Research field (1)：
Environmental load reduction/restoration technology
Research keywords (2)：
マツ材線虫病
, 昆虫寄生線虫
Research theme for competitive and other funds (4)：
2022 - 2025 How does a natural recession of pine wilt disease epidemic occur under cool climate conditions?
2020 - 2023 Control of both the pathogen and the vector in pine wilt disease by the symbiotic bacteria of entomopathogenic nematodes
2019 - 2022 Control of Monochamus alternatus by transferring Bursaphelenchus doui and B. luxuriosae, closely related species of B. xylophilus as the phoretic symbiont
2015 - 2018 クロゴキブリとその寄生性線虫からみる寄生・共生関係の進化と外来種問題
Papers (9)：
Sota Ozawa, Noritoshi Maehara, Jun Takatsuka, Takuya Aikawa, Katsunori Nakamura. Insecticidal effect of the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis megidis (Nematoda: Heterorhabditidae) baited from the soil on the larvae of Monochamus alternatus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology. 2023. 58. 2. 197-203
Takahiro Hamaguchi, Daiki Sawanomukai, Kazuki Sato, Sota Ozawa, Duraisamy Kalaiselvi, Koichi Hasegawa. The insecticidal activity of an entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and its symbiotic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens against Periplaneta and Blattella cockroaches. Nematological Research (Japanese Journal of Nematology). 2020. 50. 2. 27-33
JANS MORFFE, RAMON A. CARRENO, SOTA OZAWA, RINA SRIWATI, KOICHI HASEGAWA. On the status of Suifunema peregrinatum (Carreno, 2017) n. comb. (Nematoda: Oxyuridomorpha: Thelastomatidae) and first record of the species for Japan. Zootaxa. 2019. 4651. 2. 351-365
Cláudia S. L. Vicente, Shakhinur Islam Mondal, Arzuba Akter, Sota Ozawa, Tasei Kikuchi, Koichi Hasegawa. Genome analysis of new Blattabacterium spp., obligatory endosymbionts of Periplaneta fuliginosa and P. japonica. PLOS ONE. 2018. 13. 7. e0200512
Sota Ozawa, Koichi Hasegawa. Broad infectivity of Leidynema appendiculatum (Nematoda: Oxyurida: Thelastomatidae) parasite of the smokybrown cockroach Periplaneta fuliginosa (Blattodea: Blattidae). Ecology and Evolution. 2018. 8. 8. 3908-3918
