Toshio Iwasaki, Ph.D. (Principal Investigator)
Position: Group Leader and Lecturer
Address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Nippon Medical School
1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8602, JAPAN
(Lab) Room 3D08, 1-25-16 Nezu, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0031, JAPAN

（研究室）：　

〒113-0031　　東京都文京区根津1-25-16　大学院棟3D-08号室
日本医科大学、医学部、生化学・分子生物学（代謝・栄養学）
岩崎　俊雄

E-mail: tiwasaki(at)nms.ac.jp

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Research interests:
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Bioinorganic chemistry
生化学、生物無機化学

Brief description of the work:
Structural, functional, and evolutionary biochemistry applied to probe the active site features and catalysis in simple and complex metalloproteins in hyperthermophiles and mammals;
Engineering new Escherichia coli amino acid auxotrophic expression host strains and applying them to the metalloenzyme studies.

Education
1990 B.Sc., Biochemistry/Bacteriology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

1992 M.Sc., Biochemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

1995 Ph.D., Biochemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Thesis: "Electron transport system of the thermoacidophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. strain 7: molecular properties and evolutionary implications." (Prof. Tairo Oshima)

Employment
1995-1999 Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Nippon Medical School.

1999-present Lecturer, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Nippon Medical School.

Other Experience
Member of the (Program) Committees of the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society, 2002-2003.

(Previous) Member of the Editorial Board (~ 2016), ARCHAEA, Hindawi Publishing

Reviewer: Nature, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Biochemistry, Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Proteins, FEBS Letters, Extremophiles, and others.

2014 Nagase Science and Technology Foundation Research Award
(2014年 長瀬研究振興賞）.

1996 Seiichi Tejima Research Award (Doctoral Dissertation Award)
(1996年 手島精一記念研究賞（博士論文賞））.

主たる所属学会
日本生化学会、極限環境生物学会、ASBMB、日本Archaea研究会

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Dr. Takashi Kumasaka (JASRI/SPring-8, Japan)
Prof. Daijiro Ohmori (Juntendo University, Japan)
Prof. Akio Urushiyama (Rikkyo University, Japan)
Prof. Takeo Imai (Rikkyo University, Japan)
Prof. Kaoru Fujinaga (Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan)
Prof. Koji Tamura (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
Prof. Tairo Oshima (Institute of Environmental Microbiology,
Kyowa Kako Co., Japan)

Prof. Takeshi Nishino (Nippon Medical School, Japan;
University of Tokyo, Japan)
Prof. Hiroyuki Hori (Ehime University, Japan)
Dr. Asako Kounosu (Nippon Medical School, Japan)
Dr. Chika Kiryu (Nippon Medical School, Japan)
Prof. Ken Okamoto (Nippon Medical School, Japan)
Dr. Tomoko Nishino (Nippon Medical School, Japan)
Prof. Yoshihiro Fukumori (Kanazawa University, Japan)
Prof. Taketomo Fujiwara (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Prof. Taketoshi Uzawa (Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan)
Prof. Fumio Arisaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Prof. Masaharu Ishii (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Prof. Norio Kurosawa (Soka University, Japan)
Prof. Tetsutaro Iizuka (RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan)
Prof. Yasuhiro Isogai (Toyama Prefectural University, Japan)
Prof. Katsumi Matsuura (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)

Prof. Robert A. Scott (University of Georgia, USA)
Prof. Sergei A. Dikanov (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Dr. Rimma I. Samoilova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia;
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Prof. Antony R. Crofts (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Prof. Robert B. Gennis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Dr. Derrick R. J. Kolling (Marshall University, USA)
Dr. Myat T. Lin (Cornell University, USA)
Prof. Werner J. Geldenhuys (West Virginia University, USA)
Dr. Reinhard Kappl (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)
Dr. Judy Hirst (Medical Research Council, UK)

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