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ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MICROBIAL DISEASES OSAKA UNIVERSITY

Volume 28, 2012

Director

Eisuke Mekada, Ph.D., Professor (Oct. 31, 2011-)

DIVISION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES:

Department of Molecular Bacteriology

Professor: Yasuhiko Horiguchi, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Research Associate: Shigeki Kamitani, Ph.D.
Research Associate: Hiroyuki Abe, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Aya Fukui, Ph.D.
Graduate Student: Keisuke Okada
Graduate Student: Sayaka Nishikawa

Department of Viral Infections

Professor: Tatsuo Shioda, Ph.D.
Associate Professor: Emi E. Nakayama, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Jun-ichi Sakuragi, Ph.D.
Researcher: Sayuri Sakuragi, Ph.D.

Department of Molecular Virology

Professor: Yoshiharu Matsuura, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Toru Okamoto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Takasuke Fukuhara, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Hiroto Kambara, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Hiroshi Katoh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Chikako Ono, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Takashi Motomura, M.D.
Graduate Student: Chikako Kataoka
Graduate Student: Akinori Ninomiya
Graduate Student: Mai Shiokawa
Graduate Student: Pham Ngoc Duc
Graduate Student: Takahisa Kouwaki
Graduate Student: Satomi Yamamoto

Department of Immunoparasitology

Specially Appointed Professor: Masahiro Yamamoto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Miwa Sasai, Ph.D.
Graduate Student: Naganori Kamiyama
Graduate Student: Ma Jisu
Graduate Student: Jun Ohshima

DIVISION OF HOST DEFENSE:

Department of Molecular Immunology

Professor: Hitoshi Kikutani, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor: Teruhito Yasui, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Shuhei Sakakibara, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Kentaro Morita, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Takeharu Minamitani, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Olivia Annabella Simma, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Chiau-Yuang Tsai, Ph.D.

Department of Immunoregulation

Professor: Taroh Kinoshita, Ph.D.
Associate Professor: Yusuke Maeda, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor: Yoshiko Murakami, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Morihisa Fujita, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor: Noriyuki Kanzawa, Ph.D.
Research Student: Keiko Kinoshita
Research Student: Lee Gun Hee
Research Student: Romina Theiler
Postdoctoral Fellow: Ye Tao Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Graduate Student: Jihyoun Seong, M.Sc.
Graduate Student: Tetsuya Hirata

Department of Host Defense

Professor: Shizuo Akira, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor: Taro Kawai, Ph.D.; Tatsuya Saitoh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Yutaro Kumagai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Takashi Satoh, Ph.D.
Guest Professor: Osamu Takeuchi, M.D., Ph.D.
Guest Professor: Satoshi Uematsu, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Takashi Mino
Postdoctoral Fellow: Takumi Kawasaki
Postdoctoral Fellow: Naoki Takemura
Postdoctoral Fellow: Shunsuke Teraguchi
Postdoctoral Fellow: Jyoti Bala, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Hiroki Tanaka
Postdoctoral Fellow: Mikael Martino, Ph.D.
Research Fellow: Masahiro Fukasaka
Research Fellow: Katsuhiro Nakagawa
Research Student: Guoliang Mao
Graduate Student: Tomoko Imamura
Graduate Student: Kanako Kuniyoshi
Graduate Student: Thangaraj Karuppuchamy
Graduate Student: Jian Zou
Graduate Student: Daisuke Ori
Graduate Student: Tatsuya Kozaki
Graduate Student: Michihiro Takahama
Graduate Student: Hanna Lee
Graduate Student: Sarang Tartey
Graduate Student: Surya Pandey
Graduate Student: Takeshi Kondo
Graduate Student: Takuma Misawa
Graduate Student: Takuya Uehata, M.D.
Graduate Student: Kenta Maruyama, M.D.
Graduate Student: Yuichi Kitai
Graduate Student: Jihoon Song

Department of Cell Biology

Professor: Eisuke Mekada, Ph.D.
Associate Professor: Masami Nozaki, Ph.D.
Associate Professor: Ryo Iwamoto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Hiroto Mizushima, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Takashi Nakamura, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Tomoya Hikita, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Mizuho Sato, Ph.D.
Research Fellow: Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Ph.D.
Graduate Student: Ryouji Konakawa
Graduate Student: Yuuki Numata
Graduate Student: Keisuke Suzuki

Department of Immunochemistry

Professor: Hisashi Arase, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Tadahiro Suenaga, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Masako Kohyama, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor: Kouyuki Hirayasu, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Fumiji Saito, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Jing Wang, Ph.D
Graduate Student: Jiang Yan
Graduate Student: Fuminori Arisawa
Graduate Student: Jin Hui
Graduate Student: Kazuki Kishida
Graduate Student: Yuki Tanaka

DIVISION OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Department of Molecular Genetics

Professor: Hiroshi Nojima, Ph.D.
Associate Professor: Norikazu Yabuta, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Daisuke Okuzaki, Ph.D.
Designated Researcher: Yoko Naito, Ph.D.
Researcher: Kumi Takemura
Researcher: Mayumi Mizuguchi
Research Collaborator: Daisaku Miura, Ph.D.
Graduate Student: Satomi Mukai
Graduate Student: Minami Sakurai
Graduate Student: Asako Katsuma
Graduate Student: Hirokazu Suzuki
Graduate Student: Ayumi Okamoto
Graduate Student: Shouichi Ohno
Graduate Student: Kousuke Torigata
Graduate Student: Masayuki Takemoto
Graduate Student: Yuki Ozaki
Graduate Student: Kaori Yoshida
Graduate Student: Yukihiro Nishikawa
Graduate Student: Moe Fukuzawa

