Yu Sugihara
Education
2023 Ph. D, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan
2020 MSc, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan
2018 BSc, Department of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan
Research Experience
2024 - Postdoc in at Division of Genomics & Breeding, Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Japan
2023 - 2024 Postdoc in Sophien Kamoun group at The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK
2021 - 2023 Intern in Sophien Kamoun group at The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK
2019 - 2021 Visiting Researcher at Division of Genomics & Breeding, Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Japan
Selected publications
Sugihara Y, Abe Y, Takagi H, Abe A, Shimizu M, Ito K, Kanzaki E, Oikawa K, Kourelis J, Langner T, Win J, Białas A, Lüdke D, Contreras MP, Chuma I, Saitoh H, Kobayashi M, Zheng S, Tosa Y, Banfield MJ, Kamoun S*, Terauchi R*, Fujisaki K* (2023) Disentangling the complex gene interaction networks between rice and the blast fungus identifies a new pathogen effector. PLOS Biology, 21:e3001945. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001945 *Corresponding authors
Sugihara Y, Darkwa K, Yaegashi H, Natsume S, Shimizu M, Abe A, Hirabuchi A, Ito K, Oikawa K, Tamiru-Oli M, Ohta A, Matsumoto R, Agre P, De Koeyer D, Pachakkil B, Yamanaka S, Muranaka S, Takagi H, White B, Asiedu R, Innan H, Asfaw A*, Adebola P*, Terauchi R* (2020) Genome analyses reveal the hybrid origin of the staple food crop white Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 17(50): 31987–31992. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2015830117 *Corresponding authors
Key Words : Evolution, Population genetics, Domestication, Plant-microbe interactions