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Curriculum Vitae
December 15, 2009
Name:
Norihiko Misawa
Date of birth:
December 18, 1957
Present Address: Research Institute for Bioresources and Biotechnology,
Ishikawa Prefectural University,
1-308, Suematsu, Nonoichi-machi, Ishikawa 921-8836, Japan
Phone:
+81-76-227-7525
Fax:
+81-76-227-7557
E-mail:
[email protected]
Education:
April 1981‐31 March 1983
Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture,
University of Kyoto
Awarded the degree of MSc at Laboratory of Biological Chemistry in
Department of Agricultural Chemistry
November 1989
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kyoto
Awarded the degree of Ph.D. for a thesis entitled "Studies on
development of a cloning vector for Zymomonas mobilis", supervised
by Professor Tohru Komano.
Research and Professional experience:
April 1983‐October 1987
Pharmaceutical Research Laboratories, Kirin Brewery Co. Ltd.,
working for metabolic engineering for the utilization of cellulose using
the ethanol-producing bacterium Zymomonas mobilis as the host.
October 1987‐December 1999
Central Laboratories for Key Technology, Kirin Brewery Co. Ltd.,
working for elucidation of carotenoid biosynthesis at the gene level
and metabolic engineering of carotenoids using recombinant microbes
and plants”.
(February 1991‐May 1992)
Visiting scientist in Laboratory of Prof. Peter Boeger and Dr. Gerhard
Sandmann, Faculty of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany, for
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collaboration of the above study.
January 2000‐September 2001
Pharmaceutical Department, Kirin Brewery Co. Ltd., working for
drug discovery of lipid-soluble ligands for human G-protein-coupled
receptors.
October 2001‐March 2008
Leader of Applied Science of Molecular Design, Marine Biotechnology
Institute, working for the production of industrially useful organic
low-molecular-weight compounds, e. g., carotenoids, sesquiterpenes
and flavonoids, by using Escherichia coli that expressed various
biocatalytic genes isolated from marine bacteria, and plants that
expressed bacterial carotenoid biosynthesis genes”.
April 2006‐present
Visiting Professor, Ishikawa Prefectural University.
April 2008‐March 2010
Senior Research Scientist, Central Laboratories for Frontier
Technology, Kirin Holdings Co. Ltd.
Study similar to that of Marine Biotechnology Institute.
April 2010-
Professor, Research Institute for Bioresources and Biotechnology,
Ishikawa Prefectural University.
Awards:
1995
Award for promising young researchers by Japan Society for
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry in “Elucidation of
carotenoid biosynthetic pathway at the gene level and metabolic
engineering of carotenoids”.
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