Mayuko OTSUBO

Brief personal history

1998　Graduated from Faculty of Home Economics, Fukuoka Women’s University
2000　Graduated from Master Course, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University
2001　Research Associate at Faculty of Human Environmental Science, Fukuoka Women’s University
2011-present　Research Associate at Department of Environmental Science, International College of Arts and Sciences, Fukuoka Women’s University

Degrees

Master of Agriculture

Research themes

Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation to Environmental Stresses in Plants
Molecular Mechanisms of Sex differentiation in the green algae Chlamydomonas
Primary Processes in Photosynthesis

Select publication list

1.Yamada, M., Otsubo, M., Kodama, m., Yamamoto, K., Nishikawa, T., Ichimi, K., Tada, K. & Harrison, P.J., Species composition of Skeletonema (Bacillariophyceae) in planktonic and resting-stage cells in Osaka and Tokyo Bays, Plankton and Benthos Research 9: 168-175 (2014)

2.Yamada, M., Otsubo, M., Tsutsumi, Y., Mizota, C., Iida, N., Okamura, K., Kodama, M. and Umehara, A., Species diversity of the marine diatom genus Skeletonema in Japanese brackish water areas., Fisheries Science 70: 923-934 (2013)

3.Kaeriyama, H., Katsuki, E., Otsubo, M., Yamada, M., Ichimi, K., Tada, K. and Harrison, P.J., Effects of temperature and irradiance on growth of strains belonging to seven Skeletonema species isolated from Dokai Bay, southern Japan., European journal of phycology 46: 113-124 (2011)

4.Yamada, M., Katsuki, E., Otsubo, M., Kawaguchi, M., Ichimi, K., Kaeriyama, H., Tada, K. and Harrison, P.J., Species Diversity of the Genus Skeletonema (Bacillariophyceae) in the Industrial Harbor Dokai Bay, Japan., J. Oceanogr. 66: 755-771 (2010)

5.Otsubo, M., Inoue, S., Tasaka, Y., Saito, A., Yasuno, R., Ikoma, C., Nagahata, Y., Tamura, N. and Wada, H., Isolation of Freezing-Tolerant Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana by Activation Tagging, Cryobiology and Cryotechnology 53: 75-85 (2007)

Research field

Plant Physiology

Related field

• Environmental Science
• Industry-University-Government Collaboration
• Regional Exchange

　

Keywords

Transgenic plants, Photosynthesis, Stress tolerance