Yasushi Okinaka
Last Updated :2019/12/02
- Affiliations, Positions
- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, ., Associate Professor
- E-mail
- okinaka(at)hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Basic Information
Major Professional Backgrounds
- 2007/04/01, 2019/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Associate Professor
- 2004/04/01, 2007/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Associate Professor
- 2002/11/01, 2004/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Lecturer
- 1999/11/01, 2002/10/31, University of California-Riverside in the U.S.A., Post-doc
- 1997/04/01, 1999/10/31, Kyoto University., Graduate School of Agriculture, Post-doc
- 1990/04/01, 1993/03/31, Kyowa Hakko Co., Ltd, Tsukuba Research Laboratories, Researcher
Educational Backgrounds
- Hokkaido University, Graduate School, Division of Natural Science, Biological Science, Japan, 1993/04, 1997/03
- Hokkaido University, Graduate School, Division of Agriculture, Agriculture, Japan, 1988/04, 1990/03
- Hokkaido University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture, Japan, 1984/04, 1988/03
Academic Degrees
- Ph.D., HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
- Master of Agriculture, HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
Educational Activity
- 【Bachelor Degree Program】School of Applied Biological Science : Department of Applied Biological Science
- 【Master's Program】Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life : Division of Integrated Sciences for Life : Program of Food and AgriLife Science
- 【Doctoral Program】Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life : Division of Integrated Sciences for Life : Program of Food and AgriLife Science
Research Fields
- Agricultural sciences;Applied aquatic science;Aquatic bioproduction science
Research Keywords
- Host factor
- Virulence
- Fish virus
- fish disease
Affiliated Academic Societies
- American Society for Microbiology, 2002
- The Japanese Society for Virology, 2002
- The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science, 2002/12
- The Japanese Society of Fish Pathology, 2002/12
- Japanese Society of Animal Breeding and Genetics, 2011
Educational Activity
Course in Charge
- 2019, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
- 2019, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Laboratory Work in General Biology I
- 2019, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Reading of Foreign Literature
- 2019, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Introduction to Microbiology
- 2019, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Research Front of Applied Biological Science
- 2019, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Fish Pathology
- 2019, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Laboratory Work in Applied Marine BiologyI
- 2019, Undergraduate Education, Academic Year, Graduation Thesis
- 2019, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, (AIMS) Fish Production
- 2019, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Fish Production
- 2019, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Practice in Aquatic Biology
- 2019, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Pathogenic microbiology for aquatic organisms I
- 2019, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Pathogenic microbiology for aquatic organisms II
- 2019, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Microbiology for Food Safety II
Research Activities
Academic Papers
- Susceptibilities of medaka (Oryzias latipes) cell lines to a betanodavirus, VIROLOGY JOURNAL, 7, JUL 12 2010
- Production of biologically active Atlantic salmon interferon in transgenic potato and rice plants, JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING, 110(2), 201-207, 2010
- Identification of RNA regions that determine temperature sensitivities in betanodaviruses, ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY, 155(10), 1597-1606, 43018
- Genetic heterogeneity of betanodaviruses in juvenile production trials of Pacific bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis (Temminck & Schlegel), JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES, 32(10), 815-823, 43017
- Phylogenetic Analysis of Betanodavirus RNA2 Identified from Wild Marine Fish in Oceanic Regions, FISH PATHOLOGY, 43(1), 19-27, 42802
- Comparison among the complete genomes of the four types of betanodaviruses, Diseases of Aqucitic Organisms, 80, 113-121, 20080707
- Variable region of RNA2 is sufficient to determine host specificity in betanodaviruses, Diseases of Aqucitic Organisms, 79, 199-205, 20080508
- Screening of freshwater fish species for their susceptibility to a betanodavirus, Diseases of Aqucitic Organisms, 77, 119-125, 20070914
- Plylogenetic analysis of betanodavirus RNA2 identified from wild marine fish in oceanic region, Fish Pathology, 43(1), 19-27, 20070501
- Upper temperature limits for the multiplication of betanodaviruses., Fish Pathol., 42(4), 20071215
- Betanodavirus infection in the freshwater model fish medaka (Oryzias latipes)., J. Gen. Virol., 87, 2333-2339, 20060801
- Development of betanodavirus infection systems in the freshwater model fish medaka (Oryzias latipes)., Innovative Technology for the Sustained Development of Fishery and Agriculture, 20061212
- PCR-based detection of betanodaviruses from cultured and wild marine fish with no clinical signs., J. Fish Dis., 27, 603-608, 20041001
- Aquabirnavirus-induced protection of marine fish against piscine nodavirus infection., Fish Pathology, 40(2), 125-131, 20050601
- Characterization of Striped jack nervous necrosis virus subgenomic RNA3 and biological activities of its encoded protein B2, J. Gen. Virol., 86, 2807-2816, 20050601
- Identification of host-specificity determinants in betanodaviruses using reassortants between striped jack nervous necrosis virus and sevenband grouper nervous necrosis virus., J. Virol., 78(3), 1256-1262, 20040201