Fumio Inagaki

This study analyzes microbial communities in deep subseafloor sediments, finding evolutionary stasis driven by homogeneous selection and environmental stability over 480 kyr.

The paper investigates microbial life in 64-74 Ma subseafloor igneous basement from the Louisville Seamount Chain, finding microbial biomass and specific bacterial lineages, indicating life exists in older crustal settings.

This paper introduces qSeq, a method that enables simultaneous sequencing and quantification of environmental 16S rRNA genes using stochastic labeling with random-sequence barcodes, achieving accurate copy number estimation comparable to digital PCR.