Takamitsu OHIGASHI

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Postdoctoral researcher working at the Kondoh Lab in Tohoku University, Japan.
Currently, I’m studying at the Ushio Lab in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Email: tkmtohgs1031 at gmail.com

Research Keywords

Soil microbial community, Environmental DNA, Community ecology, Time-series analysis

Biography

• 1996: Born in Osaka and grew up in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan
• 2015 ~ 2019: Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University
• 2019 ~ 2021: Master course, Graduate School of Global Food Resources, Hokkaido University
• 2021 ~ 2024: Ph.D. course, Graduate School of Global Food Resources, Hokkaido University
• 2022: Visiting Scholar, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, The University of Minnesota
• 2024: Ph.D. (Food Resources), Hokkaido University
• 2024 ~ present: JSPS Research Fellow (PD), Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University

Awards

• Excellent Poster Award (PhD student division), The 36th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Microbial Ecology & The 13th Asian Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Hamamatsu, Japan, November 2023
• English Presentation Audience Award, The 68th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan, Okayama, Japan, March 2021

Funding/Fellowship

• 2021 ~ 2024: Hokkaido University-Hitachi Joint Cooperative Support Program for Education and Research
• 2024 ~ present: Grants-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows