Senior Associate Professor, Chemistry
Graduate School Department of Material Science

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Teaching
Undergraduate: Foundation of Chemistry I; Foundation of Chemistry Laboratory I; Analytical Chemistry I; Analytical Chemistry Laboratory I; Spectroscopy Laboratory; Natural Science III: The Chemical Basis of Nature; Natural Science VII: Experimental Approach to Natural Science; Teaching Methods in Natural Sciences
Postgraduate: Advanced studies in biologically-related substances.　Environmental science.

Research Field
1. The study of organic remains, especially lipids, from ancient artifacts to determine ancient living environment including dietary habits.
2. Study of dynamic changes of lipid related compounds during cell differentiations and apoptosis.
3. The synthesis of apoptosis-inducing reagents for the investigation of apoptosis inducing mechanisms.
4. The synthesis of C-glycosides.

Example Publications
1. A.Horiuchi. Is it possible to predict ancient diet from the analysis of organic remains recovered form ancient pottery, Journal of Lipid Nutrition, 2004, 13. 126.
2. A.Horiuchi, E.Yasugi, C.Iwasaki, K.Fujimoto, M.Oshima. The changes of cell membrane and cellular lipids in apoptotic cells induced by dolichyl phosphate are different from the cells induced by etoposide, J. Oleo Sci, 2002, 51, 35.
3. A. Horiuchi, E.Yasugi, M.Oshima, A.You. Increase in cholesterol level in apoptotic U937 cells treated with dolichyl monophosphate, Glycoconjugate Journal, 2001, 18, 111.
4. D.M.Walba, H.A.Razavi, A.Horiuchi, K.F.Eidman, B.Otterholm, R.C.Haltiwanger. N.A.Clark, R.Shao, D.S.Parmar, W.D.Wand, R.T.Vohra. Evolution of the Boulder Model for the molecular origins of the polarization of ferroeletric liquid crystals, Ferroelectrics, 1991, 113, 21.
5. A.Horiuchi, M.A.Mikita, H.T.Fish. Amphoteric reactions of supercritical water with coal models, Prepr. Pap. Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Fuel Chem. 1988, 33, 292