Narudo Kawai joined
our group as a postdoc in September 2006. He carried out his PhD
studies with Hideyoshi Yokosawa in Hokkaido and his first postoc with
Hiroki Nishida in Osaka. His work has focused on the regulation of
ascidian Rel during ascidian notochord development and the Wnt signalling pathway during early development of ascidians.
References from Narudo's PhD and Postdoc studies:
Kawai, N.,
Takahashi, H., Nishida, H. and Yokosawa, H. (2005). Regulation of
NF-kappaB/Rel by IkappaB is essential for ascidian notochord formation. Dev. Biol. 277, 80-91.
Kawai, N., Shimada, M., Kawahara, H., Satoh, N. and Yokosawa, H. (2003). Regulation of ascidian Rel by its alternative splice variant. Eur. J. Biochem. 270, 4459-4468.
Kawai, N., Iida,
Y., Kumano, G. and Nishida, H. (2007). Nuclear accumulation of
beta-catenin and transcription of downstream genes are regulated by
zygotic Wnt5alpha and maternal Dsh in ascidian embrysos. Dev. Dyn. In Press.
Negishi, T., Takada, T., Kawai, N.,
and Nishida, H. (2007). Localized PEM mRNA and Protein Are Involved in
Cleavage-Plane Orientation and Unequal Cell Divisions in Ascidians. Current Biology. 17, 1014-1025.
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