Jul 19 2021
Associate Professor Yuta SHIINO of the Faculty of Science received the Best Paper Award from the Palaeontological Society of Japan.
This Best Paper Award was given to the paper published in Paleontological Research from Vol. 23, No. 1 (2019) to Vol. 24, No. 4 (2020) that was the most original and cutting-edge research paper. In this paper, they analyzed 3D morphology of glass-shelled zooplankton radiolarians and further explained the floating principle and survival strategy from the morphological function and its growth strategy. The research novelty, that addressed the functionality and its evolutionary aspects of the radiolarians using the advanced technology of microfocus X-ray CT, was evaluated as the Best Paper Award.
Personally, perhaps including all the co-authors, I always think that the radiolarian shells are attractively shaped. The award-winning paper is my favorite research that has integrated the functional beauty into the morphological beauty.
"A morphological analysis of the flat-shaped spumellarian radiolarian Dictyocoryne: morpho-functional insights into planktonic mode of life"
https://doi.org/10.2517/2019PR020
Published in: Paleontological Research, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 134-146, 2020.
Winners: Yuta Shiino (Niigata University), Toshiyuki Kurihara (Niigata University), Ryo Ichinohe (University of Tokyo), Naoko Kishimoto (Setsunan University), Takashi Yoshino (Toyo University) and Atsushi Matsuoka (Niigata University)
Palaeontological Society of Japan website
Associate Professor Yuta SHIINO
One of the 3D models created in the research
Increasing trend of overweight and obesity among Japanese patients with incident end-stage kidney disease
Verifying the Effect to Enhance Swallowing Initiation of Crystalline Oil and Fat: Expected to Develop Dysphagia Diet for Patients with dysphagia
Discovery of Glass-Forming Liquid Electrolytes as a New Liquid Category: Specific Lithium-Ion Conduction and Assignment of Key Dissolved Chemical Species