2023

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