Research Group
Faculty
Dr. BOMME GOWDA SIDDABASAVE GOWDA
Associate Professor
Laboratory for Lipid Chemistry (GOWDA lab)
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Admin/Technical Staff
We are hiring an adminstartive staff for the lab. Please do contact Dr. Gowda (研究室では事務スタッフを募集しております。お気軽にお問い合わせください。)
Current Students
Graduate School of Global Food Resources
(Dr. Gowda as Direct Supervisor)

Madhuvanahalli Sundaraswamy Punith
Country: India
Status: DC3
School: Graduate School of Global Food Resources
Research area: Discovery of novel inhibitors for sphingomylein synthase to control fatty liver disease from plant foods.
Scholarship: DX Hokkaido University

Madihalli Gangadhara Rachana
Country: India
Status: DC3
School: Graduate School of Global Food Resources
Research area: Synthesis and development of analytical method for unsaturated short-chain fatty acid esters of hydroxy fatty acids
Scholarship: EXEX Hokkaido University

MD. Abdul Malek
Country: Bangladesh
Status: DC3
School: Graduate School of Global Food Resources
Research area: Application of lipidomics to herbs and grape samples
Scholarship: EXEX Hokkaido University

Kumari Suraksha
Country: India
Status: DC2
School: Graduate School of Global Food Resources
Research area: "Goat milk based nutraceutical development for icterus control"
Scholarship: MEXT scholarship

Amai Sahana
Country: India
Status: DC1
School: Graduate School of Global Food Resources
Research area: "Isolation and characterization of Paprika bioactives for obesity control"
Scholarship: Research assistant support

ELA Sabiha Parvin
Country: Bangladesh
Status: DC1
School: Graduate School of Global Food Resources
Research area: "Application of lipidomics for investigating food spoilage mechanism and disease biomarker research"
Scholarship: EXEX Hokkaido University and JASSO.

LI SHUJIN (李 姝瑾)
Country: China
Status: Research student
Research area: "Investigating nettle tea bioactives for obesity control "

SHAO YIFEI I SHUJIN (邵 怡斐)
Country: China
Status: Research student
Research area: "Analysis of topical oils for bioactive lipid discovery"

Lydia Awinloya Nyaabire
Country: Ghana
Status: Research student
Research area: "Investigating coffee bean lipidomics"
Graduate School of Health Science
(Dr. Gowda as co-supervisor)

Inoue Nao
Country: Japan
Status: DC3
School: Graduate School of Health Sciences
Research area: Elucidating the role lysophosphatidylethanolamine in liver cancer
Scholarship: JSPS DC fellowship

Minami Yusuke
Country: Japan
Status: DC3
Research area: Lipidomics of fish and discovery of shishamo dervied anti-obesity molecules acting on lipid metabolism associated with obesity
Scholarship: JSPS DC fellowship

Liu Xinran
Country: China
Status: MC2
Research area: "Development of sensitive analytical method for cardiolipins"

Tomomi Kuno
Country: Japan
Status: MC2
Research area: "Spices and their role in controlling fatty liver disease

Seigo Sometani
Country: Japan
Status: MC2
Research area: "Lipidomics of Fish Roe and its nutritional assessments"

Yuna Masutani
Country: Japan
Status: B4
Research area: "Lipidomics of human milk-A Hokkaido mothers study"

Yuto Shigemura
Country: Japan
Status: B4
Research area: "Analysis of Plasmologens in Fish Roe"
Ex-Gradutes of Gowda LAB

Nath Lipsa Rani
PhD award (03/2025): Application of foodomics towards identification and characterization of bioactive lipids in dietary grains and herbs.
Current Position: JSPS postdoctoral researcher (Kyoto University, Japan)

Jayaprakash Jayashankar
PhD award (03/2025): Application of untargeted lipidomics in biomarker studies related to gut health, obesity, and neurodegenerative disorders
Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Ex- Members / Alumni











