Curriculum Vitae

 

Nozomi Ytow

 

Personal

Full name : Nozomi Ytow

 

Home address : 4-912-303, Namiki,

                            Ibaraki, Tsukuba

                            305-0044

                            Japan7

 

Telephone : +81 (0)298 52 7235

 

Nationality : Japanese

 

Date of Birth : 11 March, 1965

 

 

Education

College of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba

                Entered 1983; graduated (BSc) 1987

Doctoral Program in  Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba

                Entered 1987; graduated (PhD) 1992

 

Current employment

Current position : Assistant Professor,

Institute of Biological Sciences/Gene Research Center,

University of Tsukuba,

Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572

Japan

 

                              Telephone : +81(0)298 53 4768

                                         FAX : +81 (0)298 53 772

E-mail: nozomi@biol.tsukuba.ac.jp

 

Employment history

Institute of Biological Science, University of Tsukuba                 1992 - to date

                 Research Assistant                                                             1992 - 1993

                 Research Associate                                                            1993 - 2000

                 Assistant Professor                                                            2000 - to date

 

Foreign scholarship of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan

                at Division of Protista & Mathematics, Department of Zoology, the Natural History Museum

                                                                                                                1998 - 1999

 

 

Scientific Societies

Society for General Microbiology

Biophysical Society of Japan

Japanese Society for Bioinformatics

Oceanographic Society of Japan

Society for Science on Form, Japan

Zoological Society of Japan

 

Research Interests.

1.        Nomenclature and bioinformatics.  The names given to natural objects are organised hierarchically into groups (species into genera; genera into families; ...).  When a species is found in the wrong group it is reassigned, but making databases and other reference material aware of that change and enabling them to use both the current name or the old name is not, at present, possible.  Nomenclatural databases could offer considerable value as meta-data in defining relationships for generalising search criteria.  A flexible data strucutre is necessary to assist taxonomic works, and understanding of taxonomic consideration which is basement of our thought (not only in taxonomy but in general sense). See http://www.nomencurator.org/

2.        Molecular biodiversity in environments.  Molecular techniques in biology such as PCR has enabled to handle microorganisms in environments which have never been cultured and hence never considered in taxonomical context.  Because we do not know these organisms, we need a methodology to handle microbial biodiversity in environments without time consuming cloning and sequencing.  Biological acitivity assesment of these microbes in environment using molecular methods is also of interest.

Grant applications

1995         Organic carbon dynamics during succession of natural water body using optical methods.  Amount sought : 1,131k Yen. Not awarded.

1996         Organic carbon dynamics during succession of natural water body using optical methods.  Amount sought : 1,131k Yen. Not awarded.

1997         Characterisation of  natural microbial community by the Gram stain index. Amount sought : 2,966k Yen Amound awarded: 1,600k Yen

2000         Nomenculatural database structure independent from taxonomic systems.  Amount sought : 3,000k Yen  Not awarded.

2001         Nomenculatural database structure based on literatural data.  Amount sought : 3,000k Yen  Amount awarded: 1,300k yen.

2001         Nomenculatural database structure independent from taxonomic systems.  Amount sought : 7,300k Yen  Not awarded.

2001         Knowledge structure extraction from mutually related fragmental.  Amount sought : 2,500k Yen  Not awarded.

2001         Nomenculatural database structure independent from taxonomic systems for biodiversity analysis.  Amount sought : 5,480k Yen  Not awarded.

2001         Taxonomy-independent nomenculatural database structure supporting incomplete and heterogenous data sources.  Amount sought : 8,560k Yen  Not awarded.

2002         Specimen identification database supporting multiple taxonomic views. Amount sought : 29,840k Yen Under review.

Bibliography

1.                                 Ishizaka S., Ytow N., Domon M., Ito T.(1986), Incident intensity for targe in cell. Photomedicine and Photobiology, 8 43-44.

2.                                 Ytow N., Yamada T. and Ishizakaka S. (1992) Mechanics of chloroplast rotation in Mougeotia; Measurement of angular velocity by Laser diffractometry. Cell Motility and Cytoskeleton, 23: 102-111

3.                                 Ytow N. and Yamada T. (1992) How a unicellular green alga Mougeotia detects the direction of incident light. FORMA, 7: 139-146

4.                                  Yoshimuta Y. and Ytow N.(1992) Three-dimensional morphometry of erythrocyte in a shear field by diffractometry I. Comparison of model erythrocyte diffraction patterns. FORMA ,7: 147-156

5.                                  Ytow N., Mizusaki T., Kojima S., Batomalaque A. E. and Seki H. (1994). Trophodynamic structure of a swampy bog at the climax stage of  limnological succession I. Primary production dynamics. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 76: 467-479

6.                                  Utsumi M., Ytow N. and Seki H.(1994) Trophodynamic structure of a swampy bog at the climax stage of limnological succession II. Bacterial dynamics. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 76: 481-489

7.                                  Urabe T., Baker E. T., Ishibashi J., Feely R. A., Marumo K., Massoth G. J., Maruyama A., Shitashima K.,  Okamura K., Lupton J. E., Sonoda A., Yamazaki T., Aoki M., Gendron J., Greene R., Kaiho Y.,  Kishimoto K., Lebon G., Matsumoto T., Nakamura K., Nishizawa A., Okano O., Paradis G., Roe K., Shibata K., Tennant D., Vace T., Walker S. L, Yabuki T.and Ytow N. (1995)  The effect of magmatic activity on hydrothermal venting along the superfast-spreading East Pacific Rise. Science, 269: 1092-1095

8.                                  Ytow N., Seki H., Ishizaka, S., Maruyama A. and Higashihara T. (1995)  Assessment of the extreme environment in deep oceans. Toayama International Symoposium ``Life in Extreme Environments''

9.                                  Ytow N. and Seki H. (1996) Microcolonization mechanism of attached bacteria in a natural water-column. Journal of Oceanography, 52: 207-219

10.                               Sasa M., S. Ishizaka S., Asamizu T., Aoki M., Nojiri Y., Higashi Y., Utsumi M., Zhenz H.-B., Ytow N. and Seki H. (1996) Ecosystem structure of a boiling spring with high bacterial production on Mt. Tateyama, Japan. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, 136: 563-574

11.                               Ytow N., Utsumi M. and Seki H. (1996) UV spectrometry for measuring particulate organic matter in natural waters. Aquatic Science, 58: 91-102

12.                               Utsumi M., Nojiri Y., Ytow N. and Seki H.(1998) Dynamics of attached bacteria at the water-sediment interface in a mesotrophic swampy bog of Japan. Journal of Oceanography, 54: 179-184

13.                               Saida H. , Ytow N. and Seki H. (1998) Photometric application of the Gram stain method to characterize natural bacterial populations in aquatic environments. Applied and Envrionmental Microbiology, 64: 742-747

14.                               Higashi Y., Ytow N., Saida H. and Seki H. (1998) In situ gradostat for the study of natural phytoplankton community with an experimental nutrient gradient. Environmental Pollution, 99: 395-404

15.                               Ytow N. (1999) What a Raman spectrum can tell the microbial ecologist. MICROBIOLOGY TODAY, 26 64-66.

16.                               Ytow N., Morse D. R. and Roberts D.McL D. (2001) Nomencurator: a nomenclatural history model to handle multiple taxonomic views. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 73: 81-98