NEWS

2025.6
New paper in mBio
Cell wall remodeling in a fungal pathogen is required for hyphal growth into microspaces
Miki H, Gomez MM, Itani A, Yamanaka D, Sato Y, Di Pietro A, Takeshita N. .

2025.6
Meeting of Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology at Tsuchiura 土壌微生物学会
Best presentation award to Takumi Kasai
2025.5
98th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Bacteriology at Kanazawa 細菌学会 .

2025.3
Fungal-bacterial biofilm collaboration paper in mBio
Aspergillus fumigatus secondary metabolite pyripyropene is important for the dual biofilm formation with Pseudomonas aeruginosa .

2025.3
visited Novonesis (formerly Novozyme) in Denmark, and observed the enzyme production by fungi and recovery process. .

2025.3
17th European Conference of Fungal Genetics, Dublin, Ireland .

2024.11
Lab hiking to Mt. Tsukuba .

2024.11
visited Academic Sinica in Taiwan and interacted with talented researchers in a wonderful research environment.
https://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/en/index.php .

2024.11
Fungal Genetics and Molecular Biology Conference at Ryukyu University in Okinawa
糸状菌分子生物学コンファレンス
Excellent presentation award to Ayaka Itani
Industry Award to Saito Kojima .

2024.10
Mushroom Exhibition @ Tsukuba Experimental Botanical Garden
The true nature of mushrooms - mycelium and spores. Impressed by the excellent presentation of the materials, images and videos I provided. .

2024.10
Markus Künzler from ETH Zürich gave a wonderful seminar on Insights into the defense system of a mushroom. We then enjoyed our little Oktoberfest. .

2024.9 Invited to Asian Symposium of Microbial Ecology, ASME, at National Taiwan University, Taipei.
https://sites.google.com/view/asme2024-taipei/program/invited-speakers?authuser=0 .

2024.8
PMRN2024, Symposium of Plant Microbiota Research Network,
Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions 33rd annual meeting
Poster prizes for Yuina Nomura

Symposium of Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (JSBBA) Kanto branch
Poster prize for Hinata Miki .

2024.7
New paper in PLoS Biology
Hyphae of the fungus Aspergillus nidulans demonstrate chemotropism to nutrients and pH
Yamamoto R, Miki H, Itani A, Takeshita N. .
Highlights in Science, How fungi find their food

2024.6
KMB (Korean society for Microbiology and Biotechnology) and JSBBA (Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry) joint symposium at Busan, Korea. .

2024.5
Plant-Microbe Interaction Workshop, Nanjing, 南京農業大学, China .

2024.3
32th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, CA, USA
https://genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2024/ .

2023.11
Fungal Genetics and Molecular Biology Conference at Tokushima
糸状菌分子生物学コンファレンス
Industry Award for Ayaka Itani and Mahiro Toda

Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology Conference at Hamamatsu
微生物生態学会 .

2023.10
visited Amsterdam and Leiden and met new people and old friends .

2023.9
PMRN2023, Symposium of Plant Microbiota Research Network
Poster prize for Momoka Yorinaga

Symposium of Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (JSBBA) Kanto branch
Poster prize for Hinata Miki and Mahiro Toda
proud of you! keep going! .

2023.8
Dr. Gayan, the first PhD here, has moved to Texas A&M as a postdoc.
Various memories of the 6 years. Thanks for your contributions here.
Seize the American Dream! .

2023.7
Dr. Arran Hodgkinson stayed in my lab for 6 months by JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Looking forward to progress of our collaborations! .

2023.3
New paper in PNAS Nexus
Local calcium signal transmission in mycelial network exhibits decentralized stress responses
Itani A, Masuo S, Yamamoto R, Serizawa T, Fukasawa Y, Takaya N, Toyota M, Betsuyaku S, Takeshita N .
Press release
[Japanese]
https://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/journal/biology-environment/20230310140000.html

2023.3
EMBO | EMBL Symposium, The cellular mechanics of symbiosis, Heidelberg, Germany
https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/ees23-01/#vf-tabs__section-speakers .

