Satoshi Ishii

Associate Professor

322 Snyder Hall
1991 Upper Buford Circle
St. Paul, MN 55108
ishi0040@umn.edu
+1 612 624 7902

Website(s)

Ishii Lab - Looking for the small-tech

Education

B.S. 2001 University of Tokyo Biological Chemistry
M.S. 2003 Iowa State University Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry
Ph.D. 2007 University of Minnesota Soil Science (major) and Microbial Ecology (minor)

Affiliated Graduate Programs

Civil Engineering
Land and Atmospheric Science
Microbial Engineering
Water Resources Science
Satoshi Ishii

People

Research Area(s)

Aquatic Microbiology
Biogeochemistry
Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality
Soil Environmental Microbiology

Research

My research focuses on environmental microbiology and biotechnology in the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate as well as the BioTechnology Institute at the University of Minnesota. The goal of my research is to solve key environmental problems, specifically (1) nitrogen pollution and (2) the occurrences of pathogens.

Select Publications

Up-to-date publications list available at Google Scholar.

  • Byappanahalli, M.N., M. B. Nevers, R. L. Whitman, and S. Ishii. 2015. Application of a microfluidic quantitative polymerase chain reaction technique to monitor bacterial pathogens in beach water and complex environmental matrices. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2:347–351.
  • Segawa, S., S. Ishii, N. Ohte, A. Akiyoshi, A. Yamada, F. Maruyama, Z. Li, Y. Hongoh, and N. Takeuchi. 2014. The nitrogen cycle in cryoconites: naturally occurring nitrification-denitrification granules on a glacier. Environ. Microbiol. 16:3250-3262.
  • Ishii, S., Y. Song, L. Rathnayake, H. Satoh, A. Tumendelger, S. Toyoda, N. Yoshida, and S. Okabe. 2014. Identification of key N2O production pathways in aerobic partial nitrifying granules. Environ. Microbiol. 16:3168-3180.
  • Ishii, S., T. Nakamura, S. Ozawa, A. Kobayashi, D. Sano, and S. Okabe. 2014. Water quality monitoring and risk assessment by simultaneous multipathogen quantification. Environ. Sci. Technol. 48:4744-4749. (Related article in Chemical and Engineering News)
  • Ishii, S., T. Segawa, and S. Okabe. 2013. Simultaneous quantification of multiple food and waterborne pathogens by use of microfluidic quantitative PCR. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 79:2891-2898.
  • Ishii, S., H. Ohno, M. Tsuboi, S. Otsuka, and K. Senoo. 2011. Identification and isolation of active N2O reducers in rice paddy soil. ISME J. 5:1936-1945.