Japan
Department of Parasitology,
Institute of Tropical Medicine,
Nagasaki University.
Kentaro Kato
Address:
1-12-4 Sakamoto,
Nagasaki,
Japan.
Research Interests:
Parasite-host interactions via sugar chains, Glycobiology, Mucin, Parasite, O-glycosylation, N-glycosylation
Biography:
- 1989-1992: Shonan High School, Kanagawa, Japan
- 1993-1997: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University (B.Sc.), Hokkaido, Japan
- 1999-2004: Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo (Ph.D), Tokyo, Japan
- 2004-2008: Visiting research assistant, Odontologisk Institute/ Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics/ Institute of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Panum Instituttet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2008-2010: Postdoctoral fellow, Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Frontier Research Center for Post-genomic Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- 2010-: Assistant professor, Department of Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan