Research Associate (Associate Professor) – Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Dept. of Applied Molecular Bioscience, April 2007 – March 2011.

The topics of research are:

Discovery of novel autonomous replication sequences from the yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus.
Yeast cells spontaneous transformation.
Fuel ethanol fermentation.
Eukaryotic chromosomal dynamics.

Visiting Scientist– Hiroshima University, Graduate of Science, Dept. of Mathematical and Life Sciences, 2005 – 2007.

Directed research project for new technology-based development of gas-gas converting denitrifying plants cells through genetic engineering processes.

JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow – Hiroshima University, Graduate of Science, Dept. of Mathematical and Life Sciences, 2003 – 2005.

Molecular engineering of fungal denitrification pathway into plant cells.

Post-doctoral Research Fellow – Yamaguchi University, Dept. of Biological Sciences, 2001 – 2003.

Worked on Bombyx mori chitinase and strawberry β–1,3–glucanase enzymes purification and molecular characterization as well as their potential use as biopesticides .