CURRICULUM VITAE

Name, Family name: SHIMADA

Forename: Toru

Sex: Male

Date of birth: 31 May 1959

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

Nationality: Japanese

Present address: Dr. Toru Shimada, Professor, Laboratory of Insect Genetics and Bioscience, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, JAPAN, Phone: +81-3-5841-8130 Fax: +81-3-5841-8011, E-mail: toru@ss.ab.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp, Website: http://www.ab.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp/shimada/

Education:

Apr. 1978 - Mar. 1982 Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Awarded the degree of BS in agrobiology.

Apr. 1982 - Mar. 1984 Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo

Awarded the degree of MS in agrobiology for the thesis entitled "Studies on polymorphism of the female-specific storage protein in Bombyx mori." Work supervised by Professor Narumi Yoshitake.

Apr. 1984 - Mar. 1987 Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo. Awarded the degree of PhD in agrobiology for the thesis entitled "Studies on hemolymph proteins in the silkmoths." Work supervised by Professor Narumi Yoshitake.

Research and professional experience:

Apr. 1987 - Mar. 1988 Research Resident of Department of Cellular Immunology, the National Institute of Health, Tokyo, Japan, supported by the Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research, Japan. Work supervised by Dr. Tohru Tokunaga.

Apr. 1988 - June 1988 Research Associate of Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, supported by Japanese Society of Promotion of Science. Work supervised by Professor Hitoshi Watanabe.

July 1988 - July 1990 Research Entomologist. Department of Medical Entomology,

The National Institute of Health, Tokyo, Japan.

Aug. 1990 - Mar. 1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Agrobiology, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

June 1995 - May 2004 Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agriculture and Agricultural Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

May 2004 - present Professor, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agriculture and Agricultural Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Membership of academic societies:

Japanese Society of Sericultural Science

The Molecular Biology Society of Japan

Japanese Society for Wild Silkmoths

Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology

Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan

The Japan Society of Sanitary Zoology

The Japan Heterocerists' Society

The Entomological Society of Japan

Awards:

Medal for Promotion of Sericultural Science, awarded by Japanese Society of Sericultural Science (Apr., 1993)