01/2018-08/2020 Post-doctoral Fellow at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society
2017 Summer Lecturer, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, UCR
2013-2017 Graduate Teaching Assistant, UCR
2013-2014 Graduate Student Researcher for the Institute for the Development of Education Applications (IDEA), UCR
2012-2017 Ph.D. Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology University of California, Riverside (UCR)
2007-2011 B.S. Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior University of California, Los Angeles
2019 Young Investigator meeting registration award, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
2016 Graduate Dean's Dissertation Year Program Fellowship, UCR. $7,200
2015 International Mammalian Genome Conference Trainee Scholarship
2014 Charlotte Mangum Student Support Program, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
2014 UCR Outstanding Commitment to Higher Education Outreach Award (co-coordinator) from UCR Student Life
2014 Outstanding Teaching Award from Graduate Division, UCR
2014, 2015, 2016 Travel Grant from Graduate Division, UCR
2012 Graduate Student Fellowship from Biology Dept., UC Riverside. $16,000
Instructor
2017 Introduction to Evolution (BIOL105), University of California Online Courses.
2018, 2019 Thesis Writing Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany.
Teaching Assistant @ University of California, Riverside, 2012-2017
Organismal Biology Lab (BIOL 5B)
Introduction to Evolution (BIOL 105) x5
Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology (BIOL 174)
Motivation for a University Honors Scholar (Honors 1B)
Research and Creative Activities Across the Disciplines (Honors 150) x2
Published Lesson Plans
2015 "Simulating Random Genetic Drift" Students use an online simulation program (build by me through R Studio application Shiny) to find effects of population size and number of loci on the strength of genetic drift in a finite population. Published on IDEA.
2015 "Nature or Nurture? Heritability in the Classroom" Students develop hypotheses about how and why different traits have higher or lower narrow-sense heritability, and factors that could affect those estimates. Published on IDEA.
2018-2019 Postdoc Representative at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.
2015-2016 President of the Biology Graduate Student Association at UC Riverside. Represented student interests at faculty meetings, organized graduate student meetings and events.
2013-2015 Outreach Co-coordinator for the BGSA. Coordinated outreach activities, connected with local schools and museums for events, created and maintained website.
Contributed Reviews for: Integrative and Comparative Biology, Physiology & Behavior, PLOS ONE, and Laboratory Animals.
2011 Intern/Animal Caretaker, Manhattan Beach Pier Aquarium
2012 Intern/Animal Caretaker, Marine Mammal Care Center, San Pedro, CA
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2021 Cadney, MD, L Hiramatsu, Z Thompson, M Zhao, JC Kay, JM Singleton, RL Albuquerque, MP Schmill, W Saltzman, and T Garland, Jr. Effects of early-life exposure to western diet and voluntary exercise on adult activity levels, exercise physiology, and associated traits in selectively bred high runner mice. Physiology & Behavior: In Press. PDF
2020 Schmill MP, MD Cadney, Z Thompson, L Hiramatsu, RL Albuquerque, MP McNamara, AA Castro, JC Kay, DG Buenaventura, JL Ramirez, JS Rhodes, T Garland, Jr. Conditioned place preference for cocaine and methylphenidate in female mice from lines selectively bred for high voluntary wheel‐running behavior. Genes, Brain and Behavior. doi: 10.1111/gbb.12700 PDF
2019 Castro, JPL*, MN Yancoskie*, M Marchini, S Belohlavy, L Hiramatsu, M Kučka, WH Beluch, R Naumann, I Skuplik, J Cobb, NH Barton, C Rolian^, YF Chan^. An integrative genomic analysis of the Longshanks selection experiment for longer limbs in mice. eLife 8:e42014. *co-first authors; ^co-last authors. doi: 10.7554/eLife.42014 PDF
2018 Dewan, I, T Garland, Jr, L Hiramatsu, V Careau. I Smell a Mouse: Indirect Genetic Effects on Voluntary Wheel-Running Distance, Duration and Speed. Behavior Genetics. doi: 10.1007/s10519-018-9930-2 PDF
2018 Hiramatsu, L and T Garland, Jr. Mice selectively bred for high voluntary wheel-running behavior conserve more fat despite increased exercise. Physiology & Behavior. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.04.010 PDF
2017 Hiramatsu, L, JC Kay, Z Thompson, JM Singleton, GC Claghorn, RL de Albuquerque, B Ho, B Ho, G Sanchez, and T Garland, Jr. 2017. Maternal exposure to Western diet affects adult body composition and voluntary wheel running in a genotype-specific manner in mice. Physiology & Behavior 179:235–245 PDF
2016 Hiramatsu, L and T Garland, Jr. Nature or Nurture? Heritability in the Classroom. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 89:457-461 PDF
2014 Wi, K, GC Claghorn, L Hiramatsu, JC Kay, Z Thompson, and T Garland, Jr. Effects of Gatorade and Red Bull on Voluntary Wheel Running in Genetically Selected High Runner Lines of Mice. UCR Undergraduate Research Journal. Volume VIII
Talks
2019 Manchester, England. Annual meeting of the SMBE.
2019 Vienna, Austria. SMBE Satellite Meeting Towards an integrated concept of adaptation.
2017 San Diego, CA, USA. California Experimental Evolution Symposium [Invited Speaker].
2016 Portland, OR, USA. Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB meeting).
2015 San Diego, CA, USA. Behavioral Genetics Association.
2014 Riverside, CA, USA. UCR EEOB 265 Seminar Series.
2014 Austin, TX, USA. Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB meeting).
Posters
2019 Turku, Finland. Congress of the ESEB.
2018 Montpellier, France. II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology.
2018 Madison, WI, USA. Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference.
2016 Phoenix, AZ, USA. APS: the Biology of Exercise VII.
2015 Yokohama, Japan. International Mammalian Genome Conference.
2015 Lausanne, Switzerland. European Society for Evolutionary Biology.
2014 San Diego, CA, USA. APS: Comparative Approaches to Grand Challenges in Physiology.
2018 Leadership for scientists, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
2018 Grant proposal writing, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Tübingen, Germany