Member

Education

• Mer.2004 M.S. in Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering,University of Iwate
  Mer. 2002 Graduated in chemistry from Iwate University, School of engineering

Career

• Apr. 2004 Joined Orion International Patent Office

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【 Kayoko Yanatake 】

Education

• April 1984 Graduated in Kyushu University,Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science,
  Physiochemistry (Now: Pharmaceutical Cell Biology)

Career

• 1999-Present ORION International Patent Office.
• 1990-1999 Science Translator.
• 1984-1988 Assistant researcher at Kyusyu University,Faculty of Medicine.

Others

• Member of the Japan Translation Federation

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【 Dr, Kyoko Tsuboi 】

Education/Training

• University of Tokyo, Japan, Ph.D.1991, Animal behavior
• University of Tokyo, Japan M.S.1988, Animal behavior
• Japan Women's University, Japan B.S.1986, Chemistry

Positions and Employment

• July 2005 - present ORION IP Office
• Jan 2003 - June 2005 Assistant Project Scientist, University of California,
  San Diego,W.O.C. VA San Diego Healthcare system.
• Sept 2001- present Project scientist, Veterans Medical Research Foundation
  W.O.C., VA San Diego Health Care System
• July 1998 - Aug 2001 Postdoctoral fellow (Prof. Clifford W. Shults),
  University of California, San Diego
• Jan. 1996 - June 1998 Postgraduate research neuroscientist
  (Prof. John S. O'Brien), University of California, San Diego
• June 1993 - Jan. 1996 Postgraduate researcher (Prof. Michael Leon),
• Nov. 1992 - May 1993 Postdoctoral fellow (Prof. Takeji Kimura),
  University of Tokyo
  
• Nov. 1991 - Oct. 1992 Postdoctoral fellow (Prof. Richard E. Brown),
  Dalhousie University
• April - Oct. 1991 Postdoctoral fellow (Prof. Takeji Kimura),
  University of Tokyo

Professional Memberships

• April 1991 - March 1993 Postdoctoral Fellowship
  (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science)
• June 1993 - May 1994 Postdoctoral Fellowship
  (Toyobo Biotechnology Foundation)
• Aug. 2003 - July 2005 Research Fellowship
  (Michael J. Fox Foundation)

• B. Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order).

• Ninomiya K and Kimura T (1988) Male odors that influence the
  preference of female mice:roles of Urinary and preputial factors.
  Physiol Behav 44: 791-795.
• Ninomiya K and Kimura T (1989) Urinary-marking activity of female mice
  under the influence of male urine odors. J Ethol 7: 119-123.
• Ninomiya K and Kimura T (1990) Female-attracting property of urinary
  compounds in male mice. Naturwissenshaften 77: 586-588.
• Ninomiya K, Nohara I, Toyoda T and Kimura T (1993) The pattern of
  volatile compounds in incubated and fresh preputial fluid of male mice.
  Zool Sci 10: 537-542
• Ninomiya K and Brown RE (1995) Removal of the preputial glands alters
  the individual odors of male MHC-congenic mice and the preferences of
  females for these odors. Physiol Behav 58: 191-194.
• Johnson BA, Woo CC, Ninomiya-Tsuboi K and Leon M (1996)
  Synaptophysin-like immunoreactivity in rat olfactory bulb during
  postnatal development and after restricted early olfactory experience.
  Dev Brain Res 92: 24-30.
• Tsuboi K, Hiraiwa M and O'Brien JS (1998) Prosaposin prevents
  programmed cell death of rat cerebellar granule neurons in culture.
  Dev Brain Res 110: 249-255.
• Tsuboi K, Kimber TA and Shults CW (2000) Calretinin-containing axons
  and neurons are resistant to an intrastriatal 6-hydroxydopamine lesions.
  Brain Res 866:55-64.
• Shults CW, Ray J, Tsuboi K and Gage FH (2000) Fibroblast growth
  factor-2 producing fibroblasts protect the nigrostriatal dopaminergic
  system from 6-hydroxydopamine. Brain Res 833: 192-204.
• Tsuboi K and Shults CW (2002)Intrastriatal injection of Sonic hedgehog
  reduces behavioral impairment in a rat model of Parkinson's disease.
  Exp Neurol 173: 95-104.
• Tsuboi K, Grzesiak JJ, Bouvet M, Hashimoto M, Masliah E, Shults CW
  (2005)Alpha-synuclein overexpression in oligodendrocytic cells results
  in impaired adhesion to fibronectin and cell death. Mol Cell Neurosci 29:
  259-268.