Senior Research Assistant

To contact Keiko,   keiko-otsu@uiowa.edu

Keiko graduated from the University of California, Davis with a B.S. in nutrition.  Within her 30 years of research experience, she has worked in both academia and industry.  She is responsible for managing the daily business of the lab in addition to her various research projects.  Her expertise in working with both trypanosomes and leishmania afford her to productively participate in all of the lab's research projects.

Current Publication:

Santuza M.R. Teixeira, Keiko Otsu, Kent L. Hill, Loius V. Kirchhoff, and John E. Donelson. (1999). " Expression of a marker for intracellular Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes in extracellular spheromastigotes". Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 98 : 265 - 70.

Diane E. Ochs, Keiko Otsu, Santuza M.R. Teixeira, David R. Moser, and Louis V. Kirchhoff. (1996). " Maxicircle genomic organization and editing of an ATPase subunit 6 RNA in Trypanosoma cruzi". Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 76: 267 - 278.

Keiko Otsu, John E. Donelson, and Louis V. Kirchhoff. (1995). " Trypanosoma cruzi: Interuption of Both alleles of a gene encoding a protein containing 14-amino-acid repeats by targeted insertion of NEOr and HYGr". Experimental Parasitology. 81 : 529 - 535.

Keiko Otsu, John E. Donelson, and Louis V. Kirchhoff. (1993). " Interruption of Trypanosoma cruzi gene encoding a protein containing 14-aminoacid repeats by targeted insertion of the neomycin phosphotransferase gene". Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 57 : 317 - 330.

Cynthia R. DeAndrade, Louis V. Kirchhoff, John E. Donelson, and Keiko Otsu. (1992). " Recombinant Leishmania Hsp90 and Hsp70 are recognized by sera from visceral leishmaniasis pateints but not Chagas' Disease patients". J of Clinical Microbiology. 30 (2): 330 - 335.