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Mohan AMARASIRI / D3

Educational and Professional Background

ep. 2011	Bachelor of the Science of Engineering (BScEng) in Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Sep. 2011 - Sep. 2012	Lecturer (Temporary), Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Oct. 2012 - Sep. 2014	Master of Engineering ( MEng) in Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2014	Diploma in Specially Coordinated Training Program for Sustainability Leaders (STRASS), Center for Sustainability Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.

Honors and Awards

Jun. 2013	Excellent Poster Award of WET2013

Papers

• Bacteriophage removal efficiency as a validation and operational monitoring tool for virus reduction in wastewater reclamation: Review
  Amarasiri, M., Kitajima, M., Nguyen, T.H., Okabe, S., Sano, D.
  Water Research, 2017, 121, 258-269.
• Genome sequence of Enterobacter cloacae strain SENG-6, a bacterium producing histo-blood group antigen-like substances that can bind with human noroviruses
  Ishii, S., Amarasiri, M., Hashiba, S., Yang, P., Okabe, S., Sano, D.
  Genome Announcements, 4(4), e00893-16.
• Bacterial histo-blood group antigens contributing to genotype-dependent removal of human noroviruses with a microfiltration membrane
  Amarasiri, M., Hashiba, S., Miura, T., Nakagomi, T., Nakagomi,O., Ishii, S., Okabe, S., Sano, D.
  Water Research, 2016, 95, 383-391.
• Risk management of viral infectious diseases in wastewater reclamation and reuse: Review
  Sano, D., Amarasiri, M., Hata, A., Watanabe, T. and Katayama, H.
  Environment International, 2016, 91, 220-229.

Conference presentations

• Histo-Blood Group Antigen (HBGA) Positive Bacteria in the Mixed Liquor Reduces the Human Rotavirus Concentration in Membrane Filtration Effluent
  Mohan Amarasiri, Hiroki Kawai, Masaaki Kitajima, Satoshi Okabe, Daisuke Sano
  Water and Environment Technology Conference (WET2017)（2017年7月22-23日、北海道大学）
  
• Removal of rotavirus by microfiltration in the presence of HBGA-positive bacteria
  Mohan Amarasiri, Hiroki Kawai, Masaaki Kitajima, Satoshi Okabe, Daisuke Sano
  第 4 回環境水質工学シンポジウム (2017年6月17日, 北海道大学, 札幌）
  （口頭発表）
• 環境水中からのノロウイルス吸着性大腸菌の単離と吸着因子同定に関する研究 
  羽柴聡, Mohan Amarasiri, 原本 英司, 北島正章, 岡部聡, 佐野大輔
  第51回日本水環境学会年会 (2017年3月14~17日, 熊本大学黒髪キャンパス, 熊本)
  （口頭発表）
• Effects of wastewater solids-virus interactions on virus removal and survival in wastewater
  Mohan Amarasiri
  Japan-YWP International forum on water treatment technology
  Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido
  February 20, 2017
  
• Human glycan-positive bacteria as an adsorbent for norovirus
  Mohan Amarasiri, Satoshi Hashiba, Satoshi Okabe, Tetsuya Miyoshi, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Daisuke Sano
  第64回日本ウイルス学会学術集会 (2016年10月23-25日, 札幌コンベンションセンター, 北海道) 
• Diversity of histo-blood group antigen-positive bacteria as a specific adsorbent for human noroviruses
  Daisuke Sano, Mohan Amarasiri, Satoshi Hashiba, Takatomo Ohta, Takayuki Miura, Toyoko Nakagomi, Osamu Nakagomi, Satoshi Okabe
  The 6th International Calicivirus Conference
  Hyatt Regency, Savannah, GA, USA
  October 9-13, 2016 
• A systematic review and meta-analysis on the virus removal efficiencies of wastewater treatment plant unit processes
  Mohan Amarasiri, Daisuke Sano, Akihiko Hata, Toru Watanabe and Hiroyuki Katayama
  The 5th Food and Environmental Virology Conference
  Kusatsu, Gunma
  September 13-16, 2016
• Genotype-dependent norovirus removal by microfiltration: Influence of bacterial histo-blood group antigens
  Mohan Amarasiri, Satoshi Hashiba, Satoshi Okabe and Daisuke Sano
  第３回環境水質工学シンポジウム（愛媛大学工学部、愛媛県松山市）
  2016年5月21日
  
