Members

Current members

2024 Oct

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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2024 Oct

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
2024 Apr
2023 Apr
2022 May (MPIPZ)
2020 Oct (MPIPZ)