2023.3
16th European Conference of Fungal Genetics, Innsbruck, Austria
https://www.ecfg16.org .

2022.11
20th Fungal Genetics and Molecular Biology Conference, online
糸状菌分子生物学コンファレンス
Excellent presentation award for Miki Hinata
Industry Award for Aya Ichinose .

2022.11
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology Conference at Sapporo
Best presentation award, Gayan Abeysinghe
35th JSME conference program .

2022.10
Korean Soceity of Mycology 50th anniversay internationational conference at Chonan .

2022.7
Sofia and Xiaolei joined by JSPS fellowship for a few months from Greece and Germany. Enjoy life and science here!
JSPS pre-/post-doctoral fellowships for research in Japan .

2022.4
Mini-review in Microbes Environ.
Raman Micro-spectroscopy and Imaging of Filamentous Fungi.
Shigeto S, Takeshita N. .

2022.3
Invited plenary session at 31th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, CA, USA
https://genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2022/invited-speakers/ .

2021.11
20th Fungal Genetics and Molecular Biology Conference, online
糸状菌分子生物学コンファレンス
Excellent presentation award for Riho Yamamoto

2021.10
Nomoto award, Federation of Microbiological Societies of Japan
日本微生物学連盟「野本賞」

2021.9
Tsukuba Conference 2021.
Contribution Of RIKEN BioResource Research Center To Developing Infrastructure For Life Science

2021.6
WorldMicrobeForum 2021, ASM&FEMS collaboration.
Our symposium (On-Demand). Bacterial Interactions and Symbiosis. 　　　　　　　　　

2021.6
Fungal Olympic Games .

2021.6
Comentary by my mentor in Germany on our new mBio article performed in Japan.
Soft but Not Too Soft—How a Rigid Tube Expands without Breaking.

2021.6
The Scientist, commentary article on our new mBio article.
Fungi Squeezed Through Microchannels Offer Clues to Cell Growth

2021.3
New paper in mBio
Trade-off between Plasticity and Velocity in Mycelial Growth.
Fukuda S, Yamamoto R, Yanagisawa N, Takaya N, Sato Y, Riquelme M, Takeshita N. .
Press release
https://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/research-news/20210316200000.html
[Japanese]
https://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/journal/biology-environment/20210316200000.html

2021.1
New paper in Sci Rep, Raman tracking of D-glucose in hyphal tips.
Deuterium-labeled Raman tracking of glucose accumulation and protein metabolic dynamics in Aspergillus nidulans hyphal tips.
Yasuda M, Takeshita N, Shigeto S.

2020.12
Cover Image, Life Science Alliance .

2020.11
Fungal Genetics and Molecular Biology Conference, Young workshop, online
Excellent presentation award for Riho Yamamoto
Industry Award for Shuji Hosoda

2020.10
Brewing Society of Japan Young Symposium, online
Brewing Basic Science Award for Shuji Hosoda
Sake by Research Institute of Brewing, Nomel prize

2020.9
New paper in Life Science Alliance
Fungal mycelia and bacterial thiamine establish a mutualistic growth mechanism
Abeysinghe G, Kuchira M, Kudo G, Masuo S, Ninomiya A, Takahashi K, Utada AS, Hagiwara D, Nomura N, Takaya N, Obana N, Takeshita N.

Press release
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/uot-btb092420.php
[Japanese]
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/attention-research/p202009241400.html

Highlight in Science
Hyphal toll roads through the soil .

2020.9
Editorial of special issue in Fungal Biology and Biotechnology
Fungal research in Japan: tradition and future

2020.6
New paper in Fungal Biology and Biotechnology
Invasive growth of Aspergillus oryzae in rice koji and increase of nuclear number.
Yasui M, Oda K, Masuo S, Hosoda S, Katayama T, Maruyama JI, Takaya N, Takeshita N.
Special issue. Fungal research in Japan: tradition and future .

2020.4
Topics Award in JSBBA (Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry) annual meeting for Sayumi Fukuda
https://jsbba.bioweb.ne.jp/jsbba2020/index.php?btn2_move=on&topics=1

2020.2
Attended to 15th European Conference on Fungal Genetics
Rome, Italy
https://www.ecfg15.org
Best Poster Award for Gayan Dakshitha at Asperfest 17.
https://www.ecfg15.org/satellite-workshops/asperfest-17/ .

2019.11
19th Fungal Genetics and Molecular Biology Conference
Sapporo, Japan

2019.9
New paper in Nature Communications
Comparative genomics reveals the origin of fungal hyphae and multicellularity.
Kiss E, Hegedüs B, Virágh M, Varga T, Merényi Z, Kószó T, Bálint B, Prasanna AN, Krizsán K, Kocsubé S, Riquelme M, Takeshita N, Nagy LG.

Press release, Japanese
https://www.jst.go.jp/pr/info/info1390/index.html

2019.9
New paper in Anal Chem, Fungal Cells by Raman Hyperspectral Imaging
Inhomogeneous Molecular Distributions and Cytochrome Types and Redox States in Fungal Cells Revealed by Raman Hyperspectral Imaging Using Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares.
Yasuda M, Takeshita N, Shigeto S.

2019.6
Visited Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institut Pasteur (Paris), Gerog-August-University Goettingen, and Max Planck Institute for terrestrial microbiology (Marburg) by JST lectureship .

2019.4
Topics Award in JSBBA (Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry) annual meeting at Tokyo for Momoka Kuchira and Mizuki Yasui
https://jsbba.bioweb.ne.jp/jsbba2019/index.php?btn2_move=on&topics=1

2019.4
Awarded Ohsumi Frontier Science Foundation
https://www.ofsf.or.jp/activity/02_result.html

2019.3
Attended to 30th Fungal Genetics Conference
Asilomar, CA, USA
http://conferences.genetics-gsa.org/Fungal/2019/index .

2018.11
18th Fungal Genetics and Molecular Biology Conference
Nagaoka, Japan
Best Poster Award for Momoka Kuchira and Sayumi Fukuda
Industry Poster Award for Mizuki Yasui

2018.9
TGSW2018, Tsukuba Global Science Week, Tsukuba
Towards Microbial Control ver. 3.0
Best Poster Award for Gayan Dakshitha and Sayumi Fukuda
Excellent Poster Award for Tomoko Serizawa

2018.9
Symposium at
82nd Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of Japan 植物学会, Hiroshima

22nd Yeast symposium 酵母合同シンポ, Fukuoka

70th Annual meeting of the Society for Biotechnology 生物工学会, Osaka

2018.8
Gram-positive bacterium genome function conference, Atami
Excellent Poster Award for Momoka Kuchira

2018.4
New review in Microbiol Mol Biol Reviews
Fungal Morphogenesis, from the Polarized Growth of Hyphae to Complex Reproduction and Infection Structures
Riquelme M, Aguirre J, Bartnicki-García S, Braus GH, Feldbrügge M, Fleig U, Hansberg W, Herrera-Estrella A, Kämper J, Kück U, Mouriño-Pérez RR, Takeshita N, Fischer R

2018.3
Attended to 14th ECFG
Haifa, Israel
http://www.ecfg14.org .

2018.1
New paper in Science Advances
Superresolution and pulse-chase imaging reveal the role of vesicle transport in polar growth of fungal cells.
Zhou L, Evangelinos M, Wernet V, Eckert A, Ishitsuka Y, Fischer R, Nienhaus GU, Takeshita N

Press release
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/research-list/p201801250910
[Japanese]
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/attention-research/p201801250400.html
http://www.jst.go.jp/pr/announce/20180125-2/index.html .

