Bioproductivity Informatics Research Team

Team leader

pictureTeam Leader : Keiichi Mochida (Ph.D.)

Education

2003 March
Ph.D.,Yokohama City University synthesis science research course

Position Held

2003 April - 2004
Research Associate, Tsukuba University
2004 April -2005
Assistant Professor, Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology
2005 October - 2008
Research Associate, (Postdoctoral Researcher),
Plant Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute
2008 April - present
Part-time Lecturer, Yokohama City University
2008 October - 2013 March
Research Scientist, Plant Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute
2010 July - 2013 March
Senior Scientist, Biomass Research Platform Team, Biomass Engineering Program, RIKEN
2013 April - 2015 March
Research Scientist, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (Concurrent)
2013 April - 2015 March
Dupty Team Leader, Biomass Research Platform Team, Biomass Engineering Program, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
2015 April - 2018 March
Team Leader, Cellulose Production Research Team, Biomass Engineering Research Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
2018 April - present
Team Leader, Bioproductivity Informatics Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science

Selected Papers

  1. Yusuke Kouzai, Minami Shimizu, Komaki Inoue, Yukiko Uehara-Yamaguchi, Kotaro Takahagi, Risa Nakayama, Takakazu Matsuura, Izumi C Mori, Takashi Hirayama,Sobhy  S H Abdelsalam, Yoshiteru Noutoshi, Keiichi Mochida.“BdWRKY38 is required for the incompatible interaction of Brachypodium distachyon with the necrotrophic fungus Rhizoctonia solani.”The Plant J. (2020)
  2. Keiichi Mochida, Alexander E Lipka, Takashi Hirayama.“Exploration of Life-Course Factors Influencing Phenotypic Outcomes in Crops.”Plant Cell Physiol 61,1381. (2020)
  3. Keiichi Mochida, Ryuei Nishii, Takashi Hirayama.Decoding Plant-Environment Interactions That Influence Crop Agronomic Traits.Plant Cell Physiol 61,1408. (2020)
  4. Toshihisa Nomura, Komaki Inoue, Yukiko Uehara-Yamaguchi, Koji Yamada, Osamu Iwata, Kengo Suzuki, Keiichi Mochida.“Highly efficient transgene-free targeted mutagenesis and single-stranded oligodeoxynucleotide-mediated precise knock-in in the industrial microalga Euglena gracilis using Cas9 ribonucleoproteins.”Plant Biotechnol.J 17,2032. (2019)
  5. Onda Y, Inoue K, Sawada Y, Shimizu M, Takahagi K, Uehara-Yamaguchi Y, Hirai MY, Garvin DF, Mochida K.“Genetic Variation for Seed Metabolite Levels in Brachypodium distachyon.”Int. J. Mol. Sci 20,9. (2019)
  6. Mochida K, Koda S, Inoue K, Hirayama T, Tanaka S, Nishii R, Melgani F.“Computer vision-based phenotyping for improvement of plant productivity: a machine learning perspective.”Gigascience 1;8(1). (2019)
  7. Mochida K, Koda S, Inoue K, Nishii R.“Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches to Predict Gene Regulatory Networks From Transcriptome Datasets.”Front Plant Sci 29;9:1770. (2018)
  8. Kouzai Y, Noutoshi Y, Inoue K, Shimizu M, Onda Y, Mochida K.“Benzothiadiazole, a plant defense inducer, negatively regulates sheath blight resistance in Brachypodium distachyon.”Sci Rep 26;8(1):17358. (2018)
  9. Takahagi K, Inoue K, Mochida K.“Gene Co-expression Network Analysis Suggests the Existence of Transcriptional Modules Containing a High Proportion of Transcriptionally Differentiated Homoeologs in Hexaploid Wheat.”Front Plant Sci 8;9:1163. (2018)
  10. Onda Y, Takahagi K, Shimizu M, Inoue K, Mochida K.“Multiplex PCR Targeted Amplicon Sequencing (MTA-Seq): Simple, Flexible, and Versatile SNP Genotyping by Highly Multiplexed PCR Amplicon Sequencing.”Front Plant Sci 23;9:201. (2018)