Presentations in academic conferences

Yamasaki H., Kakui K., Nomaki H., Chen C., Kano Y. (2026)  Two undescribed species of Kinorhyncha collected from the deep-sea floor near the Kuril, Japan, and Izu–Ogasawara trenches.  61st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Osaka, Japan. June. [Poster]  [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Kuwahara K., Yamasaki H. (2026) Marine microturbellarians (Platyhelminthes) collected from the Oni-no-sentaku-iwa in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. 61st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Osaka, Japan. June. [Poster] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H. (2025) Diversity of meiofauna inhabiting seamounts. 96th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Aichi, Japan. September. [Oral: Invited presentation at the symposium “Unexplored Deep-Sea Ecosystems Revealed by the Latest Research” organized in association with the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H., Fujimoto S., Sekiguchi S., Sakai H., Tsukagoshi N., Kondo Y., Ohtsuka S. (2025) Taxonomic studies of benthic invertebrates based on specimens collected during cruises of the TRV Toyoshio-maru from 1988 to 2023. 96th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Aichi, Japan. September. [Poster] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H. (2025) Expectations for National Museum of Natural History, Okinawa. 60th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Tsukuba, Japan. June. [Oral: Invited presentation at the “Symposium on the National Museum of Natural History, Okinawa”] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H., Kakui K. (2025) Report on kinorhynchs collected from the hadal seafloor. 60th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Tsukuba, Japan. June. [Poster] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H. (2024) Meiofaunal research at European natural history museums and prospects for the proposed National Museum of Natural History, Okinawa. 95th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Nagasaki, Japan. September. [Oral: Invited presentation at the symposium “What Do Early-Career Researchers Expect from the National Museum of Natural History, Okinawa, and How Can They Contribute?”] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H., Matsubayashi K.W. (2024)  Investigation on the “meiofauna paradox” using echinoderid kinorhynchs as a model.  7th International Scalidophora Workshop. Mie, Japan. June. [Oral]  

Sørensen M.V., Yamasaki H. (2024)  Nice to know you: a new interactive identification key to non-echinoderid and non-pycnophyid kinorhynchs.  7th International Scalidophora Workshop. Mie, Japan. June. [Oral]  

Fujimoto S., Yamasaki H., Jimi N., Ogawa A., Tsuchiya M. (2024)  New Year Cruise 2023: First report of Nanaloricidae from Japanese waters.  7th International Scalidophora Workshop. Mie, Japan. June. [Oral]  

Ohtsuka S., Fujita Y., Yamasaki H. (2023) Remarkable recent discoveries in the marine biodiversity of Okinawa, with particular emphasis on crustaceans and meiofauna. 94th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Yamagata, Japan. September. [Oral: Invited presentation at the symposium “Expectations for a National Museum of Natural History, Okinawa”]  [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H., Matsubayashi K. (2023) Testing the meiofauna paradox using echinoderid kinorhynchs as a model. 94th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Yamagata, Japan. September. [Oral] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H. (2023) Kinorhynch fauna of the Oki Islands, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, and an undescribed species of Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha: Echinoderidae).  58th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Toyohashi, Japan. June. [Poster]  [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]

Yamasaki H., Fujimoto S., Tanaka H., Shimada D., Sakai H., Tsujimoto M. (2022) Reexamination of the type species Polacanthoderes martinezi, report of an undescribed species,  and phylogenetic position of the genus Polacanthoderes (Kinorhyncha: Echinoderidae).  57th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Online meeting hosted from Tokyo, Japan. June. [Poster]  [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H. (2021) Phylogenetic analysis of kinorhynchs belonging to Echinoderidae. 92nd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Online meeting hosted from Yonago, Japan. September. [Poster] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H., Neuhaus B., George K.H. (2019)  Investigation of kinorhynchs on seamounts and surrounding areas in the Mediterranean Sea,  northeastern Atlantic Ocean, and Arctic Ocean.  5th International Scalidophora Workshop. Brazil. January. [Oral]  

Randsø P.V., Yamasaki H., Bownes S.J., Herranz M., Di Domenico M., Qii G.B., Sørensen M.V. (2019) Phylogeny of the Echinoderes coulli-group: a cosmopolitan species group trapped in the intertidal.  5th International Scalidophora Workshop. Brazil. January. [Oral]  

Yamasaki H., Neuhaus B., George K.H. (2017) At least seven new species of Echinoderes (Phylum Kinorhyncha) from seamounts and the deep-sea floor  in the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Atlantic Ocean.  3rd BioSyst.EU Meeting. Sweden. August. [Poster]  

Yamasaki H., Fujimoto S., Tanaka H., Tsujimoto M. (2017)  Kinorhynchs in Antarctica and surrounding areas.  XIIth SCAR Biology Symposium. Belgium. July. [Poster]  

Yamasaki H., Fujimoto S. (2016)  The current picture of scalidophorology in Japan: studies on Kinorhyncha, Priapulida, and Loricifera.  Joint Meeting of the 22nd International Congress of Zoology and the 87th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan.  Japan. November.  [Oral: Symposium “What Do We Know about Animals Living in the Sand Interstices?”]  

