| Career Summary |
March, 1994: BEng, University of Tokyo
March, 1996: MSci, Graduate School of Chemistry and Biotechnology, University of Tokyo
March, 1999: PhD, Graduate School of Chemistry and Biotechnology, University of Tokyo
April, 1999 - July, 2000: Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Ecole de Polytechnique (Paris, France)
August, 2000 - May, 2010: Assistant professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
June, 2010 - present: Associate professor, Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
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| Educational Activities |
Graduate school: Practice in Medical Genome Sciences
Undergraduate School: Molecular and Cellular Biology II
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| Research Activities |
Protein synthesis in eukaryote (mammalian mitochondria)
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Literature
1) Tsuboi M., Morita H., Nozaki Y., Akama K., Ueda T., Ito K., Nierhaus K. H., and Takeuchi N.: EF-G2mt is an Exclusive Recycling Factor in Mammalian Mitochondrial Protein Synthesis. Molecular Cell (2009) 28, 502-10.
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| Other Activities |
Japanese Society of Biochemistry, Japanese Society of Molecular Biology, The RNA Society of Japan, The Japanese Society of Mitochondrial Research and Medicine
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| Future Plan |
Translational control in biology and medicine.
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| Messages to Students |
The ultimate verification of life is to reconstitute it using the purified elements. Life should be explained in terms of bio-chemistry.
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