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SETO Mayumi

Faculty Division of Natural Sciences Research Group of Environmental SciencesAssistant Professor
Last Updated :2025/06/13

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Profile Information

  • Name (Japanese)

    Seto
  • Name (Kana)

    Mayumi

Degree

  • Doctor of Science, Kyushu University

Research Interests

  • 個体群動態
  • 熱力学
  • 数理生物学
  • 微生物生態系
  • 化学合成微生物

Research Areas

  • Nanotechnology/Materials, Inorganic and coordination chemistry
  • Environmental science/Agricultural science, Environmental effects of chemicals
  • Environmental science/Agricultural science, Environmental effects of radiation
  • Environmental science/Agricultural science, Environmental policy and society
  • Environmental science/Agricultural science, Environmental impact assessment
  • Life sciences, Ecology and environmental science

Research History

  • Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2010, 独立行政法人国立環境研究所, NIES特別研究員, Japan
  • Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2009, Ehime University, 沿岸環境科学研究センター, グローバルCOE研究員, Japan

Education

  • 2008, Kyushu University, 理学府, 地球惑星科学科, Japan
  • 2008, Kyushu University, Graduate School of Sciences, Department of Earth and Plantary Sciences

Teaching Experience

  • Apr. 2022 - Present
  • Apr. 2022 - Present
  • Apr. 2020 - Present
  • Apr. 2018 - Present
  • Apr. 2018 - Present
  • 2018 - Present
  • Apr. 2016 - Present
  • Apr. 2016 - Present
  • Apr. 2016 - Present
  • 2016 - Present
  • 2016 - Present
  • 2016 - Present
  • Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2022
  • Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2020
  • Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2019
  • 2012 - 2019
  • Aug. 2018 - Aug. 2018
  • Apr. 2018

Professional Memberships

  • 日本数理生物学会
  • 日本生態学会
  • 日本地球化学会

Social Activities

  • 26 Dec. 2020 - 26 Dec. 2020
  • 15 Nov. 2020 - 22 Nov. 2020, 14227977, rm:research_project_id
  • 30 Sep. 2020 - 06 Oct. 2020
  • 21 Sep. 2020 - 21 Sep. 2020
  • 15 Nov. 2019 - 17 Nov. 2019, 14227977;14227975, rm:research_project_id
  • 23 Nov. 2018 - 23 Nov. 2018

Media Coverage

  • 奈良女大 環境トークバトルゲーム, 毎日新聞奈良版, 17 Sep. 2018, 大和のオススメ!

