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Tomonori KAWANO

Tomonori KAWANO

Title Professor
Degree Ph. D. (Agric. Sci.) (Nagoya Univ.)
Department Department of Life and Environment Engineering
E-mail kawanotom[ at ]kitakyu-u.ac.jp
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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.
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
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¨C433.
Other activities (1) Associate Editor: Plant Signaling and Behavior (Landes Sci. Ltd, USA)
(2) Professeur invit¨¦ (visiting prof.), Universit¨¦ 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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