Research theme for competitive and other funds (15)：
2024 - 2027 Unveiling species diversity in subarctic non-geniculate coralline algae through molecular phylogeny and nanoscale ultrastructure
2023 - 2024 紅藻ホソバノトサカモドキの養殖に向けた生理生態学的研究
2021 - 2022 Development of seedling production of an edible seaweed Tinocladia crassa (Japanese name: Futo-mozuku)
2017 - 2020 Effects of temperature, irradiance and nutrient on the growth and survival of coralline algae (Rhodophyta) in seaweed beds and barren grounds
2014 - 2017 Species diversity and distribution of crustose coralline algae on the ecotone from seaweed beds to sea desert
2014 - 2015 Distributional pattern of seaweeds and temperate corals in west part of Seto Inland Sea
2013 - 2015 Effects of global warming on seaweed bed ecosystems- Mechanism elucudation by researches at the ecotone between sea areas with different climate characteristics
2012 - 2014 造礁サンゴ骨格による気候変動解析の新展開(分担)
2011 - 2014 Characterization of coralline algal growth using genetic markers
2011 - 2014 A novel indicator of coastal environment in the Kuroshio Current region: Estimation of intertidal degradation by coenocytic green algae and coutermeasures for its propagation
2011 - 2012 Study on coral calcification and signal recording ability of coral climate proxies
2010 - 2011 紅藻サンゴモ類の光合成および石灰化関連遺伝子の同定と発現解析
2008 - 2009 琉球列島産紅藻類の系統分類学的研究
2007 - 2008 琉球列島産無節サンゴモ(紅藻サンゴモ目)の系統分類学的研究
2004 - 2007 A systematic study of the Peyssonneliaceae (Rhodophyta) in Japan
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Papers (43)：
Min-Khant-Kyaw, Aki Kato, Akira Kurashima, Lawrence M. Liao, Masasuke Baba. Lithophyllum nagaokaense sp. nov. (Corallinales, Corallinophycidae, Rhodophyta): A new rhodolith-forming non-geniculate coralline alga from Japan. Phycological Research. 2024
Masakazu Hoshino, Kevin C. Wakeman, Aki Kato, Taiju Kitayama, Alison R. Sherwood, Shinya Uwai, Kazuhiro Kogame. Taxonomic study of the polyphyletic Dudresnaya (Dumontiaceae, Florideophyceae) with descriptions of Dudresnaya ryukyuensis sp. nov. and two new genera, Himehibirhodia and Nudresdaya. Phycological Research. 2024
Takashi Hosoi, Aki Kato. Effects of seawater temperature and irradiance on the growth of sporelings of Amphiroa cf. zonata and Corallina berteroi (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in Japan. Phycologia. 2023. 62. 6. 585-592
Baba M, Kato A. Taxonomic and distributional accounts on the non-geniculate coralline algae in Japan. Report of Marine Ecology Research Institute. 2023. 28. 1-252
Aki Kato, Narongrit Muangmai, Masasuke Baba. Confirmation of Lithophyllum trincomaliense comb. & stat. nov. and of L. validum (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) as distinct species based on genetic and morpho-anatomical analyses of type material. Phycologia. 2022. 61. 6. 669-678
Current status of the diversity of non-geniculate coralline algae in Japan
(The 9th Asian Pacific Phycological Forum. Hokkaido University Conference Hall, Sapporo, Japan.)
Coralline algal composition and ecology of the rhodolith bed 'Shirasu' in the Shimabara Peninsula, Japan -the preliminary survey in 2018-
(The 44th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Phycology 2020, Kagoshima (in Japanese) 2020)
Effects of water temperature, light and nitrate on the growth of sporelings of the nongeniculate coralline alga Lithophyllum okamurae (Corallinales, Rhodophyceae)
(23rd International Seaweed Symposium, International Convention Center, Jeju, Korea. Apr. 28-May 3, 2019 2019)
2000 - 2003 Hokkaido University Graduate School of Science Ph.D. program in Biological Sciences
1998 - 2000 Hokkaido University Graduate School of Science Master's program in Biological Sciences
1995 - 1998 Hokkaido University School of Science Biological Sciences
Professional career (1)：
Ph. D. (Biological Science) (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Work history (3)：
2023/04 - 現在 Seto Inland Sea Carbon Neutral Research Center, Hiroshima University Takehara Fisheries Research Station, Blue Innovation Division Associate Professor
2017/01 - 2023/03 Hiroshima University Takehara Marine Science Station Associate Professor
2011/02 - 2016/12 Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University Takehara Marine Science Station, Setouchi Field Science Center Assistant Professor
Committee career (4)：
2023/04 - 現在 北海道大学北方生物圏フィールド科学センター 共同利用協議会委員
2019/09 - 現在 広島県庁港湾振興課 広島県海域利用審査会委員
2022/01 - 2023/12 International Phycological Society Member of the Board
2014/08 - 2022/03 生物多様性広島戦略推進会議 希少生物分科会植物II調査部会委員
Awards (2)：
2018/06 - The Association of Systematic Biologists of the Philippines 2nd Place in the Poster Competition Effects of Irradiance and Water Temperature on the Growth of Sporelings of the Nongeniculate Coralline Alga Lithophyllum okamurae Foslie (Corallinales, Rhodophyceae)
2007/03 - The Japanese Society of Phycology Award for Young Scientist A systematic study of the Peyssonneliaceae (Rhodophyta) in Japan
