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Yang Jiwei
Section
Advanced Institute for Marine Ecosystem Change
Job title
Assistant Professor
e-Rad No.
31003650

Research History 6

  • 2025/04 - Present
    Tohoku University　Advanced Institute for Marine Ecosystem Change (WPI-AIMEC)　WPI-AIMEC Postdoctoral Fellow

  • 2024/07 - 2025/04
    Tohoku University　Graduate School of Life Sciences

  • 2024/04 - 2024/06
    The University of Tokyo

  • 2022/04 - 2024/04
    独立行政法人日本学術振興会, 特別研究員 DC2

  • 2020/10 - 2021/03
    Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

  • 2019/10 - 2020/08
    東北師範大学中国赴日本国留学生予備学校

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Education 3

  • The University of Tokyo　Graduate School of Frontier Sciences

    2021/04 - 2024/03

  • University of Chinese Academy of Sciences　Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

    2015/09 - 2018/06

  • Jimei University

    2011/09 - 2015/06

Professional Memberships 2

  • 日本地球惑星科学連合

    2026/04 - Present

  • 環境DNA学会

    2022/09 - Present

Research Areas 4

  • Natural sciences / Atmospheric and hydrospheric science / Climate change; Global warming

  • Life sciences / Molecular biology /

  • Life sciences / Marine/Aquatic life sciences / Metagenome

  • Environmental science/Agricultural science / Biological resource conservation / Environmental DNA and RNA

Awards 5

  1. Best Student Poster Award

    2023/05　The eDNA Society　Environmental mRNA-seq of Xenopus laevis and Gasterosteus aculeatus

  2. Travel Grant (AUD 750)

    2023/02　1st Australian & New Zealand Environmental DNA Conference, Hobart, Australia, 2023

  3. 文部科学省国費留学生

    2019/10

  4. Liu Ruiyu Marine Science Scholarship

    2018/08　University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  5. Travel Grant (600 USD)

    2017/10　22nd Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Halifax, Canada, 2017

Papers 8

  1. The Grand Challenges of WPI-AIMEC: Executive Summary

    Toshio Suga, Fumio Inagaki, Kentaro Ando, Michio Kondoh, S. Smith, Keith Rodgers, Toyonobu Fujii, Michio Kawamiya, Hanani Adiwira, Maki Aita, Vani Alviani, Cheryl Ames, Kamrum Azad, Ettore Barbieri, Batdulam Battulga, Jonathan Derot, Diego Deville, Tetsuichi Fujiki, Jimena García-Rodríguez, Tomoko Hamabata, Masumi Hasegawa-Takano, Andrew Hirzel, Tatsuhiko Hoshino, Benjamin Horton, Shigeki Hosoda, Minoru Ikeda, Yasufumi Iryu, Yoichi Ishikawa, Kota Ishikawa, Sabine Kasten, Jamie Kass, Satoshi Katayama, Shinya Kouketsu, Gaku Kumano, Zhen Lin, Jutarak Luang‑on, Hiroshi Murakami, Yuriko Nagano, Takashi Nakagawara, Tomoe Nasuno, Goh Nishitani, Riko Oki, Takeshi Obayashi, Yuichi Okayama, Yusaku Ohta, Shuhei Ono, Yutaka Osada, Bo Qiu, Namal Rathnayake, Kelvin Richards, Niklas Schneider, Takashi Sakamaki, Yusuke Sasaki, Kanako Sato, Masahito Shigemitsu, Eko Siswanto, Kugako Sugimoto, Shusaku Sugimoto, Yoshihisa Suyama, Kaoru Tachiiri, Hiromi Takahata, Hideko Takayanagi, Akifumi Tanabe, Hiroaki Tatebe, Fumiaki Tomita, Tsunaki Iida, Gerlien Verhaegen, Clara Vives, Lael Wakamatsu, Shingo Watanabe, Shuya Wang, Angelicque White, Nadine Wood, Baolan Wu, Shang-Ping Xie, Sayaka Yasunaka, Jiwei Yang, Akinori Yabuki, Yosuke Yamada, Alan Yee, Taichi Yokokawa, Nan Yuan, William McDonough, Kimio Hanawa

    2025/08/16

    Publisher: California Digital Library (CDL)

