Dr. Go Furusawa is a marine microbiologist currently working at the Centre for Chemical Biology (CCB), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He started on research against a unique bacterial group, bacterial predator, isolated from marine environments at Kagoshima University, Japan. The research topic has caught his attention. After he graduated with a Ph.D. in Fisheries Sciences at Kagoshima University in 2006, he joined Prof. Patricial L. Hartzell’s lab at the University of Idaho, USA, as a postdoctoral fellow to continue the investigation of a bacterial predator. In her lab, he studied a soil bacterial predator, Myxococcus xanthus, and its life cycle. After five years, he moved and joined CCB, USM as a postdoctoral fellow to study marine bacterial predators. He isolated several marine filamentous bacteria belonging to the family Saprospiraceae from a coastal area of Penang, Malaysia, that could exhibit robust predatory activity on Gram-negative bacteria. His other research topics are the isolation and identification of novel bacterial species from marine and mangrove environments in Malaysia, polysaccharide-degrading bacteria, and biosorption for wastewater treatment. In 2017, he became a senior lecturer in CCB, USM and a leader of the environmental microbiology unit in CCB. He is also a supervisor of CCB Microbial Diversity Library (CCB-MBL).

His current research topics are (1) Elucidation of predatory mechanisms of marine filamentous bacteria against the causative agent of shrimp disease, Vibrio parahaemolyticus; (2) Investigation of the polysaccharide-utilization pathway of a marine bacterium, Sacchaobesus litroralis, which is a novel genus proposed by his group.