At the meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan Board of Directors held on Saturday, June 12, 2021, starting at 9:30 AM, two candidates for the OM Award were nominated by the OM Award Selection Committee. As a result of the deliberation, the Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Japan decided to confer the 2021 Zoological Society of Japan OM Award for Encouragement of Female Researchers upon the following two individuals.
The reason for the award is as follows:
Chisato Kobayashi
Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow RPD (scheduled to end in March 2021)
Elucidation of the diverse adaptive significance of vein-cutting and trenching behaviors in herbivorous insects on host plants
Masako Katsuki
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo / JSPS Research Fellow (RPD)
Evolution of male morphology and behavior through sexual selection in insects
Public Interest Incorporated Foundation, Zoological Society of Japan