■Ⅱ.研究活動実績

Published Papers

  • Refereed, Environmental Microbiology, Thermodynamics Underpinning the Microbial Community‐Level Nitrogen Energy Metabolism, Mayumi Seto; Risa Sasaki; Hideshi Ooka; Ryuhei Nakamura, Feb. 2025, Scientific journal, 10.1111/1462-2920.70055
  • Refereed, Scientific Reports, Survivability and life support in sealed mini-ecosystems with simulated planetary soils, Tsubasa Sato; Ko Abe; Jun Koseki; Mayumi Seto; Jun Yokoyama; Tomohiro Akashi; Masahiro Terada; Kohmei Kadowaki; Satoshi Yoshida; Yosuke Alexandre Yamashiki; Teppei Shimamura, 2024, Scientific journal, 10.1038/S41598-024-75328-X
  • Refereed, Ecology Letters, Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity, Mayumi Seto; Michio Kondoh, Oct. 2023, 26, 10, 1714, 1725, Scientific journal, 10.1111/ele.14287
  • Refereed, Theoretical Ecology, Potential ecosystem regime shift resulting from elevated CO2 and inhibition of macroalgal recruitment by turf algae, Mayumi Seto; Ben P. Harvey; Shigeki Wada; Sylvain Agostini, Mar. 2023, 16, 1, 1, 12, Scientific journal, 10.1007/s12080-022-00550-0
  • Refereed, Frontiers in Marine Science, Cohesive bond strength of marine aggregates and its role in fragmentation, Yasuhito Hayashi; Shigeki Wada; Mayumi Seto; Yasuhisa Adachi, 2023, 10, Scientific journal, 10.3389/fmars.2023.1167169
  • Refereed, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Frontiers Media SA, How Thermodynamics Illuminates Population Interactions in Microbial Communities, Mayumi Seto; Yoh Iwasa, 30 Nov. 2020, 8, 10.3389/fevo.2020.602809
  • Refereed, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Microbial material cycling, energetic constraints and ecosystem expansion in subsurface ecosystems, Mayumi Seto; Yoh Iwasa, 29 Jul. 2020, 287, 1931, 20200610, 20200610, Scientific journal, 10.1098/rspb.2020.0610
  • Refereed, Ecology Letters, Wiley, The fitness of chemotrophs increases when their catabolic by‐products are consumed by other species, Mayumi Seto; Yoh Iwasa, Dec. 2019, 22, 12, 1994, 2005, Scientific journal, 10.1111/ele.13397
  • Refereed, ASTROBIOLOGY, Potential for Aerobic Methanotrophic Metabolism on Mars, Seto Mayumi; Noguchi Katsuyuki; Van Cappellen Philippe, 07 Jun. 2019, 19, 10, 1187, 1195, Scientific journal, 10.1089/ast.2018.1943
  • Refereed, JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, Population dynamics of chemotrophs in anaerobic conditions where the metabolic energy acquisition per redox reaction is limited, Seto Mayumi; Iwasa Yoh, 21 Apr. 2019, 467, 164, 173, Scientific journal, 10.1016/j.jtbi.2019.01.037
  • Not Refereed, Risk Analysis, Blackwell Publishing Inc., Assessment of Instructions on Protection Against Food Contaminated with Radiocesium in Japan in 2011, Mayumi Seto; Koichiro Uriu; Isao Kawaguchi; Hiroyuki Yokomizo, 01 Jun. 2018, 38, 6, 1154, 1168, Scientific journal, 10.1111/risa.12893
  • Not Refereed, 2017, 51, 4, 185, 193, 10.14934/chikyukagaku.51.185
  • Refereed, ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS, Perspectives for ecosystem management based on ecosystem resilience and ecological thresholds against multiple and stochastic disturbances, Takehiro Sasaki; Takuya Furukawa; Yuichi Iwasaki; Mayumi Seto; Akira S. Mori, Oct. 2015, 57, 395, 408, 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.05.019
