Curriculum Vitae
Shinichi Kitamura, PhD.
Professor Emeritus

Education   
Kyoto Prefectural University, 1971-1975
Kyoto University, Graduate School, 1975-1978
PhD degree conferred from Kyoto University, 1984

Major Experience    
Visiting researcher, University of California, Irvine1984
Post-doctoral fellow, Yale University, 1984-1986
Lecturer, Kyoto Prefectural University, 1992-2001
Professor, Osaka Prefecture University, 2001-2018
Professor Emeritus, Osaka Prefecture University, 2018-
Director, Center for Research and Development of Bioresources, 2007-2014
Director in Applied Life Sciences of Osaka Prefecture University, 2012-2017
Visiting professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2018
Editorial board member of Carbohydrate Research, 2013-
External reviewer of Hong Kong Research Grant, 2014-

Award 
Young Scientist Award of the Japanese Society of Starch Scientist, 1989
(Title: Conformation and Physical Properties of Amylose in Solutions)
The Prize of Japanese Society of Applied Glycoscience
(Title: Shape and Functional Properties of Polysaccharides )

Scientific Publications

Shinichi Kitamura - ‪Google Scholar

(2018-2014)

1. Takahashi, R.; Nakaya, M.; Kotaniguchi, M.; Shojo, A.; Kitamura, S., Analysis of phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine, and plasmalogen molecular species in food lipids using an improved 2D high-performance liquid chromatography system. Journal of Chromatography B 2018, 1077, 35-43.
2. Yamakawa, A.; Suzuki, S.; Oku, T.; Enomoto, K.; Ikeda, M.; Rodrigue, J.; Tateiwa, K.; Terada, Y.; Yano, H.; Kitamura, S., Nanostructure and physical properties of cellulose nanofiber-carbon nanotube composite films. Carbohydrate polymers 2017, 171, 129-135.
3. Takagi, H.; Suzuki, S.; Akdogan, G.; Kitamura, S., Surface Structure and Water Adsorption Behavior ofwaxy/amylose extender (wx/ae) Double-mutant Rice Starch. Starch-Stärke 2017.
4. Ryoki, A.; Yokobatake, H.; Hasegawa, H.; Takenaka, A.; Ida, D.; Kitamura, S.; Terao, K., Topology-Dependent Chain Stiffness and Local Helical Structure of Cyclic Amylose Tris (3, 5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) in Solution. Macromolecules 2017, 50 (10), 4000-4006.
5. Ryoki, A.; Kim, D.; Kitamura, S.; Terao, K., Linear and cyclic amylose derivatives having brush like sidegroups in solution: Amylose tris (n-octadecylcarbamate) s. Polymer 2017.
6. Rohrer, J. S.; Kitamura, S., Determination of Carbohydrates Using Liquid Chromatography with Charged Aerosol Detection. Charged Aerosol Detection for Liquid Chromatography and Related Separation Techniques, 2017, 311-325.
7. Jiang, X.; Kitamura, S.; Sato, T.; Terao, K., Chain Dimensions and stiffness of cellulosic and amylosic chains in an ionic liquid: cellulose, amylose, and an amylose carbamate in BmimCl. Macromolecules 2017, 50 (10), 3979-3984.
8. Yuguchi, Y.; Bui, L. M.; Takebe, S.; Suzuki, S.; Nakajima, N.; Kitamura, S.; Thanh, T. T. T., Primary structure, conformation in aqueous solution, and intestinal immunomodulating activity of fucoidan from two brown seaweed species Sargassum crassifolium and Padina australis. Carbohydrate polymers 2016, 147, 69-78.
9. Kaze, N.; Watanabe, Y.; Sato, H.; Murota, K.; Kotaniguchi, M.; Yamamoto, H.; Inui, H.; Kitamura, S., Estimation of the intestinal absorption and metabolism behaviors of 2-and 3-monochloropropanediol esters. Lipids 2016, 51 (8), 913-922.
10. Ichihara, T.; Fukuda, J.; Takaha, T.; Suzuki, S.; Yuguchi, Y.; Kitamura, S., Small-angle X-ray scattering measurements of gel produced from α-amylase-treated cassava starch granules. Food Hydrocolloids 2016, 55, 228-234.
11. Suzuki, R.; Suzuki, N.; Fujimoto, Z.; Momma, M.; Kimura, K.; Kitamura, S.; Kimura, A.; Funane, K., Molecular engineering of cycloisomaltooligosaccharide glucanotransferase from Bacillus circulans T-3040: structural determinants for the reaction product size and reactivity. Biochemical Journal 2015, 467 (2), 259-270.
12. Kitamura, S.; Suzuki, S., Starch and Dextran. In Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials, Springer Berlin Heidelberg: 2015; pp 2249-2254.
13. Suzuki, S.; Yukiyama, T.; Ishikawa, A.; Yuguchi, Y.; Funane, K.; Kitamura, S., Conformation and physical properties of cycloisomaltooligosaccharides in aqueous solution. Carbohydrate polymers 2014, 99, 432-437.
14. Suzuki, N.; Fujimoto, Z.; Kim, Y.-M.; Momma, M.; Kishine, N.; Suzuki, R.; Suzuki, S.; Kitamura, S.; Kobayashi, M.; Kimura, A., Structural elucidation of the cyclization mechanism of α-1, 6-glucan by Bacillus circulans T-3040 cycloisomaltooligosaccharide glucanotransferase. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2014, 289 (17), 12040-12051.

Research Field
My research group focuses on carbohydrates and lipids including global analyses of foods components, gene expression profiling of sugar and lipid metabolism, enzymatic syntheses of new functional carbohydrates and lipids, nanotechnology using carbohydrates and lipids, and biological activities of carbohydrates and lipids.