主要業績

1. Manabu Nishizawa, Junichi Miyazaki, Akiko Makabe, Keisuke Koba, Ken Takai,Physiological and isotopic characteristics of nitrogen fixation by hyperthermophilic methanogens: Key insights into nitrogen anabolism of the microbial communities in Archean hydrothermal systems.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.04.021 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703714002634

2. K Takai, K Horikoshi (1999) Genetic diversity of archaea in deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments. Genetics 152 (4), 1285-1297

3. K Takai, DP Moser, M DeFlaun, TC Onstott, JK Fredrickson (2001) Archaeal diversity in waters from deep South African gold mines. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67 (12), 5750-5760

4. BJ Campbell, AS Engel, ML Porter, K Takai (2006) The versatile e-proteobacteria: key players in the sulphur cycle. Nature Reviews Microbiology 4, 458-468

5. K Takai, T Komatsu, F Inagaki, K Horikoshi (2001) Distribution of archaea in a black smoker chimney structure. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67 (8), 3618-3629

6. K Takai, K Nakamura, T Toki, U Tsunogai, M Miyazaki, J Miyazaki, H Hirayama … (2008) Cell proliferation at 122 C and isotopically heavy CH4 production by a hyperthermophilic methanogen under high-pressure cultivation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (31), 10949-10954.

7. K Takai, T Gamo, U Tsunogai, N Nakayama, H Hirayama, KH Nealson, K Horikoshi (2004) Geochemical and microbiological evidence for a hydrogen-based, hyperthermophilic subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystem (HyperSLiME) beneath an active deep-sea hydrothermal field. Extremophiles 8 (4), 269-282.

8. K Takai, K Nakamura, K Suzuki, F Inagaki, KH Nealson, H Kumagai (2006) Ultramafics-Hydrothermalism-Hydrogenesis-HyperSLiME (UltraH3) linkage: a key insight into early microbial ecosystem in the Archean deep-sea hydrothermal systems. Paleontological Research 10 (4), 269-282.

9. K Takai, K Nakamura (2011) Archaeal diversity and community development in deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Current opinion in microbiology 14 (3), 282-291.

受賞歴

2002年 第１回極限環境微生物学会学会奨励賞

2004年 第１回JAMSTEC分野横断研究アウォード

2006年 第１回JAMSTECシステム地球アウォード

2012年 第8回日本学術振興会賞

2012年 第8回日本学士院学術奨励賞

2012年 Change Maker of the Year 2012研究者部門グランプリ