Organisms such as microbes, plants and insects interact with each other through chemical compounds in nature. We collect microbes such as filamentous fungi from natural resources across Kyushu, and screen for microbe-derived low molecular weight compounds (i.e. natural products). We aim to determine how these natural products regulate interspecific interactions, and discover novel candidate pesticides and pharmaceuticals from these natural products.

Left: filamentous fungi isolated from natural resources across Kyushu.

2015.03: PhD, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2015.04 – 2016.05: Visiting scientist, Riken
2016.06 – 2019.03: Assistant professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University
2019.04 – 2022.04: Assistant professor, Global Center for Natural Resources Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University
2022.05 – present: Associate professor, Global Center for Natural Resources Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University

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