BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

NAME POSITION TITLE

Jin, Duo Research Fellow
eRA COMMONS USER NAME (credential, e.g.,
agency login)
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as
nursing, and include postdoctoral training.) DEGREE
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION (if YEAR(s) FIELD OF STUDY
applicable)
China Medical University, China B.M. 2001 Medicine
Kanazawa University, Japan PhD 2007 Neuroscience

Positions and Employment

2007-2008 Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Biophysical Genetics, Kanazawa University, Japan

2008-Now Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Neurology, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical
School, Boston, MA

Honors:

2002-2006 Japan Government Scholarship

2007 China Government Award for Outstanding Scholars Oversea
2007 Kanazawa University Excellent Graduate Award
2007 Takayasu Excellent Dissertation Award of Juzen Medical Society in Japan
2007 Cold Spring Harbor Conference Travel Award
2009 Harvard University William Randolph Hearst Award
2009 Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) Foundation Fellowship

Patent:

WO/2007/001010: PHARMACEUTICAL FOR TREATMENT OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE

Peer-reviewed publications:

1. Higashida H, Hoshi N, Zhang JS, Yokoyama S, Hashii M, Jin D, Noda M, Robbins J. (2005) Protein
kinase C bound with A-kinase anchoring protein is involved in muscarinic receptor-activated modulation of
M-type KCNQ potassium channels. Neurosci Res. 51(3):231-4.

2. Zhang JS, Jin D, Higashida H (2005). Acetylcholine stimulates cyclic ADP-ribose formation via M1
muscaric receptors in rat superior cervical ganglion. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 335(3):920-4.
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 3. Higashida H, Salmina A, Hashii M, Yokoyama S, Zhang JS, Noda M, Zhong ZG, Jin D (2006).
Bradykinin activates ADP-ribosyl cyclase in neuroblastoma cells: intracellular concentrations decrease in
NAD and increase in cyclic ADP-ribose FEBS Lett. 2006:580(20):4857-60.

4. Higashida H, Bowden SE, Yokoyama S, Salmina A, Hashii M, Hoshi N, Zhang JS, Knijnik R, Noda M,
Zhong ZG, Jin D, Higashida K, Takeda H, Akita T, Kuba K, Yamagishi S, Shimizu N, Takasawa S,
Okamoto H, Robbins J (2007). Overexpression of human CD38/ADP-ribosyl cyclase enhances
acetylcholine-induced Ca(2+) signaling in rodent NG108-15 neuroblastoma cells. Neurosci res. 57(3):339-
46.

5. Jin D, Liu HX, Hirai H, Torashima T, Nagai T, Lopatina O, Shnayder NA, Yamada K, Noda M, Seike T,
Fujita K, Takasawa S, Yokoyama S, Koizumi K, Shiraishi Y, Tanaka S, Hashii M, Yoshihara T, Higashida K,
Islam MS, Yamada N, Hayashi K, Noguchi N, Kato I, Okamoto H, Matsushima A, Salmina A, Munesue T,
Shimizu N, Mochida S, Asano M, Higashida H (2007). CD38 is critical for social behavior by regulating
oxytocin secretion. Nature. 446(7131):41-5.

6. Higashida H, Salmina AB, Olovyannikova RY, Hashii M, Yokoyama S, Koizumi K, Jin D, Liu HX, Lopatina
O, Amina S, Islam MS, Huang JJ, Noda M (2007). Cyclic ADP-ribose as a universal calcium signal molecule
in the nervous system. Neurochem Int. 51(2-4):192-9.

Other Publications:

Duo Jin, Kousyon Ryu, Minako Hashii, Sigeru Yokoyama, Keita Koizumi, OlgaLeonidovna Lopatina,
MohammadSaharul Islam, Haruhiro Higashida (2006). Trial of social behavior tests in ordinal house mice.
Bulletin of the Japanese Society for Neurochemistry. VOL.45; NO.2/3; PAGE.350

Jin Duo, Liu Hong Xian , Hashii Minako, Hirai Hirokazu, Higashida Haruhiro (2007) CD38 can influence
oxytocin release by regulating intracellular calcium concentration. Neurochemistry. Vol 46, p421

Jin D, Liu HX, Higashida H and et al. (2007) Oxytocin released from mouse hypothalamus and nerve endings
by extracellular applicaion of beta-NAD+ and cyclic ADP-ribose. Nature protocol. DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.214

Hirokazu Hirai, Takashi Torashima, Duo Jin, Hong-Xiang Liu, Olga Lopatina, Mami Noda, Haruhiro Hirashida
(2007) Lentiviral-vector-mediated gene rescue—Functional recovery by region-specific expression of CD38
gene. Neuroscience Research Volume 58, Supplement 1, 2007, Page S68

Higashida Haruhiro, Duo Jin and et al. (2008) Social memory, maternal care and oxytocin release. Page 361-
376 in book: Neurobiology of the parental brain. Editor: Robert S. Bridges. Publisher: Academic Press, US

Membership:

Society of Neuroscience (SFN)

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