About
Koji Noshita
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in evolutionary morphology and morphometrics.
- Morphometrics of animals
- gastropod shells
- Morphometrics of plants
- leaves of cassava, soybean, sorghum and wheat
- Morphometrics of artifacts
- Earthenware
Keywords
- Theoretical morphology
- Morphometrics
- Mathematical biology
- Plant phenotyping
- 3D image analysis
Affiliations
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- Faculty of Science Department of Biology
Mathematical Biology Laboratory - Plant Frontier Research Center
- Faculty of Science Department of Biology
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[Mathematical Biology Lab.] +81-92-802-4316
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noshita at morphometrics.jp
Education
- 2006 - 2010 B.S., Geoscience (Shizuoka Univ., Japan)
- 2010 - 2012 M.S., Mathematical Biology (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
- 2010 - 2015 Ph.D., Mathematical Biology (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
- Apr., 2014 - Nov., 2014 Visiting Scholar in Plotkin Research Group, UPenn (USA)
Professional Experience
- 2012 - 2015 Research Fellow (JSPS DC1)
- 2015 - 2016 Project Researcher (UTokyo)
- 2016 - 2018 Visiting Fellow (UTokyo)
- 2016 - 2020 JST PRESTO Researcher “Innovational technical basis for cultivation in cooperation with information science”
- 2018 - present Assistant Professor (Kyushu Univ.)
- Sep., 2018 - Dec., 2018 Visiting Scholar in Computational Plant Science Lab, UGA (USA)
- 2021 - present Faculty Member in Graduate Program of Mathematics for Innovation, Kyushu Univ.
- 2021 - present Visiting Faculty in Interdisciplinary Biology Laboratory (iBLab), Nagoya University
- 2021 - present Visiting Researcher in Archaeological Research Methodology Section, Center for Archaeological Operations, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
Teaching Experience
- 2010 - 2012
2013 - 2014 Teaching Assistant (Kyushu Univ.) - 2018 - present Exercises for Computational Biology
Field Experience
- Jan., 2013 - Feb., 2013 Photogrammetry of gastropod shells for estimating the morphological diversity
in National Museum of Natural History (USA), Host Researcher: Ellen Strong
Studying abroad program for young scientists of global conservation ecology - Sep., 2013 Fish and shellfish survey
Sarawak, Malaysia GCOE: Asian Conservation Ecology - Jan., 2014 - Feb., 2014 Photogrammetry of gastropod specimens
in National Museum of Natural History (USA), Host Researcher: Robert Hershler
GCOE: Asian Conservation Ecology
Awards, Prizes and Honours
- 2016 JSB Best Presentation Award (the 130th meeting), Japanese Society of Breeding
- 2012 PSJ Best Poster Prize (the 161th regular meeting), Palaeontological Society of Japan
- 2012 Repayment Exemption for Students with Excellent Grades, Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO)
Research Funding
- JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists, Mathematical modeling for 3D plant morphology as fundamental technologies of plant phenotyping, PI Koji Noshita, 2021.04.01-2024.03.31
- RIKEN-Kyushu Univ Science and Technology Hub Collaborative Research Program, Advanced plant phenotyping platform boosted with 3D morphometrics and mathematical modeling, PI Yuko Makita (RIKEN) & Koji Noshita (Kyushu Univ.), 2021.04-2022.03.
- JST-MIRAI Program “Common Platform Technology, Facilities and Equipment” area, Small-start Type (Component technology type), Development of mathematical sciences framework for “morph” and social implementation of their logic toward real-world issues, PI Koji Noshita, FY2020-2022.
- JSPS KAKENHI Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)), Scientific reconstruction of nature in the Edo period using the Siebold collection, PI Takenori Sasaki (Co-I Koji Noshita), 2020.10-2024.03.
- JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientifc Research (B), 3D Morphology on Museum Collections: quantifying and improving shape recognition, and application for public display, PI Takenori Sasaki (Co-I Koji Noshita), 2020.04-2023.03.
- JST CREST, A novel approach for plant growth modeling based on comprehensive genome-environment interactions using large-scale digital images, PI Ryo Akashi (Co-I Koji Noshita, from 2020.04), 2016.10.01-2022.03.
- Kyushu Univ. Education and Research Grant Program for Mathematical and Data Science, A 3D morphological dataset and novel descriptors to represent whole plant architecture, PI Koji Noshita, 2019.07-2020.03
- JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area, “Out of Eurasia”), Integrative studies of anthropological, archaeological, and cognitive evidence through 3D database construction and mathematical analyses and modeling, PI Hisashi Nakao (Co-I Koji Noshita),
- JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists, 3D morphological benchmark datasets for accelerating plant phenotyping studies, PI Koji Noshita, 2019.06.28-2024.03.31
- JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientifc Research (B), Systems Bone Biology ~ From prediction to critical prevent of bone and cartilage disease, PI Masahiro Shinohara (Co-I Koji Noshita), 2018.07.18-2021.03.31
- JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientifc Research (B), Studies on helical growth mechanism of molluscan shells: Toward establishing paleo-evo-devo, PI Kazuyoshi Endo (Co-I Koji Noshita), FY2018-FY2022
- JST PRESTO, Super-resolution phenotyping of plant shoot architecture by multiscale morphological data fusion, PI Koji Noshita, FY2016-FY2019
- JSPS Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Mathematical Study of Morphological Adaptation and Morphogenesis, PI Koji Noshita, FY2012-FY2014
Referee Activities
- Journal of Marine Biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Scientific Reports, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Frontiers in Plant Science, Plant Methods, Plant Phenomics
Academic Societies
- 2009 - present Palaeontological Society of Japan
- 2010 - present Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan
- 2010 - present Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology
- 2011 - present The Ecological Society of Japan
- 2011 - 2016 Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists
- 2012 - present The Society for the Study of Evolution
- 2016 - present Japanese Society of Breeding
- 2017 - present Japanese Society of Agricultural Informatics
- 2019 - present Japan Plant Phenotyping Network
- 2019 - present Committee Member
- 2021 - present Society of Trans-disciplinary Plant Sciences
- 2021 - present Committee Member
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