Iwanaga, Shiroh

Profile

Received BSc (1994) and PhD (1999) from Kyushu University. Promoted to Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Agriculture, Kobe University (1999); Lecturer in the Dept. of Medicine, Tottori University (2007); Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Medicine, Mie University (2009); and Professor at the Graduate School of Medical and Dental Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (2017). Appointed to current position as a professor at RIMD in 2020. 

Publication

  • 1) Improvement of CRISPR/Cas9 system by transfecting Cas9-expressing Plasmodium berghei withlinear donor template. Shinzawa N. et. al. Commun Biol. (2020) 3(1):426.
  • 2)Female-specific gene regulation in malaria parasites by an AP2-family transcription factor. Yuda M. et. Al. Mol Microbiol. (2019)113(1) 40-51.
  • 3) Global transcriptional repression: An initial and essential step for Plasmodium sexual development. Yuda M. et.al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. (2015)112(41),12824-9.
  • 4) Genome-Wide Identification of the Target Genes of AP2-O, a Plasmodium AP2-Family Transcription Factor. Kaneko I. et.al., PLoS Pathog. (2015)11(5):e1004905.
  • 5) A high-coverage artificial chromosome library for the genome-wide screening of drug-resistance genes in malaria parasites. Iwanaga S.et.al., Genome Res.(2012) 22(5):985-92.
  • 6) Functional Identification of the Plasmodium Centromere and Generation of a Plasmodium Artificial Chromosome. Iwanaga S. et.al., Cell, Host & Microbe.(2010) 7(3):245

Lab

Abe, Ryuichiro

International Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis

Akira, Shizuo

Division of Host Defense

Department of Host Defense

Arase, Hisashi

Division of Host Defense

Department of Immunochemistry

Ebina, Hirotaka

BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories

Virus Vaccine Group

Hara, Eiji

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Molecular Microbiology

Horiguchi, Yasuhiko

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Molecular Bacteriology

Horii, Toshihiro

Endowed Chair

Department of Malaria Vaccine Development

Iida, Tetsuya

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Department of Bacterial Infections

Ikawa, Masahito

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Experimental Genome Research

Ishitani, Tohru

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Homeostatic Regulation

Iwasaki, Masaharu

International Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Laboratory of Emerging Viral Diseases

Kobayashi, Takeshi

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Department of Virology

Kotani, Ai

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Regulation of Infectious Cancer

Matsuura, Yoshiharu

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Laboratory of Virus Control

Murakami, Yoshiko

Division of Host Defense

Laboratory of Immunoglycobiology

Nakamura, Shota

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Infection Metagenomics

Shioda, Tatsuo

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Viral Infections

Standley, Daron

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Genome Informatics

Suzuki, Kazuhiro

Division of Host Defense

Department of Immune Response Dynamics

Takakura, Nobuyuki

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Signal Transduction

Tsukamoto, Kentaro

International Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Laboratory of Bacterial Zoonoses

Watanabe, Tokiko

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Molecular Virology

Yamamoto, Masahiro

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Immunoparasitology

Yamasaki, Sho

Division of Host Defense

Department of Molecular Immunology

Yoshioka, Yasuo

BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories

Vaccine Creation Group