<Project Leader>
   
Name 
Place 
State 
etc. 
Professor
Leader
 


 Group 1: Environmental alteration by humans
   Revealing the effects of anthropogenic environmental alteration on loss of biodiversity and food web changes.  
   
Name 
Place 
State 
etc. 
Koji Omori
Associate professor
Core members
Hainan Kong
Professor
Core members
Wu Deyi
professor
Core members
Project researcher
Core members
 


 <Group 2: Ecology of pathogens and their hosts>
 Clarifying the dynamics of koi herpesvirus (KHV) and the ecology of its host common carp (Cyprinus carpio).
 
   
Name 
Place 
State 
etc. 
Toshifumi Minamoto
Senior researcher
Associate leader
Mie Honjyo
Project researcher
Tomoaki Itayama
Professor
Core members
Associate professor
Core members
 


 <Group 3: Infection process and ecosystem effects>
 Revealing the infection process of KHV and the effects of the KHV disease on ecosystem functions.
 
   
Name 
Place 
State 
etc. 
Yukihiro Kohmatsu
Assistant professor
 
Ryuji Yonekura
Gifu Prefectural Research Institute for Freshwater Fish
and Environments, Japan
Leader
 
 


 <Group 4: Economics and culture>
 Clarifying losses caused by the KHV disease in terms of ecosystem services, economics and culture, and the compensation process for those losses.  
   
Name 
Place 
State 
etc. 
Professor
Core members
Akira Abe
Project researcher
 


 <Group 5: Feedback>
 Clarifying the effects of those losses on subsequent environmental alteration by humans.  
   
Name 
Place 
State 
etc. 
Masayuki Kakehashi
Professor
Core members
Masao Nasu
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka Univ, Japan
Professor
Core members
Masatomi Matsuoka
Asahi Fisheries Cooperative, Shiga, Japan
  
Core members
 


 <Executive>
 Coordinating the activities of each group to reveal the interactions between anthropogenic environmental alterations, outbreaks of pathogens and changes in human life.Also applying our model to other infectious diseases.
 Kawabata project member of RIHN and core member.
 
   
Name 
Place 
State 
etc. 
Zen'ichiro Kawabata
Kawabata Project(Project6)
Professor  
  
Yukihiro Kohmatsu
Assistant professor
 
Toshifumi Minamoto
Kawabata Project(Project6)
Senior researcher
 
Mie Honjyo
Kawabata Project(Project6)
Project researcher
 
Akira Abe
Kawabata Project(Project6)
Project researcher
Naomi Ibuki
Kawabata Project(Project6)
Research associate
Eri Katayama
Kawabata Project(Project6)
Office work assistant
 
Yoshie Masuda
Kawabata Project(Project6)
  Assistant
 


 <The previous members>
   
Name 
Existence period
Tomoaki Ichijyo
~2010.3 Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Kimiko Uchii
~2009.10 Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Hiroki Yamanaka
~2009.9 Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Kazuaki Matsui
~2007.3 Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Masaya Ueki
~2006.12 Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Arata Suzuki
~2011.3 Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Tomoaki Itayama
 ~2011.3 Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Teruhiko Takahara
~2011.4 Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
 



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