Noriko Okamoto Ph.D

Skills

Culturing of microalgae, parasitic and non-parasitic protists
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Light microscopy

Confocal microscopy

SEM & TEM

TEM tomography





Molecular sequencing

Molecular cloning

Phylogenetic analyses

EST

2010 - present

2010 - present

• Okamoto N, McFadden G. I. (2008) Mother of all parasites. Future Microbiology. 3(4):391-395

• Okamoto N, Spurck T. P., Goodman C. D., McFadden G. I. (2008) The apicoplast and mitochondrion in gametocytogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum. Eukariotic Cell. 8(1): 128-132

• Okamoto N, Keeling P. J. (2014) 3D structure of the apical complex and association with the flagellar apparatus revealed by serial TEM tomography in Psammosa pacifica, a distant relative of the apicomplexa. Plos One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084653

• Okamoto N, Keeling P. J. (2014) A comparative overview of the flagellar apparatus of dinoflagellate, perkinsids and colpodellids. Microorganisms. in press.

• Okamoto N, Tai V. (2013) Assessing protistan diversity and genetic variance. A symposium presented at the Protist2012 meeting in Oslo, Norway. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 60(4):406. DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12045

• James E. R., Okamoto N, Burki F., Scheffrahn R. H., Keeling P. J. (2013) Cthulhu macrofasciculumque n. g., n. sp. and Cthylla microfasciculumque n. g., n. sp., a newly identified lineage of parabasalian termite symbionts. PloS One. e58509. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058509

• Okamoto N, Horák A, Keeling P. J. (2012) Description of two species of early branching dinoflagellates, Psammosa pacifica n. g., n. sp. and P. atlantica n. sp. PloS One. 7 (6), e34900

• Burki F, Okamoto N, Pombert JF, Keeling P. J. (2012) The evolutionary history of haptophytes and cryptophytes: phylogenomic evidence for separate origins. Proc. R. Soc. B. 279 (1736), 2246- 2254

• Slamovits C. H., Okamoto N, Burri L, James E.R., Keeling P. J. (2011) A bacterial proteorhodopsin proton-pump in marine eukaryotes. Nature Communication. 2, 183

• Okamoto N (2010) Chapter 7. Protists in Intertidal Sandy Beaches. In Sea Level Rise, Coastal Engineering, Shorelines and Tides. Linda L. Wright (Ed.), Nova Science Publishers, NY. ISBN: 978-1- 61728-655-1

• Okamoto N, Chantangsi C, Horák A, Leander B. S., Keeling P. J. (2009) Molecular Phylogeny and Description of the Novel Katablepharid Roombia truncata gen. et sp. nov., and Establishment of the Hacrobia Taxon nov. PloS One. 4(9): e7080.

Honours and prizes

2008

Best Image of MAM2008 Competition

in Molecular Approaches to Malaria – 2008 conference (Lorne, Victoria, Australia)
 

2005

The Best Students Award

from President of the University of Tsukuba.

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2005

Rose Provasoli Scholarship
Provasoli-Guillard National Center for culture of Marine Phytoplankton (CCMP),

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA)



2002

The Best Student Paper Competition Grand Prix for oral presentation
in a Joint Conference of the 26th annual congress of the Japanese Society of Phycology (JSP), the 50th anniversary of the 3rd Asian Pacific Phycological forum (APPF). (Ibaraki, Japan)

2002

The Best Poster Prize for poster presentaiton

in the 4th annual meeting of Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan. (Tokyo, Japan).

1999-2000

The USHIO Foundation Scholorship

- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Laboratory I (Microalgae)

- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Laboratory II (Vascular plants)

- Laboratory and Field Studies in Marine Botany (Macroalgae and microalgae)

- Laboratory and Field Studies in Plant Taxonomy (Freshwater microalgae, vascular plants)