    DOI： 10.31223/x55r0j 　

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    The ocean has a heat capacity 1,000 times greater than that of the atmosphere and stores 50 times more carbon comparatively, thus, constituting a major sink of anthropogenically released greenhouse gases. Warming effects of human activities on the climate system are now undeniably shown to impact marine life and ecosystems, both directly via warming of the ocean and/or indirectly altering ocean circulation across spatiotemporal scales. Beyond the effect of warming on individual organisms, a changing climate signal has been argued from modeling studies to cause a ripple effect known as trophic level amplification, resulting in changes in the balance of biomass in different size classes. Larger fractional changes in biomass are expected of predator organisms at higher trophic levels, such as fish, due to shifts in the representative phytoplankton at the base of the food web. With a shift towards smaller phytoplankton, trophic amplification scenarios are expected to disrupt fisheries and carbon storage algorithms and negatively affect ecosystem services necessary for a sustainable society. Despite continued advances in monitoring and modeling of ecosystems projecting changes related to trophic coupling, suitable habitat and biogeochemical element cycling remains difficult due to inadequate information on marine ecosystems across spatiotemporal scales. WPI-Advanced Institute for Marine Ecosystem Change (WPI-AIMEC) operates based on five institutional Grand Challenges (GCs). These GCs aim to promote fusion science by integrating observational, analytical, and modeling tools to complement theoretical approaches and advance our understanding of the processes driving marine ecosystem change. By combining the research skills and knowledge of the host institutes Tohoku University and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) in partnership with University ofHawai'i, we seek transformative solutions to the grandest challenges of addressing marine ecosystem change through diverse perspectives encompassing marine physics, biology, ecology, biogeochemistry, and data science. Overall, the AIMEC Grand Challenges offer unprecedented opportunities for cross­disciplinary fusion science and scientific breakthroughs with the attainable goal of "Planetary Stewardship”—the responsible management and care of the natural systems to ensure a sustainable and healthy planet for future generations.

  2. Rapid, easy, sensitive, low‐cost and on‐site detection of environmental DNA and RNA using CRISPR‐Cas13

    Jiwei Yang, Shoma Matsushita, Fei Xia, Susumu Yoshizawa, Wataru Iwasaki

    Methods in Ecology and Evolution　2024/07/09

    Publisher: Wiley

    DOI： 10.1111/2041-210x.14369 　

    ISSN： 2041-210X

    eISSN： 2041-210X

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    Abstract Environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring of species distribution has become a critical tool in ecology, conservation biology and fisheries for identifying the presence and distribution of diverse organisms, including important, threatened and invasive species. However, eDNA detection still has room for improvement in sensitivity, requiring time‐consuming real‐time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) steps and costly machines. In this study, we report a CRISPR‐Cas13‐based method for rapid, easy, sensitive, low‐cost and on‐site detection of eDNA. The assay for the detection of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) and medaka (Oryzias latipes) nucleic acid employs a two‐step process, starting with recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) and followed by cleavage using Cas13 nuclease, to effectively identify mitochondrial DNA or RNA. Our results showed that the Cas13‐based method has a higher sensitivity than the qPCR‐based method in detecting tiny amounts of eDNA. When combined with reverse transcription of environmental RNA (eRNA), our method increased detection sensitivity by approximately one order of magnitude. Cas13‐based detection could achieve on‐site detection of eDNA using a quick nucleic acid extraction solution and lateral flow strips. Cas13‐based detection of eDNA and eRNA requires minimal training efforts and can be performed in 1 h, without the need for centrifugation and qPCR machines. The portability of the Cas13‐based method, along with its accuracy and relative ease in designing primers and CRISPR RNA (crRNA), underscores its potential to broaden the application of eDNA and eRNA in various fields, including biodiversity conservation.

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    Jiwei Yang, Kang Wang, Zhigang Mei, Jun Xu, Jinsong Zheng, Xiaoling Wan, Yujiang Hao, Kexiong Wang, Ding Wang

    Freshwater Biology　2021/05

    DOI： 10.1111/fwb.13546 　

  4. Temporal variation in the diet of Yangtze finless porpoise calls for conservation of semi‐migratory fish

    Jiwei Yang, Kang Wang, Zhigang Mei, Jun Xu, Jinsong Zheng, Xiaoling Wan, Yujiang Hao, Kexiong Wang, Ding Wang

