Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Biology
Phone: 903.877.7331
Email: osamu.sato@uttyler.edu
Department: Cellular and Molecular Biology
Osamu Sato
Dr. Sato is currently a Research Assistant Professor in Cellular Molecular Biology. Dr. Sato originally has a background in Biology and Pharmacology, and has expanded his research areas to Biochemistry, Biophysics and Cell biology. Dr. Sato’s research is currently focused on the mechanisms of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) progression. His recent research combines biochemical and cell biological approaches using IPF cells from human patients and asks how stimulants and/or specific genes are involved in the progression of IPF. He is also interested in studying the relationship between pulmonary fibrosis and motor proteins as well as identifying the underlying molecular mechanisms. His research spans the areas of gene expression, protein expression and protein-protein binding, phosphorylation of proteins and the signal transduction, secretion of proteins, cell growth and death, cell migration and contraction, and so on.
Education & Training
- Visiting Scientist (Riken, Japan)
- Instructor (UMass Medical School)
- PostDoc (UMass Medical School)
- PhD in Pharmacology 2001 (Juntendo University School of Medicine)
- Research Associate (Juntendo University School of Medicine)
- MS in Biology 1992 (Chiba University, Japan)
Research interest
- To define the role of myocardin in pulmonary fibrosis
- To identify myocardin effector proteins to control pulmonary fibrosis
- To clarify the mechanism of myocardin effector proteins in pulmonary fibrosis
Courses Taught
- Biotechnology Master Course Program
- BIOT 6312: Biotechnology II: Protein Purification
- BIOT 5222L: Advanced Metabolism: Muscle Physiology 2
- BIOT6336: Biophysical Chemistry: Column Chromatography, and CD spectroscopy
- BIOT 5211/5211L: Advanced Biotechniques: Enzymatic Reactions, Recombinant DNA Technologies, PCR and Ligation, Purification of Nucleic Acids, Protein Expression in Bacteria, and Gel Electrophoresis
- BIOT 6311: Biotechnology I: Protein Expression 2
Publication Highlights