Nori Satoh

  Professor 

BSc (Hirosaki) MSc (Niigata) PhD (Tokyo)

Nationality

Japan

Awards

  • Prize of Zoological Society of Japan (1993)
  • Inoue Prize for Science (1994)
  • Prize of Evolutionary Society of Japan (2004)
  • Toray Science and Technology Prize (2004)
  • Alexander Kowalevsky Medal (St. Peterburg Academy of Science, Russia) (2005)
  • Medal with Purple Ribbon (2006)
  • Edwin Grant Conklin Award (2010)

Research Career

  • 1973-1980    Lecturer, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University.
  • 1980-1994    Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University.
  • 1994-1995    Professor, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University.
  • 1995-2009    Professor, Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University.
  • 2008-2011    Principal Investigator, Marine Genomics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Promotion Corporation.
  • 2011-present    Professor, Marine Genomics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University.

Education History

  • 1969    Faculty of Science, Hirosaki University (Bachelor’s degree)
  • 1971    Graduate School of Science, Niigata University (Master’s degree)
  • 1974    PhD, University of Tokyo for a thesis entitled “Studies on sex differentiation in the medaka fish.”

Selected Publications

  • Satoh, N.
    Developmental Biology of Ascidians.
    Cambridge Univ. Press, New York (1994).
  • Dehal P, Satou Y, Campbell RK, Chapman J, Degnan B, De Tomaso A, Davidson B, Di Gregorio A, Gelpke M, Goodstein DM, Harafuji N, Hastings KE, Ho I, Hotta K, Huang W, Kawashima T, Lemaire P, Martinez D, Meinertzhagen IA, Necula S, Nonaka M, Putnam N, Rash S, Saiga H, Satake M, Terry A, Yamada L, Wang HG, Awazu S, Azumi K, Boore J, Branno M, Chin-Bow S, DeSantis R, Doyle S, Francino P, Keys DN, Haga S, Hayashi H, Hino K, Imai KS, Inaba K, Kano S, Kobayashi K, Kobayashi M, Lee BI, Makabe KW, Manohar C, Matassi G, Medina M, Mochizuki Y, Mount S, Morishita T, Miura S, Nakayama A, Nishizaka S, Nomoto H, Ohta F, Oishi K, Rigoutsos I, Sano M, Sasaki A, Sasakura Y, Shoguchi E, Shin-i T, Spagnuolo A, Stainier D, Suzuki MM, Tassy O, Takatori N, Tokuoka M, Yagi K, Yoshizaki F, Wada S, Zhang C, Hyatt PD, Larimer F, Detter C, Doggett N, Glavina T, Hawkins T, Richardson P, Lucas S, Kohara Y, Levine M, Satoh N, Rokhsar DS.
    The draft genome of Ciona intestinalis: insights into chordate and vertebrate origins.
    Science, 298: 2157-67 (2002).
  • Satoh N.,
    The ascidian tadpole larva: Comparative molecular development and genomics.
    Nature Rev. Genet., 4: 285-95 (2003).
  • Satoh N, Satou Y, Davidson B, and Levine M.
    Ciona intestinalis: an emerging model for whole-genome analyses.
    Trends Genet., 19: 376-81 (2003).
  • Sasakura, Y., Awazu, S., Chiba, S. and Satoh, N.
    Germ-line transgenesis of the Tc1/mariner superfamily transposon Minos in Ciona intestinalis.
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 7726-7730 (2003).
  • Imai, KS, Levine M, Satoh N, and Satou Y.
    Regulatory blueprint for a chordate embryo.
    Science, 312: 1183-1187 (2006).
  • Yu J-K, Satou Y, Holland ND, Shin-I T, Kohara Y, Satoh N, Bronner-Fraser M, and Holland LZ.
