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Masashi TSUCHIYA Ph.D

Research interest

  1. Molecular Evolution of protists, incl. foraminifers
  2. Ecology of foraminifera
  3. Marine ecosystem
  4. Marine Plastics

Publications

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Education

2000
Ph.D. Environmental Science, Shizuoka University
1997
short term visitor (two month), Molecular systematic group, Department of zoology and animal biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneve
1996
M.Sc. Geosciences, Shizuoka University
1995
short term visitor (one month), Molecular systematic group, Department of zoology and animal biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneve
1994
B.A. Geosciences, Shizuoka University

Research and professional experience

2019-present
Marine Plastics Research Group (MPlastics), Marine Biodiversity and Environmental Assessment Research Center (BioEnv), Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC)
2014-2019
Research Scientist, Department of Marine Biodiversity Research
2009-2014
Research Scientist, Stable Isotope Ecology research Team (Team leader) / Geobiology research team, Institute of Biogeosciences, JAMSTEC
2006-2009
Research Scientist, Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, JAMSTEC
2003-2006
JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow (PD) @ Marine Ecosystem Research Program, Extremobiosphere Research Center, JAMSTEC
2003-2003
Staff, Institute for Frontier Research on Earth Evolution, JAMSTEC
2001-2003
Lecturer (part-year), Marine Biosystems Research Center, Chiba University
2000-2001
Postdoctoral student, Institute of Biology, Tohoku University
1999-2000
Research Assistant, Institute of Geosciences, Shizuoka University
1999-2000
JSPS Research Fellow (DC2) @ Shizuoka University
1999-2000
Teaching Assistant, Institute of Geosciences, Shizuoka University

Honors

2017
Academic award, Palaeongological Society of Japan, “Molecular biiology of foraminifera”
2006
Best poster award for Internarional Symposium on Foraminifera (FORAMS 2006), Kimoto, K. and Tsuchiya, M., The "unusual" reproduction of planktic foraminifera: An asexual reproductive phase of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (Ehrenberg).
2001
Best paper award for FY2000 from the Palaeontological Society of Japan, Kitazato, H., Tsuchiya, M. and Takahara, K., 2000, Recognition of breeding populations in foraminifera: an example using the genus Glabratella: Paleontological Research, v. 4, p. 1-15.

Research fund / Most Recent Research Projects

2012-2015
Effect of endosymbiotic algae and kleptoplast for foraminiferal diversification mechanism, JSPS fund, project leader
2009-2011
Ecological role and evolution of Xenophyophorean foraminifer in the deep-seas, JSPS fund, project leader
2006-2007
Establishment of fossil DNA extraction method by using sediment core and protistan evolution: affect of paleoceanographic environmental changes, JSPS fund, project leader
2003-2006
Evolutionary Mechanisms of foraminifers: affect of both reproductive behavior and paleoceanographic environmental changes to genetic diversification, JSPS Research fund (PD), project leader
1997-1999
Evolution and Ecology of benthic foraminifera: comparison with genetical and morphological data, JSPS Research fund (DC2), project leader