Masaharu TSUJI

Profile Information

Affiliation: Department of Materials Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Asahikawa College
: National Institute of Polar Research

Degree: Ph.D.(Iwate University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201501074392596770
researchmap Member ID: B000244618

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Date of Birth; 23th February, 1979
My home town; Toyohira-ku Sapporo, Hokkaido, Northern Japan
Nationality; Japan

My scientific career has been started at AIST Hokkaido under Dr. Tamotsu Hoshino since 2009.
At AIST, I studied about biodiversity and cold adaptation strategies of fungi isolated from East Antarctica.
I obtained PhD degree from Iwate University in March 2015.
Then I have worked at NIPR as a postdoctoral fellow.
I would like to study about cold adaptation strategies of yeast isolated from Antarctica.

Research Interests

Research History

Apr, 2023 - Present

National Institute of Polar Research
Sep, 2019 - Present

Associate Professor, National Institute of Technology, Asahikawa college
Feb, 2023 - Mar, 2023

Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Mar, 2021 - Mar, 2021

Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Mar, 2020 - Mar, 2020

Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Sep, 2017 - Feb, 2020

Teikyo University of Science & Technology
Apr, 2015 - Aug, 2019

National Institute of Polar Research
Mar, 2019 - Mar, 2019

University of Tsukuba

Committee Memberships

Jun, 2022 - Present

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Geochemistry
Jun, 2022 - Present

Review Editor, Frontiers in Microbiology
Jun, 2020 - Present

幹事, バイオインダストリー協会アルコール・バイオマス研究会
Apr, 2019 - Present

Mycoscience誌編集委員, 日本菌学会

Awards

Aug, 2021

The Mycological Society of Japan Award for Encoragement, Taxonomic and physiological studies on Antarctic and High Arctic fungi, The Mycological Society of Japan

Masaharu TSUJI
Oct, 2018

Encourage prize of Japan Bioindustry Association, Japan Bioindustry Association

Masaharu TSUJI
Apr, 2018

Young Researcher award, Institution for Fermentation, Osaka

Masaharu TSUJI
Aug, 2017

東日本支部長賞, 生物工学会

辻雅晴
Sep, 2016

大会トピックス, 生物工学会

辻雅晴

Papers

Draft genome sequence of the basidiomycetous yeast Mrakia hoshinonis JCM 32575 ^T isolated from Ellesmere Island, Canadian High Arctic

Tatsuya Fujikawa, Jun-ichi Ishihara, Warwick F. Vincent, Masaki Uchida, Masaharu Tsuji

Microbiology Resource Announcements, 13(2) e00820-23, Feb, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Survey on fungi in Antarctica and High Arctic regions, and their impact on climate change

M. Tsuji

Climate, 11(9) 195, Sep, 2023 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
Genome Sequence of Basidiomycetous yeast Mrakia gelida MGH-2 isolated from Skarvsnes ice-free area, East Antarctica

Tsuji M, Ishihara J, Toyoda A, Takahashi H, Kudoh S

Microbiology Resource Announcements, 12(1) e01064-22, Dec, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Identification of Fungal Communities Isolated from Himalayan Glacier Cryoconites

GM Dhume, M Tsuji, SM Singh

Sustainability, 14(10) 14814, Oct, 2022 Peer-reviewed
High-quality Genome Sequence of Cystobasidium tubakii JCM 31526T isolated from East Ongul Island, Antarctica

Tsuji M, Ishihara J, Toyoda A, Takahashi H

Microbiology Resource Announcements, 11(10) e00741-22, Sep, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Elemental composition and freezing tolerance in High Arctic fishes and invertebrates

SM Singh, M Tsuji, P Singh, RU Mulik

Sustainability, 14(18) 11727, Aug, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Draft Genome Sequences of Five Cystobasidium ongulense Strains Isolated from Areas near Syowa Station, East Antarctica

Tsuji M, Ishihara J, Gotoh Y, Hayashi T, Takahashi H

Microbiology Resource Announcements, 11(7) e00224-22, Jun, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Glacier Retreat Results in Loss of Fungal Diversity

Masaharu Tsuji, Warwick F. Vincent, Yukiko Tanabe, Masaki Uchida

Sustainability, 14(3) 1617-1617, Jan 29, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Glacier Retreat Results in Loss of Fungal Diversity

