Ken Shirasu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0349-3870
Deputy Director
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku,
Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
E-mail: ken.shirasu(at)riken.jp
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Adjunct Professor Tokyo Univ HP
Department of Biological Sciences
Graduate School of Science/Faculty of Science
The University of Tokyo
EDUCATION:
1993: Ph.D. in Genetics, University of California, Davis, USA
1988: B.A. in Agricultural Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Japan
RESEARCH CAREER:
2020-: Deputy Director, RIKEN CSRS, JAPAN.
2006- Group Director, RIKEN, JAPAN.
2000-2006: Group Leader, The Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, UK
1996-2000: Research Scientist, The Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, UK
1993-1996: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Salk Institute / Noble Foundation, USA
TEACHING:
2008: Adjunct Professor, The University of Tokyo
2002: Visiting Lectures, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
AWARDS:
2021: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Awards for Science and Technology, Research Category: Research on plant-pathogen interactions
2014-2021: Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters
2011: Kihara Memorial Foundation Academic Award
EDITORIAL DUTIES:
2015-2018: Editor, New Phytologist
2011-2018: Editorial Board, Scientific Reports
2009-: Editorial Board,Current Opinion in Plant Biology
2010-2015: Senior Editor, Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions
2006-2012: Editor, Molecular Genetics and Genomics
2008-2011: Editor, Plant and Cell Physiology
2009-2011: Editorial Board, Molecular Plant Pathology
2003-2008: Senior Editor, Molecular Plant Pathology
DUTIES ON SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:
2012-2016: Director, International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions
2012-2013: Chair of International Committee, The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologist
INTERNATIONAL MEETING ORGANIZATION:
2018: Organizer, Keystone Symposium, Plant Signaling: Molecular Pathways and Network Integration, , Tahoe City, California, January 21 – 25, 2018.
2014: UK-Japan workshop “Rhizosphere interactions towards global food security”
2013: Organizer Keystone Meeting - Plant Immunity: Pathways and Translation
2013: Local Organizing Comittee XV IS-MPMI Kyoto