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As many of you know, I retired from the Faculty of Science, Yamaguchi University, Japan, on March 31, 2016. After my retirement, I continued my research activities at Yamaguchi University as Professor Emeritus and as a Specially Designated Professor, while maintaining a laboratory for the National BioResource Project Paramecium, until March 31, 2022.
Since then, I have continued my research on a smaller scale as a Visiting Researcher at the Research Center for Thermotolerant Microbial Resources, Yamaguchi University, and as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, Fukushima University, Japan. I also maintain live cultures of Paramecium caudatum syngens at 4°C in a small “home attic lab.”
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(7) Apr 27, 2026. Our paper "First direct evidence for a structurally stable adhesion between the perialgal vacuole membrane and host mitochondria in the Paramecium-Chlorella endosymbiosis" was introduced on Yamaguchi University homepages, X, and Facebook and online newspaper as shown below.
Yamaguchi University Homepage: https://www.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/weekly/48793/index.html
Yamaguchi University, Research Center for Thermotolerant Microbial Resources Homepage: https://www.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/yurctmr/
X: https://x.com/YamaguchiU_koho/status/2048586123149197317
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YamaguchiUniversityOfficial/posts/pfbid02gfHUJUjJvnjv4TH4L1trr61RqqsUeF1AwC9FBd872NekR3WyWbtnzteCFVrXKVyal
Online Newspaper: [Daily] Research Frontline "Chijin": http://smallworld.jp
(6) July 11, 2024. Our paper 'Mechanisms for the establishing primary and secondary endosymbiosis in Paramecium', published in Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology in 2022, was nominated as a Top Cited Article of this journal for 2022-2023.
(5) Jul 6, 2024 - Feb 30, 2025. Guest Editor, a special issue of Microorganisms (MDPI). "The Molecular Mechanisms for Infection and Phenotypic Changes of the Host in Procaryote–Eukaryote and Eukaryote-Eukaryote Endosymbioses".
(4) Apr 1, 2024 - present. Editorial Boards Member, ASEAN Journal of Science and Technology (AJOST)
(3) Apr. 1, 2024-Mar. 30, 2029. Area Advisor. 学術変革A "Co-evolutionary Emergence of Extended Phenotypes"
(2) Jul 1, 2022-Sept 30, 2024. Mentor, Shimane University Capacity Building Project Towards a Sustainable Society (S- SPRING).
(1) April 1, 2013. Our paper 'Endosymbiosis in Paramecium', published in European Journal of Protistology 48 (2), 124-137, 2012 (Fujishima, M. and Kodama, Y.), was nominated as a Top 25 Hottest Articles of this journal for 2012.