  • Refereed, RISK ANALYSIS, Sample Size Allocation for Food Item Radiation Monitoring and Safety Inspection, Mayumi Seto; Koichiro Uriu, Mar. 2015, 35, 3, 409, 422, Scientific journal, 10.1111/risa.12276
  • Refereed, GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL, The Gibbs Free Energy Threshold for the Invasion of a Microbial Population Under Kinetic Constraints, Mayumi Seto, 2014, 31, 8, 645, 653, Scientific journal, 10.1080/01490451.2013.861703
  • Refereed, JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, Individual and combined suppressive effects of submerged and floating-leaved macrophytes on algal blooms, Mayumi Seto; Noriko Takamura; Yoh Iwasa, Feb. 2013, 319, 122, 133, Scientific journal, 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.11.016
  • Refereed, CHEMOSPHERE, The effect of zinc on aquatic microbial ecosystems and the degradation of dissolved organic matter, Mayumi Seto; Shigeki Wada; Satoru Suzuki, Jan. 2013, 90, 3, 1091, 1102, Scientific journal, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.09.014
  • Refereed, JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, Regime shift and robustness of organism-created environments: A model for microbial ecosystems, Mayumi Seto; Yoh Iwasa, Jan. 2011, 269, 1, 297, 306, Scientific journal, 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.10.035
  • Refereed, CHEMOSPHERE, Mathematical explanation for the non-linear hydrophobicity-dependent bioconcentration processes of persistent organic pollutants in phytoplankton, Mayumi Seto; Itsuki C. Handoh, Oct. 2009, 77, 5, 679, 686, Scientific journal, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.07.048
  • Refereed, GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL, Chemical condition for the appearance of a negative Ce anomaly in stream waters and groundwaters, Mayumi Seto; Tasuku Akagi, 2008, 42, 4, 371, 380, Scientific journal, 10.2343/geochemj.42.371
  • Refereed, JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, Coexistence introducing regulation of environmental conditions, Mayumi Seto; Tasuku Akag, Sep. 2007, 248, 2, 267, 274, Scientific journal, 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.05.013
  • Refereed, JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, Daisyworld inhabited with daisies incorporating a seed size/number trade-off: the mechanism of negative feedback on selection from a standpoint of the competition theory, M Seto; T Akagi, May 2005, 234, 2, 167, 172, Scientific journal, 10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.11.029
  • Refereed, GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL, Influence of snow on iron release from soil, M Seto; T Akagi, 2005, 39, 2, 173, 183, Scientific journal, 10.2343/geochemj.39.173
  • Not Refereed, CHEMISTRY & EDUCATION, The Chemical Society of Japan, Simple Method to Understand Redox Potential of Solution, SETO Mayumi; AKAGI Tasuku, 2003, 51, 12, 786, 787, 10.20665/kakyoshi.51.12_786
  • Refereed, Mar. 2023, 16, 1, 12, 10.1007/s12080-022-00550-0

