
Kazuo Watanabe
Technical Expert
Practice Areas
Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Physics and Materials Science
Education
Ph.D., Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
Professional Background
University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology
Publications
Mastroianni M, Watanabe K, White TB, Zhuang F, Vernon J, Matsuura M, Wallingford J, Lambowitz AM, (2008) Group II intron-based gene targeting reactions in eukaryotes, PLoS One 3:e3121
Watanabe KI, Ohama T, (2001) Regular spliceosomal introns are invasive in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: 15 introns in the recently relocated mitochondrial cox2 and cox3 genes, J Mol Evol, 2001 Oct-Nov; 53(4-5):333-9
Dr. Watanabe specializes in mechanical engineering and metallurgy. He also has experience in developing intron gene transfer technology.