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Hirokazu Kobayashi                                

   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:    


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January 2, 2024, updated      Hirokazu Kobayashi