Education and Experience

Birthday: August 27th 1982 Education 2001 April - 2005 March Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University. 2005 April - 2007 March Graduate School of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University. 2007 April - 2010 March United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University. (Ph.D.) Experience 2010 April - 2012 March Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Alexei V. Demchenko group, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA. 2012 April - Current Postdoctoral Fellow in ERATO Ito Glycotrilogy Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

Research Field

Synthesis of oligosaccharide

Publications

Construction of a High-Mannose-Type Glycan Library by a Renewed Top-Down Chemo-Enzymatic Approach, Kohki Fujikawa, Akihiko Koizumi, Masakazu Hachisu, Akira Seko, Yoichi Takeda, Yukishige Ito. Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 3224-3233. Glycan specificity of a testis-specific lectin chaperone calmegin and effects of hydrophobic interactions, Masafumi Sakono, Akira Seko, Yoichi Takeda, Jun-ichi Aikawa, Masakazu Hachisu, Akihiko Koizumi, Kohki Fujikawa, Yukishige Ito. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects 2014, 1840, 2904-2913. Both Isoforms of Human UDP-glucose:glycoprotein Glucosyltransferase are Enzymatically Active, Yoichi Takeda, Akira Seko, Masakazu Hachisu, Shusaku Daikoku, Masayuki Izumi, Akihiko Koizumi, Kohki Fujikawa, Yasuhiro Kajihara, and Yukishige Ito. Glycobiology 2014, 24, 344-350. Parallel quantification of lectin–glycan interaction using ultrafiltration, Yoichi Takeda, Akira Seko, Masafumi Sakono, Masakazu Hachisu, Akihiko Koizumi, Kohki Fujikawa, Yukishige Ito. Carbohydrate Research 2013, 375, 112-117. Lectin-carbohydrate interactions on nanoporous gold monoliths, Yih Horng Tan, Kohki Fujikawa, Papapida Pornsuriyasak, Allan J. Alla, N. Vijaya Ganesh, Alexei V. Demchenko, Keith J. Stine, New Journal of Chemistry 2013, 37, 2150-2165. Surface-Tethered Iterative Carbohydrate Synthesis: A Spacer Study, N. Vijaya Ganesh, Kohki Fujikawa, Yih Horng Tan, Swati S. Nigudkar, Keith J. Stine, Alexei V. Demchenko, J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 6849-6857. HPLC-Assisted Automated Oligosaccharide Synthesis, N. Vijaya Ganesh,Kohki Fujikawa, Yih Horng Tan, Keith J. Stine, Alexei V. Demchenko, Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 3036-3039. Surface area and pore size characteristics of nanoporous gold subjected to thermal, mechanical, or surface modification studied using gas adsorption isotherms, cyclic voltammetry, ermogravimetric analysis, and scanning electron microscopy, Yih Horng Tan, Jason A. Davis, Kohki Fujikawa, N. Vijaya Ganesh, Alexei V. Demchenko, Keith J. Stine. Journal of Materials Chemistry 2012, 22, 6733-6745. Comparative Study of the Binding of Concanavalin A to Self-Assembled Monolayers Containing a Thiolated α-Mannoside on Flat Gold and on Nanoporous Gold, Binod Pandey, Yih Horng Tan, Kohki Fujikawa, Alexei V. Demchenko, Keith J. Stine, J. Carbohydr. Chem. 2012, 31, 466-503.  Reverse orthogonal strategy for oligosaccharide synthesis, Kohki Fujikawa, N. Vijaya Ganesh, Yih Horng Tan, Keith J. Stine, Alexei V. Demchenko. Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 10602-10604.  Characterization of protein immobilization on nanoporous gold using atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, Yih Horng Tan, John R. Schallom, N. Vijaya Ganesh, Kohki Fujikawa, Alexei V. Demchenko, Keith J. Stine. Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 3395-3407. The first total synthesis of ganglioside GalNAc-GD1a, a target molecule for autoantibodies in Guillain-Barré syndrome, Kohki Fujikawa, Shinya Nakashima, Miku Konishi, Tomoaki Fuse, Naoko Komura, Takayuki Ando, Hiromune Ando, Nobuhiro Yuki, Hideharu Ishida, Makoto Kiso. Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 5641-5651. A cyclic glucosyl ceramide acceptor as a versatile building block for complex ganglioside synthesis, Kohki Fujikawa, Tomohiro Nohara, Akihiro Imamura, Hiromune Ando, Hideharu Ishida, Makoto Kiso. Tetarahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 1126-1130. Synthesis of a GM3 ganglioside analogue carrying a phytoceramide moiety by intramolecular glycosylation as a key step, Kohki Fujikawa, Akihiro Imamura, Hideharu Ishida, Makoto Kiso. Carbohydr. Res. 2008, 343, 2729-2734.

Academic Society

Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry The Japanese Society of Carbohydrate Research

Hobby:

Mild training