MISC

  • Research Square Platform LLC, Microbial redox interplay enhances biodiversity and ecosystem productivity, Mayumi Seto; Michio Kondoh, Abstract

    A significant portion of the Earth’s biodiversity and biomass is from the subsurface biosphere, where chemotrophic microbial species harness diverse inorganic oxidation-reduction reactions (redox reactions) as a major source of metabolic energy while driving biogeochemical cycles. Given the limited availability of energy in the anaerobic environment, a fundamental question concerns what interplay between the chemical environment and chemotrophic community enables the persistence of whole biogeochemical systems. Here, using a thermodynamics-based mechanistic model that maps the interplay between diverse chemotrophic species and chemical compounds onto a redox network, we show that cycles of redox reactions mediate chemotrophic interactions in a way that increases the complexity of both redox reaction networks and microbial communities and enhances the community-level efficiency of energy metabolism. The high efficiency and complexity of biogeochemical systems arises from the self-organised ecological niche segmentation of microbes. More specifically, a consortium of chemotrophic species that subdivide a long-reaction pathway into shorter-reaction segments enhance each other’s population growth, replaces the species that monopolises the long-reaction pathway, and increases ecosystem productivity. An ecologically driven ‘division of metabolic labour’ in the chemotrophic community provides a novel mechanism through which an intimate life-environment interplay concurrently enhances biodiversity and ecosystem productivity., 19 Oct. 2021, 10.21203/rs.3.rs-959776/v1
  • Not Refereed, 2018, 14, 99, 102
  • Not Refereed, 2017, 51, 4, 157, 158, 10.14934/chikyukagaku.51.157
  • Not Refereed, Abstracts of Annual Meeting of the Geochemical Society of Japan, GEOCHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, The effect of zinc on marine microbial food web and biodegradation of dissolved organic matter, Seto Mayumi; Wada Shigeki, 亜鉛は生物の必須元素である一方で過剰摂取によって毒性を発現することが知られている。現在水生生物の個体群レベルでの保全に留意した亜鉛の環境基準として、海水域では生物A類型で0.02mg L-1、 生物特A類型で0.01mg L-1が設定されているが、沿岸域ではこれを上回る亜鉛濃度がしばしば観測されており、水圏生態系の環境リスクが懸念されている。更に近年、亜鉛の添加によって海水中のバクテリアによる溶存有機炭素(DOM)の利用が阻害され、DOMの分解速度が低下することが室内実験によって明らかにされた。これは海水への亜鉛の負荷が海洋微生物食物網と海水中のDOM動態の両方に影響を及ぼしうることを示唆する。 本研究では、 (1)DOM・バクテリア・ナノ繊毛虫から成る微生物ループ、並びに(2) (1)に植物プランクトン・動物プランクトンを加えた微生物食物網の2つのモデルを構築し、亜鉛の負荷が海洋の微生物生態系並びにDOM分解に及ぼす影響をモデルの数理解析とシミュレーションを通して検証した(図1)。本モデルでは対象空間を均一な系であると仮定し、連立常微分方程式によって微生物間の相互作用やDOMフローのプロセスについて記述した。(1), (2)の2つのモデルの時間動態並びに定常状態を解析・数値計算し、亜鉛の負荷量に対する海水中の全炭素量、DOM量、各生物の炭素量の割合の応答について調べた。 亜鉛による微生物ループへの影響を検証した結果、亜鉛の負荷量が大きくなるにつれてバクテリアの捕食者であるナノ鞭毛虫の減少が予測された。また、その減少率はDOMの少ない貧栄養の環境下において高くなる傾向が示された。亜鉛濃度がある閾値を上回った場合には、ナノ繊毛虫が存続を維持することができなくなり、微生物ループが崩壊する可能性が示唆された。植物プランクトン・動物プランクトンを加えた微生物食物網の場合、植物プランクトンの生産量が高くDOC供給が多い場合には亜鉛によるナノ鞭毛虫の減少を緩和する傾向が示されたが、一方で動物プランクトンによるナノ繊毛虫への捕食圧が高い場合には再びナノ繊毛虫の存続が維持できなくなることが予測された。また、ナノ繊毛虫が減少するにつれて海水中の全炭素量に占めるDOMの割合が上昇することが予測された。, 2011, 58, 0, 275, 275, 10.14862/geochemproc.58.0.275.0
  • 2010, 57th
  • Not Refereed, GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, Seasonal change in Eh-pH condition of natural water and consistency between Fe and Ce concentrations, M Seto; T Akagi, Sep. 2003, 67, 18, A423, A423, Summary international conference
  • Not Refereed, 2003, 56, 7, 817

