MATSUURA Yu

写真a

Title

Assistant Professor

Researcher Number(JSPS Kakenhi)

80723824

Homepage URL

https://sm1042.skr.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/matsuura/

Profile

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Current Affiliation Organization 【 display / non-display 】

  • Duty   University of the Ryukyus   Tropical Biosphere Research Center   Assistant Professor  

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University 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2000.04
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    2005.03

    Osaka University of Foreign Studies   Faculty of Foreign Language   Graduated

  • 2006.04
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    2008.03

    Osaka City University   Faculty of Science   Graduated

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Graduate School 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2008.04
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    2010.03

    University of Tsukuba  Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences  Doctor's Course (first term)  Completed

  • 2010.04
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    2013.03

    University of Tsukuba  Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences  Doctor's Course (second term)  Completed

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External Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2010.04
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    2013.03

    JSPS predoctoral research fellow  

  • 2013.04
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    2016.02

    JSPS postdoctoral research fellow (Hokkaido University)  

  • 2016.03
    　
    　

    University of the Ryukyus, TBRC, Assistant Professor  

  • 2024.10
    　
    　

    Graduate School of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus  

  • 2024.10
    　
    　

    The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University  

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Affiliated academic organizations 【 display / non-display 】

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    JAPANESE SOCIETY OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY 

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    Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan 

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    THE MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 

  • 2020.06
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    Now
     

    Symbiosis - International Symbiosis Society (ISS)    Symbiosis Associate Editor

  • 2023.07
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    Now
     

    The 12th International Wolbachia Conference 2025    Organizing Committee

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Research Interests 【 display / non-display 】

  • Symbiosis

  • Evolution

  • Entomology

  • Developmental biology

  • Parasitology

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Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

  • Life Science / Evolutionary biology

  • Environmental Science/Agriculture Science / Insect science

  • Others / Others

  • Life Science / Developmental biology

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Published Papers 【 display / non-display 】

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Other Papers 【 display / non-display 】

  • The hidden world of ant symbiosis: A worker-specific gut symbiosis in an ant

    Hiroyuki SHIMOJI, Rio YAMASHITA, Yusuke ISHIZUKA, Akari NISHINA, Hideomi ITOH, Yu MATSUURA, Yoshitomo KIKUCHI

    XXVII International Congress of Entomology, ICE 2024 KYOTO   10 ( 3-04 )   2024.08

     

  • Intracellular symbiosis by Caballeronia in seed bugs: a missing link between gut symbiosis and intracellular symbiosis

    Hiroyuki Morimura, Kazutaka Takeshita, Kota Ishigami, Yu MATSUURA, Peter Mergaert, Yoshitomo Kikuchi

    XXVII International Congress of Entomology, ICE 2024 KYOTO   PO351   2024.08

     

  • The intracellular symbiont Lariskella causes cytoplasmic incompatibility in the Leaf-footed bug, Leptoglossus zonatus

    Edwin F Umanzor, Suzanne E Kelly, Alison Ravenscraft, Yu MATSUURA, Martha S Hunter

    XXVII International Congress of Entomology, ICE 2024 KYOTO   PO379   2024.08

     

  • On the evolutionary developmental origin and molecular bases of bacteriocyte symbioses in lygaeoid stinkbugs

    Yu Matsuura

    XXVII International Congress of Entomology, ICE 2024 KYOTO   10 ( 1-05 )   2024.08

     

  • Phylogeographic patterns of mitochondrial haplotypes and nuclear genotypes of solanum fruit fly Bactrocera latifrons (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Ryukyu Islands indicate multiple origins and inter-strain breeding of the invasive species in Japan

    Tomoki Hisaoka, Reiko Sekine, Takashi Matsuyama, Yu-Bing Huang, Hideomi Itoh, Koh-Ichi Takakura, Takayoshi Nishida, Atsushi Honma, Yu Matsuura

    Research Square     2024.01

     

    DOI Open Access

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Academic Awards 【 display / non-display 】

  • Young Scientist Initiative Award, SESJ

    2019   Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan  

    Winner: Matsuura Yu

  • Zoological Science Award

    2010.09     Huge Symbiotic Organs in Giant Scale Insects of the Genus Drosicha (Coccoidea: Monophlebidae) Harbor Flavobacterial and Enterobacterial Endosymbionts

    Winner: Yu Matsuura, Ryuichi Koga, Naruo Nikoh, Xian-Ying Meng, Satoshi Hanada, Takema Fukatsu

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Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 【 display / non-display 】

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)

    Project Year: 2019.04  -  2023.03 

    Direct: 13,100,000 (YEN)  Overheads: 3,930,000 (YEN)  Total: 17,030,000 (YEN)

  • Global exploration of microbial symbionts in stinkbugs: host-symbiont diversity and evolution

    Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B))

    Project Year: 2018.10  -  2022.03 

    Direct: 13,700,000 (YEN)  Overheads: 17,810,000 (YEN)  Total: 4,110,000 (YEN)

  • Challenging research (sprout)

    Project Year: 2018.06  -  2021.03 

    Direct: 4,900,000 (YEN)  Overheads: 1,470,000 (YEN)  Total: 6,370,000 (YEN)

  • Evolvability and mechanism of insect-microbe association

    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)

    Project Year: 2017.06  -  2022.03 

    Direct: 114,200,000 (YEN)  Overheads: 148,460,000 (YEN)  Total: 34,260,000 (YEN)

  • Exploration of lignocellulolytic enzymes on the surface of bacterial cell walls in the gut of termites using monoclonal antibodies

    Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research

    Project Year: 2015.04  -  2018.03 

    Member: TOKUDA Gaku, FUJISHIMA Masahiro, MIKAELYAN Aram, BRUNE Andreas

    Direct: 2,900,000 (YEN)  Overheads: 870,000 (YEN)  Total: 3,770,000 (YEN)

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    In this study, we attempted to identify bacteria that produce major lignocellulolytic enzymes in the hindgut of higher termites, with the aid of production of monoclonal antibodies against proteins on the surface of bacterial community associated with wood particles using the wood-feeding termite, Nasutitermes takasagoensis. We successfully obtained 15 different monoclonal antibodies, while the screening against the predominantly expressed xylanase in the wood fiber-associated bacterial community identified one monoclonal antibody cross-reacting the xylanase. Indirect fluorescence microscopy using epifluorescence and confocal laser-scanning microscopes indicated that this antibody recognized the entire cell surface of some helical bacteria associated with the wood-fibers in the hindgut. These antibodies are among valuable property for future studies on bacterial symbiosis in termites.

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Other External funds 【 display / non-display 】

  • Project Year: 2024.04  -  2026.03 

    Investigator(s): Yu Matsuura  Offer Organization: The Asahi Glass Foundation

  • Project Year: 2016.09  -  2016.09 

    Investigator(s): Yu Matsuura 

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SDGs 【 display / non-display 】

  • 多様な昆虫共生微生物および冬虫夏草類の探索・同定・進化学的解析

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