The University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
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Kazushige Touhara, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
in Department of Integrated Biosciences
Making the paper in Nature
Frank Allison Linville's RH Wright Award in Olfactory Research 2006
Curriculum Vitae:
1989 B.Sc. (Department of Agricultural Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
1993 Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry (Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, U.S.A.)
1993.7~1996.1. Post doctoral fellow, Duke University Medical Center
1996.1.~1998.3. Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo, School of Medicine, Department of Neurochemistry
1998.4.~1999.3. Assistant professor, Kobe University, Biosignal Research Center
1999.4.~present Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo, Department of Integrated Biosciences
Research interest:
Our research interests include elucidation of molecular mechanisms underlying odorant and pheromone perception in both vertebrate and invertebrate. To understand how the mouse olfactory system can discriminate thousands of odorants and how mice send socio-sexual information to other individuals by using specific pheromone molecules, we have focused on structural and functional aspects of odorant and pheromone receptors expressed by olfactory and vomeronasal sensory neurons, respectively. We also investigate signal transduction mechanisms in the insect olfactory system.
Mailing address:
Kazushige Touhara
Department of Integrated Biosciences, Rm201
The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan
Tel: +81-471-36-3624, Fax: +81-471-36-3626
Email: touhara@ k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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