• News

    2022/01/18: A new research article was published at FEBS Letters.

    2021/08/17: A new research article was published at mBio.

    2021/06/05: Our latest article was introduced in PNAS COMMENTARY.

    2021/06/03: Our latest article was featured as In Brief in Nature Reviews Microbiology.

    2021/05/18: A new research article was published at PNAS.

  • Publications

    • 12 peer-reviewed articles, including 5 first-author papers

    Peer-reviewed papers

    1. Yahiro Mukai, Masayuki Horie, Shohei Kojima, Junna Kawasaki, Ken Maeda, Keizo Tomonaga. An endogenous bornavirus‐like nucleoprotein in miniopterid bats retains the RNA‐binding properties of the original viral protein. FEBS Letters, 2022, DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.14290
    2. Junna Kawasaki*, Shohei Kojima, Keizo Tomonaga, Masayuki Horie* (*: corresponding authors). Hidden viral sequences in public sequencing data and warning for future emerging diseases. mBio, Volume 12, Issue 4, e01638-21, 2021, DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01638-21
    3. Junna Kawasaki, Shohei Kojima, Yahiro Mukai, Keizo Tomonaga, Masayuki Horie. 100-My history of bornavirus infections hidden in vertebrate genomes. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 118, Issue 20, e2026235118, 2021, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2026235118
    4. Masashi Iwamoto, Yukino Shibata, Junna Kawasaki, Shohei Kojima, Yung-Tsung Li, Shingo Iwami, Masamichi Muramatsu, Hui-Lin Wu, Kazuhiro Wada, Keizo Tomonaga, Koichi Watashi, Masayuki Horie, Identification of novel avian and mammalian deltaviruses provides new insights into deltavirus evolution, Virus Evolution, Volume 7, Issue 1, veab003, 2021, DOI: 10.1093/ve/veab003
    5. Minh Ha Ngo, Takehisa Soma, Hwa-Young Youn, Taiji Endo, Isaac Makundi, Junna Kawasaki, Ariko Miyake, Bui Thi To Nga, Huyen Nguyen, MaríaCruz Arnal, Daniel Fernández de Luco, RMC Deshapriya, Shingo Hatoya, Kazuo Nishigaki. Distribution of infectious endogenous retroviruses in mixed-breed and purebred cats. Archives of Virology, Volume 165, pp157-167, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s00705-019-04454-z
    6. Minh Ha Ngo, MaríaCruz Arnal, Ryosuke Sumi, Junna Kawasaki, Ariko Miyake, Chris K Grant, Takeshige Otoi, Daniel Fernández de Luco, Kazuo Nishigaki. Tracking the fate of endogenous retrovirus segregation in wild and domestic cats. Journal of virology, Volume 93, Issue 24, e01324-19, 2019. DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01324-19
    7. Ariko Miyake*, Junna Kawasaki*, Ha Ngo, Isaac Makundi, Yutaro Muto, Arshad H Khan, Desmond J Smith, Kazuo Nishigaki (*: equally contributed). Reduced folate carrier: an entry receptor for a novel feline leukemia virus variant. Journal of virology,  Volume 93, Issue 13, e00269-19, 2019. DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00269-19 
    8. Junna Kawasaki and Kazuo Nishigaki. Tracking the Continuous Evolutionary Processes of an Endogenous Retrovirus of the Domestic Cat: ERV-DC. Viruses, Volume 10, Issue 4, 179, 2018. DOI: 10.3390/v10040179
    9. Junna Kawasaki, Maki Kawamura, Yoshiharu Ohsato, Jumpei Ito and Kazuo Nishigaki. Presence of a Shared 5'-Leader Sequence in Ancestral Human and Mammalian Retroviruses and Its Transduction into Feline Leukemia Virus. Journal of Virology,  Volume 91, Issue 20, e00829-17, 2017. DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00829-17
    10. Kyohei Kuse, Jumpei Ito, Ariko Miyake, Junna Kawasaki, Shinya Watanabe, Isaac Makundi, Minh Ha Ngo, Takeshige Otoi, and Kazuo Nishigaki. Existence of Two Distinct Infectious Endogenous Retroviruses in Domestic Cats and Their Different Strategies for Adaptation to Transcriptional Regulation. Journal of Virology, Volume 90, Issue 20, pp 9029–9045, 2016. DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00716-16
    11. Ariko Miyake, Shinya Watanabe, Takahiro Hiratsuka, Jumpei Ito, Minh Ha Ngo, Isaac Makundi, Junna Kawasaki, Yasuyuki Endo, Hajime Tsujimoto, Kazuo Nishigaki. Novel feline leukemia virus interference group based on the env gene. Journal of Virology,  Volume 90, Issue 9, pp 4832-4837, 2016. DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03229-15
    12. Jumpei Ito, Takuya Baba, Junna Kawasaki, and Kazuo Nishigaki. Ancestral Mutations Acquired in Refrex-1, a Restriction Factor against Feline Retroviruses, during its Cooption and Domestication. Journal of Virology, Volume 90, Issue 3, pp 1470–1485, 2016. DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01904-15

