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Masaaki Watahiki Ph. D.　　　綿引　雅昭

Associate professor

Hokkaido University
Faculty of Science,
Division of Biological Sciences
Kitaku Kita 10 Nishi 8 Sapporo 060-0810 Japan
tel:+81(0)11 706-4473

e-mail:watahiki::sci.hokudai.ac.jp
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Education

1988-1992	Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, BSc for Plant Biology
1992-1994	Graduate School of Hokkaido University, MSc for Plant Biology
1994-1997	Graduate School of Hokkaido University, Ph. D. for Environmental Earth Science

Academic Decipline

Plant Physiology, Microscopy, Molecular Biology, Cell biology

Academic Profession

1998-2004	Postdoctoral Fellow in University of Edinburgh, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology
2004-2009	Assistant Professor in Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
2009-2010	Associate Professor in Advance life science, Hokkaido University
2010-Present	Associate Professor in Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University

Awards

1996-1998

Fellow of Japan society for promotion of science (JSPS)

Research project on going

1, Kinetic analysis of early auxin signal transduction with luciferase assay
2, Identification of AUX/IAA-ARF-TIR1/AFBs related components by forward mutant analysis
3, Left and right handedness of auxin action during embryogenesis in Arabidopsis
4, Functional analysis of tobacco pollen tube specific calcium dependent protein kinase