Sumiko MINOBE

Brief personal history

1984 Graduated from Faculty of Agriculture, Shinshu University
1986 Graduated from Master Course, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyushu University
1986 Research Associate at Faculty of Home Economics, Fukuoka Women’s University
1995 Research Associate at Faculty of Human Environmental Science, Fukuoka Women’s University
2011 Research Associate at Department of Environmental Science, International College of Arts and Sciences, Fukuoka Women’s University

Degrees

M.A.(Agriculture)

Research themes

Ｒegulatory mechanisms of nerve net formation in hydra

Select publication list

1. Urashi, C., Teshima, K., Minobe, S., Koizumi, O., Inomata, N. Inferences of evolutionary history of a widely distributed mangrove species, Bruguiera gymnorrhiza, in the Indo-West Pacific region. Ecology and Evolution, 3(7), 2251-2261, 2013

2.Minobe S, Fukui S, Saiki R, Kajita T, Changtragoon S, Shukor N , Latiff A, Ramesh R, Koizumi O, and Yamazaki T. Highly differentiated population structure of a Mangrove species, Bruguiera gymnorhiza ( Rhizophoraceae ) revealed by one nuclear GapCp and one chloroplast intergenic spacer trnF–trnL. Conservation Genetics, vol.11 No.1, 301-310, 2010

3.Takahashi T, Koizumi O, Hayakawa E, Minobe S, Suetsugu R, Kobayakawa Y, Bosch TC, David CN, Fujisawa T. Further characterization of the PW peptide family that inhibits neuron differentiation in Hydra. Dev Genes Evol., Mar;219(3), 119-29, 2009

4.Minobe, S., Fei, K., Yan, L., Sarras, M., Werle, M., Identification and characterization of the epithelial polarity receptor “Frizzled”, in Hydra vulgaris. Dev. Genes Evol., 210, 258-262, 2000

5.Minobe, S., Koizumi, O., Sugiyama, T., Nerve cell differentiation in nerve-free tissue of epithelial hydra from precursor, cells introduced by grafting. Dev. Biol., 172, 170-181, 1995

Research field

Neurobiology

Membership of Academic Societies

The Zoological Society of Japan
The Japanese Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists
The Molecular Biology Society of Japan
Japanese Coral Reef Society

Related field

• Environmental Science

　

Keywords

Hydra, Neuropeptide,　Ｎeuronal differentiation