Hirokazu Kobayashi

10/2011
10/2014
10/2018
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:
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
2006-2011:
Dean, Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences
2005-2006, 2011-2014:
Chair, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences
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
1991-2003:
Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Plant Cell Technology
Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka
1993-1998:
Associate Professor (Adjunct)
Laboratory of Biological Regulation and Photobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology
The research activities in 1997 
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
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 WORDS AND PROPERTY
April 1, 2023, updated Hirokazu Kobayashi