Professor

• Satoshi Okabe

Associate Professor

• Daisuke Sano

Assistant Professor

• Satoshi Ishii

Post-Doc

• Mamoru Oshiki

• Takayuki Miura

• Toshikazu Fukushima

Visiting Researcher

• Oyiwona Godwin Emmanuel

Technical officers

• Toshie Tsuru

• Rie Nomachi

• Reiko Hirano

Ph.D. students

• Zen-ichiro Kimura

• Song Yanjun

• Hiroe Hara

• Ayano Kobayashi

• Muhammad Ali

• So Ishizaki

• Toshihiro Itoh

Master students

• Shuji Ozawa

• Koji Nakashima

• Takeshi Yoshimura

• Mohan Amarasiri

• Lea Chua Tan

• Lei Zhang

• Yusuke Ikawa

• Takatomo Ohta

• Kazuki Jokai

• Kohtaro Terada

• Keisuke Mizuto

Undergraduate students

• Gaku Kitamura

• Akifumi Tomioka

• Arata Nakamura

• Tomomi Nakamura

• Syoichi Hayashi

• Mitsuto Maeda

• Hiroshi Miyake

Center for Environmental Nano- and Bio-technology

• Yoshimasa Watanabe

Former staffs

• May Thithiwat

• Yosuke Tashiro

Laboratoire Microbiologie, Institue français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (IFREMER), République française
（Since Jul. 26th, 2012）

Mar. 2010
Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, JAPAN

Mar. 2007
Master of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, JAPAN

Mar. 2005
Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Tohoku University, JAPAN

- Fate of pathogens in the water environment
- Risk assessment of waterborne infectious diseases

Since Apr. 2011	JSPS Fellow (PD), Divison of Environmental Engineering, Faculaty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan
Apr. 2010 ‐Mar. 2011	Postdoctoral fellow, Division of Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University
Apr. 2007 ‐Mar. 2010	JSPS Fellow (DC1), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University

Nov. 2009	Best paper award in the 45th Symposium of Committee on Environmental Engineering Research, Japan Society of Civil Engineering
Nov. 2007	Best paper award in the 43th Symposium of Committee on Environmental Engineering Research, Japan Society of Civil Engineering

1. A new approach for evaluating the infectivity of noncultivatable enteric viruses without cell culture
   Tojo, K., Sano, D., Miura, T., Nakagomi, T., Nakagomi, O., and Okabe, S.
   Water Science and Technology, 2013, 67(10), 2236-2240.
2. Occurrence of hand-foot-and-mouth disease pathogens in domestic sewage and secondary effluent in Xi’an, China
   Ji, Z., Wang, X., Zhang, C., Miura, T., Sano, D., Funamizu, N., and Okabe, S.
   Microbes and Environments, 2012, 27(3), 288-292.
3. Adsorption characteristics of an enteric virus-binding protein to norovirus, rotavirus and poliovirus
   Imai, T., Sano, D., Miura, T., Okabe, S., Wada, K., Masago. Y., and Omura, T.
   BMC Biotechnology, 2011, 11, 123.
4. Development of an effective method of viral genomic RNA recovery from environmental silty sediments for quantitative molecular detection
   Miura, T., Masago, Y., Sano, D., and Omura, T.
   Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2011, 77(12), 3975-3981.
5. Quantification and genotyping of human sapoviruses in the Llobregat River catchment, Spain
   Sano, D., Perez, U., Guix, S., Pinto, R. M., Miura, T., Okabe, S., and Bosch, A.
   Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2011, 77(3), 1111-1114.
6. Detection of Sapovirus in oysters
   Ueki, Y., Shoji, M., Okimura, Y., Miyota, Y., Masago, Y., Oka, T., Katayama, K., Takeda, N., Noda, M., Miura, T., Sano, D., and Omura, T.
   Microbiology and Immunology, 2010, 54, 483-486.
7. Detection of bacteria and enteric viruses from river and estuarine sediment.
   Miura, T., Masago Y., Chan, Y.M., Imai, T. and Omura, T.
   Journal of Water and Environment Technology, 2009, 7 (4), 307-316.

1. Evaluation of detection methods targeting host-specific Bacteroides spp. as a microbial source tracking marker
   Miura, T., Y. M. Chan, Y. Masago and T. Omura
   Southeast Asian Water Environment 4, IWA Publishing, London, UK, 2010, 13-19.
2. Health risks due to contamination of groundwater with heavy metals and pathogenic microorganisms at an arsenic-affected village in Cambodia
   Watanabe, T., T. Sasaki, T. Miura, S. Nakamura and T. Omura
   Southeast Asian Water Environment 3, IWA Publishing, London, UK, 2009, 67-72.

