Osamu Kaneko
- Department of Protozoology, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Professor
- Molecular and cellular biology and population genetics of malaria parasite
- Malaria parasite: intracellular trafficking,Ca signaling, antigenic polymorphism
Establishment of the P. vivax culture system
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▼Course List
Medical Parasitology
▼Recommended books
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▼Homepage
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personal history
1984-1990 Osaka City University Medical School
1992-1996 Osaka City University Graduate School, Medical Science
1996-1999 Visiting Fellow at Malaria Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID, NIH, USA
2000-2004 Instructor, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Ehime University School of Medicine, Japan
2004-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Ehime University School of Medicine, Japan
2007-present Professor and Head, Department of Protozoology, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Japan
works/thesis
1. Zhu XT, Yahata K, Alexandre JSF, Tsuboi T, Kaneko O. The N-terminal segment of Plasmodium falciparum SURFIN4.1 is required for its trafficking to the red blood cell cytosol through the endoplasmic reticulum. Parasito Int (in press)
2. Sakura T, Yahata K, Kaneko O. The upstream sequence segment of the C-terminal cysteine-rich domain is required for microneme trafficking of Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte binding antigen 175. Parasito Int 62(2):157-164.(2012)
3. Yahata K, Treeck M, Culleton R, Gilberger TW, Kaneko O. Time-lapse imaging of red blood cell invasion by the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium yoelii. PLoS ONE 7(12):e50780 (2012)
4. Otsuki H, Kaneko O, Thongkukiatkul A, Tachibana M, Iriko H, Takeo S, Tsuboi T, Torii M. Single amino acid substitution in Plasmodium yoelii erythrocyte ligand determines its localization and controls parasite virulence. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106(17):7167-72 (2009)
5. Iriko H, Kaneko O, Otsuki H, Tsuboi T, Su XZ, Tanabe K, Torii M. Diversity and evolution of the rhoph1/clag multigene family of Plasmodium falciparum. Mol Biochem Parasitol 158(1):11-21 (2008)