Profile

AFFILIATION

Department of Applied Biological Chemistry
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences
The University of Tokyo
1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657,Japan
E-mail: akatoq[at]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

EDUCATION

1990　Ph.D. Graduate School of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, Japan
1986　M.S. Graduate School of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, Japan
1984　B.S. Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, Japan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2017 -

present Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo (Project Professor)

2009 -2017

Organization for Interdisciplinary Research Projects, The University of Tokyo (Project Professor)

2006 -

present Research Center for Food Safety, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo (Member)

1999 -2009

Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo (Associate Professor)

1993 -1999

Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University (Associate Professor)

1991 -1993

Diabetes Branch, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, USA (Guest Researcher)

1988 -1993

Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, (Assistant Professor)

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

• Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (Trustee, 2003-2007)
• The Japanese Society of Nutrition and Food Science (Trustee, 2002-2004, 2008-2014, 2016-2018)
• The Japanese Biochemical Society
• Japanese Society for Amino Acid Sciences (President)
• Japanese Society of Chronobiology
• Federation of Japanese Nutrition Societies (Auditor)
• The American Society for Nutrition
• International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
• Asia-Pacific Nutrigenomics & Nutrigenetics Organization (President-elect)
• Global Phytonutrient Society (Committee)

(and others)

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

• Science Council of Japan (Member)
• Federation of Asian Nutrition Societies (Secretary General)
• Organizing Committee of the 22nd International Congress of Nutrition 2021 (Chair)
• Organization Committee of the 12th Asian Congress of Nutrition 2015 (Secretary General)
• Editorial Board Member (Scientific Reports, Nutrition Research and Practice, Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine, etc. )

AWARDS

• The Japan Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry Society Award for the Encouragement ofYoung Scientists (1997)
• Japan Society of Nutrition and Food Science Award for Excellence in Research (2015)

RESEARCH INTEREST

• 1. Nutrigenomic analyses (transcriptome, proteome, metabolome) of the effect of food factors.
• 2. Effect of amino acid nutrition on lipid metabolism.
• 3. Effect of maternal nutrition on epigenetic alteration of the fetus and the development of life style-related diseases in later life.

PUBLICATIONS

130 original papers, 85 reviews and book chapters