April 2003-March 2004
B.S. Pharmaceutical Sciences Chiba University.　
Thesis title　“Integration of transcriptomics and metabolomics under nutritional stress in Arabidopsis thaliana”, (Research group Professor Kazuki Saito)

April 2004-March 2006
M.S. Graduate school of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Thesis entitled “Development of fluorescence probe for diagnosis of cancers in early stage”(Research group Professor Tetsuo Nagano)

April 2006-March 2009
Ph.D (Pharmaceutical sciences)
Graduate school of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Thesis entitled “Design and synthesis of fluorogenic substrate for glutathione S-transferase (GST) and application for activity imaging in live cells” (Research group Professor Tetsuo Nagano)

April 2009-September 2009
CREST postdocoral fellow
Graduate school of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo (Research group Professor Tetsuo Nagano)

October 2009-present
DKFZ postdoctoral fellow



Fellowships

October 2009-September 2011
DKFZ postdoctoral fellowship

April 2006-March 2009
Young scientists from the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science



Awards

-57th Japan Society for analytical chemistry(JSAC) Annual meeting Young investigator award

-Lipid peroxidation2008 Young investigator award

-23th The Japanese Society for the study of the xenobiotics (JSSX) Annual meeting Best poster award

-62th Society for Free Radical Research (SFRR) Japan Poster award



Publications

"Development of 2,6-Carboxy-Substituted Boron Dipyrromethene (BODIPY) as a Novel Scaffold of Ratiometric Fluorescent Probes for Live Cell Imaging" Toru Komatsu, Yasuteru Urano, Yuuta Fujikawa, Tomonori Kobayashi, Hirotatsu Kojima, Takuya Terai, Kenjiro Hanaoka and Tetsuo Nagano, Chem. Comm.,45, 7015-7017 (2009).

"Design and Synthesis of Highly Sensitive Fluorogenic Substrates for Glutathione S-transferase (GST) and Application for Activity Imaging in Living Cells" Yuuta Fujikawa, Yasuteru Urano, Toru Komatsu, Kenjiro Hanaoka, Hirotatsu Kojima, Takuya Terai, Hideshi Inoue and Tetsuo Nagano, J. Am. Chem. Soc.,130, 14533-14543 (2008).

"Elucidation of gene-to-gene and metabolite-to-gene networks in Arabidopsis by integration of metabolomics and transcriptomics." Masami Yokota Hirai, Marion Klein, Yuuta Fujikawa, Mitsuru Yano, Dayan B. Goodenowe, Yasuyo Yamazaki, Shigehiko Kanaya, Yukiko Nakamura, Masahiko Kitayama, Hideyuki Suzuki, Nozomu Sakurai, Daisuke Shibata, Jim Tokuhisa, Michael Reichelt, Jonathan Gershenzon, Jutta Papenbrock, and Kazuki Saito J. Biol. Chem., 280, 25590-25595 (2005).