Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  ogawa.satoshi.5tkyoto-u.ac.jp

Professional Memberships

• From Jun. 2019, To Present

  International Plant Growth Substances Association
• From Jan. 2014, To Present

  THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGISTS
• From Oct. 2012, To Present

  THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR CHEMICAL REGULATION OF PLANTS
• From Dec. 2010, To Present

  JAPAN SOCIETY FOR BIOSCIENCE, BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND AGROCHEMISTRY
• From Apr. 2022, To Mar. 2023

  International Parasitic Plant Society

Academic Degree

• 25 Mar. 2013

  東京大学修士（農学）
• 23 Mar. 2017

  東京大学博士（農学）

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• 東京大学, 農学部応用生命科学課程, 卒業

Research History

• From Apr. 2025, To Present

  Saitama University, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Associate professor
• From Apr. 2024, To Mar. 2025

  Kyoto University, Institute for Chemical Research, Program-specific assistant professor
• From Oct. 2023, To Mar. 2024

  RIKEN, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, JSPS PD Researcher
• From Aug. 2022, To Mar. 2024

  University of California, Riverside, Botany and Plant Sciences, Visiting assistant project scientist
• From Apr. 2021, To Mar. 2024

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Postdoctoral fellow
• From Apr. 2021, To Sep. 2023

  RIKEN, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Visiting scientist
• From Apr. 2017, To Mar. 2021

  RIKEN, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Postdoctoral researcher

Profile

• Profile

  Graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo in 2011.Completed my Ph.D. in Biotechnology at the University of Tokyo in 2017. A postdoctoral researcher (2017-2021), a visiting scientist (2021-2023), and a JSPS PD Researcher (2023-2024) at RIKEN Center for Sustainable Research Science. From 2021 to 2024, a postdoctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. From 2022 to 2024, a visiting assistant project scientist at the University of California, Riverside. From 2024 to 2025, a project-specific assistant professor at the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University. Current position since 2025. I have been consistently working on the molecular mechanisms by which plants respond to external signals.. In 2023, I received RIKEN Researcher Incentive Award (Ohbu Award).

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0002-4790-546X

• J-Global ID

  201901014895446323

• Researcher ID

  F-2719-2017

• Researcher number

  40867462

• External link

  https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?hl=en&user=VUac9PQAAAAJ

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/satoshiogawa

Research

Research Interests

• Environmental response
• Signaling crosstalk
• Plant
• Molecular biology
• Genetics
• Signal transduction
• Plant hormone
• Plant-biotic interactions
• Karrikin
• Strigolactone
• mycorrhizal symbiosis
• Parasitic plant
• Plant immunity

Research Areas

• Life sciences, Plants: molecular biology and physiology
• Life sciences, Applied molecular and cellular biology
• Life sciences, Molecular biology
• Life sciences, Genetics
• Environmental science/Agricultural science, Conservation science (plants)

Papers

• Ethylene promotes SMAX1 accumulation to inhibit arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis.

  Debatosh Das; Kartikye Varshney; Satoshi Ogawa; Salar Torabi; Regine Hüttl; David C Nelson; Caroline Gutjahr

  Nature Communications, 27 Feb. 2025, Peer-reviewed

  
• Dominant-negative KAI2d paralogs putatively attenuate strigolactone responses in root parasitic plants

  Alexandra R.F White; Annalise Kane; Satoshi Ogawa; Ken Shirasu; David C Nelson

  Plant And Cell Physiology, 13 Sep. 2024, Peer-reviewed

  
• Strigolactones in Rhizosphere Communication: Multiple Molecules With Diverse Functions

  Yee Jia Kee; Satoshi Ogawa; Yasunori Ichihashi; Ken Shirasu; Satoko Yoshida

  Plant And Cell Physiology, 03 Jun. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Strigol induces germination of the facultative parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum in the absence of nitrate ions.

  Satoshi Ogawa; Ken Shirasu

  Plant Signaling & Behavior, 31 Dec. 2022, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
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  Strigolactones are chemoattractants for host tropism in Orobanchaceae parasitic plants.

  Satoshi Ogawa; Songkui Cui; Alexandra R F White; David C Nelson; Satoko Yoshida; Ken Shirasu

  Nature Communications, 15 Aug. 2022, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Subtilase activity in intrusive cells mediates haustorium maturation in parasitic plants

  Satoshi Ogawa; Takanori Wakatake; Thomas Spallek; Juliane K. Ishida; Ryosuke Sano; Tetsuya Kurata; Taku Demura; Satoko Yoshida; Yasunori Ichihashi; Andreas Schaller; Ken Shirasu

  Plant Physiology, 18 Dec. 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Host-parasite tissue adhesion by a secreted type of β-1,4-glucanase in the parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum

  Ken-ichi Kurotani; Takanori Wakatake; Yasunori Ichihashi; Koji Okayasu; Yu Sawai; Satoshi Ogawa; Songkui Cui; Takamasa Suzuki; Ken Shirasu; Michitaka Notaguchi

  Communications Biology, Dec. 2020, Peer-reviewed

  
• Auxin transport network underlies xylem bridge formation between the hemi-parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum and host Arabidopsis.

  Takanori Wakatake; Satoshi Ogawa; Satoko Yoshida; Ken Shirasu

  Development (Cambridge, England), 25 Jun. 2020, Peer-reviewed

  
• OsMYC2 mediates numerous defence-related transcriptional changes via jasmonic acid signalling in rice

  Satoshi Ogawa; Ryouka Kawahara-Miki; Koji Miyamoto; Hisakazu Yamane; Hideaki Nojiri; Yoshimasa Tsujii; Kazunori Okada

  BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS, May 2017, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• OsMYC2, an essential factor for JA-inductive sakuranetin production in rice, interacts with MYC2-like proteins that enhance its transactivation ability

  Satoshi Ogawa; Koji Miyamoto; Keiichirou Nemoto; Tatsuya Sawasaki; Hisakazu Yamane; Hideaki Nojiri; Kazunori Okada

  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, Jan. 2017, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Overexpression of Phosphomimic Mutated OsWRKY53 Leads to Enhanced Blast Resistance in Rice

  Tetsuya Chujo; Koji Miyamoto; Satoshi Ogawa; Yuka Masuda; Takafumi Shimizu; Mitsuko Kishi-Kaboshi; Akira Takahashi; Yoko Nishizawa; Eiichi Minami; Hideaki Nojiri; Hisakazu Yamane; Kazunori Okada

  PLOS ONE, Jun. 2014, Peer-reviewed

  

Misc.

• Identification of key genetic player candidates in the biosynthesis of a putative plant hormone in Arabidopsis thaliana

  Satoshi Ogawa; Kiyoshi Mashiguchi; Shinjiro Yamaguchi; David C. Nelson

  The 66th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists, 15 Mar. 2025, Lead author

  
• Selection and analysis of candidate biosynthetic genes for an unknown plant hormone that signals through KAI2

  Qianfan Xu; Satoshi Ogawa; Kiyoshi Mashiguchi; Shinjiro Yamaguchi; David C. Nelson

  The 66th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists, 15 Mar. 2025

  
• Biological roles of sakuranetin, a flavonoid specialized metabolite inductively produced in rice

  Satoshi Ogawa; Chie Yoshiga; Gen-ichiro Arimura; Takafumi Shimizu; Koji Miyamoto; Koichi Hamada; Yoko Nishizawa; Eiichi Minami; Hisakazu Yamane; Hideaki Nojiri; Kazunori Okada

  The 41st Annual Meeting of the Plant Growth Regulation Society of America, Jul. 2014, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Molecular mechanisms for disease resistance in rice that is regulated by the transcriptional activator OsWRKY53

  Satoshi Ogawa; Koji Miyamoto; Takafumi Shimizu; Yuka Masuda; Tetsuya Chujo; Yoko Nishizawa; Eiichi Minami; Hideaki Nojiri; Hisakazu Yamane; Kazunori Okada

  XV International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Jul. 2012, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• SMAX1 is a Signaling Hub That Integrates Karrikin- and Ethylene-mediated Regulation of Seedling Photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

  Satoshi Ogawa; Caroline Gutjahr; David C. Nelson

  The 65th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists, 18 Mar. 2024, Lead author

  
• Interaction of phytohormone signaling pathways regulating root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

  Debatosh Das; Kartikye Varshney; Satoshi Ogawa; Salar Torabi; Regina Hüttl; David Nelson; Caroline Gutjahr

  The 24th International Conference on Plant Growth Substances, Jul. 2023, Invited

  
• Molecular mechanisms of host tropism in Orobanchaceae parasitic plants

  Satoshi Ogawa; Songkui Cui; Satoko Yoshida; Ken Shirasu

  日本植物生理学会年会(Web), Mar. 2022, Lead author

  
• Role of the subtilases in the haustorial formation in the parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum

  Satoshi Ogawa; Takanori Wakatake; Thomas SPALLEK; Juliane K. Ishida; Ryosuke Sano; Tetsuya Kurata; Taku Demura; Satoko Yoshida; Yasunori Ichihashi; Andreas Schaller; Ken Shirasu

  日本植物生理学会年会(Web), 2021, Lead author

  
• Parasitism-inducible proteases and their putative peptide hormone in the haustorium of the parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum

  Satoshi Ogawa; Takanori Wakatake; Juliane K. Ishida; Satoko Yoshida; Thomas Spallek; Yasunori Ichihashi; Ken Shirasu

  The 23rd International Conference on Plant Growth Substances, Jun. 2019, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Expression dynamics of subtilases in the haustorium of the parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum

  OGAWA Satoshi; WAKATAKE Takanori; WAKATAKE Takanori; ISHIDA Juliane K.; ISHIDA Juliane K.; YOSHIDA Satoko; YOSHIDA Satoko; ICHIHASHI Yasunori; ICHIHASHI Yasunori; SHIRASU Ken; SHIRASU Ken

  日本植物生理学会年会(Web), 2019, Lead author

  
• Classification and expression dynamics of subtilases in the parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum

  OGAWA Satoshi; WAKATAKE Takanori; YOSHIDA Satoko; YOSHIDA Satoko; ICHIHASHI Yasunori; ICHIHASHI Yasunori; SHIRASU Ken

  日本植物生理学会年会(Web), 2018, Lead author

  
• イネのフラボノイド化合物サクラネチンの生産誘導におけるジャスモン酸とフォスファチジン酸の協調作用

  石田明大; 小川哲史; 西澤洋子; 南栄一; 山根久和; 有村源一郎; 野尻秀昭; 岡田憲典

  日本農芸化学会大会講演要旨集(Web), 2017

  
• イネのサクラネチン生合成酵素遺伝子を制御する転写因子の探索

  小川哲史; 宮本皓司; 山根久和; 野尻秀昭; 岡田憲典

  日本植物生理学会年会要旨集, 2015, Lead author

  
• イネのサクラネチン生合成酵素遺伝子OsNOMTの転写を制御する因子の探索

  小川哲史; 宮本皓司; 山根久和; 野尻秀昭; 岡田憲典

  日本農芸化学会大会講演要旨集(Web), 2015, Lead author

  
• イネのサクラネチン生合成酵素遺伝子OsNOMTのジャスモン酸依存的な発現機構の解析

  小川哲史; 野尻秀昭; 岡田憲典

  第55回日本植物生理学会, Mar. 2014, Lead author

  
• イネのフラボノイド型ファイトアレキシン生合成酵素遺伝子の発現制御機構の解析

  小川哲史; 宮本皓司; 山根久和; 野尻秀昭; 岡田憲典

  植物化学調節学会第49回大会, Oct. 2014, Lead author

  
• イネにおけるサクラネチン生合成酵素遺伝子のジャスモン酸依存的な発現制御機構の解明

  小川哲史; 清水崇史; 山根久和; 山根久和; 野尻秀昭; 岡田憲典

  日本農芸化学会大会講演要旨集(Web), Mar. 2014, Lead author

  
• イネの病害抵抗性を制御する転写因子OsWRKY53の標的遺伝子の同定

  小川哲史; 宮本皓司; 清水崇史; 増田優花; 中条哲也; 西澤洋子; 南栄一; 山根久和; 野尻秀昭; 岡田憲典

  日本農芸化学会大会講演要旨集(Web), Mar. 2013, Lead author

  
• イネの病害抵抗性を制御する転写因子OsWRKY53の相互作用因子の探索と機能解析

  小川哲史; 宮本皓司; 清水崇史; 増田優花; 中条哲也; 西澤洋子; 南栄一; 野尻秀昭; 山根久和; 岡田憲典

  植物の生長調節, Oct. 2012, Lead author

  
• イネの病害抵抗性を制御する転写因子OsWRKY53の機能発現機構の解析

  小川哲史; 清水崇史; 宮本皓司; 西澤洋子; 南栄一; 増田優花; 中条哲也; 岡田憲典; 野尻秀昭; 山根久和

  日本農芸化学会大会講演要旨集(Web), Mar. 2012, Lead author

  
• イネの病害抵抗性に関与する転写因子OsWRKY53の翻訳後修飾機構の解明

  増田優花; 小川哲史; 中条哲也; 宮本皓司; 岡田憲典; 加星光子; 高橋章; 西澤洋子; 南栄一; 野尻秀昭; 山根久和

  日本農芸化学会大会講演要旨集, Mar. 2011

  

Presentations

• Be ready to grab a chance at any time!

  Satoshi Ogawa

  The 42nd Meeting of the Japanese Society for Young Plant Physiologists, 13 Mar. 2025, Invited

  
• Low molecular compounds regulating plant growth - studies in Japan and the U.S.

  Satoshi Ogawa

  The 6th Meeting of Associates of Young Researchers of Chemical Regulation of Plants, 03 Sep. 2024, Invited

  
• How do Orobanchaceae parasitic plants grow their roots toward host roots?

  Satoshi Ogawa

  Seminar at Tohoku University, 28 Nov. 2023, Invited

  
• Molecular basis for host tropism in Orobanchaceae parasitic plants

  Satoshi Ogawa

  KU-ICR Seminar, 21 Nov. 2023, Invited

  
• ハマウツボ科寄生植物における宿主への接近メカニズム

  小川 哲史

  明治大学 植物科学セミナー, 14 Apr. 2023, Invited

  
• Molecular basis underlying host tropism in Orobanchaceae parasitic plants

  Satoshi Ogawa

  ITbM-GTR Seminar, 10 Apr. 2023, Invited

  
• Orobanchaceae parasitic plants use strigolactones as chemoattractants for host tropism

  Satoshi Ogawa

  The International Parasitic Plant Society Online Seminar Series #11, 06 Apr. 2022, Invited

  

Books and Other Publications

• Regulation of Plant Growth & Development 58 (2)

  Satoshi Ogawa; Ken Shirasu, Contributor, Neofunctionalization of strigolactones – chemoattractants for host tropism in Orobanchaceae parasitic plants

  The Japanese Society for Chemical Regulation of Plants, 15 Dec. 2023

  
• 月刊アグリバイオ 7 (11)

  小川哲史, Contributor, 特集「寄生植物の宿主植物への接近メカニズム」

  北隆館, 20 Sep. 2023

  
• 生物の科学 遺伝 74(5)

  小川哲史; 白須賢, Contributor, 植物がハイジャックされたとき -寄生植物の感染機構

  エヌ・ティー・エス, Sep. 2020

  

Awards

• 22 Mar. 2023

  第14回 理研研究奨励賞（桜舞賞）（国立研究開発法人理化学研究所）
• 27 Nov. 2018

  Best Poster Award in FY2018 CSRS Interim Progress Report（RIKEN CSRS）