e-mail: hirokoba@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp
phone (visiting prof. office 7325): +81-54-264-5895
phone (previous office 5328: until taking stuff away): +81-54-264-5582
Visiting Professor
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Shizuoka
52-1 Yada, Suruga, Shizuoka 422-8526, JAPAN
email: hirokoba@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp
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The International Society for Plant Molecular Biology (ISPMB); The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB); The Genetics Society of America (GSA); The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB); European Society For Photobiology (ESP)
The Molecular Biology Society of Japan; The Japanese Biochemical Society; The Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry; The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (JSPP), The Botanical Society of Japan

April, 2020:
Visiting Professor, University of Shizuoka

March, 2020:
Retirement from the University of Shizuoka at the age limit

2003-2020:
Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Plant Molecular Improvement¹
Graduate School of Integrated Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences², University of Shizuoka

¹The former "Laboratory of Plant Cell Technology" renamed in 2008
²The former "Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences" reorganized in 2012

2013-2015, 2017-2019:
Dean, Graduate School of Integrated Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences
Dean, Graduate Division of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences

2015-2017:
Vice-President

2006-2011:
Dean, Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences

2005-2006, 2011-2014:
Chair, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences

1991-2003:
Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Plant Cell Technology
Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka

1993-1998:
Associate Professor (Adjunct)
Laboratory of Biological Regulation and Photobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology

The research activities in 1997    

1984-1991:
Assistant Professor
Radioisotope Research Center, Nagoya University

1983-1984:
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
The Late Lawrence Bogorad's Laboratory, Harvard University

1982:
Ph.D. Degree (Plant Biochemistry, Nagoya University)
The Late Takashi Akazawa's Laboratory, Nagoya University

1979:
M.S. Degree (Plant Biochemistry, Nagoya University)
The Late Takashi Akazawa's Laboratory, Nagoya University

1977:
B.S. Degree (Plant Pathology, Tottori University)
The Late Syoyo Nishimura's Laboratory, Tottori University

1973:
Fukuchiyama Senior Highschool, Kyoto Prefecture

1954:
Birth