1994-1999 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Tohoku University 1999-2004 Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Tohoku University 2004-2005 Researcher, Tropical Technology Center 2005-2003 Research Assistant Professor, Center for Marine Science, Universty of North Carolina at Wilmington 2006- Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo Awards: 2001 The Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry Society Award for Encouragement of Young Scientists 2003 BBB-Most Cited Paper Award

Natural Product Chemistry/Marine Toxin

(1) Structural elucidation of marine natural products (2) Dynamics of marine toxins in marine ecosystem (3) Biosynthesis of marine natural products

Structures of 45,46,47-trinorhomoyessotxin, a new yesotoxin analog from Protoceratium reticulatum which represents the first detection of a homoyessotoxin analog in Japan, M. Satake, K. Eiki, T. Ichimura, S. Ota, K. Sekiguchi and Y. Oshima, Harmful Algae., 2006, 5, 731. Three Challenges toward the assignment of absolute configuration of gymnocin-B, K. Tanaka, Y. Itagaki, M. Satake, H. Naoki, T. Yasumoto, K. Nakanishi, and N. Berova, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 9561. Gymnocin-B with the largest contiguous polyether rings from the red tide dinoflagellate, Karenia (formerly Gymnodinium) mikimotoi, M. Satake, Y. Tanaka, Y. Ishikura, H. Naoki, and T. Yasumoto, Tetrahedron Lett., 2005, 46, 3537. The structure of five new antifungal and hemolytic amphidinol analogs from Amphidinium carterae collected in New Zealand, R. Echigoya, L. Rhodes, Y. Oshima, and M. Satake, Harmful Algae, 2005, 4, 383. Covergent total synthesis of gambierol and 16-epi-gambierol and their biological activities, I. Kadota, H. Takamura, K. Sato, A. Ohno, K. Matsuda, M. Satake, and T. Yamamoto, J. Am.Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 11893. Gymnocin-A, acytotoxic polyether from the notorious red tide dinoflagellate Gymnodinium mikimotoi, M. Satake, M. Shoji, Y. Oshima, H. Naoki, T. Fujita, and T. Yasumoto, Tetrahedron Lett., 2002, 43, 5829. Acetate labeling patters of dinoflagellate polyketides, amphidinol 2,3 and 4, T. Houdai, S. Mastuoka, M. Murata, M. Satake, S. Oshima, Y. Oshima, and L. Rhodes, Tetrahedron, 2001, 57, 5551.

Total synthesis of ciguatoxin CTX3C, M. Hirama, T. Oishi, H. Uehara, M. Inoue, M. Maruyama, H. Oguri, and M. Satake, Science, 2001, Nov30, 1904.