Books etc

Presentations

  • Development of Microbial Ecosystems in a CO World: Shaped by Community Interactions, 28 Mar. 2025
  • 17 Mar. 2025
  • 08 Nov. 2024
  • 12 Oct. 2024
  • 18 Sep. 2024
  • 05 Sep. 2024
  • Public discourse, 20 Feb. 2024
  • How does life connect cell and Earth energy?, Invited oral presentation, 01 Feb. 2024
  • Mayumi Seto, "Major Microbial Transitions: From the origin of life to the origin of the domains"in The 36th JSME& The 13th ASME, Adaptive Metabolic Evolution: Converging on Ecological Redox Niches, Invited oral presentation, 28 Nov. 2023, 28 Nov. 2023 - 30 Nov. 2023
  • Mayumi Seto, Research Workshop on Microbial Ecological Theory: "Selfishness? interdependency? in Microbial Ecosystems", Unveiling cooperative division of labor: Exploring thermodynamic considerations and network configurations, Nominated symposium, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Mayumi Seto, The 2nd Joint Symposium of the international Societies for Environmental Biogeochemistry and Subsurface Microbiology, Microbial community ecosystem network model for chemical energy transport, Oral presentation, 23 Oct. 2023, 22 Oct. 2023 - 28 Oct. 2023
  • Mayumi Seto, University of Nebraska-Lincoln with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)'s River Corridor SFA, Microbial ecology's impact on redox network architecture, Public discourse, 18 Oct. 2023
  • 21 Sep. 2023, 21 Sep. 2023 - 23 Sep. 2023
  • Invited oral presentation, 06 Sep. 2023, 04 Sep. 2023 - 06 Sep. 2023
  • Mayumi Seto, Feasible but Undiscovered Metabolisms Ⅱ: Thermodynamics, Evolution, and the Origin of life, Feasible microbial redox network at a community scale, Nominated symposium, 24 Aug. 2023, 23 Aug. 2023 - 25 Aug. 2023
  • Mayumi Seto, The 8th CIJK International Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, An integrated theoretical approach towards ecological understanding of microbial communities and reaction networks, Nominated symposium, 29 Jun. 2023, 27 Jun. 2023 - 01 Jul. 2023
  • Public discourse, 14 May 2023
  • 17 Mar. 2023, 17 Mar. 2023 - 21 Mar. 2023
  • Mayumi Seto, Research meeting: Principle of Microbial Ecosystems, Thermodynamics-based microbial network modeling: Efficient energy-use strategy at community level, 14 Mar. 2023
  • 09 Mar. 2023, 09 Mar. 2023 - 10 Mar. 2023
  • Mayumi Seto, 11th ELSI symposium: The Living Universe, Eco-redox network model: Efficient energy-use strategy at microbial community level, 08 Mar. 2023, 06 Mar. 2023 - 08 Mar. 2023
  • 13 Dec. 2022
  • Mayumi Seto, RIKEN seminar, Eco-redox model: Towards a fundamental understanding of ecological metabolism, 06 Dec. 2022
  • 07 Sep. 2022, 07 Sep. 2022 - 09 Sep. 2022
  • 05 Sep. 2022, 05 Sep. 2022 - 07 Sep. 2022
  • Oral presentation, 15 Mar. 2022, 14 Mar. 2022 - 19 Mar. 2022
  • Mayumi Seto, Exploring microbial community from the perspective of metabolic energy, Nominated symposium, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Mayumi Seto, The 31st Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology (JSMB2021), Competition and cooperation in microbial nitrification metabolism, Oral presentation, 15 Sep. 2021, 13 Sep. 2021 - 15 Sep. 2021
  • Mayumi Seto, iTHEMS Biology Seminar, Application of bioenergetics to microbial modeling, Public discourse, 29 Jul. 2021
  • Oral presentation, 17 May 2021
  • Mutualistic interspecific interactions through energy production reactions, Oral presentation, 19 Mar. 2021, 17 Mar. 2021 - 21 Mar. 2021
  • 22 Sep. 2020
  • 21 Sep. 2020
  • 21 Sep. 2020
  • Oral presentation, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Mayumi Seto, ELSI Seminar, Microbial growth, interactions, and evolution at the energetic edge : Theoretical perspectives based on thermodynamics and population dynamics, Public discourse, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Nominated symposium, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Nominated symposium, 10 Jan. 2020
  • SETO Mayumi, Ecohydrology Research Symposium, Waterloo, Canada, Application of bioenergetics in Astrobiology and Ecology, Nominated symposium, Dec. 2019, True
  • SETO Mayumi, 24th International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry, Potsdam, Germany, Catabolic mutualistic interactions can lead ecosystem expansion, Poster presentation, 20 Sep. 2019, 22 Sep. 2019 - 27 Sep. 2019, True