2018.1
New review in Fung Genet Biol
Oscillatory fungal cell growth.
Takeshita N

2017.12
Attended to ConBio2017
Kobe, Japan
http://www2.aeplan.co.jp/conbio2017/english/

2017.11
Attended to 17th Fungal Genetics and Molecular Biology Conference
Saga, Japan, 糸状菌分子生物学コンファレンス
http://www.biosci.osakafu-u.ac.jp/fmbsj/english/

2017.11
16th Workshop of MIcrobiology
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Poster Award; Momoka Kuchira
http://www.res.titech.ac.jp/~biores/cn20/BIKEN.html

2017.10
Gave a lecture at Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Marburg, Germany

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2017.10
Visited Karlsruhe for the first time in a year
Germany

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2017.08
Attended to XII International Fungal Biology Conference
Incheon, South Korea
http://ifbc2017.org/register/2017_01/main.html .

2017.08
New paper in Mol Microbiol
Microtubule-organizing centers of Aspergillus nidulans are anchored at septa by a disordered protein.
Zhang Y, Gao X, Manck R, Schmid M, Osmani AH, Osmani SA, Takeshita N, Fischer R.

2017.06.18
Commentary on newspaper Nikkei, 日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO17751630W7A610C1MY1000/

2017.06
Japan Society for Molecular Biology of Filamentous Fungi Award for Young Scientists, 糸状菌遺伝子研究会奨励賞
http://fungi.mysterious.jp/MAIN-J/News.html

2017. 05
Press release of the new publication in PNAS.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=175296&CultureCode=en
[Japanese]
http://www.jst.go.jp/pr/announce/20170516-2/index.html
https://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/attention-research/p201705160400b.html

201705New publication inPNAS.

2017.03
Awarded JSBBA Award for Young Scientists
日本農芸化学会奨励賞
http://www.jsbba.or.jp/about/awards/about_awards_encouragement.html 201703日本農芸化学会奨励賞

JAPANESE

Research

FILAMENTOUS FUNGI

Fungi secrete a lot of enzymes and decompose organic matter during growth. The function as a decomposer is essential for materials circulation of ecosystem. For a long time, humans have made use of filamentous fungi in the production of fermented foods (sake, soy sauce, blue cheese, etc.) and, more recently, for the production of many useful enzymes and antibiotics in biotechnology. However, some fungal species can invade immunocompromised humans and agricultural crops, causing serious damage. Fungal pathogenicity is indeed a major problem in the medical and agricultural fields.

Our group analyzes the molecular mechanisms of mycelial elongation, the key process underlying both the usefulness and pathogenicity of mold. Filamentous fungi continuously extend the cell body at one end of their hyphae in a process called “tip growth”. Polar tip growth requires continuous transport of construction materials to and away from the hyphal tip. Proteins and other biomolecules are packaged in massive vesicles and transported over long distances by motor proteins along the actin and microtubule cytoskeletons.

Cell end marker

Why polarity?

Cell polarity is essential for the proper function of many cell types, because the cell function is optimized by the cell shape, and the cell shape is determined by the cell polarity. Filamentous fungi grow by tip-extension. The mode of growth depends on stable polarity at the hyphal tip. How is the polarity regulated in filamentous fungi?
Why do filamentous fungi grow filamentous?

Cell end marker

Cell end markes

We found landmark proteins named “cell end markers”, which control the polarity. The cell end markers, TeaA and TeaR, localize at hyphal tips interdependently. TeaA is delivered to hyphal tips by growing microtubules (MTs), anchored to the hyphal tip cortex though the interaction with TeaR, membrane associated TeaA receptor. TeaA at the tip indirectly interacts with the formin SepA which forms actin cables that are required for secretion vesicle transport and polarized growth. The teaA and teaR deletion mutants showed defects in polarity maintenance, which lead to curved or zig-zag growing hyphae. Thus TeaA transmits positional information regulated by MTs to the actin cytoskeleton at hyphal tips. The mechanism is required for the polarity maintenance and the growth direction of hyphae.

