Research theme for competitive and other funds (4)：
2022 - 2025 Who infects whom?: Linking uncultured bacterial and viral genomes
2021 - 2024 Microbial Nitrogen Pump: Bacterial semi-labile dissolved organic nitrogen as a nutrient transport pathway in aquatic systems
2018 - 2021 Ecogenomics of prokaryotes, viruses, and microbial eukaryotes in deep freshwater lakes
2015 - 2018 琵琶湖深水層で優占する細菌系統CL500-11の生態解明
Papers (14)：
Maria-Cecilia Chiriac, Paul-Adrian Bulzu, Adrian-Stefan Andrei, Yusuke Okazaki, Shin-Ichi Nakano, Markus Haber, Vinicius Silva Kavagutti, Paul Layoun, Rohit Ghai, Michaela M Salcher. Ecogenomics sheds light on diverse lifestyle strategies in freshwater CPR. Microbiome. 2022. 10. 1. 84-84
Yusuke Okazaki, Shohei Fujinaga, Michaela M. Salcher, Cristiana Callieri, Atsushi Tanaka, Ayato Kohzu, Hideo Oyagi, Hideyuki Tamaki, Shin-ichi Nakano. Microdiversity and phylogeographic diversification of bacterioplankton in pelagic freshwater systems revealed through long-read amplicon sequencing. Microbiome. 2021. 9. 1. 24-24
Koji Yahara, Masato Suzuki, Aki Hirabayashi, Wataru Suda, Masahira Hattori, Yutaka Suzuki, Yusuke Okazaki. Long-read metagenomics using PromethION uncovers oral bacteriophages and their interaction with host bacteria. Nature Communications. 2021. 12. 1. 27-27
Ryosuke Nakadai, Yusuke Okazaki, Shunsuke Matsuoka. Describing macroecological patterns in microbes: Approaches for comparative analyses of operational taxonomic unit read number distribution with a case study of global oceanic bacteria. Environmental DNA. 2020. 2. 4. 535-543
