Chikae Tatsumi (Ph.D.)

• October 2024. Yay! I am super excited to become an Assistant Professor (Principal Investigator) at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in September 2025! I will be hiring four staff members (possibly one technician and three postdocs) and will host PhD students and undergraduate interns. I will announce more details later, but please let me know if you have any questions :)
  https://www.oist.jp/research/chikae-tatsumi

• September 2024. A new paper led by Dr. Komada is out from Plant Ecology! https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-024-01460-3

• July 2024. Finally done with the year-long job search! I deeply appreciate everyone's help. I will become a PI at my dream institution, and will announce the details soon! :)

• July 2024. Had a talk at the Hubbard Brook Annual Cooperators' Meeting.

• April 2024. Made presentations at the DOE (Department of Energy)-ESS (Environmental System Science Program) annual PI meeting!

• March 2024. A new paper led by Mr. Soe is out from Journal of Soils and Sediments! https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-024-03769-y

• December 2023. Had a poster presentation on the analysis of soil metatranscriptomes for fungal activity changes due to urbanization effects, at the AGU!

• November 2023. Delivered guest lectures at Boston University and Harvard University!

• October 2023. A new paper led by Ms. Mitsuta is out from Geoderma! 
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116685

• October 2023. A new paper is out from Biogeochemistry! Very happy to complete the publication of all my Ph.D. work, thanks to the continuous support from the team!! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10533-023-01087-y

• September 2023. Had a talk at Harvard Forest Seminars! 
  https://harvardforest2.fas.harvard.edu/asp/hf/php/admin/fees/seminar.php

• September 2023. Our work was featured on BU The Brink! https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/cutting-up-forests-disrupts-essential-bond-between-trees-and-fungi/

• September 2023. Awarded the 2023 CSP New Investigator Award! I'm excited to collaborate with JGI on metatranscriptome analysis to understand the functions of soil fungi in urban green spaces with varying levels of disturbance. https://jgi.doe.gov/jgi-announces-second-round-of-2023-new-investigator-awardees/

• August 2023. An urban forest soil microbiome paper is finally published by PNAS―one of my dream journals!!! Really excited and grateful to all the collaborators and advisers for significantly advancing this work :)
  https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307519120

• August 2023. A new paper led by Dr. Kajino, Ms. Fukui, and Dr. Nakamura is out from Ecological Research
  https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.12414 

• July 2023. Back to work from the maternity leave!

• May 2023. A new paper co-led together with Dr. Lin is out from Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. My first paper in a cropland field and at Hokkaido University! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108618

• April 2023. A new paper led by Dr. Oraegbunam is out from Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42729-023-01250-2

• March 2023. Co-organized a mycorrhizal session entitled "Forest nutrient cycling controlled by the dominant mycorrhizal type" at The 70th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan!
  https://esj.ne.jp/meeting/abst/70/W08.html

• ​February 2023. Awarded a research grant (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists) from JSPS!

• February 2023. A new paper led by Dr. Nakamura is out from Soil Science and Plant Nutrition! https://doi.org/10.1080/00380768.2023.2177493

• December 2022. Had a talk at an event of the MIT Microbiome Club!

• November 2022. Had a talk at the Arnold Arboretum Research Talks.

• August 2022. Had a talk at the 12th Japan-US seminar in Plant Pathology at Cornell University.

• August 2022. Had a poster presentation at ESA2022 in Montreal.

• August 2022. Did a bunch of fieldwork! Mentored two undergrads (first time in the US)!

• March 2022. New paper from EJSOBI! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2022.103394

• December 2021. Had an oral presentation at AGU 2021. 

• October 2021. Had a talk at the EBE-MB Chalk talk at Boston University!

• October 2021. A new Japanese paper led by Dr. Azuma. http://www.lib.kobe-u.ac.jp/infolib/meta_pub/G0000003kernel_90008677

• September 2021. Won the Poster Presentation Award at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition!

• August 2021. Had an oral presentation in Eurosoil 2021.

• August 2021. Attended the organized oral session in ESA 2021. It was a super honor to be with fantastic mycorrhizal researchers! 

• July 2021. A new paper led by Mr. Nakayama is out from Biogeochemistry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-021-00830-7

• July 2021. Started working as a postdoc fellow (JSPS - CPD) in the Bhatnagar Lab of Boston University!
  
   

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