  • Oral presentation, Sep. 2019, False
  • Oral presentation, Mar. 2019, False
  • 2018
  • 2018
  • 2018
  • 環境科学国際ワークショップ, Assessment of instructions on protection against food contaminated with radiocesium in Japan in 2011, 2018
  • The Society for Risk Analysis, Asia Conference 2018, Assessment of instructions on protection against food contaminated with radiocesium in Japan in 2011, 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015 AGC-CGU Joint Assembly, Metabolic energy-based habitability of methanotrophic life on Mars, 2015
  • 2015 Joint Meeting of JSMB and CJK Colloquium on Mathematical Biology, Chemotrophic bacteria and material cycles: How they increase fluxes?, 2015
  • 2014
  • 2014
  • 2014
  • 2014
  • 2014
  • JSMB/SMB 2014 Osaka, Invasibility of chemotrophic microorganisms, 2014
  • JSMB/SMB 2014 Osaka, The effect of foraging of honeybees on distributions of two competing annual flowers, 2014
  • The symposium on recent developments in evolutionary community ecology, Chemotrophic bacterial roles in biogeochemical material cycles, 2014
  • The 2014 ISEB short course, Ecological and evolutionary perspectives of syntrophic communities, 2014
  • 2012
  • 2012
  • 2012
  • 2012
  • 2012
  • 2012
  • 2012
  • One Health Summit 2012, The validity of safety measures for food contaminated with radioactive materials, 2012
  • China-Japan-Korea International Conference on Mathematical Biology, Possible effects of ocean acidification on a phytoplankton-pH feedback, 2012
  • 2012 International Mathematica Symposium, Probabilistic risk assessment for food contamination, 2012
  • Third International Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 world, Potential biological pH buffering effect and regime shift, 2012
  • International Society for Environmental Biogeochemistry Short Course, Mathematical model for the dynamics of chemolithotrophic bacteria, 2012
  • 2011
  • 2011
  • 2011
  • 2011
  • 2011
  • JSMB Annual Meeting 2011, The validity of safety measures for food contaminated with radioactive materials, 2011
  • Annual Meeting of GSJ 2011, The effect of zinc on aquatic microbial ecosystems and the degradation of dissolved organic matter, 2011
  • The effect of zinc on aquatic microbial ecosystems and the degradation of dissolved organic matter, 2011
  • 2010
  • 2010
  • 2010
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2009
  • 2009
  • Advanced Course and Conference on the Mathematical Biology: Modelling and Differential Equations, Teasing out the non-linearity in the POPs-phytoplankton bioconcentration processes, 2009
  • 2008
  • 2008
  • 2008
  • 2008
  • Interdisciplinary Symposium on Environmental Sciences: To Establish an Asian Network of Environmental Researchers, Puzzling out the non-linearity in the POPs-phytoplankton bioconcentration processes, 2008
  • 2007
  • 2007
  • 2007
  • 2007
  • Joint Annual Meetings of The Society for Mathematical Biology and The Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology - 2007, Coexistence introducing regulation of environmental conditions, 2007
  • ECEM’07 The 6th European Conference on Ecological Modelling, The enhancement of nitrification in the presence of herbivores, 2007
  • 2006
  • 2006
  • 2006
  • International Workshop on Ecological Informatics of Chaos and Complex Systems, The mechanism of negative feedback on selection for environment-altering species from a standpoint of the competition theory, 2006
  • Japanese-Korean Joint Meeting for Mathematical Biology, Stabilization of environmental conditions introduced by environmental- altering traits of competing species, 2006
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 2003
  • 2003
  • Goldschmidt Conference, Seasonal change in Eh & pH condition of natural water and consistency between Fe and Ce concentrations, 2003
  • 2002
  • Poster presentation, 16 Mar. 2024 - 21 Mar. 2024
  • Oral presentation, 16 Mar. 2024 - 21 Mar. 2024
  • Poster presentation
  • Oral presentation, 17 Mar. 2023 - 21 Mar. 2023
  • Nominated symposium
  • Nominated symposium, 09 Mar. 2023 - 10 Mar. 2023
  • Nominated symposium, 06 Mar. 2023 - 08 Mar. 2023
  • Nominated symposium
  • Public discourse
  • Oral presentation, 07 Sep. 2022 - 09 Sep. 2022
  • Oral presentation, 05 Sep. 2022 - 07 Sep. 2022
  • Oral presentation, 14 Mar. 2022 - 19 Mar. 2022

