Yasunori MACHIDA    Designated Professor
E-mail	yas@bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp
BORN	3 March , 1948 , GUMMA Pref, Japan
NATIONALITY	Japanese
CURRENT POSITION	Designated & Emeritus Professor in Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University
EDUCATION	1968 - 1972	Bachelor of Science, School of Science, Chiba University, Japan
	1973 - 1978	Master degree and PhD, Department of Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University "Discontinuous DNA replication in E. coli" under supervision by Reiji Okazaki and Tuneko Okazaki
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & ACTIVITIES	1978 – 1979	Research Fellowship for Young Scientists from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Institute of Molecular Biology, Nagoya University, "Discontinuous DNA replication in bacteria and animal cells”
	1979 - 1982	Post doctoral trainee, Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook "Mechanism of DNA transposition in E. coli" in the Laboratory of Eiichi Ohtsubo
	1982 - 1984	Researcher, Institute for Plant Virus Research, Tsukuba Japan "Mechanism of T-DNA transfer from Agrobacterium to plant cells"
	1984 - 1988	Assistant Professor, Nagoya University
	1988 - 1989	Associate Professor, Nagoya University
	1989 - 1997	Professor, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University "Mechanism of T-DNA transfer from Agrobacterium to plant cells" "Mechanisms of proliferation and differentiation of plant cells"
	1997 - 1999	Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University "Mechanisms of proliferation and differentiation of plant cells"
	1999 - 2012	Professor, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University  "Mechanisms of proliferation and differentiation of plant cells"
	2012 - Present	Designated & Emeritus Professor, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University
AWARDS	Encouraging Grant from the NAITO foundation in Japan (1986) Encouraging Award for Young Investigator from The Botanical Society of Japan (1987) Elected to Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2010)
EDITORS and EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS	1999-2002: Plant & Cell Physiology 2003-present: Genes to Cells 2003- present: Plant Molecular Biology 2006- present: Development Growth & Differentiation
CONSULTANCY AND ADVISORY BOARDS	1991 - 2009: Board member of KAZUSA DNA Research Institute (1991-2009) 1992-1993: Member of the Council for Science and Technology for the Specific Area 1992- present: Members of many Committees belonging to MEXT; Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 2003: External reviewer of the Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijin, China 2003: External reviewer of the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 2008 - present: Member of Science Council of Japan 2007 - present: Board Member of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for Japan-Korea Joint Scientific Program
MEMBERSHIPS	1988 - 1989, 1982 - present: The Molecular Biology Society of Japan 2008-2010: Vice-president of The Molecular Biology Society of Japan 1983 - present: International Society for Plant Molecular Biology (ISPMB) 1982 - present: The Botanical Society of Japan 1989 - present: The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologist (JSPS) 1994-1995:   Secretary-general (JSPS) 2012-2013:   President of JSPS
PROJECT LEADERS of MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS	1997-2002: Project Leader of JSPS Research for the Future Program 2002-2007: Principal investigator of Grant-in-Aid for The 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program “Systems Bioscience: Integrative Study of Molecular-Signal Networks” (from MEXT) 2002-2007: Project leader of BRAIN Project for Basic Researches 2007-2012: Principal investigator of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas “Plant Meristem” (from MEXT)

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