Professor

• Satoshi Okabe

Associate Professor

• Mamoru Oshiki

• Masaaki Kitajima

Assistant Professor

Post-Doc

• Koffi Ndah Joel

Ph.D. students

• Ryosuke Matsuo

Master students

• Xi Lan

• Chisato Arakawa

• Rie Ichihara

• Emi Morimoto

• Hiroki Ando

• Baku Tsukada

• Kosuke Higuchi

• Erika Matsumoto

• Yuya Itoiri

Undergraduate students

• Yusuke Sakai

• Keishi Nukada

• Daiki Goto

• Tatsuki Honda

• Yuya Kimura

• Tomoko SEKIGUCHI

Research student

• Shi Zhouqi

• Sun Huixin

Former staff

• Daisuke Sano

• Manami Inaba

• Muhammad Ali

• Satoshi Ishii

• Mamoru Oshiki

• Yosuke Tashiro

• Takayuki Miura

• Toshikazu Fukushima

• May Thithiwat

Tenure Track Position of Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Shizuoka University (Since May 1st, 2013)

Mar. 2009
Ph. D. Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Mar. 2006
M. Sc. Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Mar. 2004
Graduated from University of Tsukuba, Department of Agro-Biological Resource Sciences, Japan

- Signal molecule-mediated bacterial communication
- Bacterial behaviors in biofilm
- Secretion of proteins and DNA
- Control of multi-drug resistant pathogens

Apr. 2011 ‐Apr. 2013	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. 2009 ‐Mar. 2010	JSPS Fellow (PD), Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Jun. 2011	Best paper award on Microbes & Environments 2011
Nov. 2008	Poster award in Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology Meeting 2008

Papers:

1. Interspecies interaction between Pseudomonas aeruginosa
   Tashiro, Y., Yawata, T., Toyufuku, M., Uchiyama, H., and Nomura, N.
   Microbes and Environments, 2013, 28(1), 13-24.
2. Multifunctional membrane vesicles in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
   Tashiro, Y., Uchiyama, H., and Nomura, N.
   Environmental Microbiology, 2012, 14(6), 1349-1362.
3. RelE-mediated dormancy is enhanced at high cell density in Escherichia coli
   Tashiro, Y., Kawata, K., Taniuchi, A., Kakinuma, K., May, T., and Okabe, S.
   Journal of Bacteriology, 2012, 194(5), 1169-1176.
4. Characterization of Phospholipids in Membrane Vesicles Derived from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
   Tashiro, Y., Inagaki, A., Shimizu, M., Ichikawa, S., Takaya, N., Nakajima-Kambe, T., Uchiyama, H., and Nomura, N.
   Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, 2011, 75, 605-607.
5. A Great Leap forward in Microbial Ecology
   Okabe, S., Oshiki, M., Kamagata, Y., Yamaguchi, N., Toyofuku, M., Yawata, Y., Tashiro, Y., Nomura, N., Ohta, H., Ohkuma, M., Hiraishi, A., and Minamisawa, K.
   Microbes and Environments, 2010, 25(4), 230–240.
6. Variation of physiochemical properties and cell association activity of membrane vesicles with growth phase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
   Tashiro, Y., Ichikawa,S., Shimizu, M., Toyofuku, M., Takaya, N., Nakajima-Kambe,T., Uchiyama, H., and Nomura, N.
   Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2010, 76(11), 3732-3739.
7. Pseudomonas quinolone signal affects membrane vesicle production in not only Gram-negative but also Gram-positive bacteria
   Tashiro, Y., Ichikawa,S., Nakajima-Kambe,T., Uchiyama, H., and Nomura, N.
   Microbes and Environments, 2010, 25, 120-125.
8. Bicyclic compounds repress membrane vesicle production and Pseudomonas quinolone signal synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
   Tashiro, Y., Toyofuku, M., Nakajima-Kambe,T., Uchiyama, H., and Nomura, N.
   FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2010, 304, 123-130.
9. Outer membrane machinery and alginate synthesis regulators control membrane vesicle production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
   Tashiro, Y., Sakai, R., Toyofuku, M., Sawada, I., Nakajima-Kambe,T., Uchiyama, H., and Nomura, N.
   Journal of Bacteriology, 2009, 191, 7509-7519.
10. Influence of the Pseudomonas quinolone signal on denitrification in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
    Toyofuku, M., Nomura, N., Kuno, E., Tashiro, Y., Nakajima, T., and Uchiyama, H.
    Journal of Bacteriology, 2008, 190, 7947-7956.
11. Opr86 is essential for viability and is a potential candidate for a protective antigen against biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
    Tashiro, Y., Nomura, N., Nakao, R., Senpuku, H., Kariyama, R., Kumon, H., Kosono, S., Watanabe, H., Nakajima, T., and Uchiyama, H.
    Journal of Bacteriology, 2008, 190, 3969-3978.
12. Glycosylation of the OMP85 homolog of Porphyromonas gingivalis and its involvement in biofilm formation
    Nakao, R., Tashiro, Y., Nomura, N., Kosono, S., Ochiai, K., Yonezawa, H., Watanabe, H., and Senpuku, H.
    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2008, 365, 784-789.

International conference proceedings

1. Cell density dependent RelE-mediated dormancy in Escherichia coli.
   Okabe, S., Tashiro, Y., Kakinuma, K., Taniuchi, A., and Kawata, K.
   IUMS2011
   Sapporo, Japan
   Sep. 6-16, 2011.
2. Impacts of trimethoprim on biofilm formation in Escherichia coli. (poster presentation)
   Tashiro, Y., and Okabe, S.
   IUMS2011
   Sapporo, Japan
   Sep. 6-16, 2011.
3. F plasmid-mediated signaling during Escherichia coli biofilm formation
   May, T., Tashiro, Y. and Okabe, S.
   Biofilm IV International Conference
   Winchester, UK.
   Sep. 1-3, 2010.

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