    Freshwater Biology　2021/05

    DOI： 10.1111/fwb.13692 　

  5. A preliminary study on diet of the Yangtze finless porpoise using next‐generation sequencing techniques

    Jiwei Yang, Xiaoling Wan, Xianyuan Zeng, Jinsong Zheng, Yi Han, Fei Fan, Yujiang Hao, Kexiong Wang, Zhigang Mei, Ding Wang

    Marine Mammal Science　2019/10

    DOI： 10.1111/mms.12585 　

  6. Hormonal Regulation of Testicular Development in the Finless Porpoise Neophocaena asiaeorientalis sunameri: Preliminary Evidence from Testicular Histology and Immunohistochemistry

    Zoological Studies　2018/09

  7. Characterization of milk protein composition of the Yangtze finless porpoise

    Xianyuan Zeng, Minmin Chen, Zhigang Liu, Daoping Yu, Shiang‐Lin Huang, Jiwei Yang, Fei Fan, Ding Wang, Yujiang Hao, Ghulam Nabi

    Marine Mammal Science　35　(1)　252-260　2018/04/26

    Publisher: Wiley

    DOI： 10.1111/mms.12508 　

    ISSN： 0824-0469

    eISSN： 1748-7692

  8. Parasitic infections in the East Asian finless porpoise Neophocaena asiaeorientalis sunameri living off the Chinese Yellow/Bohai Sea coast

    XL Wan, JS Zheng, WX Li, XY Zeng, JW Yang, YJ Hao, D Wang

    Diseases of Aquatic Organisms　125　(1)　63-71　2017/06/19

    Publisher: Inter-Research Science Center

    DOI： 10.3354/dao03131 　

    ISSN： 0177-5103

    eISSN： 1616-1580

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Presentations 13

  1. Fundamentals and Practice of Large-Scale eDNA Community Analysis: Insights from ANEMONE

    YANG JIWEI

    2026/06/08

  2. Tightly packed isotherms constrain temporal turnover in marine biodiversity Invited

    Jiwei Yang, Michio Kondoh

    2026/05/28

  3. Asymmetric ocean warming is slowing the temporal turnover of marine biodiversity

    JIWEI YANG

    The 73rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ)　2026/03/12

  4. Thermal traps constrain community reorganization under global warming

    JIWEI YANG, Michio Kondoh

    The 8th Annual Meeting of The eDNA Society　2025/12/11

  5. Thermal traps constrain temporal turnover in biodiversity

    YANG JIWEI

    OIST x WPI-AIMEC (Tohoku U & JAMSTEC) Joint Workshop　2025/11/20

  6. Tracking climate impacts on Kuroshio marine fish communities using environmental DNA

    Jiwei Yang, Michio Kondoh

    Pan-CLIVAR Meeting 2025　2025/09/24

  7. Tracking climate impacts on Kuroshio marine fish communities using environmental DNA

    Jiwei Yang, Michio Kondoh

    The 11th EAFES International Congress　2025/07/21

  8. Environmental DNA detection by CRISPR-Cas13

    Yang Jiwei, Iwasaki Wataru

    The eDNA Society International Meeting 2023　2023/05/18

  9. Environmental mRNA-seq of Xenopus laevis and Gasterosteus aculeatus

    Fei Xia, Jiwei Yang, Yuanyu Wang, Yihan Ma, Susumu Yoshizawa, Asano Ishikawa, Hiroki Kuroda, Wataru Iwasaki

    The eDNA Society International Meeting 2023　2023/05/17

  10. Daily monitoring of nuclear and mitochondrial environmental DNA concentrations from common carp

    Fei Xia, Jiwei Yang, Hiroki Kuroda, Wataru Iwasaki

    2022/11/19

  11. Rapid environmental DNA detection by CRISPR-Cas13

    Yang Jiwei, Iwasaki Wataru

    Tokyo Bioinformatics Meeting　2022/10/15

  12. Environmental DNA detection by CRISPR-Cas13

    Jiwei Yang, Shoma Matsushita, Fei Xia, Susumu Yoshizawa, Wataru Iwasaki

    1st Australian & New Zealand eDNA Conference　2023/02/17

  13. A preliminary study on diet of the Yangtze finless porpoise using next-generation sequencing techniques

    22nd Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals　2017/10/24

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Research Projects 1

  1. Rapid detection of environmental RNA and absolute quantification using internal strand RNA

    Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Category: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

    Institution: The University of Tokyo

    2023/03/08 - 2024/03/31