Doctor of Science at The University of Tokyo. After studying mutualistic symbioses between plants and microbes in The Sainsbury Laboratory (JIC) in UK and Munich University in Germany, I started researches on parasitic plants in Orobanchaceae in RIKEN. Associate professor in NAIST from 2016.

Email satokoy[at]bs.naist.jp

2017: Doctor of Science at Nagoya University

2017-2021: Postdoctoral scientist/JSPS oversea fellow in John Innes Centre (UK)

2021- : Assist. Prof. in NAIST

2021/10-: JST PRESTO Researcher

I’ve studied plant-microbe interaction (i.e. between plant and fungi or plant parasitic nematode) so far. My favorite is cyst nematode! Now, I am newly studying about parasitic plant as well.

Email mina.o[at]bs.naist.jp

I did my master's and doctoral thesis in the group of Ken Shirasu at RIKEN, working on the development of haustorium in the parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum. After that, I moved to Würzburg in Germany to study the evolution of carnivorous plants. Then I returned to Japan and learned genomics for one year at NARO genetic resource research center using wild Vigna species. Now I restarted research on Orobanchaceae parasitic plants at NAIST as an assistant professor.

orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9991-9054