Email

Positions

Instructor

Integrative Physiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Addresses

One Baylor Plaza (Lab)

Room: BCM-T407
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-2252
kohei.umezu@bcm.edu

Education

PhD from Tohoku University

03/2020 - Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Websites

Selected Publications

• Kohei UMEZU, Guzel R. MUSINA, Irina V. LARINA. " In vivo dynamic volumetric imaging of mouse testis and epididymis with optical coherence tomography " Biology of Reproduction. 2023 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 37971359.
• Kohei UMEZU, Irina V. LARINA. " Optical coherence tomography for dynamic investigation of mammalian reproductive processes " Mol Reprod Dev. 2022 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 36574640.
• Kohei UMEZU, Tian XIA, and Irina V. LARINA. " Dynamic volumetric imaging and cilia beat mapping in the mouse male reproductive tract with optical coherence tomography " Biomed Opt Express. 2022 ; 13 (6) : 3672-3684.
  Pubmed PMID: 35781970.
• Kohei UMEZU, Kenshiro HARA, Yuuki HIRADATE, Takashi NUMABE, Kentaro TANEMURA. " Stromal cell-derived factor 1 regulates in vitro sperm migration towards the cumulus-oocyte complex in cattle " PLoS One. 2020 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 32353075.
• Kohei UMEZU, Shouhei KURATA, Kenshiro HARA, Kentaro TANEMURA. " Caffeine induces sperm detachment from sperm head-to-head agglutination in bull " Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2021 ; 562 (12) : 105-111.
  Pubmed PMID: 34049203.
• Kohei UMEZU, Shouhei KURATA, Hironori TAKAMORI, Takashi NUMABE, Yuuki HIRADATE, Kenshiro HARA, Kentaro TANEMURA. " Characteristics and possible role of bovine sperm head-to-head agglutination " Cells. 2020 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 32784858.
• Kohei UMEZU, Risa YAJIMA, Yuuki HIRADATE, Rin YANAI, Takashi NUMABE, Kenshiro HARA, Toshinori OIKAWA, Kentaro TANEMURA. " Improvement in blastocyst quality by neurotensin signaling via its receptors in bovine spermatozoa during in vitro fertilization " J Reprod Dev. 2019 ; 65 (2) : 147-153.
  Pubmed PMID: 30662011.
• Kohei UMEZU, Yuuki HIRADATE, Takashi NUMABE, Kenshiro HARA, Kentaro TANEMURA. " Effects on glycocalyx structures of frozen-thawed bovine sperm induced by flow cytometry and artificial capacitation " J Reprod Dev. 2017 ; 63 (5) : 473-480.
  Pubmed PMID: 28701622.
• Kohei UMEZU, Yuuki HIRADATE, Toshinori OIKAWA, Hirotoshi ISHIGURO, Takashi NUMABE, Kenshiro HARA, Kentaro TANEMURA. " Exogenous neurotensin modulates sperm function in Japanese Black cattle " J Reprod Dev. 2016 ; 62 (4) : 409-414.
  Pubmed PMID: 27210588.
• Tian Xia, Kohei Umezu, Deirdre M. Scully, Shang Wang, Irina V. Larina. " In vivo volumetric depth-resolved imaging of cilia metachronal waves using dynamic optical coherence tomography. " Optica. 2023 ;
• Kaori Nozawa, Yoshitaka Fujihara, Darius J. Devlin, Ricardo E. Deras, Katarzyna Kent, Irina V. Larina, Kohei Umezu, Zhifeng Yu, Courtney M. Sutton, Qiuji Ye, Laura K. Dean, Chihiro Emori, Masahito Ikawa, Thomas X. Garcia, Martin M. Matzuk. " The testis-specific E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF133 is required for fecundity in mice " BMC Biology. 2022 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 35831855.
• Yusei MAKINO , Yuuki HIRADATE , Kohei UMEZU, Kenshiro HARA, Kentaro TANEMURA. " Expression and Possible Role of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor ε Subunit (AChRe) in Mouse Sperm " Biology. 2021 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 33440720.
• Shouhei KURATA, Kohei UMEZU, Hironori TAKAMORI, Yuuki HIRADATE, Kenshiro HARA, Kentaro TANEMURA. " Exogenous gamma-aminobutyric acid addition enhances porcine sperm acrosome reaction " Anim Sci J. 2022 ; 93 (1)
  Pubmed PMID: 35699686.
• Rin YANAI, Yudai YAMASHITA, Kohei UMEZU, Yuuki HIRADATE, Kenshiro HARA, Kentaro TANEMURA. " Expression and localization of alpha-tubulin N-acetyltransferase 1 in the reproductive system of male mice " J Reprod Dev. 2021 ; 67 (1) : 59-66.
  Pubmed PMID: 33390366.
• Shouhei KURATA, Yuuki HIRADATE, Kohei UMEZU, Kenshiro HARA, Kentaro TANEMURA. " Capacitation of mouse sperm is modulated by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) concentration " J Reprod Dev. 2019 ; 65 (4) : 327-334.
  Pubmed PMID: 31178551.
• Kohei UMEZU, Frank J BROOKS, Irina V LARINA. " In vivo volumetric visualization and quantification of cumulus expansion in mice with intravital optical coherence tomography. " Biomed Opt Express. 2026 ; 17 (1) : 38-48.

Funding

JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship

(05/01/2022 - 04/30/2024)

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

JSPS Research Fellow DC1

(04/01/2017 - 03/31/2020)

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science