At the Zoological Society Council meeting held on Saturday, June 1 at the Tokyo International Forum, two candidates recommended by the OM Prize Selection Committee were discussed. As a result, the Zoological Society of Japan Council decided to present the FY2019 Zoological Society of Japan OM Award for Encouragement of Female Researchers to the following two individuals.
The reason for the award is as follows:
Reason for Awarding the 2019 Japanese Society of Zoology OM Award for Encouraging Female Researchers
Chizue Hiruta
Research Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Science
Elucidating the mechanism of parthenogenesis in water fleas to explore the evolutionary origins of meiosis
OM Prize Chizue Hiruta Abstract
Junko Yaguchi
Shimoda Marine Research Center, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba / JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (PD)
Exploring the relationship between the brain and the enteric nervous system and its evolution through echinoderm research
