Team leader
Team Leader : Kazuo Shinozaki (Ph.D.)
Education
- March 1972
- Under Graduate Course; Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Osaka University.
- March 1977
- Graduate Course; Institute of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Nagoya University.
Position Held
- June 1978 - March 1983
- Research Associate, Department of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Genetics,
Mishima, Japan
- April 1983 - March 1986
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Nagoya University,
Nagoya, Japan
- April 1986 - March 1989
- Associate Professor, Center for Gene Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
- April 1987 - February 1989
- Visiting Scientist, Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology,
The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
- April 1989 – March 2005
- Chief Scientist (Director) of Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory
RIKEN Tsukuba Institute
- April 1993 - present
- Adjunct Professor of Tsukuba University, Institute of Biological Sciences
- October 1999 - 2005
- Project Director of Plant Functional Genomics group
RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute
- October 2003 – March 2006
- Visiting Professor, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
- April 2005 - March 2013
- Director of Plant Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute
Group Director, Gene Discovery Research Group
- December 2005 - present
- Visiting Professor, Keio University, Graduate School of Media and Politics
- April 2010 - present
- Program Director, RIKEN Biomass Engineering Program
Team Leader, Biomass Research Platform Team
- April 2013 - present
- Director, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Group Director, Gene Discovery Research Group
- April 2013 - March 2014
- Division Director, Biomass Engineering Program Cooperation Division
Selected Papers
- Shinozaki K., Ohme M., Tanaka M., Wakasugi T., Hayashida H., Matsubayashi T., Zaita N., Chunwongse J., Obokata J., Yamaguchi - Shinozaki K., Ohto C., Torazawa K., Meng B. Y., Sugita M., Deno H., Kamogashira T., Yamada K., Kusuda J., Takaiwa F., Kato A., Tohdo N., Shimada H. and Sugiura M. (1986) The complete nucleotide sequence of the tobacco chloroplast genome: its gene organization and expression, The EMBO Journal, 5, 2043-2049.
- Liu Q., Kasuga M., Sakuma Y., Abe H., Miura S., Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K. and Shinozaki K. (1998) Two transcription factors, DREB1 and DREB2, with an EREBP/AP2 DNA binding domain separate two cellular signal transduction pathways in drought- and low- temperature-responsive gene expression, respectively, in Arabidopsis, Plant Cell, 10, 1391-1406. (selected in the top 5 articles in the Plant Cell)
- Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K., and Shinozaki K. (1994) A Novel cis-acting element in an Arabidopsis gene is involved in responsiveness to drought, low-temperature, or high-salt stress, Plant Cell, 6, 251-264. (selected in the top 5 articles in the Plant Cell)
- Kasuga M., Liu Q., Miura S., Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K. and Shinozaki K. (1999) Improving plant drought, salt, and freezing tolerance by gene transfer of a single stress-inducible transcription factor, Nature Biotech., 17, 287-291.
- Shinozaki K. and Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K. (1997) Gene expression and signal transduction in water-stress response, Plant Physiology, 115, 327-334.
- Seki M., Narusaka M., Abe H., Kasuga M., Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K., Carninci P., Hayashizaki Y. and Shinozaki K. (2001) Monitoring the expression pattern of 1300 Arabidopsis genes under drought and cold stresses by using a full-length cDNA microarray, Plant Cell, 13, 61-72.
- Abe H., Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K., Urao T., Iwasaki T., Hosokawa D., and Shinozaki K. (1997) Role of Arabidopsis MYC and MYB homologs in drought-and abscisic acid-regulated gene expression, Plant Cell, 9, 1859-1868.
- Seki M., Narusaka M., Kamiya A., Ishida J., Satou M., Sakurai T., Nakajima M., Enju A., Akiyama K., Oono Y., Muramatsu M., Hayashizaki Y., Kawai J.,Carninci P., Itoh M., Ishii Y., Arakawa T., Shibata K., Shinagawa A. and Shinozaki K. (2002) Functional annotation of a full-length Arabidopsis cDNA collection, Science, 296, 141-145.
- Mizoguchi T., Irie K., Hirayama T., Hayashida N., Yamaguchi- Shinozaki K., Matsumoto K., and Shinozaki K. (1996) A gene encoding a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase is induced simultaneously with genes for a mitogen-activated protein kinase and an S6 ribosomal protein kinase by touch, cold, and water stress in Arabidopsis thaliana, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 93, 765-769.
- Hirayama T., Ohto C., Mizoguchi T., and Shinozaki K. (1995) A gene encoding a phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C is induced by dehydration and salt stress in Arabidopsis thaliana, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 92, 3903-3907.