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Professor Mitsuyasu Hasebe received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1992 for the molecular phylogeny of extant gymnosperms and ferns. Prof. Kunio Iwatsuki was his mentor. He was an Assistant Professor from 1992 to 1996 at Botanical Gardens, the University of Tokyo in Prof. Iwatsuki's group. He stayed in Purdue University as a visiting scientist supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 1993 to 1995. In 1997, he moved to National Institute for Basic Biology as an Associate Professor, and is a Professor of Department of Evolutionary Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology since 2000.
He inferred the monophyly of extant gymnosperms and major relationships of ferns with DNA sequences. He was a Japanese leader of the international consortium for the lycopod Selaginella moellendorffii and the moss Physcomitrella patens genome projects. His group revealed the evolution of development, life cycle, and stem cell formation in land plants. He is interested in the evolution of complex and novel traits including land plant development, carnivorous plants, seismonastic movement of Mimosa pudica, and more. Please visit his lab web page in detail (http://www.nibb.ac.jp/evodevo). He also opens his lecture notes on plant evodevo (http://www.nibb.ac.jp/plantdic/blog/). He was awarded as the Young Scientist Prizes of Japan Science for the Promotion of Science and the Japan Academy in 2005, The Society Prize of Botanical Society of Japan in 2008, and Jeanette Siron Pelton Award from The Botanical Society of America in 2013.
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