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Curriculum Vitae

  • Since October 2006: PostDoc of the independent research group for Hematopoiesis at the Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health – National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany

  • 2006 April - September: Visiting researcher at the Institute of Biomedicine at Sahlgrenska academy Dept. of Medical Chemistry and Cell Biology, Göteborg University, Sweden

  • 2003 - 2006: Research fellow at Department of Biochemistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

  • 2003 April - September: Research Assistant at Institute for Protein Research, Division of Protein Chemistry, Osaka University, Japan

  • 1999 - 2003: Ph.D. thesis at the Institute for Protein Research, Division of Protein Chemistry, Osaka University, Japan:
    “Biological role of tetraspanin CD151 in epithelial cell-cell contacts“

  • 1997 - 1999: Master thesis at the Kansai Advanced Research Center, National Institute for Information and Communications Technology, Cell Biology Group, Kobe (in Osaka University), Japan:
    “Dynamics of nuclear transport in living cell: Nuclear accumulation of importin alpha by UV irradiation in living Hela cells”

  • 1993-1997: Bachelor thesis at the Department of Biochemistry, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan: “Identification of novel GPI-anchored protein in TritonX-100-insoluble low fraction (raft) from rat brain”

Fellowships

  • 2006 Research fellowship from the Uehara Memorial foundation

  • 2003 – 2004 Institutional Fellowship at the Institute for Protein Research

  • Osaka University

  • 1999 -2003 Scholarship from Ikueikai Educational Organization

  • 1997 -1999 Scholarship of Human Frontier Science Program

Research Publications

  • Funatsu N, Miyata S, Kumanogoh H, Shigeta M, Hamada K, Endo Y, Sokawa Y, Maekawa S. (1999) Characterization of a novel rat brain glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein (Kilon), a member of the IgLON cell adhesion molecule family. J Biol Chem. 19;274(12): 8224-30.

  • Shigeta M, Sanzen N, Ozawa M, Gu J, Hasegawa H, Sekiguchi K. (2003) CD151 regulates epithelial cell-cell adhesion through PKC- and Cdc42-dependent actin cytoskeletal reorganization. J Cell Biol. Oct 13;163(1):165-76.

  • Y. Miyamoto, T. Saiwaki, J. Yamashita, Y. Yasuda, I. Kotera, S. Shibata, M. Shigeta, Y. Hiraoka, T. Haraguchi, and Y. Yoneda (2004) Cellular stresses induce the nuclear accumulation of importin and cause a conventional nuclear import block. J Cell Biol. 165 (5) 617-23

  • Shigeta M , Shibukawa Y, Ihara H, Miyoshi E, Taniguchi N, Gu J. (2006) beta1,4-N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferase III potentiates beta1 integrin-mediated neuritogenesis induced by serum deprivation in Neuro2a cells. Glycobiology (6):564-71

  • T. Suzuki, I. Hara, M. Nakano, M. Shigeta, T. Nakagawa, A. Kondo, Y. Funakoshi, and N. Taniguchi (2006) MAN2C1, an alpha-Mannosidase is involved in the trimming of free oligosaccaharides in the cytosol T Biochem. J. (accepted at July 18)

  • “ The LUNG Vol.12 No.2. April. 2004. Medical Topics 11th “ Review (Japanese)

  • “ Medical tribune Vol.37. No25. June. 2004. Karte of word 11th ” Column (Japanese)