Table of Contents 2015

Volume 31, 2015

Annual Reports of the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases Osaka University describes staffs, students, subjects and lists of published papers in 2015.

DIRECTOR / Eisuke Mekada (-Oct 30, 2015), Yoshiharu Matsuura (Oct 31, 2015-)

VICE DIRECTOR / Yoshiharu Matsuura (-Oct 30, 2015), Masato Okada (Oct 31, 2015-)

DIVISION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

• Department of Molecular Bacteriology / Yasuhiko Horiguchi
• Department of Viral Infections / Tatsuo Shioda
• Department of Molecular Virology / Yoshiharu Matsuura
• Department of Pharmacotherapy
• Department of Immunoparasitology / Masahiro Yamamoto

DIVISION OF HOST DEFENSE

• Department of Molecular Immunology / Hitoshi Kikutani
• Department of Immunoregulation / Taroh Kinoshita
• Department of Host Defense / Shizuo Akira
• Department of Cell Biology / Eisuke Mekada
• Department of Immunochemistry / Hisashi Arase

DIVISION OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

• Department of Molecular Microbiology / Eiji Hara (from April 1, 2015-)
• Department of Molecular Genetics / Hiroshi Nojima
• Department of Oncogene Research / Masato Okada
• Department of Signal Transduction / Nobuyuki Takakura
• Department of Cellular Regulation / Hiroaki Miki

SPECIAL RESEARCH FACILITIES

RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFECTIONS DISEASE CONTROL / Toshihiro Horii

• Department of Bacterial Infections / Tetsuya Iida (from April 1, 2015-)
• Department of Molecular Protozoology / Toshihiro Horii
• Department of Virology

GENOME INFORMATION RESEARCH CENTER / Teruo Yasunaga

• Department of Experimental Genome Research / Masahito Ikawa
• Department of Genome Informatics / Teruo Yasunaga
• Department of Infection Metagenomics / Toshihiro Horii

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES / Toshihiro Horii

Department of Special Pathogens:

• Laboratory of Clinical Research on Infectious Diseases 1 / Wataru Kamitani
• Laboratory of Clinical Research on Infectious Diseases 2 / Yukihiro Akeda (closed at March 31, 2015)
• Laboratory of Infection Cell Biology / Yukako Fujinaga (closed at July 31, 2015)
• Laboratory of Viral Infection (closed at March 31, 2015/ Eiji Morita / Keisuke Tabata

Department of Infectious Disease Control

• Laboratory of Genomic Research on Pathogenic Bacteria / Tetsuya Iida (closed at March 31, 2015)
• Laboratory of Combined Research on Microbiology and Immunology / Hiroki Nagai
• Laboratory of Viral Replication / Takeshi Kobayashi

Pathogenic Microbes Repository Unit / Tetsuya Iida

ANIMAL RESOURCE CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES / Masahito Ikawa

DNA-CHIP DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES / Hiroshi Nojima

CENTER FOR GENETIC ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL RESPONSES / Masahito Ikawa (closed at March 31, 2015)

OFFICE OF COMBINED PROGRAM ON MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY / Yoshiharu Matsuura

• Research Promotion Group / Yoshiko Murakami
• Education Promotion Group (Chromatin Biochemistry Research Group) / Hodaka Fujii

RESEARCH ALLIANCE LABORATORIES

BIKEN INNOVATIVE VACCINE RESEARCH ALLIANCE LABORATORIES / Koichi Yamanishi(Established in October 1, 2014)

• Vaccine Creation Project / Yasuo Yoshioka
• Mucosal Vaccine Project / Shintaro Sato
• Vaccine Dynamics Project / Taiki Aoshi

RESEARCH COLLABORATION CENTER IN OVERSEAS

THAILAND-JAPAN RESEARCH COLLABORATION CENTER ON EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING INFECTIONS / Naokazu Takeda

• Section of Bacterial Infections / Shigeyuki Hamada
• Section of Viral Infections / Naokazu Takeda

MAHIDOL-OSAKA CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES / Tatsuo Shioda

BIKEN ENDOWED DEPARTMENT OF DENGUE VACCINE DEVELOPMENT / Eiji Konishi

COMMON RESEARCH FACILITIES

• Central Instrumentation Laboratory / Hiroaki Miki
• Radiosotope Laboratory / Hiroaki Miki
• Central Laboratory for Biological Hazardous Microbes / Tatsuo Shioda
• Library / Hiroaki Miki

OTHER RESEARCH GROUP

• Germ Cell Group / Masami Nozaki
• Laboratory of Genome Research / Takeshi Miwa

Published by Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.