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Recipients of Awards

Society Award

	Name	Affiliation / Title	Research Title / Reason for award
2019	Sakae Tsuda	Chief Senior Researcher of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Professor of Hokkaido University (HU)	Functional analysis of antifreeze protein toward its practical applications Reason for the Award
2016	Mari Iwaya-Inoue	Professor, Kyushu University	Study of water relation in plants exposed to low temperature and drought stresses
2015	Minoru Sakurai	Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology	Experimental and theoretical study on the mechanism of desiccation tolerance of biological systems induced by trehalose and LEA proteins
2014	Osato Miyawaki	Professor, Ishikawa Prefectural University	Cryobiological and Cryotechnological Research from the Standpoint of Physicochemistry of Water Reasons for the award
2013	Hitoshi Kanno	Emeritus Professor, National Defense Academy (Japan)	Basic Research on the Vitrification of Solutions and Biological Cells Reasons for the award
2012	Matsuo Uemura	Professor, Iwate University	Studies of mechanism of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in plants
2011	Norio Murase	Professor, Tokyo Denki University	Study of Freezing of Water in Biological Model Systems
2010	Seizo Fujikawa	Emeritus Professor, Hokkaido University Visiting Professor, Iwate University	Mechanisms on freezing of water and cold adaptation of life

Young Scientist Award

	Name	Affiliation / Title	Research Title / Reason for award
2023	Keita Endoh	Researcher, Forest Tree Breeding Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute	Freezing adaptation of winter buds and cryopreservation of tree genetic resources
2022	Daisuke Takahashi	Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science & Engineering, Saitama University	Studies on the response of plasma membrane and cell wall to low temperatures in plants
2021	Satoshi Kidokoro	Assistant Professor, School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology	Elucidation of the molecular mechanism of the initial response to low-temperature stress in high plants
2019	Shuji Abe	Assistant professor, Tokyo University of Technology	Construction of a novel evaluation method for gel forming ability of frozen surimi
2018	Shigesaburo Ogawa	Seikei University	Analysis of behaviors of mono-tailed glycolipids under freezing and desiccation
2017	Jun Kasuga	Research Associate, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine	Freezing adaptation mechanisms of boreal trees
2016	Shinsuke Seki	Akita University	Mechanism of intracellular ice formation and importance for rapid warming to prevent intracellular ice formation
2014	Kazuaki Matsumura	Associate Professor, School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Development of novel polymeric cryoprotectants and their applications Reasons for the award
2012	Kiyoshi Kawai	Associate professor, Hiroshima University	Glass Transition Properties of Biomaterials
2011	Takahiro Kikawada	Chief Researcher Anhydrobiosis Research Group National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences	Molecular mechanisms underlying induction of anhydrobiosis in the sleeping chironomid.

Best Presentation Award

	Name	Affiliation / Title	Research Title / Reason for award
69th (2024) Annual Meeting	Kanata HIROTA	Saitama University	Raf-like kinase ARK-mediated regulation and the function of ethylene response factors in cold acclimation of the moss Physcomitrium Patens
68th (2023) Annual Meeting	Takuma KIKUCHI	Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University	Effects of pectic galactan and arabinan on low temperature response in plants
67th (2022) Annual Meeting	Taiga KOGA	Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University	Relationship between Freezing Behavior and Ice Nucleation Activity in Winter Buds
66th (2021) Annual Meeting	Chetphilin SURIYASAK	Graduate School of Bioresource Sciences, Kyushu University	Mechanism underlying relationship between grain chalkiness occurrence and dry wind condition in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
65th (2020) Annual Meeting	Kosuke MIZUTANI	Graduate School of Frontier Science, The University of Tokyo	Functional assay for the trehalose transporter of the sleeping chironomid during desiccation process
64th (2019) Annual Meeting	Akari YAMAUCHI	Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University	Elucidation of the hypothermic cell-protection mechanism by comparing fish and microbial antifreeze proteins
63th (2018) Annual Meeting	Mayuka HIRAIDE	Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University	Activation by phosphorylation of plant Raf-like kinase ARK essential for abscisic acid and low temperature response
62th (2017) Annual Meeting	Tatsuya ARAI	Graduate School, Hokkaido University	Analysis of ice-binding mechanism of Antifreeze protein from ascomycete
62th (2017) Annual Meeting	Nobuhiro IZUHARA	Graduate School, Hokkaido University	Inhibition of ice nucleation activity of recombinant inaA proteins by polyphenols
61th (2016) Annual Meeting	Andressa C. S. NAKAGAWA	Graduate School Bioenviron. Sci., Kyushu University	Changes of soybean seed storage compounds related-genes expression under drought stress
61th (2016) Annual Meeting	Tomoki MIDORIKAWA	School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University	Induction of autophagy under low-temperature treatment in animal cells
60th (2015) Annual Meeting	Misa BANNO	Center for Biol. Res. & Inform., Tokyo Tech	Analysis of free energy and structural change of G3LEA peptide n the binding process to a POPC bilayer
60th (2015) Annual Meeting	Hayato HIRAKI	Graduate School of Agriculture, Iwate University	Calcium signal dynamics and its role in cold sensing of plant cells
59th (2014) Annual Meeting	Jun Okada	National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences	Construction of optimized CRISPR/Cas system to research the anhydrobiosis in the sleeping chironomid
58th (2013) Annual Meeting	Machiko Shigemi	National Defence Academy of Japan	Structure and Activity of Lysozyme in the Ionic Liquid-Water Mixed Solutions: Protein Preserving Solvent at Low-Temperature
57th (2012) Annual Meeting	Takahiro Watanabe	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Physicochemical study of the interaction between a Group3LEA model peptide and a phospholipid bilayer
57th (2012) Annual Meeting	Rie Hatanaka	National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences	LEA proteins from the sleeping chironomid