News & Updates

A collaborative paper by Associate Professor Tomoya Maeda and the research group of Professor Jianshi Jin at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, describing standardized approaches for global collaboration in microbiome research, was accepted for publication in The ISME Journal. The paper title is as follows: Muzi Ge, Tomoya Maeda, Jingdi Li, Maryam Chaib De Mares, Emmanuel George Kifaro, Gizachew Haile Gidamo, Katsuyuki Shiroguchi, Andrew H. Moeller, Zhibin Zhang, and Jianshi Ji

The research group of Associate Professor Tomoya Maeda held a joint research exchange meeting on the J-PEAKS Collaborative Research Platform Incubation Stage project, led by Professor Ryohei Nakano of the Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, in collaboration with the research group of Professor Shinji Nakaoka of the Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University. It was a valuable opportunity to learn about research from other fields that we rarely have the

Ryu Goto, a second-year master's student in our laboratory, received the MBSJ Poster Award 2025 for his presentation at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, held at Pacifico Yokohama from December 3 to 5, 2025. Title: "Laboratory evolution of Escherichia coli under two-drug combinations with sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim" Authors: 〇Ryu Goto1, Hazuki Kotani2, Chikara Furusawa2,3, Tomoya Maeda1,2 1 Laboratory of Microbial Physiology, Research Facul

Associate Professor Tomoya Maeda and Yu Kasuga (B4) participated in the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan (SGMJ) held in Kisarazu, Chiba. They delivered an oral and a poster presentation, respectively. (March 4–6, 2026) Assoc. Prof. Tomoya Maeda (Oral Presentation) "Exploring common and unique mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance across diverse bacterial species." Yu Kasuga (B4) (Poster Presentation) "Adaptive laboratory evolution and complete

Associate Professor Tomoya Maeda gave an invited mini-symposium lecture at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ), held at Pacifico Yokohama. Additionally, Ryu Goto (M2) and Shogo Nakabori (M2) gave poster presentations. Assoc. Prof. Tomoya Maeda (Invited Lecture) "How microbial interactions rewire the evolution of resistance" Ryu Goto (M2) "Laboratory evolution of Escherichia coli under two-drug combinations with sulfamethoxazole/trimethopri

Seven new members have been assigned to our laboratory from the second semester. Welcome to our laboratory!!

On September 29–30, 2025 Four of our lab members gave poster presentations at the 3rd Hokkaido Bio "Mix-up" held at Hokkaido University. The presentation titles are as follows: Ryu Goto (M2) "Laboratory evolution of Escherichia coli under two-drug combinations with sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim" Shogo Nakabori (M2) "Adaptive laboratory evolution of Corynebacterium glutamicum lacking the enzymes involved in the oxidation of NADH" Riku Sumihiro (M1) "Analysis of competition dyn

Dr. Maeda participated in the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Biotechnology, Japan (SBJ), held at Hiroshima Institute of...

Dr. Maeda participated in FEMS MICRO 2025, held in Milan, and presented a poster entitled “Exploring Common and Unique Mechanisms of...

Dr. Maeda was invited to the Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Environmental Biotechnology, held at Hokkaido University, and gave a...

Dr. Maeda was invited to ASME 2025 (The 15th Asian Symposium on Microbial Ecology) held at Chungbuk National University, South Korea. He...

Two new members have been assigned to our laboratory from the new semester. Welcome to our laboratory!!

Dr. Maeda was promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations!!!

The commencement was held on March 25th, 2025. この日をもって修士2年の学生4名が卒業となりました。 ご卒業おめでとうございます！ これからのご活躍を心からお祈りしております。

Mr. Kotaro Yamagami, Ms. Shino Kawakami, Ms. Yui Egawa, Mr. Shuhei Tsukazaki, and Mr. Riku Sumihiro presented posters at the JSBA 2025...