Publications

  • Kobayashi S, Zhao F, Zhang Z, Kobayashi T, Huang Y, Shi B, Wu W, Liang Q. Mitochondrial Fission and Mitophagy Coordinately Restrict High Glucose Toxicity in Cardiomyocytes. Front Physiol. 2020 Dec 10;11:604069. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2020.604069. PMID: 33362579; PMCID: PMC7758327.
  • Kobayashi S, Patel J, Zhao F, Huang Y, Kobayashi T, Liang Q. Novel Dual-Fluorescent Mitophagy Reporter Reveals a Reduced Mitophagy Flux in Type 1 Diabetic Mouse Heart. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2020, 120 (7), 446–455. Doi:10.7556/jaoa.2020.072. PMID: 32598458
  • Satoru Kobayashi, Fengyi Zhao, Tamayo Kobayashi, Mariko Hagiwara, Amanda Kaminaris, Cairong Li, Fei Cai, Yuan Huang, Qiangrong Liang. Hyperglycemia-induced cardiomyocyte death is mediated by lysosomal membrane injury and aberrant expression of cathepsin D. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. December 2019. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.12.051
  • Kobayashi S. Choose Delicately and Reuse Adequately: The Newly Revealed Process of Autophagy. Biol Pharm Bull. 2015;38(8):1098-103. doi: 10.1248/bpb.b15-00096.. PMID 2623572 (Review article).
  • Kobayashi S, Xu X, Chen K, Timm D, Volden P, Gulick J, Yue Z, Robbins J, Epstein PN, and Liang Q. Diminished Autophagy Limits Cardiac Injury in Mouse Models of Type 1 Diabetes. J Biol Chem. 2013, Epub 2013 May 8. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M113.474650.
  • Kobayashi S, Xu X, Chen K, and Liang Q. Suppression of Autophagy Is Protective in High Glucose-Induced Cardiomyocyte Injury. Autophagy 2012 Apr; 8(4) 1-16. doi: 10.4161/auto.18980.

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Honors and Awards

  • American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant (15SDG25080077). Lysosomal Dysfunction in the Diabetic Heart. 7/1/2015–6/30/2019, $308,000.
  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship (10-2008-457). Dissecting the Role of Autophagy in Type I Diabetes-Induced Cardiomyopathy. 9/1/2008–8/31/2011, $270,000.
  • The American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship (0625755Z). Transcription Factor GATA4 Protects from Doxorubicin-induced Cardiotoxicity through Anti-apoptotic Gene Bcl2. 7/1/2006–6/30/2008.
  • Outstanding Research Award (3rd place): “Diabetic Ketoacidosis Compromises Cardiac Mitochondrial Quality Control in Humans.” Kobayashi S, Gilliland M.G.F, Hoffman W.H, O’Connor A, Jung MK, and Liang Q. The Second Annual ACRE/APS Symposium: Hot Topics in Current Basic and Translational Research of CV disease, July 12, 2015, New Orleans, LA.
  • New Investigator Travel Award “Regulation of Akt/PKB activity by P21-activated Kinase in Cardiomyocytes”, 4th Annual Symposium of the American Heart Association Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences, July 2007, Keystone, CO.