Academic Staff and Fellows

MAKI Teruya: Professor Ph.D; Department/Life Science　 Graduate school/Science

Research Area	Environmental Microbiology, Bioaerosols, Airborne microorganisms, Public health, Climate change
Teaching (Graduate Course)	Environmental Microbiology
Research Interests	Bioaerosols including fungi, bacteria and virus are transported to atmosphere at high altitudes and possibly impact on human health, biological ecosystems, cloud formation and so on. We are attempted to investigate the ecological characteristics of airborne microbial communities, which are transported globally for long-range distance (in particular over East Asia). Finally, the airborne microbial functions, such as pathogenicity, allergy induction, and ice-nucleation, are figured out hopefully for contributing to provide the important information about public hygiene and climate changes and bio-diversity regulations.
Selected Publications	(1)Maki, T., Hirao, A., Yamasaki, R., Hara, K., & Ishihara, Y. (2024). Seasonal variation in airborne microbial communities of the Akiyoshido Cave: Lampenflora dispersed by phototrophic bioaerosols. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 195, 105905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2024.105905 (2)Maki, T., Hosaka, K., Lee, K. C., Kawabata, Y., Kajino, M., Uto, M., ... & Igarashi, Y. (2023). Vertical distribution of airborne microorganisms over forest environments: A potential source of ice-nucleating bioaerosols. Atmospheric Environment, 302, 119726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2023.119726 (3)Maki, T., Noda, J., Morimoto, K., Aoki, K., Kurosaki, Y., Huang, Z., ... & Mitarai, S. (2022). Long-range transport of airborne bacteria over East Asia: Asian dust events carry potentially nontuberculous Mycobacterium populations. Environment International, 168, 107471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.10747
Research and Achievements	03_maki_teruya.pdf
Title of Thesis, Institute, Date	Diversity of intracellular bacteria in the bivalve killer dinoflagellate Heterocapsa circularisquama and interrelationships in growths Doctor of Philosophy awarded for the Doctors Course of the Applied Biology on the Faculty of Agriculture from Kyoto University in March, 2002.
Biography	History of Schooling: 1. Graduated from the Department of the Fisheries on the Faculty of Agriculture from Kyoto University in March, 1996. 2. Graduated from the Masters Course of the Applied Biology on the Graduate School of Agriculture from Kyoto University in March, 1998. 3. Completed the three-year in the Doctors Course of the Applied Biology on the Graduate School of Agriculture from Kyoto University in March, 2001. History of Employment: 1. Bio-originated Technology Research Advancement Institution, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Postdoctor 2. Research Assistant, Faculty of Engineering, Kanazawa University, April, 2002 – March, 2004. 3. Research Assistant, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, April, 2004 – March, 2007. 4. Associate Professor, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, April, 2007 – June, 2007. 5. Associate Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa University; July, 2007 – March, 2020 6. Professor, Department of Life Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University ; April, 2020 – onward.

Environmental Microbiology Lab.

E-mail	makiteru（at）life.kindai.ac.jp Note that this e-mail address has replaced the "@" with "(at)" to prevent spam. When e-mailing, replace the "(at)" with "@".