Tomonori KAWANO
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| Degree | Ph. D. (Agric. Sci.) (Nagoya Univ.) | |
| Department | Department of Life and Environment Engineering | |
| kawanotom[ at ]kitakyu-u.ac.jp ＊Please change "[at]" to "@". |
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| Education | 1989-1994: Undergraduate program, Fac. of Agric. Sci., Miyazaki Univ., Japan. 1993-1994: Visiting student, Sch. of Biol. Sci., Univ. of East Anglia, United Kingdom. (Jan.- Aug. 1994: Research proj., Virology Dept, John Innes Centre) 1994-1996: Master course program, Grad. Sch. of Agri. Sci., Miyazaki Univ., Japan. 1996-1999: Ph. D. course, Grad. Sch. of Bioagric. Sci., Nagoya Univ., Japan. |
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| Employment History | 1999-2000: Research Scholar, Neurobiotechnol. Center, Ohio State Univ., USA. 2000-2001 : Post-Doctoral Researcher, Centre de Recherches de Nancy, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (and at Univ. de Henri Poincare), France. 2001-2003: Research Associate, Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hiroshima Univ., Japan 2003-PRESENT: Associate Prof. Univ. Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan |
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| Teaching Activities | Biochemistry, Environmental Biology | |
| Research Interest | (1) Chemical biology and Bioengineering; (2) Environmental biology; (3) Cell biology and biochemistry of plants, microbes and sometimes fishes. | |
| Publications | SEE MY PROFILE ON GOOGLE SCHOLAR 15 Book chapters: Kawano, T. and Furuichi, T. (2006) Salicylic acid as a defense-related plant hormone: Roles of oxidative and calcium signaling paths in salicylic acid biology. In: Salicylic Acid - A Plant Hormone. Springer, pp. 277-321. 86 Refereed and/or invited articles: Kawano, T. (2003) Roles of the reactive oxygen species-generating peroxidase reactions in plant defense and growth induction. Plant Cell Rep. 21 (9): 829-837. Lin, C. et al. (2005) Action of aluminum, novel TPC1-type channel inhibitor, against salicylate-induced and cold shock-induced calcium influx in tobacco BY-2 cells. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 332: 823-830. Gavrilin, M. A. et al. (2005) Site-directed mutagenesis of CCR2 identified amino acid residues in transmembrane helices 1, 2, and 7 important for MCP-1 binding and biological functions. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.327: 533-540. Kawano, T. (2007) Prion-derived copper-binding peptide fragments catalyze the generation of superoxide anion in the presence of aromatic monoamines. Int. J. Biol. Sci. 3: 57-63. Umemura, K. et al. (2009) Contribution of salicylic acid glucosyltransferase, OsSGT1, to chemically induced disease resistance in rice plants. Plant J. 57 (3): 463-472. Furukawa, S. et al. (2009) Micro-particle transporting system using galvanotactically stimulated apo-symbiotic cells of Paramecium bursaria. Z. Naturforsch. 64c: 421–433. |
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| Other activities | (1) Associate Editor: Plant Signaling and Behavior (Landes Sci. Ltd, USA) (2) Professeur invité (visiting prof.), Université de Paris 7, Paris, France (2005-2008) (3) Visiting professor, Univ. of Florence, Florence, Italy (2010-2011) (4) Vice President: Kitalkyushu Science and Research Park (KSRP) Association for LED-Applied Innovation. (5) President (Founder): Centre Franco-Japonais d'Histoire des Sciences (Kitakyushu-Paris) (6) Organizers [4th Intl. Symp. on Plant Neurobiology (May, 2008; Fukuoka, Japan); 6th Intl. Symp. on Plant Neurobiology (May, 2011; Kitakyushu, Japan)] |
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