Hirohisa Ebina
Postdoc
Barral Lab, Institute of Biochemistry
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Address: ETH Zürich, Institute of Biochemistry, HPM D14.1, Otto-Stern-Weg 3, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
E-mail: hiro.ebina[a]bc.biol.ethz.ch
ORCID: 0000-0002-2989-893X
Last Updated: 2025-07-29
Education
2022 March Ph.D. Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science, Waseda University, Japan.
2019 March M.S. Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science, Waseda University, Japan.
2017 March B.S. Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan.
Research Experience
2022 April - present Postdoc, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; Mentor: Dr. Yves Barral; Project focus: Genetic immunity in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe
2019 April - 2022 March Doctoral research, Waseda University, Japan; Supervisor: Masamitsu Sato, Ph.D.; Thesis title: Functional analysis of the microtubule-associated protein Peg1 in mitotic spindle assembly of fission yeast
2017 April - 2019 March Master research, Waseda University, Japan; Supervisor: Masamitsu Sato, Ph.D.
2016 April - 2017 March Undergraduate research, Waseda University, Japan; Supervisor: Masamitsu Sato, Ph.D.
2016 September LIMES-Waseda Exchange Program, University of Bonn, Germany; Supervisor: Marc Bayer, Priv.-Doz., Dr.
2015 September NIBB Internship Program, National Institute of Natural Sciences, Japan; Supervisor: Nobuyuki Shiina, Ph.D.
2015 August - September CiRA Research Internship Program, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Japan; Supervisor: Yasuhiro Takashima, M.D., Ph.D.
Grants
2021 October - 2022 March Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation (SPRING), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan; Amount: JPY 250,000
Fellowship and Awards
2021 October - 2022 March Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation (SPRING), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan; Amount: JPY 1,450,000
2019 April - 2022 March Scholarship for Young Doctoral Students (Grant), Waseda University, Japan; Amount: JPY 1,500,000
2019 January Academic Year 2018 Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering Master's Program Scholarship, Waseda University, Japan; Amount: JPY 100,000
Publications
Hirohisa Ebina, Liang Ji, and Masamitsu Sato. CLASP promotes microtubule bundling in metaphase spindle independently of Ase1/PRC1 in fission yeast. Biology Open, 8, bio045716, October 2019. [Biology Open]
Presentation
Talk
Hiro Ebina, Mattia Valentini, Haochen Yu, Yves Barral. Discrimination of exogenous DNA by mitotic heterochromatin in fission yeast. Swiss Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting 2025/SSM2025, Interlaken, Switzerland, August 2025.
Hiro Ebina, Mattia Valentini, Haochen Yu, Yves Barral. Discrimination of exogenous DNA by mitotic heterochromatin in fission yeast. ICYGM32/Yeast2025, Paris, France, July 2025.
Hiro Ebina. Exploring mechanisms of self/nonself discrimination at DNA level in fission yeast. Yeast Chromosome Biology and Cell Cycle 2024, Winnipeg Canada, June 2024.
Hiro Ebina, Mattia Valentini, Saini Shweta. Exploring genome protection mechanisms in eukaryotes: lessons from fission yeast. IBC retreat 2023, Adelboden Switzerland, June 2023.
Hirohisa Ebina. Functional analysis of the microtubule-associated protein CLASP. 20th German-Japanese Joint Symposium between the University of Bonn and Waseda University, Tokyo Japan, October 2017.
Hirohisa Ebina. Imaging mitotic entry in living culture cells. International Workshop for Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of Research Collaboration in Life Science Fields between the University of Bonn and Waseda University, Tokyo Japan, January 2017.
Poster
Hirohisa Ebina, Shweta Saini, Mattia Valentini, Haochen Yu, and Yves Barral. Exploring mechanisms of self/nonself discrimination at DNA level in fission yeast. Cell Bio 24, P1975, San Diego CA, December 2024.
Hirohisa Ebina, Shweta Saini, Mattia Valentini, Haochen Yu, and Yves Barral. Exploring mechanisms of self/nonself discrimination at DNA level in fission yeast. The 12th 3R+3C International Symposium, P1-35, Fukuoka Japan, November 2024. *This poster was selected for the flash talk (Session 6-6). **This poster was awarded as an excellent poster award.
Hirohisa Ebina, Mattia Valentini, Haochen Yu, and Yves Barral. Exploring mechanisms of genome protection in fission yeast. Bringing Materials to Life (BML) Day 6th Semi-Annual Meeting, P-25, Zürich Switzerland, June 2024.
Hirohisa Ebina, Shweta Saini, Mattia Valentini, Haochen Yu, and Yves Barral. Exploring mechanisms of self/nonself discrimination at DNA level in fission yeast. D-BIOL symposium 2024, P-31, Davos Switzerland, June 2024.
Hirohisa Ebina, Liang Ji, and Masamitsu Sato. Fission yeast CLASP ensures chromosome segregation by bundling spindle microtubules. Cell Cycle Meeting 2019, P-26, Trieste Italy, June 2019.
Hirohisa Ebina, Liang Ji, and Masamitsu Sato. Functional analysis of fission yeast CLASP in assembling pre-anaphase spindle. Joint Annual Meeting of 51st Japan Society of Developmental Biologists and 70th Japan Society of Cell Biology, P1-074, Tokyo Japan, June 2018.
