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.
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 .
