. 氏名 (NAME)	MAY SANN AUNG
	. フリガナ	メイ　サン　アウン
	. 学部 (Faculty)	生物資源科学(Bioresource Science)
	. 学科 (Department)	生物生産科学科 (Biological Production)
	. 職名 (Position)	特任助教 (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor)
	. 学位 (Degree)	博士(農学) Ph. D. Agriculture
	. Eメール	mayaung@akita-pu.ac.jp

経歴 Career

1. 学歴 (Academic History)
1996年12月　Yezin Agricultural University, Myanmar. 学士卒 B.Agr.Sc.
2000年3月　Yangon Technological University, Myanmar. Post-graduate diploma
2006年5月　Khon Kaen University, Thailand.　修士課程　修了 M.Sc.
2010年3月　東京大学　農学生命科学研究科　農学国際専攻 修士課程　修了 The University of Tokyo M.Sc.
2013年3月　東京大学　農学生命科学研究科　農学国際専攻 博士号(農学、東京大学) 取得 The University of Tokyo Ph. D.

2. 職歴 (Job History)
1996年から2007年　Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MOALI), Myanmar
2013年4月から2019年3月　石川県立大学　生物資源工学研究所　特別研究員 (うち、2014年9月から2016年9月は、JSPS 特別研究員) Post-doctoral researcher in Ishikawa Prefectural University (JSPS Foreign researcher during 2014 Sept. to 2016 Sept.)
2019年4月から2020年3月　秋田県立大学　生物生産科学科　客員研究員 Guest Researcher in Akita Prefectural University
2020年4月から現在まで　　秋田県立大学　生物生産科学科　特任助教 Specially Appointed Assistant Professor in Akita Prefectural University (until NOW)

受賞 (Awards)

1. TICA scholarship award, Thailand International Development Cooperation Agency (TICA), Royal Thailand Government, 2004-2006

2. AYF scholarship award, Asian Youth Fellowship (AYF)-12th Batch, Asia SEED, Japan, 2007

3. MEXT scholarship award, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan, 2008-2013

4. The Best Poster award at XVII. International Plant Nutrition Colloquium (IPNC), Istanbul, Turkey, 2013

5. JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship award for foreign researchers (Standard), The Japan Society for the Promotion Sciences (JSPS), Japan, 20014-2016

6. The Best Poster award at 13th. International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics (ISRFG), Wuhan, China, 2015

獲得予算 (Budget Achievements)

1) ‘Analysis of molecular mechanisms of iron excess in rice and producing iron excess tolerant rice’ by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) Fellowship Program for Overseas Researchers (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 14F04079), JAPAN, 2014 Sept – 2016 Sept. (Host researcher: Prof. Dr. Naoko K. Nishizawa)

2) ‘イネの鉄過剰耐性に関わる遺伝子の機能解析と鉄過剰耐性イネの作出’ Grant-in-Aid for young Scientists (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 18K14367), JAPAN, 2018 Apr – 2021 Mar.

専門分野 (Specialization)

植物栄養学 (Plant Nutrition)
植物分子生物学 (Plant Molecular Biology)

最近の研究テーマと内容 (Resent Reserach theme)

（1）イネの鉄過剰症に関する研究 Iron excess tolerance mechanisum in Rice
(2)コメの鉄・亜鉛栄養価を高める研究 Enhancement of Iron and Zinc nutrition in Rice

技術相談に応じられる分野

最近の招待・特別・基調講演題名

主な特許

研究論文 (Reserach Publications)

１　学術論文 (Articles)

(1) May Sann Aung, Takanori Kobayashi, Yugo Ogo, Tomoko Nozoye, Hiromi Nakanishi, Takashi Yamakawa, Naoko K. Nishizawa. The spatial expression and regulation of transcription factors IDEF1 and IDEF2. Annals of Botany, Vol. 105, No. 7, pp. 1109-1117, March, 2010.

(2) Yugo Ogo, Reiko N. Itai, Takanori Kobayashi, May Sann Aung, Hiromi Nakanishi, Naoko K. Nishizawa. OsIRO2 is responsible for iron utilization in rice and improves growth and yield in calcareous soil. Plant Molecular Biology, Vol. 75, No. 6, pp. 593-605, February, 2011.

(3) Takanori Kobayashi, Reiko N. Itai, May Sann Aung, Takeshi Senoura, Hiromi Nakanishi, Naoko K. Nishizawa. The rice transcription factor IDEF1 directly binds to iron and other divalent metals for sensing cellular iron status. The Plant Journal, Vol. 69 , No. 1, pp. 81-91, January, 2012.

(4) Masuda H, Ishimaru Y, Aung MS, Kobayashi T, Kakei Y, Takahashi M, Higuchi K, Nakanishi H, Nishizawa NK. Iron biofortification in rice by the introduction of multiple genes involved in iron nutrition. Sci. Rep. 2: 543, 2012. Article web link 論文のwebサイトはこちら
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(5) Masuda H, Takanori K, Yasuhiro I, Michiko T, Aung MS, Nakanishi H, Mori S, Nishizawa NK. Iron-biofortification in rice by the introduction of three barley genes participated in mugineic acid biosynthesis with soybean ferritin gene. Front. Plant Sci. 4:132, 2013. Article web link 論文のwebサイトはこちら
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(6) Masuda H, Aung MS, Kobayashi T, Nakanishi H, Yamakawa T, Nishizawa NK. Iron biofortification of Myanmar rice. Front. Plant Sci. 4: 158, 2013. Article web link 論文のwebサイトはこちら
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(7) Aung MS, Masuda H, Kobayashi T, Kakei Y, Tun YT, Nakanishi H, Yamakawa T, Nishizawa NK. (2016) Identification of mineral-rich rice varieties in Myanmar. Myanmar Agricultural Research Journal. 3:14-29 2016. Article web link 論文のwebサイトはこちら
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(8) Masuda H, Shimoshi E, Hamada T, Senoura T, Kobayashi T, Aung MS, Ishimaru Y, Ogo Y, Nishizawa NK. A new transgenic rice line exhibiting enhanced ferric iron reduction and phytosiderophore production confers tolerance to low iron availability in calcareous soil. Plos One, 12(3), 2017 Article web link 論文のwebサイトはこちら
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(9) Senoura　T, Sakashita　E, Kobayashi T, Takahashi M, Aung MS, Masuda H, Nakanishi H, Nishizawa NK.　The iron-chelate transporter OsYSL9 plays a role in iron. Plant Mol Biol 79, 1-13, 2017 Article web link 論文のwebサイトはこちら
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(10) Nozoye T, Aung MS, Masuda H, Nakanishi H, Nishizawa NK. Bioenergy grass [Erianthus ravennae (L.) Beauv.] secretes two members of of mugineic acid family phytosiderophores which involved in their tolerance to Fe deficiency. Soil Sci Plant Nutr, 2017 DOI: 10.1080/00380768.2017.1394168 Article web link 論文のwebサイトはこちら
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(11) Aung MS, Masuda H, Kobayashi T, Nishizawa NK: Physiological and transcriptomic analysis of responses to different levels of iron excess stress in various rice tissues. Soil Sci Plant Nutr, 64, 370-385, 2018. DOI:10.1080/00380768.2018.1443754 Article web link 論文のwebサイトはこちら
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(12) Aung MS, Kobayashi T, Masuda H, Nishizawa NK. Rice HRZ ubiquitin ligases are crucial for the response to excess iron. Physiologia. Plantarum., Vol. 163: 282-296, 2018. DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12698 Article web link 論文のwebサイトはこちら
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(13) Masuda H, Aung MS, Maeda K, Kobayashi T, Takata N, Taniguchi T, Nishizawa NK. Iron-deficiency response and expression of genes related to iron homeostasis in poplars
Soil Sci. Plant Nutr, Vol.64 (5), pp 576-588, 2018. DOI: 10.1080/00380768.2018.1480325

(14) Aung MS, Masuda H, Nozoye T,Kobayashi T, Jeon J-S, An G, Nishizawa NK. Nicotianamine Synthesis by OsNAS3 Is Important　for Mitigating Iron Excess Stress　in Rice. Front. Plant Sci. 10:660, 2019.　doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00660

(15) Masuda H, Aung MS, Kobayashi T, Hamada T, Nishizawa NK. Enhancement of iron acquisition in rice by the mugineic acid synthase gene with ferric iron reductase gene and OsIRO2 confers tolerance in submerged and non-submerged calcareous soils Front. Plant Sci. 10:1179, 2019. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01179

(16) Suzuki M, Urabe A, Sasaki S, Tsugawa R, Nishio S, Mukaiyama H, Murata Y, Masuda H, Aung MS et al. Development of a mugineic acid family phytosiderophore analog as an iron fertilizer. Nat. Com, 12, 1558, 2021. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21837-6 Article web link 論文のwebサイトはこちらArticle Download link 論文のダウンロードはこちら


２　総説 (Review)

(1) Masuda H, Aung MS, Nishizawa NK. Iron biofortification of rice using different transgenic approaches. Rice 6:40, 2013. （共著）

(2) May Sann Aung、増田寛志. イネの鉄過剰：生理的応答と分子メカニズム
北隆館　アグリバイオ　2018年第2巻第8号　p91-92

(3) (b)May Sann Aung* and Hiroshi Masuda (2020) How does rice defend against excess iron? : Physiological and molecular mechanisms. 2020 Front. Plant Sci. 11:1102. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01102 Article web link 論文のwebサイトはこちら
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３　著書 (Books)

(1) 森敏、西澤直子、蜂須賀正章、生嶋伸介、樋口恭子、中村奈巳、山口博隆、中西玲子、小林高範、井上晴彦、鈴木基史、野副朋子、石丸泰博、増田寛志、May Sann Aung、中西啓仁　「ムギネ酸研究の軌跡」第二版（森敏. 西澤直子編）、 NPO法人WINEP （植物鉄栄養研究会） 出版、pp 223-243 (2014).

(2) Masuda H, Aung MS, Kobayashi T, Nishizawa NK. Iron Biofortification: The Gateway to Overcoming Hidden Hunger. In: Costa de Oliveira A., Pegoraro C., Ebeling Viana V. (eds) The Future of Rice Demand: Quality Beyond Productivity. Springer, Cham (2020)

学会発表 国内　(Scientific Presentation in Japan)