Satoshi Ishii

Department of Soil, Water, and Climate
BioTechnology Institute

• Affiliated Graduate Programs
  • Land and Atmospheric Science
  • Water Resources Science (co-Director of Graduate Studies)
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Microbial Engineering (
  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Education
  • B.S. (Biological Chemistry), University of Tokyo, 2001
  • M.S. (Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry), Iowa State University, 2003
  • Ph.D. (Soil Science [major] and Microbial Ecology [minor]), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2007
• Position/Employment
  • Professor (2025-present), Associate Professor (2019-2025), and Assistant Professor (2015-2019), Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
  • Assistant Professor (2011-2015), Division of Environmental Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (2007-2011), Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• Selected Awards
  • Institute on the Environment Fellow, 2024
  • 3M Nontenured Facuty Award, 2018
  • Young Investigator Award, the Japanese Society for Microbial Ecology, 2015
• Professional Service
  • Senior Editor, Microbes and Environments, 2020 - present
  • Editor, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2025 - present 

• Select Publications (See Google Scholar for the full list)
  • Hamilton, K.A., Quon, H., Nisar, M.A.,  Jahne, M., Garland, J., Davis, B., Williams, C., Ashbolt, N.J., Eisenberg, J.N.S., Zhang, Q., and Ishii, S., 2025. Next generation quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA): Bigger, better, faster. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 12, 1471–1480.
  • Wang, H. and Ishii, S. 2025. Bioremediation of agricultural nitrate pollution–Challenges and opportunities. Water Res. X 29, 100410.
  • Segawa, T., Takahashi, A., Kokubun, N., and Ishii, S. 2024. Spread of antibiotic resistance genes to Antarctica by migratory birds. Sci. Total Environ. 923, 171345.
  • Wang, Z., Vishwanathan, N., Kowaliczko, S., and Ishii, S. 2023. Clarifying microbial nitrous oxide reduction under aerobic conditions: Tolerant, intolerant, and sensitive. Microbiol. Spectr. 11, e04709-22.
  • Jang, J., Xiong, X., Liu, C., Yoo, K., and Ishii, S. 2022. Invasive earthworms alter forest soil microbiomes and nitrogen cycling. Soil Biol. Biochem. 171, 108724.
  • Kobayashi, M., Zhang, Q., Segawa, T., Maeda, M., Hirano, R., Okabe, S., and Ishii, S. 2022. Temporal dynamics of Campylobacter and Arcobacter in a freshwater lake that receives fecal inputs from migratory geese. Water Res. 217, 118397.
  • Aldossari, N. and Ishii, S. 2021. Fungal denitrification revisited–Recent advancements and future opportunities. Soil Biol. Biochem. 157, 108250.
  • Segawa, T., Takeuchi, N., Mori, H., Rathnayake, R.M.L.D., Li, Z., Akiyoshi, A., Satoh, H., Ishii, S. 2020. Redox stratification within cryoconite granules influences the nitrogen cycle on glaciers. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 96, fiaa199.