User:Ai Oikawa

Ai Oikawa


Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute

Buiding 978 Mailstop 4121, CA 94720

'''Room: 4450

http://jbei.org/

Postdoctoral Fellow

Feedstocks Division

'''Office: 510 495 2462

[mailto:AOikawa@lbl.gov AOikawa@lbl.gov]

Education and experience

 * 2009-Current Postdoctoral Fellow: Joint BioEnergy Institute, California, USA
 * 2006-2008 Ph.D: Iwate University, JAPAN
 * 2007-2007 Visiting student: Yale University, Connecticut, USA
 * 2004-2005 M.S: Iwate University, JAPAN
 * 1998-2003 B.S: Iwate University, JAPAN

Publications
2011 2010 2009 2007 2006
 * Yves Verhertbruggen, Lan Yin, Ai Oikawa, Henrik Vibe Scheller. (2011) Mannan synthase activity in the CSLD family. Plant Signaling & Behavior, In Press
 * Lan Yin, Yves Verhertbruggen, Ai Oikawa, Chithra Manisseri, Bernhard Knierim, Lina Prak, Jacob Krüger Jensena, J. Paul Knox, Manfred Auer, William G. T. Willats, Henrik Vibe Scheller. (2011) The Cooperative Activities of CSLD2, CSLD3 and CSLD5 are Required for Normal Arabidopsis Development. Molecular Plant, 4:1–14 Article
 * Ai Oikawa, Hiren J. Joshi, Emilie A. Rennie, Berit Ebert, Chithra Manisseri, Joshua L. Heazlewood and Henrik Vibe Scheller. (2010) An integrative approach to the identification of Arabidopsis and rice genes involved in xylan and secondary wall development. PLoS One, 5: e15481 Article
 * Ai Oikawa, Kazuya Nagai, Kiyoaki Kato, Shin-ichiro Kidou. (2009) Gene silencing of barley P23k involved in secondary wall formation causes abnormal tiller formation and intercalary elongation. Breeding Science, 59: 664–670 PDF
 * Ai Oikawa, Abidur Rahman, Tetsuro Yamashita, Hideharu Taira and Shin-ichiro　Kidou. (2007) Virus-induced gene silencing of P23k in barley leaf reveals morphological changes involved in secondary wall formation. Journal of Experimental Botany 58:2617-2625 PDF
 * Ai Oikawa, Tetsuro Yamashita, Hideharu Taira, Shin-ichiro Ejiri and Shin-ichiro Kidou. (2007) Jasmonate-induced 23kD protein (JIP-23) is involved in seed development of barley. Plant Biotechnology 24:217-220 PDF
 * Shin-ichiro Kidou, Ai Oikawa, Naoko Sasaki, Hiroshi Yasuda, Tetsuro Yamashita, Hiroyuki Koiwa, Kiyoaki Kato, Shin-ichiro Ejiri. (2006) Identification of a 23 KD protein (P23k) related to the sugar supply in germinating seed. Plant Biotechnology 23:357-364 PDF

