Taishi Umezawa - Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology - Keywords: Plant Molecular Biology, Arabidopsis, abiotic stress, drought tolerance, salt tolerance, abscisic acid, ABA, signal transduction, proteome, phosphoproteomics, protein phosphoryaltion

Research interests

Recent emerging global and environmental issues, such as desertification or global warming etc., has a great impact on agricultural production worldwide, because such environmental changes cause multiple abiotic stresses (drought, saliniy or temperature etc.) for plants. One of our major goal is to develop stress-tolerant crops/trees, through a series of biological studies on the molecular mechanisms of cellular signal transduction in responses to abiotic stress in plants, mainly focusing on protein posttranslational modifications (e.g. phosphorylation). Our approach includes multiple techniques in plant physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology and systems biology. Recently we are trying to apply phosphoproteomics to investigate signal transduction networks in plants.


News & Topics

2 July 2024 | Taishi Umezawa was selected for oral presentation in EMBO Workshop: Plant Calcium Signaling, Liscon, Portgal.

17 May 2024 | Taishi Umezawa was invited by Tartu University, Estonia, to serve as an opponent for Ph.D. defence.

13 Mar. 2024 | Li Yangdan's paper was published in Plant Journal. The paper reveals part of the mechanism by which plants promote flowering under drought stress, in collaboration with RIKEN and Nagoya University.

16 Nov. 2023 | Sotaro Katagiri's paper was published in Plant Cell&Physiology. The paper reveals part of the mechanism by which plants promote flowering under drought stress, in collaboration with RIKEN and Nagoya University.

27 Oct. 2023 | Kota Yamashita was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the 3rd Young Scientists' Meeting of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas A “Heterogeneous Environments and Plants”.


Contact info.

We encourage your application to our Master or Ph.D. courses, or some fellowship positions for postdoc as follows;
For Graduate students
--> Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering (BASE)
For non-Japanese scientists
--> JSPS Fellowship
--> Human Frontier Science Program
For Japanese scientists
--> JSPS Fellowship

If you are interested in our lab, plese contact us.

Taishi Umezawa, Ph.D.
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2-24-16 Nakacho, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588
JAPAN

TEL/FAX： +81-42-388-7364
e-mail：taishi(at)cc.tuat.ac.jp [substitue "atmark" for (at) ]