Classes taught

Information Literacy Seminar, Information and Communication Technology I and II, Biodiversity I and II, Biotechnology I and II, The Global Environment and Sustainability, Science, Technology, and Risk Communication, Introductory Seminar, Yamaguchi and the World, Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Seminar, Project-type Problem Solving Research

Short biography

I graduated from the Department of Biology and Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Yamaguchi University in 1996, then obtained a doctorate degree (science) from the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University in 2001 for my research on regulatory factors for cellular division that exist in Tetrahymena ciliates. From 2001 I was involved in research on gene expression profiling and recombinants for Chlamydophila pneumoniae at a teaching unit in the Department of Reproductive, Pediatric and Infectious Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Yamaguchi University as an Adjunct Professor. Then in 2002 I was hired as an Assistant at the Media and Information Technology Center, Organization for Academic Information, Yamaguchi University. I was involved in analyzing genetic information through the use of machine learning, developing an email filtering system, and developing an e-learning system, before rising to the rank of Assistant Professor in 2006. I relocated for one year to the University of Göttingen as a Guest Researcher in 2011, where I worked on computer simulations of cell division cycles using Petri nets. Afterwards, in 2015 I transferred to the Faculty of Global and Science Studies, Yamaguchi University.

Major papers, books, and works

1. Paper: M. sugii, M. Fujishima, Purification of GVBD-Inducing Protein from the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophile, J Eukaryot Microbiol., 48(4), Jul-Aug 2001, 414-24. 2. Patent: Email system with a filtering function for spam emails (Patent No. 4686724) 3. Development software: e-class Navigator software for creating video content (sold by Digital Meister Co., Ltd.)

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