Personal Data
　　Born September 26, 1962, Nagasaki City, Japan
　　Male
　　Nationality: Japanese

Business Address
　　Department of Integrated Biosciences
　　Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
　　The University of Tokyo
　　Seimeitou 502
　　5-1-5 Kashiwanoha
　　Kashiwa-City, Chiba 277-8562, Japan
　　tel: +81-4-7136-5422
　　fax: +81-4-7136-3692
　　e-mail: kawamura[at]k.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Education

Professional Positions

Publications

1. Nakagome, S., Takeyama, Y., Mano, S., Sakisaka, S., Matsui, T., Kawamura, S. and *Oota, H. (2010). Population-specific susceptibility to Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis; dominant and recessive relative risks in the Japanese population. Annals of Human Genetics, in press.
   
   
2. Matsukusa, H., *Oota, H., Haneji, K., Toma, T., Kawamura, S. and Ishida, H. (2010). A genetic analysis of the Sakishima islanders reveals no relationship with Taiwan aborigines but shared ancestry with ainu and main-island Japanese. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, in press.
   
   
3. Hiwatashi, T., Okabe, Y., Tsutsui, T., Hiramatsu, C., Melin, A. D., Oota, H., Schaffner, C. M., Aureli, F., Fedigan, L. M., Innan, H. and *Kawamura, S. (2010). An explicit signature of balancing selection for color-vision variation in New World monkeys. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 27 (2): 453-464.
   
   
4. *Melin, A. D., Fedigan, L. M., Hiramatsu, C., Hiwatashi, T., Parr, N. and *Kawamura, S. (2009). Fig foraging by dichromatic and trichromatic white-faced capuchin monkeys in a tropical dry forest. International Journal of Primatology, 30 (6): 753-775.
   
   
5. *Kimura, R., Yamaguchi, T., Takeda, M., Kondo, O., Toma, T., Haneji, K., Hanihara, T., Matsukusa, H., Kawamura, S., Maki, K., Osawa, M., Ishida, H., Oota, H. (2009). A common variation in EDAR is a genetic determinant of shovel-shaped incisors. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 85 (4): 528-535.
   
   
6. Katsumura, T., Oda, S., Mano, S., Suguro, N., Watanabe, K., Mitani, H., *Oota, H. and Kawamura, S. (2009). Genetic differentiation among local populations of medaka fish (Oryzias latipes) evaluated through grid- and deme-based sampling. Gene, 443 (1-2): 170-177.
   
   
7. Matsumoto, Y., *Oota, H., Asaoka, Y., Nishina, H., Watanabe, K., Bujnicki, J. M., Oda, S., Kawamura, S. and *Mitani, H. (2009). Medaka: a promising model animal for comparative population genomics. BMC Research Notes, 2:88.
   
   
8. Hiramatsu, C., Melin, A. D., Aureli, F., Schaffner, C. M., Vorobyev, M., and *Kawamura, S. (2009). Interplay of olfaction and vision in fruit foraging of spider monkeys. Animal Behaviour, 77 (6): 1421-1426.
   
   
9. Takechi, M., Seno, S. and *Kawamura, S. (2008). Identification of cis-acting elements repressing blue opsin expression in zebrafish UV cones and pineal cells. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283 (46): 31625-31632.
   
   
10. Hiramatsu, C., Melin, A. D., Aureli, F., Schaffner, C. M., Vorobyev, M., Matsumoto, Y. and *Kawamura, S. (2008). Importance of achromatic contrast in short-range fruit foraging of primates. PLoS ONE, 3 (10):e3356.
    
    
11. *Kozmik, Z., Ruzickova, J., Jonasova, K., Matsumoto, Y., Vopalensky, P., Kozmikova, I., Strnad, H., Kawamura, S., *Piatigorsky, J., Paces, V. and *Cestmir, V. (2008). Assembly of the cnidarian camera-type eye from vertebrate-like components. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 105 (26): 8989-8993.
    
    
12. *Melin, A. D., Fedigan, L. M., Hiramatsu, C. and *Kawamura, S. (2008). Polymorphic color vision in white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus): Is there foraging niche divergence among phenotypes? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62 (5):659-670.
    
    
13. *Fukamachi, S., Kinoshita, M., Tsujimura, T., Shimada, A., Oda, S., Shima, A., Meyer, A., Kawamura, S. and Mitani, H. (2008). Rescue from oculocutaneous albinism type 4 using medaka slc45a2 cDNA driven by its own promoter. Genetics, 178 (2):761-769.
    
    
14. Tsujimura, T., Chinen, A. and *Kawamura, S. (2007). Identification of a locus control region for quadruplicated green-sensitive opsin genes in zebrafish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 104 (31):12813-12818. Brief Summary
    
    
15. *Kawata, M., Shoji A., Kawamura, S. and Seehausen, O. (2007). A genetically explicit model of speciation by sensory drive within a continuous population in aquatic environments. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7 (99).
    