    Preprints

  • Presentations

    International conferences

    1. ○Junna Kawasaki, Shohei Kojima, Yahiro Mukai, Keizo Tomonaga, Masayuki Horie. 100-My history of bornavirus infections hidden in vertebrate genomes. The 27th East Asia Joint Symposium. Virtual, Oct 28, 2021. (Poster presentation)
    2. ○Junna Kawasaki, Shohei Kojima, Yahiro Mukai, Dong-Yun Kim, Keizo Tomonaga, Masayuki Horie. Comprehensive identification of endogenous bornavirus-like elements reshaped the long-term evolutionary history of bornaviruses. The 3rd Korea-Japan International Symposium for Transposable Elements. Busan, Korea, May 13, 2019. (Invited, oral presentation)
    3. ○Junna Kawasaki, Maki Kawamura, Yoshiharu Ohsato, Jumpei Ito, Kazuo Nishigaki. Presence of a Shared 5'-Leader Sequence in Ancestral Human and Mammalian Retroviruses and Its Transduction into Feline Leukemia Virus. The 30th International Workshop on Retroviral Pathogenesis, Hyogo, Japan, Oct 12, 2018. (Oral presentation, reviewed)

    Internal conferences (only in English sessions)

    1. ○Junna Kawasaki, Shohei Kojima, Keizo Tomonaga, Masayuki Horie. Hidden viral sequences in public sequencing data and warning for future emerging diseases. The 67th annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Virology, Virtual, November 2021. (Poster presentation, reviewed)

    2. ○Junna Kawasaki, Shohei Kojima, Yahiro Mukai, Keizo Tomonaga, Masayuki Horie. Comprehensive analysis of viral fossil records to infer the history of RNA viral infections on a geological timescale. The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Online, December 2020. (Invited, oral presentation)

    3. ○Junna Kawasaki, Shohei Kojima, Yahiro Mukai, Keizo Tomonaga, Masayuki Horie. Systematic analysis of endogenous bornavirus-like elements to track the long-term evolutionary history of bornaviruses. The 67th annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Virology, Tokyo, Japan, October 2019. (Oral presentation, reviewed)

    4. ○Junna Kawasaki, Keizo Tomonaga, Masayuki Horie. Systematic transcriptome analyses of non-retroviral endogenous viral elements in primates and muroid animals. The 66th annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Virology, Kyoto, Japan, October 2018. (Poster presentation, reviewed)

    5. ○Junna Kawasaki, Maki Kawamura, Jumpei Ito, Kazuo Nishigaki. Presence of a Shared 5'-Leader Sequence in Ancestral Human and Mammalian Retroviruses and its Transduction into Feline Leukemia Virus. The 65th annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Virology, Osaka, Japan, October 2017. (Oral presentation, reviewed)

  • Research interests

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    Virology

    Endogenous viruses, viral metagenomics analysis

    • Tracing of a long-term evolutionary history of viruses.
    • Elucidating viral diversity by viral metagenomics.
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    Bioinformatics

    Genomics, Evolutionary biology

    • Coding programs using Python, R, and Bash, mainly.
    • The next challenge is tool development.

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