Current members
Fiqih Ramadhan
(PhD student)
Project: Molecular mechanisms underlying microbial manipulation of host growth-defense coordination.
Gu Zhong
(Research student)
Project: Comparative genomic and transcriptomic analysis to identify bacterial genes important for host manipulation.
Yusuke Inagaki
(Bachelor student)
Project: Identification of molecules mediating the dialog between plant roots and microbiota.
Satoshi Kobayashi
(Bachelor student)
Project: Bacterial community dynamics and its relevance in growth and immunity in Brassicaceae plants and duckweed.
Luiza Ribeiro dos Santos
(Bachelor student)
Project: T.B.D.
Marina Rodriguez-Yagi
(Bachelor student)
Project: Identification of plant transcription factors regulating the transcriptional response to commensal microbes.
Sota Kuriyama
(Bachelor student)
Project: Identification of plant factors that mediate the growth-defense coordination and are targeted by the bacterial manipulation.
Nami Aotsuka
(Technical Assistant)
Chiaki Okumura
(Technical Assistant)
Dr. Tomohisa Shimasaki
(Assistant Professor)
Project: Plant specialized metabolite-mediated interactions between roots and microbiota.
Email: tomohisa.shimasaki [@] sci.hokudai.ac.jp
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Dr. Ryohei Thomas Nakano
(Professor)
Email: rtnakano [@] sci.hokudai.ac.jp
Tell: +81(0)11-706-4923
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Past members / Alumni
- Zoe Prockl (2024 Apr – 2024 Oct)
Visiting master student from the University of Cologne, Germany - Arpan Kumar Basak (2018 Aug – 2023 Mar)
Visiting PhD student from Jagiellonian University, Poland
(Currently a postdoc at the MPIPZ, Köln, in the group of S. Hacquard) - Konan Ishida (2022 May)
Visiting PhD student from Cambridge University, UK - Petra Köchner (2020 Apr – 2023 Mar)
Technical assistant - Gözder Merve Türksoy (2020 Dec – 2021 Jan)
Internship student from Univesity of Bonn, Germany
(Currently a PhD student at the University of Cologne, in the group of S. Kopiva) - Dr. Koji Yamaguchi (2020 Feb – 2020 Apr)
Sabbatical visit from Kindai University, Japan - Jana Hucklenbroich (2020 Apr – 2023 Mar)
Bachelor student from University of Cologne, Germany
Master student from University of Düsseldorf, Germany - Kris Korsching (2023 Jan – 2023 Mar)
Internship student from the University of Cologne, Germany
