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).