Research Projects

  • 基盤研究(B), 01 Apr. 2024 - 31 Mar. 2028, 24K01844, 底質電位の時系列データを用いた沿岸底質環境の「見える化」と変動予測技術の開発, 伊藤 真奈; 瀬戸 繭美; 板井 啓明; 伊藤 克敏, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 国立研究開発法人水産研究・教育機構, 18460000, 14200000, 4260000, kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), 01 Apr. 2024 - 31 Mar. 2026, 24H01514, Elucidation of microbial community functions for high-resolution biogeochemical process prediction, 瀬戸 繭美, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Nara Women's University, 10400000, 8000000, 2400000, kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), 01 Apr. 2023 - 31 Mar. 2025, 23H04652, Exploration of theoretical planetary ecology in the CO world., 瀬戸 繭美, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Nara Women's University, 6500000, 5000000, 1500000, kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 01 Apr. 2022 - 31 Mar. 2025, 22K06390, Toward an integrated theory of the relationship between chemotrophic microbial communities and free energy, 瀬戸 繭美, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Nara Women's University, 4160000, 3200000, 960000, kaken
  • Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2024, Principal investigator, 太陽光動力ビオトープの設置とカーボンニュートラル・生態学の教育・研究への活用, 遊佐陽一; 篠原隆一郎; 吉田和弘; 片野泉, 公益財団法人岩谷直治記念財団, 第49回 (2022年度) 岩谷科学技術研究助成
  • 基盤研究(B), 01 Apr. 2019 - 31 Mar. 2023, 19H04234, 海洋酸性化に対する海藻藻場生態系のエネルギーフローの応答, 和田 茂樹; 瀬戸 繭美; AGOSTINI SYLVAIN; 今 孝悦; 佐藤 雄飛; BENJAMIN HARVEY; 大森 裕子, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(B), 筑波大学, 17290000, 13300000, 3990000, 本プロジェクトでは式根島CO2シープを利用し、光合成・生食連鎖・腐食連鎖のそれぞれの過程を解析した。
    光合成:海中に付着基板を設置して自然の付着藻類群集を得た上でその光合成速度を測定したところ、藻類群集の光合成速度は海洋酸性化の進行に伴い増大した。一方で、藻類バイオマスには大きな変化が認められない。光合成とバイオマスの不一致には、高CO2海域で優占する単細胞の藻類が関与している。通常海域は仮根で強く付着する大型藻類が優占するが、高CO2海域は粘液で緩く付着する単細胞藻類が優占するため、藻体バイオマスが容易に脱離し、エネルギーが藻場外に輸送される。
    生食連鎖と腐食連鎖:藻類の葉上に生息する動物と脱離して海底を漂流する藻体上の動物群集を解析した。その結果、量的パラメーター(総個体数)に関しては、全ての試料においてCO2濃度の違いに対応する有意な差は認められなかった。葉上の動物の種数は高CO2環境下で有意に減少したが、脱離した藻体上の動物相の種数に有意な変化は認められない。すなわち、生食連鎖の起点となる葉上の動物群集においてのみ、生物多様性が低下する。さらに、PERMANOVAを用いて群集組成を比較したところ、春~夏(高バイオマス季)・秋~冬(低バイオマス季)の両シーズンでCO2濃度に対する群集組成の有意な変化が認められたが、脱離藻体上においては春~夏シーズンのみで有意な変化が認められた。これらの結果は、海洋酸性化が生食連鎖と腐食連鎖に異なる影響を及ぼすことを意味する。しかし、量的パラメーターに影響が見られないことは、高次栄養段階のエネルギーフローへの影響は限定的であることを示唆している。
    さらに、生態系の変化を説明するため、数理モデルを構築した解析を行った。海藻、微細藻、サンゴの3つのプレーヤーからなる生態系モデルにより、生物群間の競争関係が生態系のレジームシフトを引き起こすことが示された。, Competitive research funding, kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 01 Apr. 2019 - 31 Mar. 2022, 19K06853, Principal investigator, Theoretical understanding of the population dynamics and evolution of chemotrophs under the limitation of metabolic energy acquisition per redox reaction., Seto Mayumi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Nara Women's University, 2340000, 1800000, 540000, The fundamental ecological theories have been developed based on observations of the Earth's surface ecosystems (e.g., terrestrial and coastal ecosystems). meanwhile, the deep subsurface environments also harbor enormous biomass, in which bacteria and archaea support primary production. The amount of energy available in the deep sea is far less than that available in surface ecosystems. In this study, we conducted a theoretical study using a population dynamics model to understand microbial communities and ecosystems that are independent of light as an energy source. The results revealed that microorganisms increase not only the reaction rate but also the energy conversion efficiency by passing metabolites to other microorganisms., Competitive research funding, kaken
  • Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2021, Principal investigator, 環境トークバトルゲーム「がちかん」を用いた対話型環境教育・コミュニケーションプログラムの開発と実践, 瀬戸 繭美, 公益財団法人 科学技術融合振興財団, 公益財団法人 科学技術融合振興財団 平成30年度(2018年度) 調査研究助成, 0, 0, 0, Competitive research funding, rm:social_contribution
  • Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2020, Principal investigator, 環境教育ディベートゲーム「がちかん」を用いた環境コミュニケーションの実践, 瀬戸 繭美, 公益財団法人日本環境教育機構, 公益財団法人 日本環境教育機構 平成 30 年度助成金, 0, 0, 0, Competitive research funding, rm:social_contribution
  • Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 2011 - 2013, 23770024, Theoretical explanations for the microbial effects on physicochemical environmental conditions from the stand point of Ecology, Geochemistry, and Evolution., SETO Mayumi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Nara Women's University, 4550000, 3500000, 1050000, The objective of this study was to theoretically explore the biological effects on physicochemical environmental conditions from the stand point of ecology, evolution, and geochemistry. Mathematical models describing microbial ecosystems were analytically and numerically examined to compare the behavior of the models with and without microbial effects on environmental conditions (pH, concentrations of nutrients and heavy metals, and Gibbs free energy etc.) . The results indicated that microbial effects on environmental conditions affect ecosystem stability and population extinction risk. Furthermore, microbial activities may control fluxes and speciation of redox species, and consequently the Gibbs energy of ecosystems., kaken_url
  • 特別研究員奨励費, 2006 - 2007, 06J01285, 環境状態-生物選択-資源の3要素の相互作用から生じる自己調節フィードバックモデル, 瀬戸 繭美, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業 特別研究員奨励費, 九州大学, 1900000, 1900000, 本年度の研究概要
    本研究では、生態系に生物が存在することによって環境状態の変動が外的撹乱から予測されるよりも小さくなることに着目し、その機序を解き明かすことを目的として数理モデルを用いた解析を行ってきた。生態学の分野において生物が物理化学的環境状態に寄与することでその状態に安定性をもたらしうることに着目したモデル研究はほとんどない。申請者は申請当初、モデル研究の拡張に際して、生物や資源の数を増やすことや生物のパラメタに進化を導入することを考えていたが、系の本質的な理解のために数学的解析が重要であることを認識し、まず2種1資源1環境系の解析を試みた。
    その結果、生物が環境に影響を及ぼすことで安定な共存点が現れ、共存が生じることで環境(気温やpH)が外部の撹乱に全く依存せず一定に制御されることが数学的に示された。この結果は2007年にJournal of Theoretical Biologyに掲載された。その後、微生物培養槽モデル(ケモスタットモデル)においてシアノバクテリアとpHが相互作用関係にある系を数理モデルで検証した結果、いくつかの条件が満たされれば1種の微生物でさえもpHの安定制御効果をもたらしうることが示された(これは現在投稿準備中である)。またこの研究からは環境制御効果は外的撹乱が大きくなりすぎると一気に失われてしまい、生態系の崩壊を招く危険性をはらんでいることがわかった。人間活動による外的な環境撹乱(e.x.温暖化、酸性降下物の上昇)が大きくなる昨今、生物がどのようにこれに応答し制御しうるかを知ることは非常に重要な課題であると考えられる。, kaken
  • Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2025, 22K06390, Principal investigator, 化学合成微生物群集と自由エネルギーの関係についての統合的理論構築

■Ⅲ.社会連携活動実績

1.公的団体の委員等(審議会、国家試験委員、他大学評価委員,科研費審査委員等)

  • 日本数理生物学会, 運営委員, Jan. 2023 - Present, Society
  • 奈良県地球温暖化防止活動推進センター, 運営委員, Apr. 2022 - Present, Autonomy
  • 日本地球惑星科学連合・地球生命科学セクション, ボードメンバー, Apr. 2021 - Present, Society
  • 日本地球化学会, 地球化学編集委員会, Apr. 2016 - Present
  • 日本地球化学会, 理事, Sep. 2021 - Aug. 2023, Society
  • 日本生態学会近畿地区会, 会計担当, Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2022, Society
  • 日本地球化学会, JpGU学協会プログラム委員, Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2021, Society
  • 奈良県保健研究センター及び奈良県景観・環境総合センター, 調査研究外部評価委員, Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2021, Autonomy
  • 「おしえてECOキッズ!」選考委委員, Sep. 2022 - Dec. 2022