Research theme for competitive and other funds (18)：
2020 - 2023 Risk and prediction of tick-borne diseases based on migration and dispersal of host animals
2020 - 2023 Investigating the molecular mechanism and evolution of sex determination in Culex mosquitoes
2019 - 2023 景観解析による疾病媒介蚊対策のための局地的リスク評価
2018 - 2021 Development of gene-modified culture cells that reflect the specific infection events of arthropod-borne viruses
2017 - 2021 Establishment of transformed housefly strains for screening of effective insecticides for controlling medically important pest insects
2016 - 2020 Impact assessment of climate change on arthropod vector ecology and visualization with 3D risk map
2016 - 2020 Reverse genetics study on the molecular species and mutations involved in metabolic insecticide resistance of the dengue vector mosquito
2015 - 2018 Analysis of receptors expressed on Aedes albopictus cells that mediate dengue virus binding and entry
2013 - 2017 Study on the mechanisms involved in insecticide resistance of vector mosquiotes by genome editing technology
2013 - 2017 Comprehensive exploration of blood-feeding arthropod-derived arboviruses and mapping risk for arbovirus infection in Southeast Asia
2013 - 2016 Analysis of the insecticide detoxification of insecticide resistance by the cytochrome P450 new expression method
2012 - 2015 Analyses of qualitative and quantitative characters of the trace elements and long-distance migration based on the weather information
2011 - 2013 Studies on the mechanisms of insecticide resistance in chikungunya mosquito vectors
2010 - 2012 Studies on the overexpression of insect cytochrome P450s for the molecular identification of insecticide resistance
2009 - 2011 Trial of the estimation of migration source for the long-distance migratory insects by the trace element analysis
Pesticide toxicology
Medical entomology
Pesticide resistance
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Papers (60)：
Nozomi Uemura, Kentaro Itokawa, Osamu Komagata, Shinji Kasai. Recent advances in the study of knockdown resistance mutations in Aedes mosquitoes with a focus on several remarkable mutations. Current opinion in insect science. 2024. 63. 101178-101178
Nozomi Uemura, Shogo Furutani, Takashi Tomita, Kentaro Itokawa, Osamu Komagata, Shinji Kasai. Concomitant knockdown resistance allele, L982W + F1534C, in Aedes aegypti has the potential to impose fitness costs without selection pressure. Pesticide biochemistry and physiology. 2023. 193. 105422-105422
Shinji Kasai, Kentaro Itokawa, Nozomi Uemura, Aki Takaoka, Shogo Furutani, Yoshihide Maekawa, Daisuke Kobayashi, Nozomi Imanishi-Kobayashi, Michael Amoa-Bosompem, Katsunori Murota, et al. Discovery of super-insecticide-resistant dengue mosquitoes in Asia: Threats of concomitant knockdown resistance mutations. Science advances. 2022. 8. 51. eabq7345
Yoshihide Maekawa, Rui Kimura, Asuka Kasai, Masato Takeuchi, Mizue Inumaru, Yukita Sato, Osamu Komagata, Kyoko Sawabe, Yoshio Tsuda. Faunal and genetic studies of mosquitoes on Chichi-jima and Haha-jima, the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2021. 72. 4. 237-253
Osamu Komagata, Shinji Kasai, Kentaro Itokawa, Keiko Minagawa, Toru Kazuma, Kiyoshi Mizutani, Atsuhiko Muto, Tsutomu Tanikawa, Masaya Adachi, Noriyuki Komatsu, et al. Common substitution mutation F348Y of acetylcholinesterase gene contributes to organophosphate and carbamate resistance in Cimex lectularius and C. hemipterus. Insect biochemistry and molecular biology. 2021. 103637-103637
WHO Short Term Consultant (Evaluation of Ghana Guinea Worm Eradication Programme, Northern Ghana, from 12 to 23 November 2007)
2007 -
Education (3)：
- 2004 Chiba University
- 1997 Chiba University
- 1995 Chiba University Faculty of Horticulture Bioproduction Science
Awards (2)：
2009 - 日本衛生動物学会第19回佐々賞
2009 - 19th Sasa award (award for superior article by young scientists) for the article entitled "Concomitant identification of subspecies and insecticide resistance-associated mutations in the mosquito Culex pipiens complex by primer extension-based genotypi・・・
Association Membership(s) (4)：
農薬学会
, 衛生動物学会
, Pesticide Science Society of Japan
, Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology
