Ushijima Yuri

Affiliation

Faculty of Medicine

Official title

Assistant Professor

ORCID

0000-0003-4169-315X

URL

http://www.md.tsukuba.ac.jp/basic-med/infectionbiology/microbiology/

Office

Microbiology

Research fields

Virology
Bacteriology (including mycology)

Research keywords

Virus (Epidemiology, Public Health)
Microbiology (Molecular Biology)

Research projects

細菌の核様体ダイナミクスによる新たな病原性発現メカニズムの研究	2022-12 -- 2025-03	牛島由理	国立大学法人筑波大学/研究基盤支援プログラム（S タイプ）	3,000,000Yen
Mechanisms of complex stress tolerance and virulence expression induced by nucleoid clogging in S. aureus	2022-04 -- 2025-03	Yuri Ushijima	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/KAKEN Grant-in-Aid for young Scientists	4,550,000Yen
Comprehensive analysis of subclinical hemorrhagic fever virus infections and sequence analysis of variable region gene of human antibody in Central Africa	2019-04 -- 2021-03	Yuri Ushijima	Japan Society of for the Promotion of Science/KAKEN Grant-in-Aid for young Scientists	4,160,000Yen

Career history

2022-06 -- (current)	University of TsukubaFaculty of MedicineAssistant Professor
2021-04 -- 2022-05	Nagasaki UniversityInstitute of Tropical Medicine (Gabonese Republic, Central Africa)Assistant Professor
2016-04 -- 2021-03	Nagasaki UniversityInstitute of Tropical Medicine (Gabonese Republic, Central Africa)Postdoctoral Fellow

Academic background

2012-04 -- 2016-03	University of Tsukuba Graduate School Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences
2010-04 -- 2012-03	University of Tsukuba Graduate School Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences Master's Program in Medical Sciences
2004-04 -- 2010-03	University of Tsukuba College of Nursing and Medical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences Medical Sciences

Degree

2016-03-25	Medical Sciences	University of Tsukuba

Licenses and qualifications

2010-05-18	Medical Technologist

Articles

• Long-term validation of a reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 from March 2020 to October 2021 in Central Africa, Gabon
  Abe Haruka; Ushijima Yuri; Bikangui Rodrigue; Ondo Ge...
  PLoS neglected tropical diseases/16(12), 2022-12-01
  
  PubMed
• Identification of novel orthonairoviruses from rodents and shrews in Gabon, Central Africa
  Ozeki Takehiro; Abe Haruka; Ushijima Yuri; Nze-Nkogue ...
  The Journal of general virology/103(10), 2022-10-01
  
  PubMed
• Re-emergence of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses in 2021 after a 10-year gap in Gabon
  Ushijima Yuri; Abe Haruka; Mbadinga Marien J V M; Ondo...
  IJID Regions (Online)/5/pp.68-71, 2022-12-01
  
  PubMed
• Delays in the arrival of the waves of COVID-19: a comparison between Gabon and the African continent
  Abe Haruka; Ushijima Yuri; Bikangui Rodrigue; Ondo Ge...
  The Lancet. Microbe/3(7)/p.e476, 2022-07-01
  
  PubMed
• Unique Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in the Second Large Cruise Ship Cluster in Japan
  Abe Haruka; Ushijima Yuri; Amano Murasaki; Sakurai Yasut...
  Microorganisms/10(1), 2022-01-04
  
  PubMed
• Unrecognized introduction of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern to Central Africa: Import and local transmission of B.1.1.7 in Gabon in the very early stage of the variant spread to the African continent
  Abe Haruka; Ushijima Yuri; Bikangui Rodrigue; Zoa-Asso...
  Journal of medical virology/93(10)/pp.6054-6058, 2021-10-01
  
  PubMed
• SARS-CoV-2 emerging variants in Africa: view from Gabon
  Zoa-Assoumou Samira; Ndeboko Bénédicte; Manouana Gédéo...
  The Lancet. Microbe/2(8)/p.e349, 2021-08-01
  
  PubMed
• Identification of potential novel hosts and the risk of infection with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in humans in Gabon, Central Africa
  Ushijima Yuri; Abe Haruka; Ozeki Takehiro; Ondo Georgeli...
  International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases/105/pp.452-459, 2021-04-01
  
  PubMed
• Surveillance of the major pathogenic arboviruses of public health concern in Gabon, Central Africa: increased risk of West Nile virus and dengue virus infections
  Ushijima Yuri; Abe Haruka; Nguema Ondo Georgelin; Bika...
  BMC infectious diseases/21(1)/p.265, 2021-03-17
  
  PubMed
• First evidence for continuous circulation of hepatitis A virus subgenotype IIA in Central Africa
  Abe Haruka; Ushijima Yuri; Bikangui Rodrigue; Ondo Ge...
  Journal of viral hepatitis/27(11)/pp.1234-1242, 2020-11-01
  
  PubMed
• Re-emergence of dengue virus serotype 3 infections in Gabon in 2016-2017, and evidence for the risk of repeated dengue virus infections
  Abe Haruka; Ushijima Yuri; Loembe Marguerite M; Bikang...
  International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases/91/pp.129-136, 2020-02-01
  
  PubMed
• Ongoing evolution of hepatitis B virus during viremia in patients with febrile in Central Africa
  Abe Haruka; Ushijima Yuri; Bikangui Rodrigue; Loembe ...
  Journal of medical virology/92(2)/pp.251-256, 2020-02-01
  
  PubMed
• What Happens in the Staphylococcal Nucleoid under Oxidative Stress?
  Morikawa Kazuya; Ushijima Yuri; Ohniwa Ryosuke L; Miyakos...
  Microorganisms/7(12), 2019-11
  
  PubMed
• Fitness of Spontaneous Rifampicin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates in a Biofilm Environment
  Maudsdotter Lisa; Ushijima Yuri; Morikawa Kazuya
  FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY/10/p.988, 2019-05
  
  PubMed Tsukuba Repository
• Identification of nucleoid associated proteins (NAPs) under oxidative stress in Staphylococcus aureus
  Ushijima Yuri; Ohniwa Ryosuke L.; Morikawa Kazuya
  BMC MICROBIOLOGY/17(1)/p.207, 2017-10
  
  PubMed Tsukuba Repository
• Nucleoid clumping is dispensable for the Dps-dependent hydrogen peroxide resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
  Ushijima Yuri; Yoshida Osamu; Villanueva Montecillo Jake...
  MICROBIOLOGY-SGM/162(10)/pp.1822-1828, 2016-10
  
  PubMed
• In vitro DNA protection assay using oxidative stress
  Yuri Ushijima; Ryosuke L. Ohniwa; Morikawa Kazuya
  Bio-protocol/5/p.e1538, 2015-7
• Nucleoid compaction by MrgAAsp56Ala/Glu60Ala does not contribute to staphylococcal cell survival against oxidative stress and phagocytic killing by macrophage.
  Ushijima Y; Ohniwa Ryosuke; Maruyama A; Saito S; Tanaka ...
  FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS/360(2)/pp.144-151, 2014-11
  
  PubMed
• Proteomic Analyses of Nucleoid-Associated Proteins in Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus subtilis, and Staphylococcus aureus
  Ohniwa Ryosuke L.; Ushijima Yuri; Saito Shinji; Morikawa ...
  PLOS ONE/6(4)/pp.0-0, 2011-04
  
  PubMed

Teaching

2022-10 -- 2022-10	Pathogenic Microbiology Laboratory I	College of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences

(Last updated: 2022-12-30)