Mike Jones
Yoshiki
Sasai
Jim
Smith
Gerald
H. Thomsen
Naoto
Ueno
John
Wallingford
Akihito
Yamamoto |
Naoto Ueno
Naoto Ueno obtained his Ph.D.
in 1984 from the University of Tsukuba. He did a postdoctoral
fellowship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and contributed
to the discovery of inhibin, activin, follistatin, and fibroblast
growth factors (FGFs). In 1988, he was appointed assistant professor
at the University of Tsukuba. Since that appointment, his research
interest has turned to developmental biology, with a focus on
the function of growth factor in embryogenesis, particularly
in pattern formation and morphogenesis, which led to the identification
of activin as a potent mesoderm-inducing factor in Xenopus.
In 1993, he became a full professor at Hokkaido University. His
identification in 1994 of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) as
the endogenous signal responsible for the dorsoventral patterning
of the Xenopus embryo is recognized as a major contribution to the field of developmental biology.
Since then, his lab's efforts have focused on clarifying extra-
and intra-cellular regulation of growth factor signaling. From
1997 to present, he has been a professor at the National Institute
for Basic Biology. His group is currently interested in the cell
movements during gastrulation that lead to dynamic changes in
embryo shape. He serves as a board of director for International
Society for Differentiation and as an editorial board member
or editor for several journals, including Development. He was awarded the gold medal from Tokyo Techno-Forum21 in 1988 for the discovery
of the role of BMPs in embryonic development. |
