Naoki NAKAGAWA, Ph.D.

National Institute of Genetics (NIG): Assistant Professor

 

Education

2011-2014

Department of Biological Chemistry, Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University (PhD)

 

2009-2011

Department of Biological Chemistry, Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University (M.S.)

 

2005-2009

Department of Biological Chemistry, Human Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Kyoto University (B.S.)

 

Research Experience

2018-present

Division of Neurogenetics, National Institute of Genetics
Assistant Professor

 

2015-2018

UNC Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
(PI: Prof. Eva Anton)
Postdoctoral Fellow, supported by the Uehara Memorial Foundation (2017-2018)
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad (2015-2017)

 

2013-2015

Department of Biological Chemistry, Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
(PI: Prof. Shogo Oka)
Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

 

Fellowships

2018.4-2018.8　The Osamu Hayaishi Memorial Scholarship for Study Abroad (PI: Eva Anton)
2017.4-2018.3　The Uehara Memorial Foundation Research Fellowship (PI: Eva Anton)
2015.4-2017.3　JSPS Overseas Research Fellowships (PI: Eva Anton)
2013.4-2015.3　JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (PI: Shogo Oka)

 

Publications

1. Naoki Nakagawa*, Jingjun Li*, Keiko Yabuno-Nakagawa, Tae-Yeon Eom, Martis Cowles, Tavien Mapp, Robin Taylor, ES. Anton. (*equal contribution)
APC sets the Wnt tone necessary for cerebral cortical progenitor development.
Genes Dev. (2017) 31, 1679-1692. doi: 10.1101/gad.302679.117.

 

2. Naoki Nakagawa, Hirokazu Yagi, Koichi Kato, Hiromu Takematsu, Shogo Oka.
Ectopic clustering of Cajal-Retzius and subplate cells is an initial pathological feature in Pomgnt2-knockout mice, a model of dystroglycanopathy.
Scientific Reports (2015) 5:11163. doi: 10.1038/srep11163.

 

3. Hirokazu Yagi*, Naoki Nakagawa*, Takuya Saito, Hiroshi Kiyonari, Takaya Abe, Tatsushi Toda, Sz-Wei Wu, Kay-Hooi Khoo, Shogo Oka, Koichi Kato. (*equal contribution)
AGO61-dependent GlcNAc modification primes the formation of functional glycans on α-dystroglycan.
Scientific Reports (2013) 3, 3288. doi: 10.1038/ srep03288

 

4. Naoki Nakagawa, Hiromu Takematsu, Shogo Oka.
HNK-1 sulfotransferase-dependent sulfation regulating laminin-binding glycans occurs in the post-phosphoryl moiety on α-dystroglycan.
Glycobiology (2013) 23, 1066-1074. doi: 10.1093/glycob/cwt043.

 

5. Naoki Nakagawa, Hiroshi Manya, Tatsushi Toda, Tamao Endo, Shogo Oka.
Human natural killer-1 sulfotransferase (HNK-1ST)-induced sulfate transfer regulates laminin-binding glycans on α-dystroglycan.
J. Biol. Chem. (2012) 287, 30823-30832. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.363036.

 

6. Naoki Nakagawa, Tomomi Izumikawa, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Shogo Oka.
Sulfation of glucuronic acid in the linkage tetrasaccharide by HNK-1 sulfotransferase is an inhibitory signal for the expression of a chondroitin sulfate chain on thrombomodulin.
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. (2011) 415; 109-113. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.10.023.