• Effect of localization of HBGA-like substances on membrane separation on norovirus
  Mohan Amarasisi, Satoshi Hashiba, Satoshi Okabe and Daisuke Sano
  The 3rd International Life-Science Symposium
  Hokkaido University Conference Hall, Sapporo, Japan
  Nov. 26th, 2015.
• Diverse enteric bacteria can excrete histo-blood group antigens as adsorbents for human gastroenteritis viruses
  Mohan Amarasiri, Satoshi Hashiba, Satoshi Okabe and Daisuke Sano
  The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Virology
  Fukuoka International Congress Centor、Fukuoka, Japan
  Nov. 22nd-24th, 2015.
• Diversity of histo-blood group antigen-positive enteric bacteria in water: possible environmental vehicle for human norovirus
  Daisuke Sano, Takatomo Ohta, Amarasiri Mohan, Takayuki Miura, Toyoko Nakagomi, Osamu Nakagomi and Satoshi Okabe
  WaterMicro2015
  The grand auditorium of Faculdade de Medicina Dentaria, Lisbon, Portugal
  Sep. 13th-19th, 2015.
• Microfiltration of human noroviruses with blood-type active enteric bacteria (Poster presentation)
  Amarasiri Mohan, Takeshi Yoshimura, Satoshi Okabe and Daisuke Sano
  The 22nd Public Health Engineering Symposium 
  Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building, Hokkaido University, Japan
  Nov 21st, 2014.
• Genotype-dependent membrane separation of human noroviruses with bacterial histo-blood group antigen (HBGA)-like substances
  Mohan Amarasiri, Takeshi Yoshimura, Toyoko Nakagomi, Osamu Nakagomi, Satoshi Okabe and Daisuke Sano
  ISFEV2014
  Corfu town, Greece
  Sep 2th-5th, 2014.
• Membrane separation of human noroviruses in combination with enteric bacteria bearing histo-blood group antigen (HBGA)-like substances 
  Mohan Amarasiri, Takeshi Yoshimura, Satoshi Okabe and Daisuke Sano
  IWA Specialist Conference, Particle Separation 2014
  Hokkaido University Conference Hall (Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan)
  June 15th-18th, 2014.
• Norovirus removal with microfiltration in the presence of HBGA-like substances-bearing bacteria: A new approach to improve removal efficiency
  Mohan Amarasiri, Takeshi Yoshimura, Toyoko Nakagomi, Osamu Nakagomi, Satoshi Okabe and Daisuke Sano
  The 1st Environmental Water Quality Engineering Symposium
  Aoba Memorial Hall, Tohoku University (Sendai, Miyagi, Japan)
  May 9th, 2014
• Human enteric bacteria-receptors of human norovirus and implicatrions in microfiltration
  Amarasiri, M., Sano, D., Yoshimura, T., Ishizaki, S., Nakagomi, T., Nakagomi, T. and Okabe, S.
  Public Health Engineering Symposium.
  Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
  Dec. 4th, 2013.
• Human enteric bacteria-receptors of human norovirus and implications in microfiltration
  Mohan Amarasiri
  2nd International Doctraol Symposium with Partner Universities.
  Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
  Oct. 24-25th, 2013.
• Microfiltration of human noroviruses: Effects of the presence of human enteric bacteria on virus rejection
  Amarasiri, M., Sano, D.,Yoshimura, T., Ishizaki, S., Nakagomi, T., Nakagomi, O., and Okabe, S.
  WET2013.
  Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
  Jun. 15-16, 2013.
• Risk to Groundwater from Improper Toilet Waste Disposals
  Amarasiri, M., Herath, G., Jayathilaka, T. and Weerasinghe, C.
  International Symposium on Water Quality and Human Health: Challenges Ahead
  Postgraduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Toyama Prefectural University, Japan
  March 2012