Shino Suzuki
- Areas of expertise
- An expert in the identification of functional protein tools from a variety of natural sources including extremophiles, Shino Suzuki gives the team access to a huge range of diverse functional scaffolds for use in the platform.
- Location
- Japan: RIKEN
Dr Shino Suzuki is Chief Scientist of the Geobiology and Astrobiology Laboratory at RIKEN, Japan. Her research explores subterranean microorganisms, geomicrobiology, and the evolutionary origins of life through fieldwork, microbial cultivation, physiological studies, and bioinformatics. She is particularly interested in extremophilic microbial communities inhabiting serpentinizing environments and their implications for astrobiology and early Earth biology. Her work contributes to understanding microbial adaptation, hydrogen-utilizing metabolisms, and life in extreme environments.
Within ACROPATH, Shino contributes expertise in microbial ecology, bioinformatics, and environmental microbiology relevant to interdisciplinary bioscience research.
Key publications:
Physiological and genomic features of highly alkaliphilic hydrogen-utilizing Betaproteobacteria from a continental serpentinizing site.
Suzuki S., Kuenen J., Schipper K., et al.
Nature Communications 5, 3900 (2014).
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4900
Unusual metabolic diversity of hyperalkaliphilic microbial communities associated with subterranean serpentinization at The Cedars.
Suzuki S., Ishii S., Hoshino T., et al.
ISME Journal 11, 2584–2598 (2017).
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.111
A non-methanogenic archaeon within the order Methanocellales.
Suzuki S., Ishii S., Chadwick G.L. et al.
Nature Communications 15, 4858 (2024).
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48185-5
Evolutionary flexibility of ribosome biogenesis in bacteria.
Amikura K., Ishii S., Shimizu Y., and Suzuki S.
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 42, Issue 11, November 2025.
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaf288