University of Washington
What was the name of the employer Keiko Torii work for from 1999 to 2011?
Keiko Torii Career . Torii researches stem cell maintenance and the cell-to-cell communication required to correctly pattern tissue during development , focusing on stomatal development as a model . Her work on cell-to-cell communication has also focused on the mechanisms that determine organ size and shape . In September 2019 , Dr . Torii joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin , where she is a professor of molecular biosciences and holds the Johnson & Johnson Centennial Chair in Plant Cell Biology . She is also an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Principal Investigator and Visiting Professor at the World Premier Research Initiative , Institute of Transformative Biomolecules ( WPI-ITbM ) , Nagoya University , Japan . Prior to joining the University of Texas at Austin , Dr . Torii was the Endowed Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Washington . Early life . Dr . Torii was born in Tokyo , Japan in 1965 . She completed her B.S . ( 1987 ) and M.S . ( 1989 ) degrees in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the Institute of Biological Sciences at University of Tsukuba , Japan . She also obtained a PhD ( 1993 ) from the University of Tsukuba , researching seed development in carrots . Positions . - Professor , Department of Molecular Biosciences , University of Texas at Austin . 2019- - Oversea Principal Investigator and Visiting Professor , Institute of Transformative Biomolecules , Nagoya University , Japan 2013- - Investigator , Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2011- - Endowed Distinguished Professor of Biology , University of Washington 2011-2019 - Professor , Department of Biology , University of Washington 2009- - PRESTO Researcher , Japan Science and Technology Agency 2008-2012 - Affiliate Faculty , University of Washington Institute of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine 2006- - Associate Professor , Department of Biology , University of Washington 2005-2009 - Assistant Professor , Department of Biology , University of Washington 2002-2005 Awards and honors . - 2008 - JSPS prize for Mechanisms of Stomatal Patterning and Differentiation in Plants - 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ) - 2015 - Saruhashi Prize Publications . Putarjunan , A. , Ruble , J. , Srivastava , A. , Zhao , C. , Rychel , A.L. , Hofstetter , A.K. , Tang , X. , Zhu , J.K. , Tama , F. , *Zheng , N. , and *Torii , K.U . ( 2019 ) Bipartite anchoring of SCREAM enforces stomatal initiation by coupling MAP Kinases to SPEECHLESS . Nature Plants 5 : 742-754 Perraki , A. , DeFalco , T. , Derbyshire , P. , Avila , J. , Sere , D. , Sklenar , J. , Qi , X. , Stransfeld , L , Schwessigner , B. , Kadota , Y. , Macho , A.P. , Jiang , S. , Coudo , D. , Torii , K.U. , Menke , F.L.H. , and *Zipfel , C . Phosphocode-dependent functional dichotomy of a receptor in plant signaling . Nature 561 : 248-252 <nowiki>*</nowiki>Torii , K.U. , Takahashi , K. , Uchida , N. , and Hagihara , S . ( 2018 ) Harnessing synthetic chemistry to probe and hijack auxin signaling . New Phytologist 220 : 417-424 Fendrych , M. , Akhmanova , M. , Merrin , J. , Glanc , M. , Hagihara , S. , Takahashi , K. , Uchida , N. , Torii , K.U. , and *Friml . J . ( 2018 ) Rapid root growth brake by TIR1 auxin signaling . Nature Plants 4:453-459 Han , S.K. , Qi , X. , K . Sugihara , Endo , T.A. , Dang , J.H. , Miura , T. , Miller , K.A. , Kim , E. , and *Torii , K.U . ( 2018 ) Direct orchestration of cell-state switch and the single symmetric division to create stomata . Developmental Cell 45 : 303-315 Uchida , N. , Takahashi , K. , Iwasaki , R. , Zhang , H. , Endo , T.A. , Kimura , S. , Yamada , R. , Yoshimura , M. , Tada , Y. , Kinoshita , T. , Itami , K. , *Hagihara , S. , and *Torii , K.U . ( 2018 ) Chemical hijacking of auxin signaling with an engineered auxin-TIR1 pair . Nature Chemical Biology 14 : 299-305 Qi , X. , and *Torii , K.U . ( 2018 ) Hormonal and environmental signals guiding stomatal development . BMC Biology 16 : e21 Qi , X. , Han , S.K. , Dang , J.H. , Garrick , J.T. , Ito , M. , Hofstetter , A.K. , and *Torii , K.U . ( 2017 ) Autocrine regulation of stomatal differentiation potential by EPF1 and ERECTA-LIKE1 ligand-receptor signaling . eLife : e24102 Ziadi , A , Uchida , N. , Kato , H. , Hisamatsu , R. , Sato , Y. , Hagihara , S. , *Itami , K. , and *Torii , K.U . ( 2017 ) Synthetic small molecules that enhance the number of stomata : C-H Functionalization chemistry for plant biology . Chem Commun 53 : 9632-9635 Hirakawa , Y. , Shinohara , H. , Matsubayashi , Y. , *Torii , K.U. , *Uchida , N . ( 2017 ) Cryptic bioactivity capacitated by synthetic hybrid peptide . Nature Commun 8 : 14318 Tameshige , T. , Okamoto , S. , Lee , J.S. , Aida , M. , Tasaka , M. , *Torii , K.U . and *Uchida , N . ( 2016 ) A Secreted Peptide and its Receptors Specifying the Auxin Response Pattern during Leaf Margin Morphogenesis . Current Biology 26 : 2478-2485 Lee , J.S. , Hnilova , M. , Maes , M. , Lin , Y.C.L. , Putarjunan , A. , Han , S.K. , Avila , J. , and *Torii , K.U . ( 2015 ) Competitive binding of antagonistic peptides fine-tunes stomatal patterning Nature 522:439-443