Table of Contents 2016

Volume 32, 2016

Annual Reports of the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases Osaka University describes staffs, students, subjects and lists of published papers in 2016.

DIRECTOR / Yoshiharu Matsuura

VICE DIRECTOR / Masato Okada

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 (closed at March 31, 2016)
• 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
• 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
• Department of Molecular Protozoology / Toshihiro Horii
• Department of Virology / Takeshi Kobayashi (from December 1, 2016)

GENOME INFORMATION RESEARCH CENTER / Masahito Ikawa

• Department of Experimental Genome Research / Masahito Ikawa
• Department of Genome Informatics / Teruo Yasunaga (closed at March 31, 2016)
• Department of Genome Informatics / Daron M. Standley (from November 1, 2016)
• Department of Infection Metagenomics / Toshihiro Horii

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES / Tetsuya Iida

Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology:

• Laboratory of Clinical Research on Infectious Diseases / Wataru Kamitani
• Laboratory of Combined Research on Microbiology and Immunology / Hiroki Nagai

Department of Pathogen Detection and Identification

• Laboratory of Pathogen Detection and Identification / Shota Nakamura (Established in April 1, 2016)

Department of Vaccine Development

• 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

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

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

RESEARCH COLLABORATION CENTER IN OVERSEAS

Research Collaboration Center for Infectious Diseases / Tatsuo Shioda

THAILAND-JAPAN RESEARCH COLLABORATION CENTER ON EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING INFECTIONS / Masashi Tatsumi

• Section of Bacterial Infections / Shigeyuki Hamada
• Section of Viral Infections / Naokazu Takeda (Until -March 31, 2016), Masashi Tatsumi (From April 1, 2016-)

DOMESTIC LABORATORIES

• Section of Bacterial Drug Resistance Research / Shigeyuki Hamada (Established in April 1, 2016)
• Section of Antiviral Research / Tatsuo Shioda (Established in April 1, 2016)

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 / Tetsuya Iida

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.