Integrative Microbial Science Community
IMS Community (統合微生物科学研究会) in Japan, founded in December 2025.
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Microbes unite us.
Microbes unite us.
Microbial science is a highly diverse field. By connecting researchers who study microbes across disciplines (biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, ecology, and medicine, in both basic and applied science), we aim to foster interdisciplinary and unique research. Our community facilitates this integration through an annual meeting, online seminars, and domestic/international networking that help share expertise across many branches of microbial science in Japan. We welcome anyone engaged in microbial science to join us, as we believe that science knows no borders of age, gender, job position, or nationality. Looking ahead, we hope our community will help spark the creation of a society where researchers from all areas of microbiology can come together and collaborate.
[IMS Annual Meeting]
FY2026
Type: Domestic meeting within Japan
Date: To be announced
Place: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST)
Language: English
Registration: To be announced
*Non-Japanese speakers and students are welcome to join the meeting.
[IMS Online Seminar]
FY2026
Language: English
Presentation 30 min and QA >10 min
Speaker: Overseas IMS members and invited researchers
Seminar information will be shared via the IMS Sharing.
*If you are interested in presenting your research in this seminar series, we encourage you to get in touch with us.
[IMS International Networking]
We are expanding our microbiology network beyond Japan, across Asia, and around the world, through international research workshops and by visiting and hosting overseas researchers.
[IMS Sharing]
We are sharing information about the IMS Community and your online or hybrid seminars across all microbiology-related fields within the community (via mailing list and/or Slack).
All shared information can be transferred to the communities to which you belong.
Registration: To be announced
[Contact Information]
FY2025-2026
Chair of Annual Meeting: Fumiaki Yokoyama
Chair of Online Seminar Series: To be announced
Chair of International Networking: To be announced
*If you do not receive a reply, please feel free to send us a reminder.
[Core Members]
一色 理乃 Rino Isshiki (AIST) --- Difficult-to-culture microbes, Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria
大村 拓也 Takuya Ohmura (Hokkaido U) --- Microbial mechanics, Ciliates, Biofilm
加藤 遼 Ryo Kato (Osaka U) --- Optical engineering, Optical microscopy, Spectroscopic imaging
苅田 裕也 Yuya Karita (UTokyo) --- Nonequilibrium physics, Evolution
木村 駿太 Shunta Kimura (JAXA/SOKENDAI) --- Astrobiology, Planetary protection
岸田 康平 Kouhei Kishida (Tohoku U) --- Conjugation and gene transfer, Plasmids
高 相昊 Sangho Koh (Shinshu U) --- Biotechnology, Polymer
佐藤 悠 Yu Sato (Yamaguchi U) --- Thermophiles, Temperature adaptation
島崎 智久 Tomohisa Shimazaki (Hokkaido U) --- Plant-insect-microbe interactions, Plant secondary metabolites
田口 厚志 Atsushi Taguchi (Osaka U) --- Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Antimicrobials
龍見 史恵 Chikae Tatsumi (OIST) --- Microbial ecology
塚本 雄也 Yuya Tsukamoto (Tohoku U) --- Co-evolution of environment and life in Earth history, Manganese-oxidizing bacteria
中岡 秀憲 Hidenori Nakaoka (Tokushima U) --- Fission yeast, Cellular aging
永久保 利紀 Toshiki Nagakubo (Tsukuba U) --- Biological nanoparticles, Inter-organism interactions, Soil bacteria
中島 芽梨 Meri Nakajima (AIST) --- Biosensor, Minisyncoccota (Patescibacteria/CPR)
中島 悠 Yu Nakajima (JAMSTEC) --- Marine microbes, Rhodopsins
生井 楓 Fu Namai (Shinshu U) --- Gut microbiota, Porcine small intestinal epithelium
西原 亜理沙 Arisa Nishihara (RIKEN) --- Early Earth genome evolution, Nitrogen fixation
納庄 一樹 Kazuki Nosho (UTokyo) --- Actinobacteria, Omics
長谷川 万純 Masumi Hasegawa (JAMSTEC) --- Cyanobacteria, Mangroves
姫岡 優介 Yusuke Himeoka (UTokyo) --- Systems biology, Metabolism
藤吉 奏 So Fujiyoshi (Hiroshima U/Toyama Pref. U) --- Microbial ecology, Aerobiology, Public health
深田 史美 Fumi Fukada (Okayama U) --- Plant-pathogen interactions, Filamentous plant pathogens
桝谷 貴洋 Takahiro Masuya (Kyoto U) --- Chemical biology, Respiratory chain enzymes
水谷 雅希 Masaki Mizutani (Gakushuin U) --- Mycoplasmology, Synthetic biology, Motility
横山 文秋 Fumiaki Yokoyama (OIST) --- Nano/microfluidics, Quantitative live-cell imaging
吉本 将悟 Shogo Yoshimoto (Nagoya U) --- Applied microbiology, Immobilization techniques
*We are annually scouting researchers from diverse fields to expand the diversity of this communiinakity.
[Research Communities of the Core Members]
To highlight the diversity of microbiology and of our team, we list below the research communities to which our core members currently belong, as of Dec. 2025. Please note that the IMS Community is not formally associated with any of these communities at this time.
応用物理学会 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
化学工学会 The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan
極限環境生物学会 The Japanese Society for Extremophiles
酵母細胞研究会 The Society of Yeast Sciences
根研究学会 Japanese Society for Root Research
糸状菌分子生物学研究会 Fungal Molecular Biology Society of Japan
植物化学調節学会 The Japanese Society for Chemical Regulation of Plants
植物微生物研究会 Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions
生態工学会 The Society of Eco-Engineering
生命の起原および進化学会 Japanese Society for Origins of Life and Astrobiology
日本育種学会 Japanese Society of Breeding
日本宇宙生物科学会 Japanese Society for Biological Sciences in Space
日本エアロゾル学会 Japan Association of Aerosol Science and Technology
日本化学会 The Chemical Society of Japan
日本ゲノム微生物学会 Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan
日本細菌学会 Japanese Society for Bacteriology
日本植物生理学会 The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists
日本植物病理学会 The Phytopathological Society of Japan
日本生化学会 The Japanese Biochemical Society
日本生態学会 The Ecological Society of Japan
日本生物工学会 The Society for Biotechnology, Japan
日本生物物理学会 The Biophysical Society of Japan
日本地球惑星科学連合 Japan Geoscience Union
日本地球化学会 The Geochemical Society of Japan
日本畜産学会 Japanese Society of Animal Science
日本農芸化学会 Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry
日本農薬学会 The Pesticide Science Society of Japan
日本微生物生態学会 Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology
日本物理学会 The Physical Society of Japan
日本プランクトン学会 The Plankton Society of Japan
日本分光学会 The Spectroscopical Society of Japan
日本分子生物学会 The Molecular Biology Society of Japan
日本分析化学会 The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry
日本放線菌学会 The Society for Actinomycetes Japan
日本水環境学会 Japan Society on Water Environment
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