Yamasaki H., Neuhaus B., George K.H. (2016) Echinoderes (Phylum Kinorhyncha) from seamounts of the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Atlantic Ocean.  Joint Meeting of the 22nd International Congress of Zoology and the 87th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan.  Japan. November. [Poster]  

Herranz M., Van Steenkiste N., Yamasaki H., Tanaka H., Leander B. (2016) Can disjunct distributions in kinorhynchs be explained by introduction events? The biogeographical story of E. ohtsukai.  16th International Meiofauna Conference. Greece. July. [Oral]  

Yamasaki H. (2016) Taxonomy and phylogeny of Kinorhyncha in waters around Japan. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Hokkaido, Japan. June. [Oral: Commemorative lecture for the 13th Young Scientist Award of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H., Neuhaus B. (2016) An undescribed species of Centroderes (Kinorhyncha) from the East China Sea.  52nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Hokkaido, Japan. June. [Poster]  [The presentation title was also provided in Japanese; the English title is shown here.]  

Yamasaki H., Fujimoto S., Miyazaki K. (2015)  Molecular phylogeny of Loricifera.  4th International Scalidophora Workshop. Spain. September. [Oral]  

Yamasaki H. (2015)  Kinorhynchs from Daidokutsu, a submarine cave in the Ryukyu Islands.  4th International Scalidophora Workshop. Spain. September. [Oral]  

Yamasaki H. (2015) Species diversity of Kinorhyncha in Japan. 2015 Joint Meeting of the Japanese Association of Benthology and the Plankton Society of Japan. Hokkaido, Japan. September. [Oral] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H. (2015) Two species of Dracoderes (Dracoderidae: Kinorhyncha) discovered in the Ryukyu Islands.  51st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Hiroshima, Japan. June. [Poster]  [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H., Fujimoto S. (2014) Phylogenetic position of Loricifera. 85th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Miyagi, Japan. September. [Oral] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H., Uyeno D., Arai M., Kakui K., Tanaka M., Hirose M., Fujii T., Fujimoto S. (2014) Report on the Umi-Sawa-kai Field Workshop for Early-Career Marine Biologists. 50th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Ibaraki, Japan. June. [Oral] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H., Fujimoto S. (2014) Two new species of Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha) discovered in the Ryukyu Islands.  50th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Ibaraki, Japan. June. [Poster]  [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

cular data supplemented with morphological information.  15th International Meiofauna Conference. Korea. July. [Oral]  

Yamasaki H. (2013)  Kinorhynchs in Japanese waters.  15th International Meiofauna Conference. Korea. July. [Poster]  

Yamasaki H., Hiruta S.F., Kajihara H., Dick M.H. (2013) Phylogeography of two species of intertidal Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha) in northern Japan.  15th International Meiofauna Conference. Korea. July.  

Yamasaki H. (2013) An undescribed genus of Kinorhyncha discovered off Tanegashima Island, Japan. 49th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Miyagi, Japan. June. [Poster] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H. (2012) Kinorhyncha? An extraordinarily little-known animal phylum. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Osaka, Japan. September. [Oral: Invited presentation at the symposium “Zoology of Animals Smaller than a Few Millimeters”] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H. (2012)  Molecular phylogeny of Kinorhyncha.  3rd International Scalidophora Workshop. Norway. August. [Oral]  

Yamasaki H., Kajihara H., Dick M.H. (2011) Report on kinorhynchs discovered from the deep-sea floor. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Hokkaido, Japan. September. [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H., Kajihara H., Dick M.H. (2011) Taxonomic study of Kinorhyncha collected from Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. 47th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Okinawa, Japan. June. [Poster] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H., Kajihara H., Mawatari S.F., Dick M.H. (2010)  Taxonomic study of Kinorhyncha in Hokkaido, Japan.  14th International Meiofauna Conference. Belgium. July. [Poster]

Yamasaki H., Kajihara H., Mawatari S.F. (2009) Taxonomic study of Kinorhyncha in the Satsunan Islands, Japan. 80th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Shizuoka, Japan. September. [Oral] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H., Kajihara H., Mawatari S.F. (2009) Kinorhynchs along the coast of Hokkaido, Japan. 45th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Aichi, Japan. June. [Poster] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]  

Yamasaki H., Kajihara H., Mawatari S.F. (2008) Taxonomic study of Kinorhyncha in Oshoro Bay, Hokkaido, Japan. 44th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. Kanagawa, Japan. June. [Poster] [Original in Japanese; translated into English.]