal the genomic basis that underpins positive plant-plant interactions
  SPARK
  Nov. 2023 - Oct. 2024
  Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Zurich, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, ［Internationally co-authored］
• Theoretical consideration of plant biodiversity effects driven by inter-genotypic interactions
  Grant-in-Aid for Early-career Scientists
  Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2023
  Yasuhiro Sato
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ryukoku University, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
• Large-scale omics approach towards biocontrol of pest insects by mixed planting
  Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO)
  Oct. 2017 - Mar. 2021
  Yasuhiro Sato
  Japan Science and Technology Agency, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, JPMJPR17Q4
• 多検体オミクスによる混植系の構築と虫害制御
  2017 - 2020
  佐藤 安弘
  様々な野菜を混植すると虫害が抑制されることはコンパニオンプランツなどとして知られていますが、これらの現象を担う遺伝子は未だ分かっていません。本研究では、混植による虫害抑制の遺伝的基盤を明らかにするとともに、混植方法を遺伝子レベルから設計して虫害を制御する技術の創出を目指します。
  科学技術振興機構, 戦略的な研究開発の推進/戦略的創造研究推進事業/さきがけ, 17937034
• モデル植物の自然変異を用いた病害虫群集のゲノムワイドな理解と予測
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
  Apr. 2016 - Sep. 2017
  Yasuhiro Sato
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Ryukoku University, Principal investigator, 16J30005
• 植物の防衛形質における遺伝的多型の維持機構：シロイヌナズナ属野生種による検証
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
  Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2016
  Yasuhiro Sato
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Kyoto University, Principal investigator, 15J00400

• The 52nd Symposium of the Society for the Study of Species Biology
  04 Dec. 2020 - 06 Dec. 2020
  Planning etc
  Academic society etc
  A member of the organization committee
  Shiga, Japan (online), 種生物学会初のオンライン大会において、実行委員に加わり、企画の立案や当日の進行に貢献した。
• 5th Japan-Taiwan Ecology Workshop
  12 Nov. 2016 - 16 Nov. 2016
  Planning etc
  Academic society etc
  A member of the organization committee
  Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan, 実行委員の一人として、ホームページ係（英語）を担当するとともにフィールドエクスカーションの引率を分担した。, [Contributing to international academic research]