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

Mar. 2009
Master of Engineering, Department of Ecological Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Toyohasi University of Technology, JAPAN

Mar. 2007
Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Ecological Engineering, Toyohasi University of Technology, JAPAN

- Ecological function of microbial community in microbial fuel cell (MFC), especially around cell to cell direct electron transfer mechanism.

1. Hydrogenophaga electricumsp. nov., isolated from anodic biofilms of an acetate-fed microbial fuel cell
   Kimura, Z., and Okabe, S.
   The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology, 2013, 59(4), 261-266.
2. Acetate oxidation by syntrophic association between Geobacter sulfurreducens and a hydrogen-utilizing exoelectrogen
   Kimura, Z. and Okabe, S.
   ISME Journal, 2013, 7(8), 1472-1482.
3. Removal of hydrophobic organic contaminants from aqueous solutions by sorption onto biodegradable polyesters.
   Matsuzawa, Y., Z. Kimura, Y. Nishimura, M. Shibayama, and A. Hiraishi.
   Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 2010, 2, 214-221.

1. Bacterial metabolism and electron transport mechanisms of anode chamber in microbial fuel cell fed with acetate
   Kimura, Z. and Okabe, S.
   The 4th IWA-ASPIRE.
   Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan.
   Octover 2-6, 2011.
2. Study of electron flow during acetate oxidation in a microbial fuel cell
   Kimura, Z. and Okabe, S.
   The 13th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, STEWARDS OF A CHANGING PLANET
   Seattle, USA.
   Aug 22-27, 2010.
3. Microbial community structure and function of anode biofilms in MFC
   Kimura, Z. and Okabe, S.
   BIT's 3rd World Congress of Industrial Biotechnology 2010 (ibio-2010)
   Dallan Municipal Party Committee Hotel, Dallan, China.
   July 25-27, 2010.
4. Analysis of treatment performance and microbial community in activated sludge using chemical uncoupler 3,5-dichlorophenol
   Z. Kimura, Y. Hirano, T. Yamada, and A. Hiraishi
   The 1st international symposium on green technology for global carbon cycle in Asia
   Poster presentation
   Nagaoka University of Technology, Niigata, Japan
   Mar. 23-24, 2009.

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