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Field

Ecological Developmental Adaptability Life Sciences :
Ecological Dynamics

Research

Professor SATO Shusei
Campus Katahira campus
Laboratory Symbiosis Genomics
Tel +81-22-217-5688
E-mail shusei.sato.c1@tohoku.ac.jp
Website http://www.lifesci.tohoku.ac.jp/symbiosis/wp/wordpress/
ResearcherID: A-3616-2015

https://publons.com/researcher/2448569/shusei-sato/

ORICD
 

I was born in Osaka and raised in Nagoya. Now I have come to Miyagi, my father’s home place. Thus I will do my best in gratitude for my roots.

Career
March 1993 Completed the doctorate course (science) of the Graduate School of Science of Nagoya University
April 1993 to March 2013 Researcher at Kazusa DNA Research Institute
(1998 to 1999, Visiting Researcher, University of California, San Diego)
April 2013 to May 2020 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Life Science, Tohoku University
June 2020 to Present Professor, Graduate School of Life Science, Tohoku University
Selected Publications
Main Papers of the last 3 years
  1. Shah N, Wakabayashi T, Kawamura Y, Skovbjerg CK, Wang MZ, Mustamin Y, Isomura Y, Gupta V, Jin H, Mun T, Sandal N, Azuma F, Fukai E, Seren Ü, Kusakabe S, Kikuchi Y, Nitanda S, Kumaki T, Hashiguchi M, Tanaka H, Hayashi A, Sønderkær M, Nielsen KL, Schneeberger K, Vilhjalmsson B, Akashi R, Stougaard J, Sato S*, Schierup MH*, Andersen SU*. (2020) Extreme genetic signatures of local adaptation during Lotus japonicus colonization of Japan. Nature Communications, 11: 1-15. 2.
  2. Kusakabe S, Higasitani N, Kaneko T, Yasuda M, Miwa H, Okazaki S, Saeki K, Higashitani A, Sato S*. (2020) Lotus Accessions Possess Multiple Checkpoints Triggered by Different Type III Secretion System Effectors of the Wide-Host-Range Symbiont Bradyrhizobium elkanii USDA61. Microbes and environments, 35: ME19141. 3.
  3. Shimoda Y, Nishigaya Y, Yamaya-Ito H, Inagaki N, Umehara Y, Hirakawa H, Sato S, Yamazaki T, Hayashi M. (2020) The rhizobial autotransporter determines the symbiotic nitrogen fixation activity of Lotus japonicus in a host-specific manner. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 117:1806-1815. 4.
  4. Akyol TY, Niwa R, Hirakawa H, Maruyama H, Sato T, Suzuki T, Fukunaga A, Sato T, Yoshida S, Tawaraya K, Saito M, Ezawa T, Sato S* (2019) Impact of Introduction of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on the Root Microbial Community in Agricultural Fields. Microbes and environments, 34:23-32. 5.
  5. Bamba M, Aoki S, Kajita T, Setoguchi H, Watano Y, Sato S, Tsuchimatsu T. (2019) Exploring Genetic Diversity and Signatures of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Nodule Bacteria Associated with Lotus japonicus in Natural Environments. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 32:1110-1120. 6.
  6. Abdelrahman M, Hirata S, Sawada Y, Hirai MY, Sato S, Hirakawa H, Mine Y, Tanaka K, Shigyo M. (2019) Widely targeted metabolome and transcriptome landscapes of Allium fistulosum–A. cepa chromosome addition lines revealed a flavonoid hot spot on chromosome 5A. Scientific reports, 9: 1-15 7.
  7. Hashiguchi M, Tanaka H, Muguerza M, Akashi R, Sandal NN, Andersen SU, Sato S*. (2018) Lotus japonicus Genetic, Mutant, and Germplasm Resources. Curr Protoc Plant Biol. 3:e20070. 8.
  8. Sugawara M, Takahashi S, Umehara Y, Iwano H, Tsurumaru H, Odake H, Suzuki Y, Kondo H, Konno Y, Yamakawa T, Sato S, Mitsui H, Minamisawa K. (2018) Variation in bradyrhizobial NopP effector determines symbiotic incompatibility with Rj2-soybeans via effector-triggered immunity. Nature communications, 9: 1-12. 9.
  9. Niwa R, Koyama T, Sato T, Adachi K, Tawaraya K, Sato S, Hirakawa H, Yoshida S, Ezawa T. (2018) Dissection of niche competition between introduced and indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with respect to soybean yield responses. Scientific reports, 8: 1-11.
Activities in Academic Societies

The Molecular Biology Society of Japan, The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists, Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions, Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan

Teaching

Genome Inheritance Systems (Life Science graduate students)
Joint Lecture on Ecology (Life Science graduate students)
Life Science B (all students)

Recent Activities

At the Kazusa DNA Research Institute, I have been involved in a number of genome analysis projects, such as of Arabidopsis thaliana, Lotus japonicus, tomato, and rhizobia. By applying the accumulated genome information and material resources from these studies, I am now conducting the analysis of environmental adaptation and plant-microbe interactions primarily utilizing wild accessions of Lotus japonicus.