    Axial patterning in cephalochordates and the evolution of the organizer.
    Nature, 445: 613-617 (2007).
  • Putnam NH, Butts T, Ferrier DE, Furlong RF, Hellsten U, Kawashima T, Robinson-Rechavi M, Shoguchi E, Terry A, Yu JK, Benito-Gutie'rrez EL, Dubchak I, Garcia-Ferna'ndez J, Gibson-Brown JJ, Grigoriev IV, Horton AC, de Jong PJ, Jurka J, Kapitonov VV, Kohara Y, Kuroki Y, Lindquist E, Lucas S, Osoegawa K, Pennacchio LA, Salamov AA, Satou Y, Sauka-Spengler T, Schmutz J, Shin-I T, Toyoda A, Bronner-Fraser M, Fujiyama A, Holland LZ, Holland PW, Satoh N, Rokhsar DS.
    The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype.
    Nature, 453: 1064-1071(2008).
  • Holland LZ, Albalat R, Azumi K, Benito-Gutierrez E, Blow MJ, Bronner-Fraser M, Brunet F, Butts T, Candiani S, Dishaw LJ, Ferrier DE, Garcia-Fernandez J, Gibson-Brown JJ, Gissi C, Godzik A, Hallbook F, Hirose D, Hosomichi K, Ikuta T, Inoko H, Kasahara M, Kasamatsu J, Kawashima T, Kimura A, Kobayashi M, Kozmik Z, Kubokawa K, Laudet V, Litman GW, McHardy AC, Meulemans D, Nonaka M, Olinski RP, Pancer Z, Pennacchio LA, Pestarino M, Rast JP, Rigoutsos I, Robinson-Rechavi M, Roch G, Saiga H, Sasakura Y, Satake M, Satou Y, Schubert M, Sherwood N, Shiina T, Takatori N, Tello J, Vopalensky P, Wada S, Xu A, Ye Y, Yoshida K, Yoshizaki F, Yu JK, Zhang Q, Zmasek CM, de Jong PJ, Osoegawa K, Putnam NH, Rokhsar DS, Satoh N, Holland PW.
    The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology.
    Genome Res., 18:1100-1111 (2008).
  • Kawashima T, Kawashima S, Tanaka C, Murai M, Yoneda M, Putnam NH, Rokhsar DS, Kanehisa M, Satoh N, Wada H.
    Domain shuffling and the evolution of vertebrates.
    Genome Res., 19:1393–1403 (2009).
  • Tassy O, Dauga D, Daian F, Sobral D, Robin F, Khoueiry P, Salgado D, Fox V, Caillol D, Schiappa R, Laporte B, Rios A, Luxardi G, Kusakabe T, Joly JS, Darras S, Christiaen L, Contensin M, Auger H, Lamy C, Hudson C, Rothbächer U, Gilchrist MJ, Makabe KW, Hotta K, Fujiwara S, Satoh N, Satou Y, Lemaire P.
    The ANISEED database: digital representation, formalization, and elucidation of a chordate developmental program.
    Genome Res., 20: 1459-1468 (2010). 
  • Shinzato, C., Shoguchi, E., Kawashima, T., Hamada, M., Hisata, K., Tanaka, M., Fujie, M., Fujiwara, M., Koyanagi, R., Ikuta, T., Fujiyama, A., Miller, D. J., and Satoh, N.
    Using the Acropora digitifera genome to understand coral responses to environmental change.
    Nature, 476(7360):320-323 (2011). 
  • Horie, T., Shinki, R., Ogura, Y., Kusakabe, T. G., Satoh, N., and Sasakura, Y.
    Ependymal cells of chordate larvae are stem-like cells that form the adult nervous system.
    Nature 469 (7331):525-528. (2011).
  • Satoh, N., Tagawa, K., and Takahashi, H.
    How was the notochord born?
    Evolution & Development 14:56-75. (2012).
  • Takeuchi, T., Kawashima, T., Koyanagi, R., Gyoja, F., Tanaka, M., Ikuta, T., Shoguchi, E., Fujiwara, M., Shinzato, C., Hisata, K., Fujie, M., Usami, T., Nagai, k., Maeyama, K., Okamoto, K., Aoki, H., Ishikawa, T., Masaoka, T., Fujiwara, A., Endo, K., Hirotoshi Endo, Nagasawa, H., Kinoshita, S., Asakawa, S., Watabe, S., and Satoh, N.
    Draft Genome of the Pearl Oyster Pinctada fucata: A Platform for Understanding Bivalve Biology
    DNA Research 19: 117-130 (2012).