Research Research Sections: Pollution and Environmental Management

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Dr. Chakriya Sansupa 
Degree: Ph.D. (Applied Microbiology )
Email: csansu@kku.ac.th
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  Chakriya’s research interests lie in soil and microbial ecology. She loves exploring the hidden world of microbiomes, investigating how these microbial communities, their functions, and environmental factors work together to build ecosystem health and resilience. She is also passionate about using statistics and bioinformatics to analyze and visualize data, which helps unlock and communicate complex ecological relationships. Her research focuses on environmental microbiomes, soil ecology and eDNA-based analysis. Chakriya has been working on soil and forest restoration, covering topics such as soil properties, respiration, enzyme activities, and “soil microbiome”. While her primary focus is on soil microbiomes, her microbiome research also extends to other environments, including the air, plastisphere, plants, gut and marine ecosystem.
Research projects
Collaborations
Soil microbiome and forest restoration in Nan province, Northern Thailand

Forest restoration research unit (FORRU), Chiang Mai University, Thailand 

Comparative Metagenomic Study of Marine Microbiomes for Sustainable Investigation of Biosynthetic Potential, Conservation, and Biodiversity along Spatial Gradients in the Eastern Sea Coast of Thailand

 Burapha University, Thailand

 Comparison of soil microbial communities in opencast limestone mine and mine rehabilitation sites (PhD thesis)  Chiang Mai University, Thailand in joint research collaboration with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany

ผลงานตีพิมพ์ (Selected publications)

Total publications = 19, H-index = 12 (Scopus; updated Oct, 2025) 

1. Yabueng, N.#, Sansupa, C.#, Noirungsee, N., Kraisitnitikul, P., Chansuebsri, S., Janta, R., ... & Chantara, S. (2024). Characterization of Airborne Microbial Communities in Northern Thailand: Impacts of Smoke Haze Versus Non-Haze Conditions. Environmental Pollution, 125302. (co-first author) 

2. Sansupa, C., Suphaphimol, N., Nonthijun, P., Ronsuek, T., Yimklan, S., Semakul, N., ... & Disayathanoowat, T. (2023). Life on the wall: the diversity and activity of microbes on 13th–century AD. Lan Na mural painting. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1220901. 

3. Sansupa, C., Purahong, W., Nawaz, A., Wubet, T., Suwannarach, N., Chantawannakul, P., ... & Disayathanoowat, T. (2022). Living fungi in an opencast limestone mine: who are they and what can they do?. Journal of Fungi, 8(10), 987. 

4. Sansupa, C., Fareed Mohamed Wahdan, S., Disayathanoowat, T., & Purahong, W. (2021). Identifying hidden viable bacterial taxa in tropical forest soils using amplicon sequencing of enrichment cultures. Biology, 10(7), 569. 

5. Sansupa, C., Purahong, W., Wubet, T., Tiansawat, P., Pathom-Aree, W., Teaumroong, N., ... & Disayathanoowat, T. (2021). Soil bacterial communities and their associated functions for forest restoration on a limestone mine in northern Thailand. PLoS One, 16(4), e0248806 

6. Sansupa, C., Wahdan, S. F. M., Hossen, S., Disayathanoowat, T., Wubet, T., & Purahong, W. (2021). Can we use functional annotation of prokaryotic taxa (FAPROTAX) to assign the ecological functions of soil bacteria?. Applied Sciences, 11(2), 688. 

7. Arunrat, N., Sansupa, C., Sereenonchai, S., & Hatano, R. (2024). Short-term response of soil bacterial and fungal communities to fire in rotational shifting cultivation, northern Thailand. Applied Soil Ecology, 196, 105303. 

8. Wahdan, S. F. M., Ji, L., Schädler, M., Wu, Y. T., Sansupa, C., Tanunchai, B., ... & Purahong, W. (2023). Future climate conditions accelerate wheat straw decomposition alongside altered microbial community composition, assembly patterns, and interaction networks. The ISME Journal, 17(2), 238-251. 

9. Arunrat, N., Sansupa, C., Kongsurakan, P., Sereenonchai, S., & Hatano, R. (2022). Soil microbial diversity and community composition in rice–fish co-culture and rice monoculture farming system. Biology, 11(8), 1242. 

10. Purahong, W., Wahdan, S. F. M., Heinz, D., Jariyavidyanont, K., Sungkapreecha, C., Tanunchai, B., Sansupa, C,... & Buscot, F. (2021). Back to the future: decomposability of a biobased and biodegradable plastic in field soil environments and its microbiome under ambient and future climates. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(18), 12337-12351. 

11. Purahong, W., Sadubsarn, D., Tanunchai, B., Wahdan, S. F. M., Sansupa, C., Noll, M., ... & Buscot, F. (2019). First insights into the microbiome of a mangrove tree reveal significant differences in taxonomic and functional composition among plant and soil compartments. Microorganisms, 7(12), 585. 

งานวิจัยที่สนใจ (Research interest)

1. Environmental Microbiome
2. Soil ad microbial ecology
3. Plastisphere
4. Metagenomic and eDNA-based analysis
5. Bioinformatics and multi-omics analysis