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Name: Yusuke Takashima  "高島 勇介"

Researcher ID in Japan: 70833987

ORCID: 0000-0002-5165-0690

Occupation: Postdoctoral fellow

Contact: yusuke.takashima.senmu (gmail)

Current affiliation:  Green-Bio Technology Research Center, Department of Applied Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ibaraki University (Oct 2025-)

Previous affiliations:  

#2 Research Center of Genetic Resources, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) (Apr 2023-Sep 2025)

#1 Sugadaira Montane Research Center, Univ. of Tsukuba (Jun 2019-Mar 2023)

Educational background:

Ph.D. Agr., Department of Symbiotic Science of Environment and Natural Resources, 

The United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology 

(TUAT) (2018 15th March)

M. Agr., Graduate school of Agriculture, Ibaraki Univ.  (2014)

B. Agr., College of Agriculture, Ibaraki Univ. (2012)

Awards:

28th August 2021 - MSJ (The Mycological Society of Japan) Young Investigator Award

"Studies on relationships between Mortierella spp. and its bacterial endosymbionts"

Grants

2023-04-01 – 2027-03-31 JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (Grant No. 23K14238)

2023-04-01 – 2025-03-31 Institute for Fermentation, Osaka (IFO) Young Researcher Grant (No. Y-2023-1-014)

Fellowships: 

JSPS fellow DC2 (2016-2018),  Project No.: 16J08716

JSPS fellow PD (2020-2023),  Project No.: 20J00505

Ongoing project:

Relationship between population genetics of fungal hosts and the sexual manipulation by endofungal bacteria.

Current and previous research topics: 

1. Diversity of endofungal bacteria and impacts of those associations on hosts (PhD)

2. Taxonomy of Mucoromycotinan fungi (especially in Mortierella spp.)  (PhD)

3. Biocontrol of fungal pathogen using dark septate endophytes (Postdoc @Narisawa lab in Ibaraki Univ.)

4. Coprophilous Kickxellales fungi associated with Centipedes (Postdoc @Degawa lab in Univ. of Tsukuba)

5. Fermented food processed from fresh soy milk using lactic acid bacteria and fungi (Postdoc @Degawa lab in Univ. of Tsukuba)

6. Terrestrial algae-fungi interactions (Collaborating with Degawa lab)

Peer review experiences:

Mycoscience (2)

Fungal Genetics and Biology (1)

Microbes and Environments (3)

Studies in Mycology (1)

Fungal ecology (2)

Journal of Visualized Experiments (1)

Sydowia (1)

Mycoscience Style Review (2019-2024)

2019: 10

2020: 9

2021: 6

2022: 5

2023: 3

2024: 4

Total: 37