JAPANESE 
Akio Murakami, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Division of Biodiversity, Ecology and speciation
Research Focus
- Studies on photosynthetic system in cyanobacteria and algae
Recent Publications
- Matsunaga S, Uchida H, Iseki M, Watanabe M and Murakami A (2010) Flagellar motions in phototactic steering in a brown algal swarmer. Photochemistry Photobiology 86:374-381.
- Iida S, Kobiyama A, Ogata T and Murakami A (2009) Identification of transcribed and persistent variants of the psbA gene carried by plastid minicircles in a dinoflagellate. Current Genetics 55:583-591.
- Hirose E, Neilan BA, Schmidt EW, Murakami A (2009) Enigmatic life and evolution of Prochloron and related cyanobacteria inhabiting colonial ascidians. In Handbook on Cyanobacteria: Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Applications (ed. PM Gault & HJ Marler), Nova Science Publishers. pp.161-189.
- Hirose Y, Uchida H and Murakami A (2009) Ultrastructural and microspectrophotometric characterization of multiple species of cyanobacterial photosymbionts coexisting in the colonial ascidian Trididemnum clinides (Tunicata, Ascidiacea, Didemnidae) European Journal of Phycology 44:365-375.
- Iida S, Kobiyama, A, Ogata, T and Murakami A (2008) The D1 and D2 proteins of dinoflagellates: unusually accumulated mutations which influence on PSII photoreaction. Photosynthesis Research 98: 415-425.
- Murakami A, Miyashita H, Iseki M, Adachi K and Mimuro M (2004) Chlorophyll d in an epiphytic cyanobacterium of red algae. Science 303: 1633.
- Iseki M, Matsunaga S, Murakami A, Ohno K, Shiga K, Yoshida K, Sugai M, Takahashi T, Hori T and Watanabe M (2002) A blue-light activated adenylyl cyclase mediates photoavoidance in Euglena gracilis. Nature 415: 1047-1051.
Contact
Office: Research Center for Inland Seas (Marine Site, Awaji Island)
Tel: +81-799-72-2907, 2374
FAX: +81-799-72-2950
E-mail: akiomura@kobe-u.ac.jp