Department of Oncogene Research

Professor: Masato Okada, Ph.D.
Associate Professor: Shigeyuki Nada, Ph.D.
Associate Professor: Chitose Oneyama, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Kentaro Kajiwara, Ph.D.
Graduate Student: Shunsuke Mori, M.Sc.
Graduate Student: Genki Akamatsu, M.Sc.
Graduate Student: Taeko Nagae, M.Sc.
Graduate Student: Rei Asai
Graduate Student: Yu Komiya
Graduate Student: Yuriko Yoshikawa
Graduate Student: Ayaka Kitamura
Graduate Student: Suguru Nomimura
Graduate Student: Ip Chi Yeung
Graduate Student: Rie Kokuda
Graduate Student: Yuichi Ninomiya
Graduate Student: Atsushi Kuwahara
Graduate Student: Jun Nakayama
Graduate Student: Akiko Nakayama

Department of Signal Transduction

Professor: Nobuyuki Takakura, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Hiroyasu Kidoya, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Hisamichi Naito, M.D., Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Yumi Kinugasa, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Yinglu Han, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Tomomi Mohri, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Daishi Yamakawa, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Chie Takeshita
Graduate Student: Weizhen Jia
Graduate Student: Takahiro Matsui
Graduate Student: Taku Wakabayashi
Graduate Student: Kazuhiro Takara
Graduate Student: Guriju Kawahara
Graduate Student: Gong Zhiyuan
Graduate Student: Mika Sawane
Graduate Student: Yuuji Satoh
Graduate Student: Zhang Li
Graduate Student: Ryu Kanzaki
Graduate Student: Miku Kitta
Graduate Student: Hidekazu Tahara

Department of Cellular Regulation

Professor: Hiroaki Miki, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Daisuke Yamazaki, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Yosuke Funato, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Kanami Uesugi, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Yusuke Hirata, Ph.D.

RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL:

Department of Molecular Protozoology

Professor: Toshihiro Horii, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Nobuko Arisue, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Takahiro Tougan, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor: Nirianne Palacpac Marie Q., Ph.D.
Guest Professor: Kazuyuki Tanabe, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Masanori Yagi, Ph.D.

Department of Virology

Professor: Kazuyoshi Ikuta, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Takeshi Kurosu, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Yohei Watanababe, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor: Tadahiro Sasaki, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor: Azusa Asai, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Ritsuko Koketsu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Yuji Inoue, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Yong-Gang Li, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Bai Guirong, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Mitsuhiro Nishimura, Ph.D.
Graduate Student: Aki Yamagishi, M.D.
Graduate Student: Sabar Pambudi
Graduate Student: Omokoko Magot Diata
Graduate Student: Supranee Phathanawiboon
Graduate Student: Yang Pan

GENOME INFORMATION RESEARCH CENTER:

Department of Experimental Genome Research (in conjunction with Animal Resource Center for Infectious Diseases)

Professor: Masaru Okabe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor: Takeshi Miwa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor: Masahito Ikawa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Hidetoshi Hasuwa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Naokazu Inoue, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Ayako Isotani, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor: Yuhkoh Satouh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Yoshitaka Fujihara, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Haruhiko Miyata, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Kim Yeonjoo, Ph.D.
Technical Official: Kazuhiro Kaseda, B.Sc.
Graduate Student: Takahiro Tanaka, B.Sc.
Undergraduate Student: Daisuke Mashiko

Department of Genome Informatics

Professor: Teruo Yasunaga, Ph.D.
Professor: Tatsuya Takagi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Naohisa Goto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Shota Nakamura, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Norihito Kawashita, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Norihito Kawashita, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Udayanga Chandimal de Silva, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Akifumi Yamashita, Ph.D
Specially Appointed Technical Staff: Ryuzo Azuma, Ph.D
Graduate Student: Kiyoshi Yamazaki

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES:

Department of Secial Pathogens;

Laboratory for Clinical Research on Infectious Diseases

Invited Professor: Kazunori Oishi, M.D., Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Associate Professor: Yukihiro Akeda, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Tatsuya Nakayama, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Zhenyu Piao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Dan Takeuchi, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Assistant: Yumi Hattori
Research Assistant: Yuka Koizumi
Research Assistant: Michiyo Hayakawa, Ph.D.
Research Assistant: Yasuyo Uemura
Graduate Student: Kazuyo Tamura, M.D.

Laboratory for Infection Cell Biology

Specially Appointed Professor: Yukako Fujinaga, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor: Takuhiro Matsumura, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor: Yo Sugawara, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Masahiro Yutani, Ph.D.

Laboratory of Viral Infection

Specially Appointed Associate Professor: Eiji Morita, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor: Keisuke Tabata, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Yumiko Hara
Graduate Student: Kyo Izumida
Graduate Student: Masaru Arimoto

Laboratory for Viral Pathogenesis and Immunity

Department of Infectious Disease Control;

Laboratory of Genomic Research on Pathogenic Bacteria

Specially Appointed Professor: Tetsuya Iida, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Shigeaki Matsuda, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Hirotaka Hiyoshi, Ph.D.
Graduate Student: Ryu Okada

Laboratory of combined research on microbiology and immunology

Associate Professor: Hiroki Nagai, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Associate Professor: Tomoko Kubori, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Andree M. Hubber, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Masafumi Koike, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Xuan Thanh Bui, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Researcher: Akiko Okura

PATHOGENIC MICROBES REPOSITORY UNIT;

Specially Appointed Professor: Tetsuya Iida, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Toshio Kodama
Technical Staff: Junko Matsuyama

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