Shota Atsumi
Professor
2020 July-
Associate Professor
2015-2020
Assistant Professor
2009-2015
Dept. of Chemistry,
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
Education and Research Experience
Post Doctoral Fellow
2006-2009
Dept. of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Project title:
Biological synthesis of higher alcohols as biofuels
Research Adviser: Prof.
James C. Liao
2002-2006
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Project title: System behavior
of lambda phage regulatory circuit
Research Adviser: Prof.
John W. Little
Graduate Education
1998-2002
Ph.D., Biological chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of
Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Research Adviser: Prof.
Tan Inoue
1996-1998
M. Sc.,
Biological chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyoto
University, Kyoto, Japan
Research Adviser: Prof.
Tan Inoue
Undergraduate Education
1992-1996
B. Sc., Biological chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty
of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Research Adviser: Prof. Tan Inoue
Awards Honor
2009 Invited Participant, National Academies Keck
Futures Initiative Conference, Synthetic Biology: Building on Nature's
Inspiration
2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (United States
Environmental Protection Agency) with Prof. James C. Liao and Easel
Biotechnologies
2011 Invited Participant, NationalAcademies Keck Futures
Initiative Conference, Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability
2012 UC Davis Hellman Fellow
2014 NSF CAREER Award
2017 UC Davis
Chancellor's Fellow
Publications
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