1. Multiple peaks expression of enteric virus density in environmental water
   Sano, D., Kato, T., Kobayashi, A., Miura, T., and Okabe, S.
   4th Asia-Pacific Young Water Professionals Conference 2012, Tokyo, Japan, December 2012.
2. Enteric bacteria bearing histo-blood group antigen-like extracellular polymeric substances as environmental vehicles for human noroviruses
   Miura, T., Sano, D., Suenaga, A., Yoshimura, T., Nakagomi, T., Nakagomi, O., and Okabe, S.
   3rd Food and Environmental Virology Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2012.
3. Infectivity of gastroenteritis viruses analyzed by oxidative stress marker detection and RNase sensitivity test
   Sano D., Miura, T., Tojo, K., Otani, M., and Okabe, S.
   3rd Food and Environmental Virology Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2012.
4. Transcriptome analysis of intestinal epithelial cells infected with poliovirus type 1
   Tazawa, M., Miura, T., Sano, D., and Okabe, S.
   EUROPIC2012, Saint Raphaël, France, June 2012.
5. Detection of oxidative damages on viral capsid protein for evaluating infectivity of gastroenteritis viruses
   Tojo, K., Sano, D., Miura, T., Nakagomi, T., Nakagomi, O., and Okabe, S.
   4th IWA-ASPIRE Conference and Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan, October 2011.
6. Environmental epidemiological study of hand-foot-and-mouth disease pathogens (EV71, CVA16 and CVA10) in domestic sewage and secondary effluent
   Ji, Z., Wang, X., Zhang, C., Miura, T., Sano, D., Funamizu, N., and Okabe, S.
   4th IWA-ASPIRE Conference and Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan, October 2011.
7. Enteric virus binding-protein with an affinity to Norovirus, Poliovirus and Rotavirus
   Imai, T., Sano, D., Miura, T., Okabe, S., Masago, T., and Omura, T.
   Poster presentation
   4th IWA-ASPIRE Conference and Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan, October 2011.
8. Quantitative PCR detection of enteroviruses and evaluation of the occurrence of hand-foot-and-mouth disease viral pathogens in domestic wastewater
   Zhou, J., Wang, X., Zhang, C., Miura, T., Sano, D., Funamizu, N., and Okabe, S.
   Poster presentation
   4th IWA-ASPIRE Conference and Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan, October 2011.
9. Human enteric bacteria that capture norovirus particles with a specific interaction through histo-blood group antigen-like extracellular polysaccharide
   Miura, T., Suenaga, A., Sano, D., Nakagomi, O., Nakagomi, T., and Okabe, S.
   Poster presentation
   16th International Symposium on Health-related Water Microbiology, Rotorua, New Zealand, September 2011.
10. Virus binding-protein with an affinity to multiple genotypes of human norovirus
    Imai, T., Sano, D., Miura, T., Okabe, S., Masago, Y., and Omura, T.
    Poster presentation
    International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) 2011 Congress, Sapporo, Japan, September 2011.
11. Prevalence and genotypes of Sapovirus in wastewater, oysters and gastroenteritis patients in Japan
    Ueki, Y., M. Shoji, Y. Okimura, Y. Masago, T. Miura, T. Omura, T. Oka, N. Takeda, M. Noda and Y. Miyota.
    15th International Symposium on Health-related Water Microbiology, Naxos island, Greece, June 2009.
12. Significance of fecal contamination of drinking water in seroprevalences against Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni in rural Cambodia
    Miura, T., T. Watanabe, Y. Masago, T. Sasaki, S. Nakamura and T. Omura.
    International Conference on Sustainability Science 2009, Tokyo, Japan, February 2009.
13. Evaluation of detection methods targeting host-specific Bacteroides spp. as a microbial source tracking marker
    Miura, T., Y. M. Chan, Y. Masago and T. Omura.
    The 6th International Symposium on Southeast Asian Water Environment, C2-3, Bandung, Indonesia, October 2008.
14. Detection of bacteria and enteric viruses from river and estuarine sediment
    Masago, Y., T. Miura, Y. M. Chan, T. Imai and T. Omura.
    17th Japan/Korea Symposium on Water Environment, Ishinomaki, Japan, October 2008.
15. Significance of fecal contamination of drinking water in seroprevalences against Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni in rural Cambodia.
    Miura, T., T. Watanabe, Y. Masago, T. Sasaki, S. Nakamura and T. Omura.
    IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition, 666486, Vienna, Austria, September 2008.
16. Health risks due to contamination of groundwater with heavy metals and pathogenic microorganisms at an arsenic-affected village in Cambodia.
    Watanabe, T., T. Sasaki, T. Miura, S. Nakamura and T. Omura.
    The 5th International Symposium on Southeast Asian Water Environment, C3(2)-3, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 2007.
17. Estimates of infectious risk reduction by improving water utilization in Lao PDR and Cambodia.
    Miura, T., T. Watanabe, S. Nakamura, B. Boupha, M. Sinuon and T. Omura.
    2nd IWA-ASPIRE 2007 Conference, Perth, Australia, October 2007.
18. Risk evaluation for infectious diarrhea in the water utilization in the Mekong watershed with a GIS-based model.
    Miura, T., T. Watanabe, S. Nakamura, B. Boupha, M. Sinuon, T. T. Long, K. Lertopocasombut and T. Omura.
    14th International Symposium on Health-related Water Microbiology, Tokyo, Japan, September 2007.
19. Effects of sunlight, temperature and suspended solids on inactivation of poliovirus in river water.
    Watanabe, T., Y. Abe, T. Miura and T. Omura.
    13th International Symposium on Health-related Water Microbiology, Swansea, UK, September 2005.

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