Emiri Watanabe
Nonlinear physics group, Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
3rd grade in doctoral course
ORCID: 0000-0002-8014-1115

Education

• April 2015 - March 2019   Kyoto University, Faculty of Science (B.S.)
• April 2019 - March 2021   Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Department of Biological Science (M.S.)
• April 2021 - present          The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Department of Complexity Science and Engineering (Ph.D.)

Publication (Refereed)

1. Emiri Watanabe, Tomoaki Muranaka, Shunji Nakamura, Minako Isoda, Yu Horikawa, Tsuyoshi Aiso, Shogo Ito, and Tokitaka Oyama
   “A non-cell-autonomous circadian rhythm of bioluminescence reporter activities in individual cells in duckweed”
   Plant Physiology, Volume 193, Issue 1, September 2023, Pages 677–688, https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad218

2. Emiri Watanabe, Minako Isoda, Tomoaki Muranaka, Shogo Ito, and Tokitaka Oyama
   “Detection of uncoupled circadian rhythms in individual cells of Lemna minor using a dual-color bioluminescence monitoring system”
   Plant and Cell Physiology, Volume 62, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 815–826, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcab037

Presentation

International conferences

1. Emiri Watanabe, Shogo Ito, and Tokitaka Oyama
   “Uncoupled cellular circadian rhythms of a duckweed plant detected by a dual-color bioluminescence monitoring system”
   85th Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium on Quantitative Biology: Biological Time Keeping
   Virtual, June 2021 (poster presentation, refereed)

Domestic conferences

1. Emiri Watanabe, Tomoaki Muranaka, Shunji Nakamura, Minako Isoda, Yu Horikawa, Tsuyoshi Aiso, Shogo Ito, Tokitaka Oyama
   “A non-cell-autonomous circadian rhythm in duckweed plant”
   Symposium “Future Direction of Circadian Clock Research from the Viewpoint of Diverse Rhythmic Phenomena”
   The 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan
   Nagoya, November 2023 (symposium)

2. Emiri Watanabe, Tomoaki Muranaka, Shunji Nakamura, Minako Isoda, Shogo Ito, Tokitaka Oyama
   “A non-cell-autonomous rhythm uncoupled from the cellular circadian oscillator of individual cells in plant”
   The 28th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Chronobiology
   Tochigi, December 2022 (symposium, poster)

3. Emiri Watanabe, Hiroshi Kori
   “Estimating natural frequency variation and coupling strength from time series of synchronization level in coupled oscillators”
   The 45th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan
   Chiba, November 2022 (poster, science pitch)
   (MBSJ2022 Science Pitch Award)

4. Emiri Watanabe, Hiroshi Kori
   “Estimating model parameters from time series of order parameter in weakly coupled oscillators”
   The 2022 Annual (77th) Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan
   Virtual, March 2022 (oral presentation)

5. Emiri Watanabe, Hiroshi Kori
   “Dependence of desynchronization process on the frequency distribution and coupling strength in a population of phase oscillators”
   The 28th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Chronobiology
   Okinawa, November 2021 (poster presentation)

6. Emiri Watanabe, Shogo Ito, and Tokitaka Oyama
   “Analysis on the behavior of uncoupled circadian rhythms detected by a dual-color bioluminescence monitoring system in duckweed plant”
   The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists
   Virtual, March 2021 (oral presentation)

7. Emiri Watanabe, Shogo Ito, and Tokitaka Oyama
   “Uncoupled circadian rhythms in individual cells observed in Lemna minor”
   The 27th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Chronobiology
   Virtual, September 2020 (poster presentation)

8. Emiri Watanabe, Shogo Ito, and Tokitaka Oyama
   “Monitoring uncoupled circadian rhythms in individual cells of duckweed by co-transfection of luciferase reporters with different colors”
   The 61st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists
   Osaka, March 2020 (poster presentation) (※ The conference was cancelled due to the spread of COVID-19.)

9. Emiri Watanabe, Shogo Ito, and Tokitaka Oyama
   “Detection of uncoupled circadian rhythms in individual cells of Lemna minor by a dual-color bioluminescence monitoring system”
   The 26th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Chronobiology
   Kanazawa, October 2019 (poster presentation)

10. Emiri Watanabe, Shogo Ito, and Tokitaka Oyama
    “A dual-color bioluminescence reporter system to simultaneously monitor expression levels of two genes in plant cells”
    The 60th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists
    Nagoya, March 2019 (poster presentation)

Grants

• April 2021- Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (DC1) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Other experiences

• MAthematics-based Creation of Science (MACS) Program from Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University (2017-2021)
• RA at Information Processing Biology Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) (August-September 2017)