Hosea Masaki

Hosea Masaki is a Research Fellow at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His work focuses on microbial biotechnology and drug discovery, particularly in marine environments.

Research Interests:

• Improving cultivability of marine microbiomes
• Natural product discovery from marine fungi
• Identification of antibacterial genes
• Integration of microbiological, metabolomics, genomics, and transcriptomics approaches

Research Trends: Recent publications highlight his work on co-cultivation assays for natural product discovery, secondary metabolite characterization in Arctic marine fungi, and exploring fungal diversity in low-Arctic fjords. His studies focus on bioactive compounds from uncultivable marine microbiomes and their pharmaceutical potential.

Collaborations: Active member of the Marbio analytical platform for natural products research, collaborating with international researchers like Teppo Rämä, Kine Østnes Hansen, and Yannik Karl Heinz Schneider.