Masaharu Tsuji, Warwick F Vincent, Yukiko Tanabe, Masaki Uchida

Preprint, 14(3) 2022010216-1617, Jan 14, 2022 Lead authorCorresponding author
Evolution of fungi and their environmental adaptation over the past 700,000 years from ancient fungi in the ice cores of the Arctic and Antarctic

Tsuji M

Institution for Fermentation, Osaka Research Communications, 35 145-145, Dec, 2021 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
ATG8 is conserved between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and psychrophilic, polar-collected fungi

Ivory BJ, Smith HM, Cabrera E, Robinson MR, Sparks J, Solem A, Ishihara J, Takahashi H, Tsuji M, Segarra VA

microPublication Biology, 2021 000446-000446, Aug, 2021 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
Towards the industrial use of fungi living in the Arctic and Antarctic

Tsuji M, Kudoh S, Uchida M, Hoshino T

Journal of Japanese Society for Extremophiles, 19(1) 6-15, Jun, 2021 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
Comparative Genomic Analysis of Arctic Permafrost Bacterium Nesterenkonia sp. PF2B19 to Gain Insights into Its Cold Adaptation Tactic and Diverse Biotechnological Potential

P Singh, Kapse N, Gowdman V, Tsuji M, Singh SM, Dhakephalkar P.K

Sustainability, 13(8) 4590, Apr, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Response of Arctic biodiversity and ecosystem to environmental changes: Findings from the ArCS project

Toru Hirawake, Masaki Uchida, Hiroto Abe, Irene D. Alabia, Tamotsu Hoshino, Shota Masumoto, Akira S. Mori, Jun Nishioka, Bungo Nishizawa, Atsushi Ooki …

Polar Science, 27 100533-100533, Mar, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Contrasting Patterns of Microbial Communities in Glacier Cryoconite of Nepali Himalaya and Greenland, Arctic

P Singh, M Tsuji, SM Singh, N Takeuchi

Sustainability, 12(16) 6477, Aug, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Soil Yeasts in the Vicinity of Syowa Station, East Antarctica: Their Diversity and Extracellular Enzymes, Cold Adaptation Strategies, and Secondary Metabolites

Masaharu Tsuji, Sakae Kudoh

Sustainability, 12(11) 4518-4518, Jun 2, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Dairy Wastewater Treatment Under Low-Temperature Condition by an Antarctic Basidiomycetous Yeast

Masaharu Tsuji, Sakae Kudoh, Tamotsu Hoshino

Fungi in Polar Regions (Book), 110-119, Aug, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Cold tolerant endoglucanase producing ability of Mrakia robertii A2‐3 isolated from cryoconites, Hamtha glacier, Himalaya

Dhum GM, Masahana AK, Tsuji M, Srivastava AK, Singh SM

Journal of Basic Microbiology, 59 667-679, Jun, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Mrakia hoshinonis sp. nov., a novel psychrophilic yeast isolated from a retreating glacier on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic

Tsuji M, Tanabe Y, Vincent WF, Uchida M

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 69(4) 944-948, Apr, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Basidiomycetous Yeast of the Genus Mrakia

Tsuji M, Kudoh S, Tanabe Y, Hoshino T

In Tiquia-Arashiro SM and Grube M (eds), Fungi in Extreme Environments: Ecological Role and Biotechnological Significance. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 145-156, 2019 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

南極に住む酵母の多様性と極限環境への適応能

辻雅晴, 工藤栄

生物工学会誌, 101(10) 535-539, Oct, 2023 Peer-reviewedInvited
Survey on Fungi in Antarctica and High Arctic Regions, and Their Impact on Climate Change

M. Tsuji

Preprint, 2023071092., Jul, 2023 Lead authorCorresponding author
南極酵母のエタノール耐性と発酵能

星野保, 辻雅晴

温故知新, 58 87-92, Aug, 2021 Peer-reviewedInvited
Saving the Antarctic fungi

Tsuji M

99(6) 314-317, Jun, 2021 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
Fungi in Antarctica and their industrial applications.

