Shimpei Magori

BIOGRAPHY

Shimpei Magori is an Associate Faculty Member who works with Faculty Member Vitaly Citovsky to recommend the scientific literature in their field.

Shimpei Magori also has responsibility for checking the contents of the following journals to ensure that the highest quality research relevant to their own interests within these publications is comprehensively and systematically evaluated for F1000:

- Plant Cell
- Molecular Plant Pathology

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Staff Member, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York at Stony Brook

EDUCATION
BSc, Kyoto University, Japan
MSc, Ohio State University, USA
PhD, University of Tokyo, Japan

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of plants is the only known natural example of trans-kingdom gene transfer. My goal is to understand how this elaborate process is regulated by bacterial factors as well as host factors.