Presentations at National/International meeting (2007-)
2011 2010 2009 2008 2007
 * Ai Oikawa, Casper Nicholas Søgaard, Yumiko Sakuragi, Emilie A. Rennie, Stephanie N. Morrison, Peter McInerney, Masood Z. Hadi, Hiren J. Joshi, Joshua L. Heazlewood, Henrik Vibe Scheller. Unraveling plant xylan biosynthesis using co-expression, co-localization, and protein-protein interaction analysis (2011) 6th Annual DOE JGI User Meeting (Walnut Creek, California)
 * Ai Oikawa Xylan network in Arabidopsis and rice. (2010) Renewall meeting (Porto, Portugal)
 * Ai Oikawa, Hiren J. Joshi, Joshua L. Heazlewood and Henrik Vibe Scheller. An integrated approach to identifying intercellular components involved in xylan and secondary wall formation in Arabidopsis and rice (2010) XIIth Cell Wall Meeting (Porto, Portugal)
 * McInerney, Morrison, Chu, Oikawa, Scheller, Ronald, Adams, Hadi. Glycosyltransferases (GTs) from the Arabidopsis CAZy Family: High-throughput Cloning of a Library of GT and GT-related Genes. (2010) Genomic Science 2010 Awardee Workshop VIII and Knowledgebase Workshop (Crystal City, Virginia)
 * Suttangkakul, Oikawa, Rautengarten, Harholt, Verhertbruggen, Truong, McInerney, Hadi, Benke, Geshi, Jensen, Knoch, Scheller. Screening Glycosyltransferases for Enzymatic Activity.(2010) Genomic Science 2010 Awardee Workshop VIII and Knowledgebase Workshop (Crystal City, Virginia)
 * Ai Oikawa, Anongpat Suttangkakul, Naomi Geshi, Henrik Vibe Scheller. Development of high throughput screening of glycosyltransferases.(2009) The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Plant Cell Wall (Smithfield, Rich island)
 * Ai Oikawa, Naomi Gesh, Henrik Vibe Scheller.A comprehensive bioinformatics/biochemical approach to identify key cell wall glycosyltransferase for biofuel.(2009) Synthetic biology workshop by the Danish Ministry of Science (Berkeley, California)
 * Ai Oikawa, Naomi Geshi, Henrik Vibe Scheller. TRBO-GT screen: Tobacco mosaic virus RNA Based Overexpressed-GlycosylTransferase assay and its application into 96 well format.(2009) Annual Meeting of the American Society for Plant Biology (Oahu, Hawaii)
 * Anongpat Suttangkakul, Ai Oikawa, Michelle Truong, Yuzuki Manabe,Henrik Vibe Scheller. Functional Characterization of Arabidopsis Glycosyltransferases.(2009) Annual Meeting of the American Society for Plant Biology (Oahu, Hawaii)
 * Henrik Vibe Scheller, Ai Oikawa, Lan Yin, Eva Knoch, Naomi Geshi, Carsten Rautengarten, Yuzuki Manabe, and Chithra Manisseri.Systematic Characterization of Glycosyltransferases Involved in Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis.(2009) Genomics:GTL Awardee Workshop VII and USDA-DOE Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy Awardee Workshop (Bethesda, Maryland)
 * Naomi Geshi, Ai Oikawa, Lan Yin, Mohammed Saddik Motawia, Henrik Vibe Scheller. Glycosyltransferases involved in the plant cell wall polysaccharides biosynthesis. (2009) Plant Biotech Denmark Annual meeting (Copenhagen, Denmark)
 * Naomi Geshi, Ai Oikawa, Lan Yin, Mohammed Saddik Motawia, Henrik Vibe Scheller. Glycosyltranfserases involved in the plant cell wall polysaccharides biosynthesis.(2008) Annual Meeting of the Society for Glycobiology (Fort Worth, Texas)
 * Henrik Vibe Scheller, Ai Oikawa, Yuzuki Manabe, Jorunn Johansen, Herman Höfte, Mohammed Saddik Motawia, Naomi Geshi. (2008) Cell Wall Biosynthesis: Heterologous expression of Arabidopsis glycosyltransferases in Nicotiana benthamiana. XVI Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (Tampere, Finland)
 * Ai Oikawa, and Shin-ichiro Kidou (2007). Functional analysis of the barley P23k protein by virus-induced gene silencing. The 5th international symposium of rice functional genomics (Tsukuba, Japan)
 * Ai Oikawa., Abidur Rahman and  Shin-ichiro Kidou(2007). Virus-induced gene silencing of P23k in barley leaf reveals morphological changes　involved in secondary wall formation. Plant Biology & Botany 2007 joint congress (Chicago, illinois, USA)

Awards and Grants received
2008 2007
 * The Yamada Science Foundation Japan (March 2008): I was awarded the Yamada science abroad research grant to study on “Unraveling the gene network involved in the construction of plant cell wall” (CA, USA).
 * The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists Fellow (July 2007): I was selected for the JSPP Fellowship as a JSPP Fellow for the year 2007 to conduct collaboration research with Dr. Timothy Nelson at Yale University (CT, USA) on “Unraveling the gene network involved in the barley seed development by LCM (Laser-captured microdissection)“.
 * The Life Science Foundation Japan (only japanese) (July 2007): I was awarded the life science travel grant to attend the Annual meeting of American Society of Plant Biologist (ASPB) held in Chicago, USA.

Professional Affiliations

 * American Society of Plant Biologists
 * Japanese Society of Plant Physiologist
 * Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society