Masaharu TSUJI

(85) 11-13, Apr, 2021 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
Fungal diversity investigation at Walker glacier, the Canadian High Arctic

Tsuji M., Tanabe Y., F. Vincent W., Uchida; M.

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Meeting of the Mycological Society of Japan, 64 27-27, 2020
Amazing Abilities of Antarctic Basidiomycetous Yeast, Mrakia blollopis SK-4 : their cold adaptation and ethanol production

114(10) 602-608, Oct, 2019 Peer-reviewedInvited
極地に住む菌類の魅力

辻雅晴

生物工学会誌, 97(6) 351-351, Jun, 2019 Peer-reviewedInvited
Wastewater treatment and ethanol fermentation by the Antarctic yeast

Masaharu TSUJI

B&I, 77(2) 142-143, Mar, 2019 Invited
Life of Antarctic yeasts for wastewater treatment

Hoshino T, Tsuji M

56(9) 586-588, 2018 Peer-reviewedInvited
Mycodiversity in deglaciation area, Ellesmere Island, Canadian High Arctic, and Isolation of living fungi from Arctic and Antarctic ice cores.

Tsuji Masaharu, Tanabe Yukiko, Nakazawa Fumio, Warwick F. Vincent, Uchida Masaki

Summaries of JSSI and JSSE Joint Conference on Snow and Ice Research, 2017 38-38, 2017
南極産酵母の環境適応機構の解明とその産業利用

星野保, 辻雅晴, 横田祐司, 工藤栄, 内海洋, 湯本勲

生物工学会誌, 94(6) 329-331, Jun, 2016 Invited
3P-153 Dairy wastewater treatment by Antarctic basidiomycetous yeast Mrakia blollopis under low temperature conditions

Tsuji Masaharu, Yokota Yuji, Kudoh Sakae, Hoshino Tamotsu

67 309-309, 2015
1P-217 Enzymatic hydrolysis from non-delignification woody biomass by cellulase loading of 1.8 FPU/g-substrate

Tsuji Masaharu, Hoshino Tamotsu

65 72-72, 2013
First report of Hop stunt viroid from Prunus persica with dapple fruit symptoms in China

S. -F. Li, R. Guo, M. Tsuji, T. Sano

PLANT PATHOLOGY, 55(4) 564-564, Aug, 2006
Different Susceptibility of Tomato Cultivars "Micro-Tom" and "Rutgers" against Viroid Infection (Abstracts Presented at the Meeting of the Tohoku Division,Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Division Meetings of the Phytopathological Society of Japan 2005)

Tsuji M., Sano T.

Annals of the Phytopathological Society of Japan, 72(1) 55-55, Feb 25, 2006
(19) Hop Stunt viroid, Grapevine yellow speckle viroid 1 and Australian grapevine viroid Detected from Grapevines Cultivating in Japan and China (Abstracts Presented at the Meeting of the Tohoku Division) (Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Division Meetings of the Phytopathological Society of Japan, 2003)

Araki H., Yoshida H., Tsuji M., Sano T., Li S. F.

Annals of the Phytopathological Society of Japan, 70(1) 52-53, Feb 25, 2004

Books and Other Publications

Advanced Science of Microorganisms in Extreme Environments and Frontiers of Social Implementation

Masaharu TSUJI

Dec, 2023 (ISBN: 9784860438487)
Recent Trends in Research on Unculturable Microbe (Microbial Dark Matter)

Tsuji M

Apr, 2023 (ISBN: 9784781317328)
Fungi in Extreme Environments: Ecological Role and Biotechnological Significance

Tsuji M, Kudoh S, Tanabe Y, Hoshino T (Role: Joint author, Basidiomycetous Yeast of the Genus Mrakia)

Springer Nature, Aug, 2019 (ISBN: 9783030190293)
Fungi in Polar Regions

Tsuji M, Hoshino T (Role: Editor)

Taylor & Francis, May, 2019 (ISBN: 9781138089709)
Bioremediation of Wastewater, Factors and Treatments

Tsuji M, Yokota Y, Shimohara K, Kudoh S, Hoshino T (Role: Joint author, n Application of Wastewater Treatment in a Cold Environment and Stable Lipase Production of Antarctic Basidiomycetous Yeast Mrakia blollopis)

Apple Academic Press, Jul, 2015