News

2025/03/26-28. Gave an oral presentation

Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Life Japan (SSOEL), The 49th Annual Meeting at Yokohama.

2025/02/24. A preprint I co-authored is now available!

Konno et al. “Repeatability of protein structural evolution following convergent gene fusions”. bioRxiv (2025) / X post (@utnk1)

2024/04/30. A paper I co-authored has been published in the PNAS Journal!

Tominaga et al. “Frequent Nonhomologous Replacement of Replicative Helicase Loaders by Viruses in Vibrionaceae”. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2024)

2023/11/28-29. Gave an poster presentation

Society for Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology (JSME), The 36th Annual Meeting at Hamamatsu.

2023/07/20. A paper I co-authored has been published in the Archives of Microbiology Journal!

Nishida et al. “Construction of multiple metagenome assembled genomes containing carbon monoxide dehydrogenases from anaerobic carbon monoxide enrichment cultures”. Arch Microbiol (2023)

2023/03/02. Gave an oral presentation

Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan (SGMJ), The 17th Annual Meeting at Kisarazu.

2022/11/01-02. Gave an poster presentation

Society for Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology (JSME), The 35th Annual Meeting at Sapporo. Received the Excellence Award (second place of 30) in postdoc poster presentation section!

2022/08/06. Gave an oral presentation

Society for Evolutionary Studies, Japan (SESJ), The 24th Annual Meeting at Numazu. Won the best postdoc oral presentation award!

2022/03/02. Gave an oral presentation

Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan (SGMJ), The 16th Annual Meeting (Online).

About

Education

2020Mar. Ph.D., Division of Applied Biosciences, Kyoto University
2016Mar. Master of Agriculture, Division of Applied Biosciences, Kyoto University
2014Mar. Bachelor of Agriculture, Department of Bioresource Science, Kyoto University

Work experience

2025Apr-Now.
Research Scientist, Geobiology and Astrobiology Laboratory, RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI), RIKEN

2024Apr-2025Mar.
Research Scientist, Geobiology and Astrobiology Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR), RIKEN

2020Apr-2024Mar.
Postdoc, Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo

2016Apr-2019Mar.
Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1) at Laboratory of Marine Microbiology, Division of Applied Biosciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University

Research topics

Keywords

Microbiology , Extremophiles , Bioinformatics , Comparative genomics

Projects

2024Apr-Now.
Geochemistry of CO worlds (Transformative Research Areas (A): A03 Biology Group)

2020Apr-2024Mar.
Bioinformatics for predicting new functions in DNA sequence space (CREST project)

2014Apr-2020Mar.
Genomic and molecular ecological studies on thermophilic hydrogenogenic carboxydotrophs

Awards

  • 2022/11/01-02. Society for Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology (JSME), The 35th Annual Meeting at Sapporo.
    Received the Excellence Award (second place of 30) in postdoc poster presentation section.

  • 2022/08/06. Society for Evolutionary Studies, Japan (SESJ), The 24th Annual Meeting at Numazu.
    Won the best postdoc oral presentation award.