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Education & Appointment

October 2024 - Present Transitional Assistant Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan


July 2021 - Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston University, MA, USA

Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Bhatnagar

April 2020 - Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hokkaido University, Japan

Advisor: Dr. Yoshitaka Uchida

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April 2019 - March 2020 Visiting Student, Boston University, MA, USA

Advisor: Dr. Pamela Templer and Dr. Jennifer Bhatnagar

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April 2017 - March 2020  Doctor of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan

April 2015 - March 2017  Master of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan

April 2011 - March 2015  Bachelor of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan

Advisor: Dr. Ryunosuke Tateno

Fellowship & Grant

  1. JGI CSP New Investigator Award
    September 2023 - June 2026. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI).

  2. ​Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
    April 2023 - March 2026. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

  3. Cross-border Postdoc Fellowship (CPD)
    October 2020 – March 2025. JSPS.

  4. Nissay Environmental Issue Research Grant
    October 2020 – September 2021.     Nippon Life Insurance Foundation. 

  5. Support for Holding Conference by Female Leader
    January 2021. Promotion office of the Research environment for Diversity, Hokkaido University. 

  6. Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (for Postdoctoral Fellow, PD)
    April 2020 – March 2023. JSPS. (Finished in September because of another accepted funding).

  7. Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (for Doctor Course Student, DC1)
    April 2017 – March 2020. JSPS. 

  8. Oversea Challenge Program for Young Researchers
    April 2019 – November 2019. JSPS.

  9. International research travel support
    December 2018. Kyoto University. 

  10. International Conference Presentation Subsidy               
    December 2017 and August 2019. Educational Units for Studies on Connectivity of Hills, Humans and Oceans, Kyoto University. 

  11. Internship Subsidy
    August 2017 – September 2017. Educational Units for Studies on Connectivity of Hills, Humans and Oceans, Kyoto University. 

  12. Repayment Exemption for Students with Excellent Grades
    April 2015 – March 2017. Japan Student Service Organization.

Award

  1. Poster Presentation Award. Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Okayama, Japan. September 2021.​

  2. English Presentation Award “Excellent Award”. The 65th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Hokkaido, Japan. March 2018.

  3. Poster Presentation Award “Excellent Award”. the 64th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan. March 2017.

  4. Presentation Award. The Arid Land Research Center Joint Research Meeting in Tottori, Japan. December 2016.

  5. (Award to the co-author, Gen Takahashi) Poster Presentation Award “Excellent Award”. the 68th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Okayama, Japan. March 2021.

Outreach and Service

  • Review experience

Applied Soil Ecology, Ecology, Ecosystems, Functional Ecology, Fungal Ecology, Geoderma, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, Microbial Ecology, Mycoscience, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Nature Cities, Nature Communications, Plant and Soil, Scientific Reports, Soil Biology and Biochemistry â€‹

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  • Workshop & Seminar organization

  1. Principal organizer. Soil microbe × Nutrient cycling workshop, Hokkaido University, Japan. January 2021. Supported by funding from the Promotion Office of the Research Environment for Diversity.

  2. Principal organizer (co-organizer with Dr. Sawada). Workshop: "Forest nutrient cycling controlled by the dominant mycorrhizal type", The 70th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, Miyagi, Japan.

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  • Outreach

  1. Media Outreach: BU The Brink, "Cutting Up Forests Disrupts an Essential Bond between Trees and Fungi". https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/cutting-up-forests-disrupts-essential-bond-between-trees-and-fungi/

  2. Spoke at Microbes Brew: The Fungus Among Us, The MIT Microbiome Club in November 2022.

  3. Reported the results of dairy farm research to the farmers on zoom in June 2021.

  4. Presented in the 41st Grass-Farming School organized by Sochi-Nogyou-21 in July 2021.

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  • Mentorship

  1. Mentored >15 graduate/undergraduate/high school students

  2. 1-on-1 Mentorship Program, WOC in EEB (​Women of Color & Non-Binary People of Color in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), 2024

  3. Forum 01: Let's join the Moai!: Meet the ecologist, The 71st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, March 2024

  4. The Minority Students Association for Life Sciences (MSALS), Boston University, November 2021

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