MT and plasma membrane

The interaction between MT plus end and the plasma membrane is important for the establishment and maintenance of polarity. MT plus-end localizing proteins (+TIPs) regulate MT plus-end dynamics. AlpA, a XMAP215 family protein and one of +TIPs, promotes MT growth and functions as MT polymerase. The functional connection between the cell end marker TeaA at the plasma membrane and AlpA at MT plus-ends is important for the proper regulation of MT growth at hyphal tips. In this way, we focus on the connection among MT plus ends, plasma membrane and actin cytoskeleton for polarized growth.

Cell end marker

Visualization of membrane domains by super-resolution microscopy

Apical sterol-rich membrane domains (SRDs) are gaining attention for their important roles in polarized growth of filamentous fungi, however their exact figure, roles and formation mechanisms remain rather unclear. We selected genes involved in membrane recycle, raft formation and lipid transport, etc. We are investigating their roles of on the formation and maintenance of SRD and their interplay with the cytoskeletons.
The SRDs are revealed to be a mixture of lipid raft and non-raft microdomains, however the size of rafts is ranging between 10 and 200 nm and is thus too small to detect by conventional light microscopy which has a resolution limit of 250 nm. In recent years, super-resolution microscope techniques have been improving and breaking the diffraction limit of conventional light microscopy. One of the techniques is photoactivation localization microscopy (PALM) using photoswitchable (or photoactivatable) fluorophores. The lateral image resolution as high as 20 nm which can be acquired via this method will be a powerful tool to investigate the relation of lipid membrane domains and protein localization in living cells deeply. Size, number, distribution and dynamics of membrane domains, and dynamics of single molecules are subjects of our research. Additionally we are investing the MT and actin cytoskeleton, and their relation with membrane domains.

Cell end marker

ENGLISH

Research

約40億年前に最初の生命（微生物）が誕生しました。 現在、地球上に多くの生物が存在するのも、微生物が大きな地球環境の変動に適応し、進化と活動を続けてきた結果であると言えます。このような多様な微生物は地球上の至る所に存在し、ほぼ全ての生物（動物・植物・虫など）と共生し、我々の生活にも深く関与しています。我々の腸内・表面にいる微生物、農業・食品に関わる微生物、環境の物質循環に関わる微生物、多種多様な微生物が世界に溢れており、健康・食・環境に深く関与しています。

糸状菌

糸状菌は、環境中に数多く存在する微生物でありながら、菌糸と呼ばれる細胞を伸ばし続けることで、地球上の最大の生き物にもなります（注1）。ある程度菌糸を伸ばすと胞子を作り、胞子の散布により異なる環境で再び菌糸を伸ばし増殖を始めます。糸状菌は伸びる際に多くの酵素を出し有機物を分解します。その分解者としての役割は生態系の物質循環を制御しています。
　我々の身近には、パンに生えるもの、お風呂場に生えるもの、麹菌のように伝統的な発酵食品（酒・醤油・味噌など）の生産に関わるもの、様々な有用酵素や抗生物質の生産などバイオ産業で利用されるもの、植物系バイオマスを分解することでバイオエタノールの生産に関わるものなど、多様な糸状菌が存在します。一方で、免疫不全の人間や農作物の細胞に侵入し病原性を示し甚大な被害をもたらすものもあり、医学・農業分野で大きな問題となっています。また、植物の根と共生する糸状菌は、土壌からリンや窒素源を植物に供給し、代わりに植物が光合成で生産した炭素のエネルギー源を得ることで生育します。

私たちのグループでは、このような糸状菌の特性（有用性と有害性）をもたらす菌糸や菌糸ネットワークの役割を研究しています。また、糸状菌と細菌や植物との相互作用についても研究しています。