    
16. *Melin, A. D., Fedigan, L. M., Hiramatsu, C., Sendall, C. and *Kawamura, S. (2007). Effects of colour vision phenotype on insect capture by a free-ranging population of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). Animal Behaviour, 73 (1): 205-214. ScienceNOW Daily News, 9 January 2007. DISCOVER, 2 April 2007. Brief Summary
    
    
17. *Wei, X., Zou, J., Takechi, M., Kawamura, S. and Li, L. (2006). Nok plays an essential role in maintaining the integrity of the outer nuclear layer in the zebrafish retina. Experimental Eye Research, 83 (1):31-44.
    
    
18. Matsumoto, Y., Fukamachi, S., Mitani, H. and *Kawamura, S. (2006). Functional characterization of visual opsin repertoire in Medaka (Oryzias latipes). Gene, 371 (2): 268-278. Brief Summary
    
    
19. Hiramatsu, C., Tsutsui, T., Matsumoto, Y., Aureli, F., Fedigan, L. M. and *Kawamura, S. (2005). Color vision polymorphism in wild capuchins (Cebus capucinus) and spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in Costa Rica. American Journal of Primatology, 67 (4): 447 - 461. Brief Summary
    
    
20. *Saito, A., *Mikami, A., *Kawamura, S., Ueno, Y., Hiramatsu, C., Widayati, K. A., Suryobroto, B., Teramoto, M., Mori, Y., Nagano, K., Fujita K., Kuroshima, H. and Hasegawa, T. (2005). Advantage of dichromats over trichromats in discrimination of color-camouflaged stimuli in non-human primates. American Journal of Primatology, 67 (4): 425 - 436. Brief Summary
    
    
21. *Saito, A., *Kawamura, S., *Mikami, A., Ueno, Y., Hiramatsu C., Koida, K., Fujita, K., Kuroshima, H. and Hasegawa, T. (2005). Demonstration of genotype-phenotype correlation in polymorphic color vision of a non-callitrichine New World monkey, capuchin Cebus apella. American Journal of Primatology, 67 (4): 471 - 485.
    
    
22. *Kawamura, S., Takeshita, K., Tsujimura, T., Kasagi, S. and Matsumoto, Y. (2005). Evolutionary conserved and divergent regulatory sequences in the fish rod opsin promoter. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part B, 141 (4):391-399.
    
    
23. Nagao, K., Takenaka, N., Hirai, M. and *Kawamura, S. (2005). Coupling and decoupling of evolutionary mode between X- and Y-chromosomal red-green opsin genes in owl monkeys. Gene, 352:82-91. Brief Summary
    
    
24. Chinen, A., Matsumoto, Y. and *Kawamura, S. (2005). Reconstitution of ancestral green visual pigments of zebrafish and molecular mechanism of their spectral differentiation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22 (4):1001-1010. Brief Summary
    
    
25. Takechi, M. and *Kawamura, S. (2005). Temporal and spatial changes in the expression pattern of multiple red and green subtype opsin genes during zebrafish development. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 208 (7):1337-1345. Brief Summary
    
    
26. Chinen, A., Matsumoto, Y. and *Kawamura, S. (2005). Spectral differentiation of blue opsins between phylogenetically close but ecologically distant goldfish and zebrafish. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280 (10):9460-9466.
    
    
27. Kim, I.-C., Kim, Y. J., Yoon, Y.-D., Kawamura, S., Lee, Y.-S. and *Lee, J.-S. (2004). Cloning of cytochrome P450 1A (CYP1A) genes from the hermaphrodite fish Rivulus marmoratus and the Japanese medaka Oryzias latipes. Marine Environmental Research, 58 (2-5):125-129.
    
    
28. Hiramatsu, C., Radlwimmer, F. B., Yokoyama, S. and *Kawamura S. (2004). Mutagenesis and reconstitution of middle-to-long-wave-sensitive visual pigments of New World monkeys for testing the tuning effect of residues at sites 229 and 233. Vision Research, 44 (19):2225-2231. Brief Summary
    
    
29. *Kawamura, S. and Kubotera, N. (2004). Ancestral loss of short wave-sensitive cone visual pigment in lorisiform prosimians, contrasting with its strict conservation in other prosimians. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 58 (3):314-321.
    
    
30. *Kawamura, S. and Kubotera, N. (2003). Absorption spectra of reconstituted visual pigments of a nocturnal prosimian, Otolemur crassicaudatus. Gene, 321:131-135.
    
