Hirokazu Kobayashi                 

10/2011      10/2014      10/2018      2/2024

CORRESPONDENCE:
Hirokazu Kobayashi, Ph.D.
CEO, Green Insight Japan, Inc.
e-mail: kobayashi@ginsight-jpn.com

Professor Emeritus, Visiting Professor (School of Pharmaceutical Sciences), University of Shizuoka
e-mail: hirokoba@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp

MEMBER OF SOCIETIES:
The International Society for Plant Molecular Biology (ISPMB); The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB); The Genetics Society of America (GSA); The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB); European Society For Photobiology (ESP)
The Molecular Biology Society of Japan; The Japanese Biochemical Society; The Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry; The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (JSPP), The Botanical Society of Japan

PERSONAL HISTORY:

Depicted History: Research, University management

October, 2021-March, 2023:
Director, Division for Research Strategy, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), until MEXT's "Program for Promoting the Enhancement of Research Universities" (Japanese website) terminated.

August, 2020-:
CEO, Green Insight Japan, Inc.

April, 2020-:
Visiting Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka

April, 2020-:
Professor Emeritus, University of Shizuoka

March, 2020:
Retirement from the University of Shizuoka at the age limit

2013-2015, 2017-2019:
Dean, Graduate School of Integrated Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences
Dean, Graduate Division of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences

2015-2017:
Vice-President

Concurrent:

Director, Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Headquarters; Chairman, The 30th Anniversary Projects; Representative, The Platform of MAFF's "Knowledge Integration"; Planning and achievement, "Shizuoka's DNA in Manga" (serial 31 articles) in Shizuoka Newspaper

2006-2011:
Dean, Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences
     Concurrent: Deputy, COE Program, 2002-2013

2005-2006, 2011-2014:
Chair, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences
     Concurrent: Deputy, COE Program, 2002-2013

2003-2020:
Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Plant Molecular Improvement¹
Graduate School of Integrated Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences², University of Shizuoka
     ¹The former "Laboratory of Plant Cell Technology" renamed in 2008
     ²The former "Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences" reorganized in 2012

1993-1998:
Associate Professor (Concurrent)
Laboratory of Biological Regulation and Photobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology
     The research activities in 1997    

1991-2003:
Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Plant Cell Technology
Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka

1984-1991:
Assistant Professor
Radioisotope Research Center, Nagoya University

1983-1984:
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
The Late Lawrence Bogorad's Laboratory, Harvard University

1982:
Ph.D. Degree (Plant Biochemistry, Nagoya University)
The Late Takashi Akazawa's Laboratory, Nagoya University

1979:
M.S. Degree (Plant Biochemistry, Nagoya University)
The Late Takashi Akazawa's Laboratory, Nagoya University

1977:
B.S. Degree (Plant Pathology, Tottori University)
The Late Syoyo Nishimura's Laboratory, Tottori University

1973:
Fukuchiyama Senior Highschool, Kyoto Prefecture

1954:
Birth

SUPERVISORS
The late Lawrence Bogorad (Molecular Biology: Harvard University)
     Period:1983-1984
     Research theme: Mechanism of regulation for expression of chloroplast genes
     Publication: Ref. 21 on the webpage "Original Papers Published Before"
     Learned of originality in research ideas and their development
     In memoriam, photographs and a message contributed

The late Takashi Akazawa (Plant Biochemistry: Nagoya University) (in Japanese)
     Period: 1977-1983
     Research theme: Mechanisms of regulation for expression of photosynthesis genes
     Publications: Refs. 26-30 on the webpage "Original Papers Published Before"
     Learned to do research for a living

The late Syoyo Nishimura (Plant Pathology, Tottori University) (in Japanese)
     Period: 1975-1977
     Research theme: Mode of action of host-specific toxins for Alternaria blotch of apple
     Became a strong "imprint" as a researcher

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY on the Occasion of Retirement:    

PUBLICATIONS:    

HOMEPAGE of Green Insight Japan, Inc. (August, 2020-):    

HOMEPAGE of the Laboratory of Plant Improvement (-March, 2020):    

FAVORITE SUBJECTS, Senses of Values:    




January 2, 2024, updated      Hirokazu Kobayashi