Takao Kondo
| Takao Kondo | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Fields | Biology |
| Institutions |
Nagoya University National Institute for Basic Biology |
| Alma mater | Nagoya University |
| Known for |
Circadian clock Kai ABC |
| Notable awards |
Japan Academy Prize (2014) Asahi Prize (2007) |
Takao Kondo (近藤 孝男 Kondō Takao, born 1948) is a Japanese biologist, and professor of biological science at Nagoya University in Nagoya, Japan. He is known for being the first to reconstitute the circadian clock in vitro.
Biography
Kondo was born in 1948 in Kariya, Aichi, Japan, and received his B.S. in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Biology in 1977 from Nagoya University.[1] He was appointed as an assistant professor at the National Institute for Basic Biology in Okazaki, Aichi, Japan in 1978, and returned to Nagoya University as a professor at the Graduate School of Science in 1995.[1]
Work
Kondo discovered a gene cluster Kai ABC as a circadian feedback process in cyanobacteria in 1998,[2] before he succeeded in reconstituting the circadian oscillation of cyanobacterial Kai C phosphorylation in vitro in 2005.[3]
Recognition
- 1999: Kihara Memorial Foundation Academic Award[1]
- 2007: Asahi Prize[1]
- 2014: Japan Academy Prize[4]
- 2015: Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal [5]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "生物時計のブラックボックスを開く" Biography of Dr. Takao Kondo (Japanese)
- ↑ Ishiura M, Kutsuna S, Aoki S, Iwasaki H, Andersson CR, Tanabe A, Golden SS, Johnson CH, Kondo T (1998). "Expression of a gene cluster kaiABC as a circadian feedback process in cyanobacteria". Science. 281 (5382): 1519–1523. doi:10.1126/science.281.5382.1519. PMID 9727980.
- ↑ Nakajima M, Imai K, Ito H, Nishiwaki T, Murayama Y, Iwasaki H, Oyama T, Kondo T (2005). "Reconstitution of circadian oscillation of cyanobacterial KaiC phosphorylation in vitro". Science. 308: 414–415. doi:10.1126/science.1108451. PMID 15831759.
- ↑ "日本学士院賞に10人の研究者選ばれる" 10 recipients of the Japan Academy Prize (Japanese)
- ↑ "Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 August 2015.