    
31. Takechi, M., Hamaoka, T. and *Kawamura, S. (2003). Fluorescence visualization of ultraviolet-sensitive cone photoreceptor development in living zebrafish. FEBS Letters, 553 (1-2):90-94. Brief Summary
    
    
32. Chinen, A., Hamaoka, T., Yamada, Y. and *Kawamura, S. (2003). Gene duplication and spectral diversification of cone visual pigments of zebrafish. Genetics, 163 (2):663-675. Brief Summary
    
    
33. Hamaoka, T., Takechi, M., Chinen, A., Nishiwaki, Y. and *Kawamura, S. (2002). Visualization of rod photoreceptor development using GFP-transgenic zebrafish. Genesis, 34 (3):215-220. Brief Summary
    
    
34. *Kawamura, S., Takenaka, N., Hiramatsu, C., Hirai, M. and Takenaka, O. (2002). Y-chromosomal red-green opsin genes of nocturnal New World monkey. FEBS Letters, 530 (1-3):70-72. Brief Summary
    
    
35. *Kawamura, S., Hirai, M., Takenaka, O., Radlwimmer, F. B. and Yokoyama, S. (2001). Genomic and spectral analyses of long to middle wavelength-sensitive visual pigments of common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). Gene, 269 (1-2):45-51. Brief Summary
    
    
36. Kawamura, S., Blow, N. S. and *Yokoyama, S. (1999).Genetic analyses of visual pigments of the pigeon (Columba livia). Genetics, 153 (4): 1839-1850.
    
    
37. *Yokoyama, S., Radlwimmer, F. B. and Kawamura, S. (1998). Regeneration of ultraviolet pigments of vertebrates. FEBS Letters, 423 (2):155-158.
    
    
38. Kawamura, S. and *Yokoyama, S. (1998). Functional characterization of visual and nonvisual pigments of American chameleon (Anolis carolinensis). Vision Research, 38 (1):37-44.
    
    
39. *Sumiyama, K., Kawamura, S., Takenaka, O. and Ueda, S. (1998). A high sequence variety in the immunoglobulin C-alpha hinge region among Old World monkeys. Anthropological Science, 106 (1):31-39.
    
    
40. Kawamura, S. and *Yokoyama, S. (1997). Expression of visual and nonvisual opsins in American chameleon. Vision Research, 37 (14):1867-1871.
    
    
41. Kawamura, S. and *Yokoyama, S. (1996). Molecular characterization of the pigeon P-opsin gene. Gene, 182 (1-2):213-214.
    
    
42. Kawamura, S. and *Yokoyama, S. (1996). Phylogenetic relationships among short wavelength-sensitive opsins of American chameleon (Anolis carolinensis) and other vertebrates. Vision Research, 36 (18):2797-2804.
    
    
43. Kawamura, S. and *Yokoyama, S. (1995). Paralogous origin of the rhodopsinlike opsin genes in lizards. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 40 (6):594-600.
    
    
44. Kawamura, S. and *Yokoyama, S. (1994). Cloning of the rhodopsin-encoding gene from the rod-less lizard Anolis carolinensis. Gene, 149 (2):267-270.
    
    
45. Kawamura, S. and *Yokoyama, S. (1993). Molecular characterization of the red visual pigment gene of the American chameleon (Anolis carolinensis). FEBS Letters, 323 (3):247-251.
    
    
46. Kawamura, S. and *Ueda, S. (1992). Immunoglobulin CH gene family in hominoids and its evolutionary history. Genomics, 13 (1):194-200.
    
    
47. Kawamura, S., Saitou, N. and *Ueda, S. (1992). Concerted evolution of the primate immunoglobulin alpha-gene through gene conversion. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 267 (11):7359-7367.
    
    
48. Kawamura, S., Tanabe, H., Watanabe, Y., Kurosaki, K., Saitou, N. and *Ueda, S. (1991). Evolutionary rate of immunoglobulin alpha noncoding region is greater in hominoids than in Old World monkeys. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 8 (6):743-752.
    
    
49. Kawamura, S., Omoto, K. and *Ueda, S. (1990). Evolutionary hypervariability in the hinge region of the immunoglobulin alpha genes. Journal of Molecular Biology, 215 (2):201-206.
    
    
50. Kawamura, S., Omoto K. and *Ueda, S. (1989). Nucleotide sequence of the gorilla immunoglobulin alpha1 gene. Nucleic Acids Research, 17 (16):6732.

1. Kawamura, S., Tanabe, H., Watanabe, Y., Kurosaki, K., Omoto, K. and *Ueda, S. (1991). Evolution of the immunoglobulin alpha gene in primates. In: Primatology Today, A. Ehara, T. Kimura, O. Takenaka and M. Iwamoto (eds.), pp. 623-626, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
   
   
2. *Ueda, S. and Kawamura, S. (1990). Hominoid immunoglobulin alpha genes: multiple recombinational events in their hinge regions. In: Molecular Evolution, M. T. Clegg and S. T. O'Brien (eds.), pp. 13-18, Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York.
   
   

Membership in Scientific Societies
The Anthropological Society of Nippon, Primate Society of Japan, The Genetics Society of Japan, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan, The Zoological Society of Japan, The Japanese Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, The Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, International Primatological Society

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