NOBUYUKI KANZAWA, Ph.D.
(Biochemisty, Chiba University)
Professor, Department of Materials & Life Sciences,
Faculty of Science and Technology,
Sophia University
7-1, Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-8554 Japan
E-mail:n-kanza(at)sophia.ac.jp
Plant biochemistry and molecular biology:
My research interest includes the regulatory mechanism of the seismonastic movement of Mimosa pudica, a sensitive plant. I have demonstrated that tyrosine phosphorylation of actin is involved in the drastic reorganization of actin cytoskeleton during the movement, and that water-channel proteins, aquaporins, are also involved in the sudden loss of turgor pressure, which is the trigger of the movement.
| 2014 - Present | Professor, Department of Materials and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science & Technology, Sophia University. |
| 2009 - 2013 | Associate Professor, Department of Materials and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science & Technology, Sophia University. |
| 2006 - 2008 | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science & Technology, Sophia University. |
| 1999 - 2001 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA. |
| 1996 - 2005 | Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science & Technology, Sophia University. |
| 1996 - 1996 | Research fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. |
| 2006 - Present | Sophia University in ESP class, Lecturing on English for Special Purpose in Graduated student Class, Lecturing on history and recent topics of motor proteins |
| 2004 - Present | Biochemistry class, Department of Medical Radiology, Tokyo Electronics College, Tokyo, Japan. |
| 1996 - Present | Instructor for the Biochemical Experiment class, Sophia University. |
| 1999 - 2001 | Post-Doctoral Research, Cornell University. The roles of endothelin and its receptor in cardiac development were investigated with molecular biological approaches. |
| 1993 - 1996 | Doctoral Research, Chiba University. Biochemical properties and primary structure of the myosin that isolated from Tetrahymena, a ciliated protozoan, were investigated with the view of comparative biochemistry. |
| 1991 - 1993 | Master Research, Chiba University. Invertebrate myosins were isolated using sequential column chromatography. Isolated myosins were characterized by several biochemical approaches. |
Organizing Committee member for International Symposium on Muscle Elastic Proteins. November 19 - 21, 2004, Keyaki-Hall at Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
The Japan Society of Plant Physiologists
The Japanese Biochemical Society
The American Society for Cell Biology
American Society of Plant Biologists