Reiko Kuroda
Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Biography
Reiko Kuroda obtained her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Tokyo, and carried out her Post-doctoral studies at King’s College London. Her research focuses on chirality, both in the fi eld of Chemistry and Biology: chirality recognition, transfer and amplifi cation in the solid state, development of chiroptical spectroscophotometers to enable condensed-phase measurements, and the molecular basis of snail body handedness. She has published 328 peer-reviewed papers.
Abstract
Abstract : Title: Single point mutation of a gene creates mirror-image animals in fresh water gastropod