Academic Staff and Fellows

MATSUI Kazuaki: Professor Doctor of Science; Department/Civil and Environmental Engineering　
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate school/Environmental Engineering

We are working on a variety of research projects to understand the urban aquatic microbial ecosystems. Our current interest is the dynamics and distribution of bacterial heavy metal and antibiotic resistance genes in urbanized environment. We also try to elucidate the quantitative relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning with microbes.

Combined sewer overflow and microbial community changes

Research Area	Urban Microbial Ecology, Human Impacts on Microbial Ecosystems
Teaching (Undergraduate Course)	Ecology Microbial Ecology
Teaching (Graduate Course)	Environmental Microbiology
Research Interests	1) Urban aquatic microbial ecology 2) Dynamics of heavy metal and antibiotics resistance bacteria in urban aquatic environment 3) Biodiversity and multifunctionality in a microbial community. 4) Risk assessment of genetically modified bacteria in ecosystem.
Selected Publications	(1) Microbial community composition and function in an urban waterway with combined sewer overflows before and after implementation of a stormwater storage pipe. PeerJ 11:e14684. (2023) (2) Disproportionate Changes in Composition and Molecular Size Spectra of Dissolved Organic Matter between Influent and Effluent from a Major Metropolitan Wastewater Treatment Plant. ACS ES&T Water 2:216-225. (2022) (3) Evaluating the soil microbe community-level physiological profile using EcoPlate and soil properties at 33 forest sites across Japan. Ecological Research 37:432-445 (2022)
Research and Achievements	08_matsui_kazuaki.pdf
Affiliated Academic Societies	American Society for Microbiology Internationl Society for Microbial Ecology
External Activity	・Editorial board of Ecological Research
Education (Undergraduate Course)	B.S. in Environmental Conservation from Ehime University, Japan
Education (Master's/Doctral Course)	M.S. in Environmental Conservation from Ehime University, Japan M.S. in Microbiology and Immunology from University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A. D.Sc. in Biological Science from Kyoto University, Japan (2002)
Title of Thesis, Institute, Date	Involvement of biological factors in the horizontal gene transfer among bacteria by natural transformation in aquatic environments, Kyoto University, 2002

Environmental Biological Science Laboratory

Office Location	3rd floor of 6th Building
E-mail	kmatsui（at）civileng.kindai.ac.jp Note that this e-mail address has replaced the "@" with "(at)" to prevent spam. When e-mailing, replace the "(at)" with "@".
Laboratory URL	https://www.civileng.kindai.ac.jp/laboratory/matsui_k/English_index.html https://www.matsui-lab.org/English_index.html