by Elio
This blog celebrates the Small Things and, by implication, those who relish their study. Thus, I think now of our colleagues who worked or have trained in Japan. One way to express our solidarity is to mention the names of scientists who exemplify the great achievements of Japanese microbiology, earlier on and now. I compiled this arbitrary list in haste and apologize for its obvious incompleteness.
Teruhiko Beppu: symbiotic bacteria
Akira Endo: statins
Yukinori Hirota: bacterial genetics
Koki Horikoshi: deep sea bacteria extremophiles
Masayori Inouye: cellular adaptation to stresses
Shigetane Ishiwata: Bacillus thuringiensis
Akira Kaji: protein synthesis
Shibasaburo Kitasato: bubonic plague
Hiroshi Nikaido: bacterial cell walls
Hideyo Noguchi: syphilis, yellow fever
Riichi Sakazaki: bacterial taxonomy
Kiyoshi Shiga: shigellosis
Noboru Sueoka: bacterial cell cycle
Gazuko Tamura: mevalonic acid as growth factor
Susumu Tonegawa: immunology (Nobel prize)
Shigezo Udaka: amino acid producers
Hamao Umezawa: kanamycin
Tsutomu Watanabe: antibiotic resistance
Takashi Yura: heat shock sigma and proteins
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