Mike Jones
Yoshiki Sasai
Jim Smith
Gerald
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Ueno
John
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Akihito
Yamamoto |
Akihito Yamamoto
Akihito Yamamoto gained
his D.D.S Ph.D from Nagasaki University Graduate School in
1992 for his study of the role of gangliosides in neural
development. After three years as assistant professor at
the Nagasaki University School of Dentistry, Dr. Yamamoto
then took a postdoctoral fellowship in the De Robertis lab
at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995. Returning
to Japan in 1999 Dr. Yamamoto was appointed as an assistant
professor in the Department of Morphogenesis, Institute of
Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University School
of Medicine, before moving to the Vertebrate Body Plan group
under Shinichi Aizawa at the CDB in 2001.
Dr. Yamamoto’s current
research centers on vertebrate head organization and, more
specifically, signaling regulation of early vertebrate morphogenesis.
His recent work on Shisa,
a factor that suppresses protein maturation of Wnt and Fgf
receptor in the endoplasmic reticulum, presented a novel
role of endoplasmic reticulum in the early vertebrate embryogenesis. |
