Taro Shiraishi

Lecturer

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Profile

Hometown
Hachioji, Tokyo
Favorite Drinks
Beer, Sake
Hobbies
Watching sports (mainly baseball and football)
Goals in Kyoto
Complete the Kyoto Marathon, find a favorite local izakaya, discover favorite local sake, and hike various mountains
The First Natural Product I Ever Isolated and Purified
A-94964
The first natural product whose structure I ever determined
caprazol-3′′′-phosphate

E-mail

shiraishi.taro.7kkyoto-u.ac.jp

Education ・ Appointments

Mar 2010
B.S., Department of Biological Chemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo
Mar 2012
M.S., Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
(Prof. Tomohisa Kuzuyama)
Apr 2014
Assistant Professor
(Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo)
Apr 2019
Researcher
(Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
Feb 2020
Ph.D. (Agricultural Science), Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
(Prof. Tomohisa Kuzuyama)
Apr 2021
Postdoctoral fellow, ETH Zürich (Prof. Jörn Piel)
Apr 2022
Assistant Professor
(Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
Jun 2025
Lecturer
(Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)

Awards

Sep 2022
Hamada Award
(The Society for Actinomycetes Japan)

Publications ・ Achievements

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