KANZAKI Natsumi

2017 - 2020 Risk assessment of forest insects and their associated microorganisms before an outbreak: For a prospective provision

2016 - 2019 Comparative evolutionary study on C. elegans and the sister species

2015 - 2018 Comparative genome analysis of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus in introduced and native areas.

2015 - 2018 Genetic and chemical approach to the stage dimorphism of the pine wood nematode: the primary factor of expanding damage of pine wilt disease

2015 - 2017 How does the nematode find its host? -Optogenetics-based approach to the nervous-behavior system

2014 - 2017 Establishment of new satellite model system using Caenorhabditis sp.

2014 - 2017 Search for forest insect-associated microorganisms and clarification on production mechanism of their diversity, focusing on symbiotic spiral in relationships between the insects and microorganisms

2011 - 2015 Responses of stomata and xylem parenchyma cells to abrupt water disappearance in xylem of saplings infected with pine wilt disease

2012 - 2014 Utilization of entomophilic nematodes as carriers of entomopathogenic microbes

2012 - 2014 Does biodiversity of associated organisms facilitate or reduce host outbreak?

2011 - 2014 Did Acalolepta fraudatrix evolve Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, the pathogen of pine wilt disease?

2011 - 2014 Mechanisms of disease development in pine wilt disease based on the interaction of biomolecules

2010 - 2012 Conservation of microscopic biodiversity using symbiotic unit

2009 - 2011 Molecular and morphological evolution on free-living nematodes

2009 - 2010 微生物多様性のキーストーンを探す

2008 - 2010 Evaluation of the insect parasitic nematode, Sphaerularia vespae, as a biological control agent for hornets