Shohei Yasuda
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research interest:
1. Environmental biotechnology and molecular biology, focusing on the production of valuable products by up-cycling resources from wastewater by using microorganisms
2. Microbial functions and interactions as a community to be shed light on by meta-omics analyses
Education:
September 2020, Doctor of Science, Chemical Engineering (Environmental Technology), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Work experience:
Since 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Galway, Ireland
2023~2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, New Technology and Industrial Technology Development organization, Japan
2021~2023 Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
2020~2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, New Technology and Industrial Technology Development organization, Japan
Projects:
2025 The visiting scholar fund from the Institute of Global Innovation Research of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
– Visiting researcher for metaomics analyses including metagenome, metatranscriptome, and metaproteome for a better understanding of the physiological ecology and interactions of microbial communities in bioreactors
2024~2025 The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) Class C project, Project owner and research representative
– Principal investigator of metaomics analyses to shed light on physiological ecology and interactions of microbial communities in bioreactors
2023 The visiting scholar fund from the Institute of Global Innovation Research of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Research representative
– Visiting researcher of Denmark Technical University for metagenome analysis of comammox and Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARGs), and of TU Darmstadt (Germany) for metatranscriptome analysis of methane-oxidizing bacteria-enriched biomass
2022~2024 KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 22K14348 from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Research representative
– Production of ectoine by symbiotic microbial community accumulated from activated sludge in the leachate treatment plant
2021~2022 Kurita Water and Environment Foundation 21A043, Research representative
– Production of ectoine by symbiotic microbial community accumulated from activated sludge in the leachate treatment plant
2020~2023 Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research 20KK0243 (International Leading Research B) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Co-investigator
– Revealing the ecophysiologies of nitrous oxide-reducing bacteria towards the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in advanced nitrogen removal processes for wastewater treatment
2018~2020 The Open Partnership Joint Research Projects (Japan–Germany) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Collaborator
– Joint research with TU Darmstadt (Germany) for 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and metagenome sequencing analysis of activated sludge of leachate treatment plant and paddy soil
2018~2019 The visiting scholar fund from the Institute of Global Innovation Research of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Research representative
– Visiting researcher of TU Darmstadt for metagenome analysis of activated sludge of leachate treatment plant and paddy soil
Others:
Patent, Shohei Yasuda and Akihiko Terada, Filling data: 12/20/2022, Application Number: 2022-203090
Member of working group 2 and 4, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), FULLRECO4US – Cost Action 20133, Cross Border Transfer and Development of Sustainable Resource Recovery Strategies Towards Zero Waste