【2017.5.30 update】

Specialties

Environmental Physiology

Outline of research

  Marine animals inhabit changing environments such as those with variable water temperatures and salt concentrations. Hormones play a pivotal role in homeostasis, which refers to the mechanism of maintaining a balanced internal environment even when there are changes in the external environment. To clarify how hormones function and how their actions are affected by environmental pollutants in marine animals, I aim to investigate the endocrinology of fishes and marine invertebrates. I am currently focusing on the hormones involved in the regulation of body calcium concentration in marine animals.

Career

Assistant Professor, Noto Marine Laboratory, Division of Marine Environmental Studies, Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology, Kanazawa University, June 2012 onward.

Researcher, Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, February 2011–May 2012.

Researcher, Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research, April 2009–January 2011.

Postdoctoral fellow, JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientist, Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research, April 2006–March 2009.

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, April 2004–March 2006.