Curriculum Vitae, Takema Fukatsu

Group Leader
Symbiotic Evolution and Biological Functions Research Group
Bioproduction Research Institute
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Education
1989 B.Sc. Department of Zoology, University of Tokyo, Japan
1991 M.Sc. Department of Zoology, University of Tokyo, Japan
1994 Ph.D. Department of Zoology, University of Tokyo, Japan

Career History
1995-1998 Researcher, National Institute of Bioscience and Human-Technology (NIBH), Japan
1998-2001 Appointed Researcher, National Institute of Bioscience and Human-Technology (NIBH), Japan
2001-2004 Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
2004-present Group Leader, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
2003-2011 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
2011-present Professor, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
2005-2010 Professor, Department of General Systems Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
2008 Invited Professor, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology; Microbiology; Entomology

Editorship in Scientific Journals
2007-present Associate Editor, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2007-present Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A
2007-present Reviewing Editor, Zoological Science
2011-present Editorial Board Member, Journal of Insect Physiology
2007-present Editorial Board Member, The Open Evolution Journal
2005-2009 Editor-in-Chief, Newsletter of the Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan
2004-2005 Editorial Board Member, Entomological Science
2003-2006 Editorial Board Member, Applied Entomology and Zoology

Responsibility in Scientific Communities
2006-present Councilor, The International Symbiosis Society
2006-present Councilor, The Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan
2009-present Councilor, The Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology

Membership of Scientific Communities
The International Symbiosis Society
The Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan
The Zoological Society of Japan
The Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology
The Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology
The Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan
The Japanese Drosophila Research Conference
The Japanese Society for Cordyceps Research

Awards
2011 The JSAEZ Prize, the Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology
2010 The ZSJ Prize, the Zoological Society of Japan
2008 AIST President Award, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
2007 JSPS Prize, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2004 Young Scientist Prize, the Zoological Society of Japan
2002 Young Scientist Prize, the Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan
1995 The Zoological Science Award, the Zoological Society of Japan

Selected Publications
Tsuchida T., Koga R., Horikawa M., Tsunoda T., Maoka T., Matsumoto S., Simon J.-C., Fukatsu T. (2010) Symbiotic bacterium modifies aphid body color. Science 303: 1102-1104.

Uematsu K., Kutsukake M., Fukatsu T., Shimada M., Shibao H. (2010) Altruistic colony defense by menopausal female insects. Curr. Biol. 20: 1182-1186.

Fukatsu T. (2010) A fungal past to insect color. Science 328: 574-575.

Hosokawa T., Koga R., Kikuchi Y., Meng X.-Y., Fukatsu T. (2010) Wolbachia as a bacteriocyte-associated nutritional mutualist. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107: 769-774.

The International Aphid Genomics Consortium (2010) Genome sequence of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. PLoS Biol. 8: e1000313.

Kutsukake M., Shibao H., Uematsu K., Fukatsu T. (2009) Scab formation and wound healing of plant tissue by soldier aphid. Proc. R. Soc. B 276: 1555-1563.

Nikoh N., Tanaka K., Shibata F., Kondo N., Hizume M., Shimada M., Fukatsu T. (2008) Wolbachia genome integrated in an insect chromosome: evolution and fate of laterally transferred endosymbiont genes. Genome Res. 18: 272-280.

Hosokawa T., Kikuchi Y., Shimada M., Fukatsu T. (2007) Obligate symbiont involved in pest status of host insect. Proc. R. Soc. B 274: 1979-1984.

Hosokawa T., Kikuchi Y., Nikoh, N., Shimada, M., Fukatsu T. (2006) Strict host-symbiont cospeciation and reductive genome evolution in insect gut bacteria. PLoS Biol. 4: e337.

Nakabachi A., Shigenobu S., Sakazume N., Shiraki T., Hayashizaki Y., Carninci P., Ishikawa H., Kudo T., Fukatsu T. (2005) Transcriptome analysis of the aphid bacteriocyte, the symbiotic host cell that harbors an endocellular mutualistic bacterium, Buchnera. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102: 5477-5482.

Tsuchida T., Koga R., Fukatsu T. (2004) Host plant specialization governed by facultative symbiont. Science 303: 1989-1989.

Kutsukake M., Shibao H., Nikoh N., Morioka M., Tamura T., Hoshino T., Ohgiya S., Fukatsu T. (2004) Venomous protease of aphid soldier for colony defense. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 11338-11343.

Koga R., Tsuchida T., Fukatsu T. (2003) Changing partners in an obligate symbiosis: a facultative endosymbiont can compensate for loss of the essential endosymbiont Buchnera in an aphid. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 270: 2543-2550.

Kondo N., Nikoh N., Ijichi N., Shimada M., Fukatsu T. (2002) Genome fragment of Wolbachia endosymbiont transferred to X chromosome of host insect. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99: 14280-14285.