Academic papers
  1. COVID-19 tracing with sparse sampling of sewered and non-sewered wastewater reveals silent variant transmission with future outbreaks in urban and rural communities
    Dhammika Leshan Wannigama, Mohan Amarasiri, Parichart Hongsing, Cameron Hurst, Charin Modchang, Sudarat Chadsuthi, Suparinthon Anupong, Phatthranit Phattharapornjaroen, Ali Hosseini Rad, Stefan Fernandez, Angkana T. Huang, Porames Vatanaprasan, Dylan John Jay, Thammakorn Saethang, Sirirat Luk-in, Robin James Storer, Puey Ounjai, Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi, Phitsanuruk Kanthawee, Daisuke Sano, Takashi Furukawa, Kazunari Sei, Asada Leelahavanichkul, Talerngsak Kanjanabuch, Nattiya Hirankarn, Paul G. Higgins, Anthony Kicic, Andrew C Singer, Tanittha Chatsuwan, Sam Trowsdale, Shuichi Abe, Alexander D McLellan, Hitoshi Ishikawa
    iScience, accepted.
  2. Assessment of pathogens in flood waters in coastal rural regions: Case study after Hurricane Michael and Florence
    Moiz Usmani, Sital Uprety, Nathan Bonham, Yusuf Jamal, Yuqing Mao, Daisuke Sano, Joanna Shisler, Avinash Unnikrishnan, Thanh H. Nguyen, Antarpreet Jutla
    PLOS ONE, accepted.
  3. Multi-target tobit models for completing water quality data
    Yuya Takada, Daisuke Sano, Syun-suke Kadoya, Tsuyoshi Kato
    IPSJ Transactions on Mathematical Modeling and its Application, accepted.
  4. Decay rate estimation of respiratory viruses in aerosols and on surfaces under different environmental conditions
    Sewwandi Bandara, Wakana Oishi, Syun-suke Kadoya, Daisuke Sano
    International Journal of Hyegiene and Environmental Health, June 2023, 251, 114187.
  5. Microbial assessment of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH) in temporary and permanent settlements two years after Nepal 2015 earthquake
    Sital Uprety, Samendra P. Sherchan, Preeti Narayanan, Bipin Dangol, Marika Maggos, Alex Celmer, Joanna Shisler, Mohan Amarasiri, Daisuke Sano, Thanh H. Nguyen
    Science of the Total Environment, June 2023, 877, 162867.
  6. Resource recovery technologies as microbial risk barriers: towards safe use of excreta in agriculture based on hazard analysis and critical control point
    Wakana Oishi, Björn Vinnerås, Daisuke Sano
    Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, April 2023, 4(9), 1008-1029.
  7. Effect of protists on horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes in water environment
    Satoru Suzuki, Daisuke Sano
    Journal of Water and Environment Technology, April 2023, 21(2), 97–107.
  8. Multiple traces of monkeypox detected in non-sewered wastewater with sparse sampling from a densely populated metropolitan area in Asia
    Dhammika Leshan Wannigama, Mohan Amarasiri, Parichart Hongsing, Cameron Hurst, Charin Modchang, Sudarat Chadsuthi, Suparinthon Anupong, Phatthranit Phattharapornjaroen, Ali Hosseini Rad S. M., Stefan Fernandez, Angkana T. Huang, Naris Kueakulpattana, Chanikan Tanasatitchai, Porames Vatanaprasan, Thammakorn Saethang, Sirirat Luk-in, Robin James Storer, Puey Ounjai, Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi, Phitsanuruk Kanthawee, Daisuke Sano, Takashi Furukawa, Kazunari Sei, Asada Leelahavanichkul, Talerngsak Kanjanabuch, Nattiya Hirankarn, Paul G. Higgins, Anthony Kicic, Tanittha Chatsuwan, Alexander D McLellan, Shuichi Abe
    Science of the Total Environment, February 2023, 858(1), 159816.
Keynote/Invited Speech
  1. Responses of RNA virus populations to disinfection: Toward control of viral infectious diseases
    佐野大輔
    International Conference of Environment & Climate Change Research Institute, National Research Contre, Egypt
    May 23, 2023, Online
Conference/Symposium/Seminar presentations
  1. Nucleotide diversity and evolution rate of murine norovirus populations less sensitive to chlorine disinfection (poster presentation)
    Aken Puti Wanguyun, Wakana Oishi, Andri Taruna Rachmadi, Kazuhiko Katayama, Daisuke Sano
    8th International Calicivirus Conference
    Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    May 7-11, 2023
  2. Microbial risk management for safe resource recovery from human excreta
    Wakana Oishi
    IU-TU Joint Seminar “Engineering for Human and Environmental Health”
    Tohoku University
    Mar. 27, 2023
  3. Predicting cyanobacterial blooms in reservoirs using satellite-derived turbidity and surface temperature
    Yohei Miura
    TIT-TU Joint Seminar “Harmony of Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology”
    Tohoku University
    Mar. 23, 2023
  4. Experimental Adaptation of murine norovirus to calcium hydroxide
    Wakana Oishi
    TIT-TU Joint Seminar “Harmony of Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology”
    Tohoku University
    Mar. 23, 2023