Mitsuhiro Yanagida | |
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柳田 充弘 | |
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| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
| Known for | Cell Cycle Chromosome segregation |
| Awards | Order of Culture (2011) Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy (2003) Asahi Prize (2000) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Molecular biology Cell biology |
| Institutions | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Kyoto University |
Mitsuhiro Yanagida ForMemRS (柳田充弘, Yanagida Mitsuhiro, born April 4, 1941, in Tokyo) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for research on cell cycle and chromosome structure using the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.[1][2][3] He was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society on 11 May 2000.
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- ^ Hoffman CS; Wood V; Fantes PA. (Oct 2015). "An Ancient Yeast for Young Geneticists: A Primer on the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Model System". Genetics. 201 (2): 403–23. doi:10.1534/genetics.115.181503. PMC 4596657. PMID 26447128.