1997.04.01 - 2000.03.31
Department of System Information Science, Graduate School of Information Science, Tohoku University.
Awarded the degree of Ph.D. IS. for a thesis entitled "Investigation on the diversity of the amphibian blue sensitive photoreceptors and visual pigments."
Work supervised by Professors Yasuo Tsukahara and Fumio Tokunaga.1995.04.01 - 1997.03.31
Department of System Information Science, Graduate School of Information Science, Tohoku University.
Awarded the degree of M.IS. in for a thesis entitled "The functional proteins of vertebrates phototransduction system."
Work supervised by Professors Yasuo Tsukahara and Fumio Tokunaga.1991.04.01 - 1995.03.31
Department of Biotechnology, Ishinomaki Senshu University. Awarded the degree of B.S.
2003.04.01 - 2003.05.31
Research Associate at Department of Biology, Syracuse University.
Work supervised by Prof. Shozo Yokoyama2000.04.01 - 2003.03.31
Research Associate at Department of Biology, University of Washington.
Work supervised by Prof. Thomas G. Ebrey
O. Hisatomi, Y. Takahashi, Y. Taniguchi, Y. Tsukahara and F. Tokunaga (1999)
Primary structure of a visual pigment in bullfrog green rods. FEBS Letters. 447: 44-48
[PubMed: Abstract] [PDF: Fulltext]F. Tokunaga, O. Hisatomi, T. Satoh, Y. Taniguchi, S. Matsuda, Y. Imanishi, H. Honkawa, Y. Takahashi, Y. Kobayashi, M. Yoshida and Y. Tsukahara (1999)
Evolution of visual pigments and related molecules. in Rhodopsins and phototransduction. Wiley, Chichester (Novartis Foundation Symposium. 224: 44-53 (Review)
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Y. Takahashi, O. Hisatomi, S. Sakakibara, F. Tokunaga and Y. Tsukahara (2001)
Distribution of the blue-sensitive photoreceptors in amphibian retinas. FEBS Letters 501: 151-155
[PubMed: Abstract] [PDF: Fulltext]T. G. Ebrey and Y. Takahashi (2001)
Photobiology of Retinal Proteins. in Photobiology for the 21st century (Eds, T. Coohill and D. Valenzeno), Valdenmar Publishing Company: 101-134.S. Sakakibara, H. Hiramatsu, Y. Takahashi, O. Hisatomi, Y. Kobayashi, S. Sakami, T. Saitou and F. Tokunaga (2002)
Opsin expression in adult, developing, and regenerating newt retinas. Molecular Brain Research. 103: 28-35
[PubMed: Abstract] [PDF: Fulltext]O. Hisatomi, S. Yamamoto, Y. Kobayashi, H. Honkawa, Y. Takahashi and F. Tokunaga (2002)
Evolution of Visual Pigments and Related Molecules. The Journal of Photoscience. 9: 41-43
[PDF: Fulltext]Y. Takahashi and T. G. Ebrey (2003)
Molecular Basis of Spectral Tuning in the Newt Short Wavelength Sensitive Visual Pigment. Biochemistry. 42: 6025-34
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