April 1, 2009

Name

SATO, Yukie

Position

Biodiversity Division
JSPS Research Fellow (PD)

Research activities

  I have studied on social behavior, mating behavior, distributional pattern, life history and sex ratio in social spider mites, the genus Stigmaeopsis (Acari: Tetranychidae), to explain their speciation pattern and process.

Contact

Phone : +81-29-838-8252
E-mail : satoyuky @ afffrc.go.jp

Education

March, 2004  Ph. D. in Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
March, 2001  Master in Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
March, 1999  Bachelor in Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Professional experience & research topics

April, 2009 - Present  JSPS Research Fellow (PD), National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
  • Study on speciation and maintenance in two forms of a social spider mite Stigmaeopsis miscanthi (Saito)showing different male-to-male aggression
April, 2007 - March, 2009  NIAES Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
  • Intra-guild predation between exotic predatory mites and native predatory mites in Japan
April, 2005 - March, 2007  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Agricultural Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan
  • Resistance management for sustainable use of endophyte-infected rice plants by combining refuge, chemical control, and biological control
  • Population dynamics of the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens Stal and the whitebacked planthopper, Sogatella furcifera Horvath in paddy fields: A simulation analysis
  • Population dynamics and effect of sterile insect release for eradication of the West Indian sweetpotato weevil, Euscepes postfasciatus (Fairmaire): A simulation analysis
April, 2004 - March, 2005  Research Assistant, Fruit Fly Eradication Project Office, Naha, Japan
  • Postcopulatory mounting behavior of the West Indian sweetpotato weevil, Euscepes postfasciatus (Fairmaire) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
April, 2001 - March, 2004  JSPS Research Fellow (DC1), Hokkaido University

Society memberships

Ecological Society of Japan
Japan Ethological Society
Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan
The Acarological Society of Japan
The Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology

Publication

(Original Papers)