Publications

1. Understanding human health risks caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) in water environments: Current knowledge and questions to be answered
   Mohan Amarasiri, Daisuke Sano, Satoru Suzuki
   Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, accepted.
2. Revisiting the effects of powdered activated carbon on membrane fouling mitigation in an anaerobic membrane bioreactor by evaluating long-term impacts on the surface layer
   Zhen Lei, Shuming Yang, Xiang Li, Wen Wen, Xingyuan Huang, Yuan Yang, Xiaochang Wang, Yu-You Li, Daisuke Sano, Rong Chen
   Water Research, December 2019, 167, 115137.
3. Predictive water virology: Hierarchical Bayesian modeling for estimating virus inactivation curve
   Syun-suke Kadoya, Osamu Nishimura, Hiroyuki Kato, Daisuke Sano
   Water, October 2019, 11(10), 2187.
4. Fecal source tracking in a wastewater treatment and reclamation system using membrane bioreactor evidenced by molecular epidemiology of multiple waterborne gastroenteritis viruses
   Zheng Ji, Xiaochang C. Wang, Limei Xu, Chongmiao Zhang, Cheng Rong, Andri Taruna Rachmadi, Mohan Amarasiri, Satoshi Okabe, Naoyuki Funamizu, Daisuke Sano
   Pathogens, September 2019, 8(4), 170.
5. Sign-constrained linear regression for prediction of microbe concentration based on water quality datasets
   Tsuyoshi Kato, Ayano Kobayashi, Wakana Oishi, Syun-suke Kadoya, Satoshi Okabe, Naoya Ohta, Mohan Amarasiri, Daisuke Sano
   Journal of Water and Health, June 2019, 17(3), 404-415.
6. Specific interactions between human norovirus and environmental matrices: Effects on the virus ecology
   Mohan Amarasiri and Daisuke Sano
   Viruses, March 2019, 11(3). 224.
7. Specific interactions of rotavirus HAL1166 with Enterobacter cloacae SENG-6 and their contribution on rotavirus HAL1166 removal
   Mohan Amarasiri, Hiroki Kawai, Masaaki Kitajima, Satoshi Okabe, Daisuke Sano
   Water Science and Technology, January 2019, 79(2), 342-348.
8. Assays for specific growth rate and cell-binding ability of rotavirus
   Syun-suke Kadoya, Daisuke Sano
   Journal of Visualized Experiments, January 2019, 143, e58821.

Books/Book Chapters

1. Sano, D., Haas, C.N. and Rose, J.B. 2019. A QMRA Framework for Sanitation Treatment Decisions. In: J.B. Rose and B. Jiménez-Cisneros, (eds) Global Water Pathogen Project. http://www.waterpathogens.org (J.B. Rose and B. Jiménez-Cisneros) (eds) Part 1 The Health Hazards of Excreta: Theory and Control) http://www.waterpathogens.org/book/a-QMRA-framework-for-sanitation-treatment -decisions. Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, UNESCO.

Invited Speech

1. Risk management of waterborne infectious diseases in the SDG era
   Daisuke Sano
   Tohoku University Environmental Studies Seminar 2019
   Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia (Dec. 18, 2019)
2. Quantification of human health risks caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) in water environments: Future research directions
   Mohan Amarasiri
   The 6th Environmental Technology and Management Conference
   Prime Plaza Hotel, Sanur, Bali, Indonesia (Nov. 5-7, 2019)
3. Water Infrastructure & Virus Evolution
   Daisuke Sano
   Faculty of Engineering, Singapore National University (Feb. 25, 2019)

Conference presentations

1. Microbial Assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Two Years After Nepal 2015 Earthquake (poster presentation)
   Sital Uprety, Mohan Amarasiri, Bipin Dangol, Daisuke Sano, Thanh H. Nguyen
   8th IWA Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering Specialist Conference
   Nov 17-20, 2019, ANA Crowne Plaza Hiroshima, Japan
2. Antibiotic-induced Changes in Enterobacter cloacae SENG-6 Extracellular Polymeric Substances (poster presentation)
   Mohan Amarasiri, Hui Cheng, Yu-You Li, Daisuke Sano
   8th IWA Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering Specialist Conference
   Nov 17-20, 2019, ANA Crowne Plaza Hiroshima, Japan
3. Human health risk of Legionella pneumophila infection caused by the groundwater usage in a decentralized drinking water system
   Arief Nurul Umam, Mohan Amarasiri, Daisuke Sano
   7th International Symposium on Water Environment Systems
   Nov 15, 2019, Tohoku University, Japan
4. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) assessments two years after Nepal 2015 Earthquake
   Sital Uprety, Mohan Amarasiri, Bipin Dangol, Daisuke Sano, Thanh H. Nguyen
   World Bosai Forum 2019
   Nov 9-12, 2019, Sendai International Hall/Kawauchi Hagi Hall, Tohoku University, Japan
5. Extracellular antibiotic resistance gene decay by free chlorine treatment
   Mohan Amarasiri, Chihiro Konuma and Daisuke Sano
   20th IWA Symposium on Health Related Water Microbiology
   Sep 15-20, 2019, Vienna, Austria
6. Predictive Water Virology: Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling for Estimating Virus Inactivation Efficiency (poster presentation)
   Daisuke Sano, Syun‐suke Kadoya
   20th IWA Symposium on Health Related Water Microbiology
   Sep 15-20, 2019, Vienna, Austria
7. Free chlorine Sensitivity of Rotavirus Exposed to Repeated Disinfection and Bottleneck Events
   Syun‐suke Kadoya, Syun‐ichi Urayama, Takuro Nunoura, Masaaki Kitajima, Toyoko Nakagomi, Osamu Nakagomi, Satoshi Okabe, Osamu Nishimura, Daisuke Sano
   20th IWA Symposium on Health Related Water Microbiology
   Sep 15-20, 2019, Vienna, Austria
8. Determining norovirus infectivity based on specific detection of negative strand viral RNA (poster presentation)
   Masaaki Kitajima, Moegi Ohama, Kosuke Murakami, Daisuke Sano, Satoshi Okabe
   20th IWA Symposium on Health Related Water Microbiology
   Sep 15-20, 2019, Vienna, Austria
9. Impact of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) interventions on thebacterial pathogen load in households in rural Nepal
   Sital Uprety, Mohan Amarasiri, Bipin Dangol, Daisuke Sano, Thanh H. Nguyen
   20th IWA Symposium on Health Related Water Microbiology
   Sep 15-20, 2019, Vienna, Austria
10. Predictive Water Microbiology: Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling for Forecasting Virus Disinfection Efficiency
    Syun-suke Kadoya, Osamu Nishimura, Hiroyuki Kato, Daisuke Sano
    WEF-EESS Conference on Advancement in Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
    July 30-31, 2019, UTown Auditorium 2, Stephen Riady Centre, National University of Singapore, Singapore
11. Effect of test medium on metals toxicity using microalgae: A chemicals mixture effect (Poster presentation)
    Gissela Pascual Pariona, Daisuke Sano, Takashi Sakamaki, Osamu Nishimura
    SETAC Europe 29th Annual Meeting
    May 26-30, 2019, Helsinki, Finland