Yasuhiro Ozeki

Yasuhiro Ozeki (1961-) is a lectinologist and glycobiologist. He graduated from Meijo Univ. School of Agriculture (Breeding and Genetics), Nagoya, Japan in 1985. He started his research career in protein chemistry at the Division of Biomedical Polymer Science at the Institute of Comprehensive Medical Sciences, Fujita Health Univ., Toyoake Aichi, Japan. He earned his Ph.D. at Fujita Health Univ in 1992 supervised Prof Koiti Titani, and conducted postdoctoral research as a JSPS Fellow at Fujita Health Univ., Toyoake Japan (1993-1994) and an NIH Fellow at The Biomembrane Institute (Otsuka Co., Ltd. Director Prof Sen-itiroh Hakomori) and the University of Washington, Seattle, WA (1994-1995) on Glycobiology. He has held a faculty position at Yokohama City Univ., Japan since 1995.

Dr. Ozeki determined two representative lectin family primary structures as SUEL/rhamnose-binding lectin (UniProtKB P22031) and MytiLec (UniProtKB B3EWR1), SeviL (GenBank MK434191), and supervised 5 Ph.D students and 1 JSPS Fellow Post-Doc researcher from Japan and Bangladesh since 2006. He was hired to be the Program Officer of Ministry of Education, Culture Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Japan (2006-2008). Since 2013, he is a member of Steering Committee, Misaki Marine Biological Station, Graduate School of Sciences, The Univ of Tokyo. He loves sense of humor, Progressive Rock and the music composed by Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev, Cultural Anthropology, and walking to watch sceneries of Yokohama.