菌糸が伸びる仕組み

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/kagakutoseibutsu/51/12/51_809/_pdf



（注1）世界最大の生き物は菌類；　1998年にアメリカ、オレゴン州の東部で発見されたキシメジ科のキノコ、オニナラタケ(Armillaria ostoyae)の菌床は、総面積8.9平方キロメートルに及び、推定重量はおよそ600t、推定年齢は約2400歳といわれています。キノコもカビの仲間で、土や木の中に菌糸を作り生長します。地表に出ている胞子を作る器官（子実体）が、キノコと呼ばれるものです。

Publications

Selected publications (Corresponding author *)

Review



Complete publication list

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=norio+takeshita

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=LoL8bWUAAAAJ&hl=ja&oi=ao

Research Gate

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Norio_Takeshita



Books

  • Takeshita N, Fischer R.
    The cytoskeleton and cell-end markers during polarized growth of filamentous fungi.
    Mycota VII 3rd edition, Springer (2018)
  • Etxebeste O, Takeshita N.
    Advanced microscopy methods for the study of protein localization, interaction and dynamics in filamentous fungi.
    Advanced Microscopy in Mycology, Springer (2015)
  • Fischer R, Takeshita N, Doonan J.
    Cytoskeleton, Polarized Growth, and the Cell Cycle in Aspergillus nidulans.
    The Aspegilli: Genomics, Medical Applications, Biotechnology, and Research Methods (2007)

About

筑波大学へNorio Takeshita

Norio Takeshita PhD

University of Tsukuba
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS)
e-mail: takeshita.norio.gf@u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Career

2019.4 -
Associate Professor
University of Tsukuba
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS)

2014.7 - 2019.3
International Tenure Assistant Professor
University of Tsukuba
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences

2016.10 -2022
Group leader
JST ERATO Nomura project, Genome biochemistry group

2011.10 - 2016.9
Group leader
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Applied Bioscience, Dept. Microbiology

2008.4 - 2011.9
Research Associate
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Applied Bioscience, Dept. Microbiology

2006.4 - 2008.3
Postdoc fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
University of Karlsruhe
Applied Bioscience, Dept. Microbiology

Education

2003.4 - 2006.3
Ph.D.
The University of Tokyo
Graduate school of agricultural and life science, Dept. Biotechnology

2001.4 - 2003.3
Master
The University of Tokyo
Graduate school of agricultural and life science, Dept. Biotechnology

1997.4 - 2001.3
Bachelor
The University of Tokyo, Faculty of agriculture, Dept. Biotechnology


Funding

DFG, Landesstiftung Baden Württemberg, Humboldt Society
JSPS, JST


Editorial board

Fungal Genetics Biology

Fungal Biology Biotechnology


Awards

2021. Federation of Microbiological Societies of Japan, Nomoto award
日本微生物学連盟「野本賞」

2017. Japan Society Molecular Biology of Filamentous Fungi Award for Young Scientists
糸状菌遺伝子研究会奨励賞

2017. JSBBA Award for Young Scientists
日本農芸化学会奨励賞

2012. Elite program member of Baden-Wurttemberg Foundation


Fellowship

2006 - 2008
Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2004 - 2006
Research Fellowships of Japan Society for the Dissertation of Science (JSPS) for Young Scientists (DC2)


outreach

Twitter @NTfungalcell

Youtube @NTfungalcell


Oral presentation at international conference

2024, June KMB and JSBBA joint symposium, Busan, Korea
2024, May Plant-Microbe Interaction Workshop, Nanjing, China
2024, Mar 32th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, USA
2023, Mar EMBO | EMBL Symposium, Heidelberg, Germany
2023, Mar 16th Europian Conference on Fungal Genetics, Innsbruck, Austria
2022, Oct Korean Soceity of Mycology 50th conference, Chonan, Korea
2022, Mar 31th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, USA
2021, Sept Tsukuba Conference, Contribution of Riken BRC, on line
2021, Jun WorldMicrobeForum 2021, ASM&FEMS collaboration, on line
2019, Oct Asia Mycology Conference, Tsu, Japan
2019, Mar 30th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, USA
2018, Mar 14th Europian Conference on Fungal Genetics, Haifa, Israel
2017, Aug XII International Fungal Biology Conference, Incheon, South Korea
2016, Apr 13th Europian Conference on Fungal Genetics, Paris, France
2016, Mar VAAM annual congress, Jena, Germany
2015, Oct Molecular Biology of Fungi, Berlin, Germany
2015, Sept Membrane Compartmentalization, Munster, Germany
2015, Mar 28th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, USA
2014, Mar 12th Europian Conference on Fungal Genetics, Seville, Spain
2013, Oct XI International Fungal Biology Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany
2013, Mar 27th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, USA
2012, Oct Eurofung meeting 2012, Berlin, Gemany
2012, May Workshop DFG-CONACyT Research Unit 1334, Mexico city, Mexico
2012, Mar 11th European Conference on Fungal Genetics, Marburg, Germany
2011, Mar 26th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, USA
2011, Sept VAAM Symposium, Molecular Biology of Fungi, Marburg, Germany
2009, Nov Eurofung meeting 2009, Wageningen, Netherlands
2009, Mar 25th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, USA
2008, Oct Eurofung meeting, San Feliu de Guixols, Spain
2008, Mar 9th European Conference on Fungal Genetics, Edinburgh, Scottland
2007, Sept VAAM Symposium, Molecular Biology of Fungi, Hamburg, Germany
2007, May Eurofung meeting 2007, Wageningen, Netherlands
2007, Mar 24th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, USA


Lecture and seminar

2024, Nov Academia Sinica, Taipei
2024, Jun Ibaraki University, Basic Ecology
2024, May Nanjing Normal University, 南京師範大学
2024, Apr University of Tokyo, Komaba
2024, Apr Okayama University, Institute of plant science and resorces
2023, Nov Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2023, Oct Leiden University
2022, Apr Agricultural and Life Science, University of Tokyo
2022, Feb Setsunan University
2022, Feb Ryukoku University
2021, July Akita Prefectural University
2020, Jun Ibaraki University, Basic Ecology
2019, Nov Hokkaido University, Physical Ethology Lab
2019, Sep Tsukuba University at Sugadaira, Lab of Mycology
2019, Jun Max Planck Institute for terrestrial microbiology (Marburg)
2019, Jun Gerog-August-University Goettingen
2019, Jun Institut Pasteur (Paris)
2019, Jun Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
2019, Apr RIKEN yokohama, iSYM
2019, Apr AIST, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
2018, Apr Agricultural and Life Science, The University of Tokyo
2017, Dec Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University
2017, Nov Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University
2017, Oct Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg
2017, Jul ITbM, Nagoya University
2016, Jan Agricultural and Life Science, The University of Tokyo
2015, Nov Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba
2015, Oct Institute of Applied Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2015, Sept Cell Networks-Cluster of Excellence and Centre, University of Heidelberg
2015, Jan Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Georg August University of Goettingen
2014, Nov Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University
2014, Nov Faculty of Agriculture, Tohoku University
2014, Apr Kyoto Prefectural University
2014, Apr National Research Institute of Brewing
2013, Dec Bioagricultural and Life Sciences, Nagoya University
2013, Dec Agricultural and Life Science, The University of Tokyo
2013, Mar Stanford University School of Medicine
2013, Mar Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden

Symposium at domestic conference

2025, 6　土浦 土壌微生物学会　　
微生物たちは土の中で何をしている？
2025, 5　金澤 細菌学会　　
バイオフィルム研究の最前線
2023, 12　東京 バイオインダストリー協会　　
発酵と代謝研究会
2023, 3　姫路 細菌学会　　
視える化で解き明かす微生物学の謎
2022, 3　 生態学会　　
無神経な行動生態学
2022, 3　 農芸化学会　　
微小空間制御から見える新たな生命現象と規則
2021, 8　 第一回植物微生物シンバイオロジー協議会シンポジウム
2021, 3　 日本細菌学会　　
集団微生物学と細菌バイオフィルム研究の前線
2021, 3　 農芸化学会　　
微生物研究の新機軸としての相互作用研究
2020, 11　 新学術領域「ポストコッホ生態」　　
さまざまな“光”で微生物を見る
2019, 11 東工大 酵素工学研究会　　
第82回講演会
2019, 7　東京 微生物ウィーク2019　　
令和新時代における糸状菌・酵母研究の挑戦
2019, 5　秋田 日本菌学会　　
菌類の進化と共生と成長ダイナミクス
2018, 9　広島 日本植物学会　　
細胞の極性成長を支える分子メカニズムの共通性と独自性
2018, 9　九州大 酵母合同シンポジウム　　
アジアへのゲートウェイ九州から発信する酵母の魅力
2018, 9　関西大 日本生物工学会　　
真核微生物におけるシグナル伝達と代謝の接点を探る
2018, 6　東農大 醤油研究発表会　　
蛍光ライブイメージングで「観る」糸状菌の菌糸生長
2018, 3　名古屋 農芸化学会2018　　
先進解析技術が拓く糸状菌研究
2017, 12　東大 第3回関東支部例会　　
微生物･植物の機能とメカニズムに迫る
2017, 11　佐賀 第17回糸状菌分子生物学コンファレンス　　
糸状菌の特徴解明の最前線：基礎から病原性，産業利用まで

Members

M2 Yuina Nomura SynCom, Plant-fungus-bacteria
M1 Takumi Kasai Fungal-bacterial interaction
M1 Ayaka Suwa Microfluidics, endophytic fungi
M1 Haruto Motomura Koji fungus, Deep learning
M1 Miho Shuto Bacterial Syncom, FISH
B4 Mio Igarashi Microfluidics, plant, soil
B4 Aoi Yamazaki SynCom, Rhizobia
Former students
PhD Ayaka Itani Microfluidics, Koji fungus
Hinata Miki Fungal plasticity and pathogenicity
Mahiro Toda Bioinformatics, Fungal-bacterial interaction
Shintaro Fukuda Fungal-bacterial biofilm
Wu Meng Ecological fungal-bacterial interaction
Momoka Yorinaga Plant-fungi-bacteria interaction
Daiki Takeuchi Microbial behavior in the soil
PhD Gayan Abeysinghe Fungal-bacterial interaction
Gamon Kudo Ecological microbe interaction
Riho Yamamoto Chemotropism of hyphae
Aya Ichinose Koji mold, morphology, enzyme
Chen Chen Pathogenic microbe interaction
Shuji Hosoda Koji mold nuclei increase
Sayumi Fukuda Fungal plasiticity
Mizuki Yasui Koji mold hazekomi
Momoka Kuchira Fungal-bacterial interaction
Tomoko Serizawa Tip growth & calcium signal
. . . . . .

JAPANESE

Contact

Norio Takeshita PhD

University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences,
Laboratory of Advanced Research A, 515
Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, 305-8572, Japan.
Tel: +81-29-853-6782 / 7191
e-mail: takeshita.norio.gf@u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Highly motivated and productive postgraduate research candidates are welcome to work with us. Email a statement of your research interest with your recently updated CV and academic transcript. Prospective candidates are encouraged to apply for MEXT (Monbukagakusho Japanese government scholarship) for financial support.

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Contact

竹下　典男

筑波大学生命環境系
准教授
305－8577
茨城県つくば市天王台1-1-1
筑波大学総合研究棟A 515
電話：029-853-6782 / 7191
e-mail: takeshita.norio.gf@u.tsukuba.ac.jp

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