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Members - (April, 2025)

Professor · Associate Professor · Assistant Professor　｜　Post Doctoral Fellow　｜　Graduate Students　｜　Under Graduate Students　｜　　Technical/Clerical Assistants

Professor · Associate Professor · Assistant Professor

Professor Hideaki NOJIRI, Ph. D.

Research Area	Environmental Microbiology
Key Words	Bacteria, Biodegradation, Degradative plasmid, Genome, Degradative enzymes, Rieske non-heme iron oxygenase (Aromatic ring-hydroxylating oxygenase), X-ray crystallography
Message	Environmental bacteria are capable to degrading various contaminated toxic compounds. We would like to know the molecular basis of such 'specific' function by molecular genetic, genomic, enzymatic, and X-ray crystallographic studies. In addition, we would like to know the 'actual' function and behavior of degradative bacteria.
Activity in Scientific Societies	Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry, Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan, The Society for Biotechnology, Japan, Japan Society for Environmental Biotechnology, Japanese Society for Extremophiles, American Society for Microbiology.
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Associate Prof. Kazunori OKADA, Ph. D

Research Area	Plant Molecular Biologyy
Key Words	Terpenoids, The MEP pathway, Gene cluster
Message	Plants biosynthesize many functionally unknown secondary metabolite, some of which are useful for human life, and often have an important roles in plant physiology itself. Of those metabolites, terpenoids are one of the largest groups of the metabolites in plants. Disclosing the mechanisms of a complicated nature of terpenoids biosynthesis is our primary destination, and hopefully, the findings will help to improve plants functions for human benefits.
Activity in Scientific Societies	Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry, The Japanese Society for Chemical Regulation of Plants, The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists
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Assistant Prof. Chiho SUZUKI-MINAKUCHI, Ph. D.

Research Area	Environmental Microbiology
Key Words	Bacteria, Degradative plasmid, Nucleoid-associated proteins, Single-cell analysis
Message	Degradation of environmental pollutants using bacteria is a valuable method for bioremediation. To regulate bacterial degradative ability, it is important to clarify transcriptional networks which regulate physiological activity of bacteria. We are especially interested in the function of global regulators including nucleoid-associated proteins.
Activity in Scientific Societies	Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry, Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan, Japan Society for Environmental Biotechnology, Japanese Society for Extremophiles
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Post Doctoral Fellow

Postdoctoral researcher	Hui XIE

Graduate Students

Doctor's course D3	Youming LIU
Doctor's course D3	Liangning LU
Doctor's course D3	Faisal Ummu Habibah Binti
Docter's course D2	Masaaki HIDAKA
Docter's course D1	Kahori KISHIGAMI
Master's course D1	Satoko SUZUKI
Master's course D1	Yuki USHIZIMA
Master's course M2	Izumi KAWAGUCHI
Master's course M2	Chihiro RYU
Master's course M2	Koki EMOTO
Master's course M1	Haruki SUZUKI
Research Students	Samadrita Mandal

Under Graduate Students

4th grade	Akiyo SON
4th grade	Mayuko KAYAMA
4th grade	Tomoki HINO
4th grade	Shin-u HO

Technical/Clerical Assistants

Technician	Natsuko SHIBUYA
Technician	Noriko TAKIZAWA
Secretary	Toshie SHIMOKOSHI