Education

Ph.D in Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University

Current Position

Assistant Professor, Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Publications

1. Kobayashi, Y. and Tanaka, K. (2016). Transcriptional Regulation of Tetrapyrrole Biosynthetic Genes Explains Abscisic Acid-Induced Heme Accumulation in the Unicellular Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Front Plant Sci 7: 1300.
2. Ueki, N., Ide, T., Mochiji, S., Kobayashi, Y., Tokutsu, R., Ohnishi, N., Yamaguchi, K., Shigenobu, S., Tanaka, K., Minagawa, J., Hisabori, T., Hirono, M. and Wakabayashi, K. (2016). Eyespot-dependent determination of the phototactic sign in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113(19): 5299-5304.
3. Kobayashi, Y., Ando, H., Hanaoka, M. and Tanaka, K. (2016). Abscisic Acid Participates in the Control of Cell Cycle Initiation Through Heme Homeostasis in the Unicellular Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant Cell Physiol 57(5): 953-960.
4. Taki, K., Sone, T., Kobayashi, Y., Watanabe, S., Imamura, S. and Tanaka, K. (2015). Construction of a URA5.3 deletion strain of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae: A backgroundless host strain for transformation experiments. J Gen Appl Microbiol 61(5): 211-214.
5. Kobayashi, Y., Imamura, S., Hanaoka, M. and Tanaka, K. (2011). A tetrapyrrole-regulated ubiquitin ligase controls algal nuclear DNA replication. Nat Cell Biol 13(4): 483-487.
6. Kobayashi, Y., Ohonuma, M., Kuroiwa, T., Tanaka, K. and Hanaoka, M. (2010). The basics of cultivation and molecular genetic analysis of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. J Endocytobiosis Cell Res 20: 53-61.
7. Takashi, Y., Kobayashi, Y., Tanaka, K. and Tamura, K. (2009). Arabidopsis replication protein A 70a is required for DNA damage response and telomere length homeostasis. Plant Cell Physiol 50(11): 1965-1976.
8. Kanesaki, Y., Kobayashi, Y., Hanaoka, M. and Tanaka, K. (2009). Mg-protoporphyrin IX signaling in Cyanidioschyzon merolae: multiple pathways may involve the retrograde signaling in plant cells. Plant Signal Behav 4(12): 1190-1192.
9. Kobayashi, Y., Kanesaki, Y., Tanaka, A., Kuroiwa, H., Kuroiwa, T. and Tanaka, K. (2009). Tetrapyrrole signal as a cell-cycle coordinator from organelle to nuclear DNA replication in plant cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(3): 803-807.
10. Kabeya, Y., Kobayashi, Y., Suzuki, H., Itoh, J. and Sugita, M. (2007). Transcription of plastid genes is modulated by two nuclear-encoded alpha subunits of plastid RNA polymerase in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Plant J 52(4): 730-741.
11. Nakamura, T., Sugiura, C., Kobayashi, Y. and Sugita, M. (2005). Transcript profiling in plastid arginine tRNA-CCG gene knockout moss: construction of Physcomitrella patens plastid DNA microarray. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 7(3): 258-265.