CURRICULUM VITAE

PRESENT POSITION:

Institute of Environmental Microbiology, Kyowa-kako Co.,

2-15-5 Tadao, Machida, Tokyo 194-0035, Japan

Tel=+81-42791-2115, Fax=+81-42791-2117

E-mail=tairo.oshima@kyowa-kako.co.jp,

http://www.ls.toyaku.ac.jp/~oshimat/

HOME ADDRESS:

1826-2 Kogasaka, Machida, Tokyo 194-0014, Japan

Tel/Fax=+81-42726-1403

E-mail=oshima1403@aol.com

DATE OF BIRTH AND PLACE OF BIRTH: February 13, 1935, Tokyo, Japan

NATIONALITY: Japan

EDUCATION:

B.S., 1958, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo (Supervisor=Prof. Shiro Akabori)

M.S., 1960, Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo (Supervisor=Prof. Fujio Egami)

Ph.D., 1965, Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo (Supervisor=Prof. Fujio Egami)

EMPLOYMENT:

1963-1964 Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (Supervisor=Prof. Fujio Egami)

1964-1968 Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo

1965-1967 Research Associate, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

1967-1968 Postdoctoral Fellow, Albert Einstein Medical College, New York, NY (Supervisor=Prof. B.L. Horecker)

1968-1972 Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Tokyo

1972-1983 Laboratory Chief, Mitsubishi-Kasei Institute of Life Science, Machida, Tokyo

1983-1995 Professor of Biochemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama,Tokyo

1988-1994 Elected as a council member, Tokyo Institute of Technology

1991-1993 Faculty Dean, Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology

1994-1995 Vice President, Tokyo Institute of Technology

1995-2005 Professor of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Hachioji, Tokyo

1995- Emeritus Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

1996-2000 Faculty Dean, Faculty of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science

2005- Emeritus Professor, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science

2005- Director, Institute of Environmental Microbiology, Kyowa-kako Co.

ACTIVITIES IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES (recent 5 years):

1970-1998 Council member, the Japanese Biochemical Society

1989-2001 Editorial board member, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology

1994-1997 Member and Co-chairperson of the Council of Scientists, International Human Frontier Science Program, Strasbourg, France

1998-2001 President, the Protein Engineering Society of Japan

1998 Vice-President, the Japanese Biochemical Society

1999- President, the Japanese Society for the Study of Aechaea

2000- Editorial board member, Proteins, Structure, Functions and Bioinformatics

2001-2002 Vice-President, the Protein Science Society of Japan

2001 Head, the Japanese Biochemical Society

2002-2005 Editor-in-Chief, the Journal of Biochemistry

2002- Honorable member, the Japanese Biochemical society

2002-2006 President, the Protein Science Society of Japan

2004 Research Award, the Japanese Society for Space Bioscience

KEYWORDS:

Proteins and Enzymes from Thermophiles; Conformational Stability of Proteins; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Extremophiles and Archaea; CD Measurements of Proteins; DSC Measurements of Thermal Denaturation of Proteins; Evolutionary Molecular Engineering of Enzymes, Polyamines