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Fumio Matsumura: 1934-2012
Fumio Matsumura: a ‘Grand Master of Insect Toxicology’
'Our Profession Has Lost a Treasure'
(Editor's Note: The Departments of Environmental Toxicology and Entomology will hold a public memorial service from 2 to 3 p.m., Friday, Jan. 25 in the UC Davis Conference Center, Ballrooms A, B, and C. A reception will follow.)
Dec. 7, 2012.

He had been hospitalized with pneumonia and developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), his family said.
Dr. Matsumura, a member of the UC Davis faculty since 1987, was a former director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences, editor-in-chief of the journal, Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, and wrote the classic textbook, Toxicology of Insecticides, first published in 1975 and used by generations of college students throughout the world, including in UC Davis classes.
“For some 50 years, Fumio has been at the cutting edge of both pesticide and environmental toxicology, and his pioneering research has helped to define both fields,” said Ron Tjeerdema, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Environmental Toxicology. “Fumio has also been a major contributor to the success of our department, and his legacy will continue for many years to come through the many students and postdoctoral fellows he has mentored.”
Said Michael Parrella, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology: “Fumio Matsumura was one of foremost insect toxicologists in the world. His work will endure, but we have lost a wonderful colleague, teacher and scholar. The Department of Entomology's top national ranking is due to scientific giants, like Fumio, who contributed so much to the science and discipline he loved. He will be impossible to replace.”
Bruce Hammock, distinguished professor of entomology and a longtime friend and colleague, described him as “so much fun and so stimulating. Each day he made the world a brighter and more interesting place with his enthusiasm over science, teaching and the pleasure of life.”
“Fumio was not only a member of the Department of Entomology,” Hammock said, “but he also was an original member of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Superfund Research Program in the department, contributing his expertise on the toxicology of pesticides and contaminants like tetrachlorodioxin.”
Born Feb. 5, 1934 in Fukui, Japan, Professor Matsumura received his bachelor’s degree in agricultural biology in 1957 from the University of Tokyo; his master’s degree in entomology in 1959 from the University of Alberta; and his doctorate in entomology from the University of Western Ontario in 1961.

He did postdoctoral work at the University of Wageningen, Netherlands, and Cornell University. In 1964 he joined the Department of Entomology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Then in 1977 he was appointed director of the Pesticide Research Center at Michigan State University. The professor joined the UC Davis faculty in 1987 as associate director of the Toxic Substances Program and later served as director of the Center for Environmental Sciences. He chaired the Department of Environmental Toxicology from 1996 to 1998.
“We were really fortunate to be able to attract Fumio from Michigan State, “ said James Seiber, editor of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and an emeritus professor of environmental toxicology at UC Davis. “He brought spirit, energy, and knowledge that has been essential to our faculty, and students in the pursuit of excellence in environmental health science. The science at UC Davis was attractive to Fumio, but what tipped the scales for him in favor of Davis was a 5-foot snowfall in the Sierras during one of his visits to California. Fumio was on the slopes as soon as the snow was cleared from the roadways in the Tahoe basin. Fumio was a great colleague and enthusiastic skiing partner!”
"Fumio and I owned a ski cabin in the Sierras, in Alpine Meadows, for the past 10 plus years," Seiber said. "We shared a lot of experiences there, including bear break-ins and skiing and fishing tips."
“Fumio was a pioneer and a giant in the field of toxicology, but also an outstanding educator and the ultimate gentleman,” said Joel Coats, the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in the Department of Entomology, at Iowa State University, who worked with him on scientific advisory panels. “Our profession has lost a treasure.”
Among his recent honors, Dr. Matsumura was invited to deliver the 20th annual Paul A. Dahm Memorial Lecture in April of 2011 at Iowa State University, where Coats introduced him as “one of the grand masters of insect toxicology” and described him as an “outstanding scientist and scholar, and a great mentor, role model and gentleman.”
“We worked together on scientific writing projects and professional conferences,” Coats said. “He was a highly respected colleague of mine, but also a role model for me and numerous others who looked up to him and followed his lead.”
In his own words, Professor Matsumura recently said: “My lifetime goal as an environmental toxicologist is to elucidate the true biological role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, (AHR) which was once thought of as a mere receptor solely dedicated to mediate the toxicity of dioxin” That goal led to studies into cancer initiation and therapy, the interaction of AHR with Heat-Shock Protein, mechanisms of apoptosis, and other fundamental processes.”
Professor Matsumura served as director of the NIEHS-funded Center for Environmental Health Sciences and the Environment program, a project first established in 1992 at UC Davis. It involved more than 40 faculty, staff, and student colleagues in 13 UC Davis departments. His own research supported by the Center grant included mechanisms of action of Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TCDD), mechanism of estrogenicity of DDT analogs, fungal metabolism of pentachlorophenol (PCP) in agricultural soils, and an epidemiological approach to the study of the health effects of dioxins among Vietnam War veterans.
Professor Matsumura also served as director of the NIEHS-funded training grant in Environmental Toxicology which supports graduate students in many departments at UC Davis in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, School of Medicine, and School of Veterinary Medicine.
He lectured worldwide, including at international conferences and congresses, and was a member of numerous international scientific committees. He received the International Award for Research in Agrochemicals from the American Chemical Society.
Professor Matsumura was an active member of the Graduate Groups in Pharmacology and Toxicology and Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry at UC Davis, and chaired the Department of Environmental Toxicology from 1996-1998. He regularly taught two graduate level courses, on environmental toxicants and ecotoxicology, organized seminars in environmental toxicology and entomology, and mentored dozens of graduate and undergraduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
He and his students and colleagues authored more than 400 books, book chapters, and scientific journal manuscripts.
Among his awards and honors: World University Service (WUS/UNESCO) Scholar (1957); National Research Council Scholar (1960-61); Distinguished Scientist Award (College of Natural Sciences, Michigan State University Alumni Association, 1983); Burdick and Jackson International Award (American Chemical Society, Agrochemical Division, 1987); Founders Award (Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 1988); Scientific Counselor, National Toxicology Program; Eminent Scientist Award (Riken Institute, Japan, 1995); Lifetime Achievement Recognition Award by the Society of Pesticide Science, 1995; Mochizuki Prize for Chemical Safety Research, 1995; USEPA FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel (Environmental Protection Agency/Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act) (1998-2003); and Distinguished Professor Designation by UC Davis, 2003.
Robert Washino, who chaired the UC Davis Department of Entomology in 1987 when Dr. Matsumura joined the faculty, remembered him as an “outstanding scientist and an excellent skier.”
Before his hospitalization, Professor Matsumura had been working on breast cancer research “and he vowed that he would not retire until he’d made substantial progress,” said Washino, an emeritus professor of entomology. He and his wife, Connie, are longtime friends of the Matsumaras.
“This fall Fumio was excited to see the first rains because they brought snow to the Sierra,” said Hammock. “Fumio was an expert downhill and cross-country skier his entire adult life. Many of his colleagues did not know that the first person down the ski jump and the giant slalom at the 1960 Winters Olympics at Squaw Valley was the daredevil Fumio Matsumura. He once was heard to joke: ‘I never really learned to ski; I only know how to go straight down.’ Throughout his career, Fumio introduced family, friends and scientific colleagues to the thrill of downhill and the beauty of backcountry skiing.”
“If there is a lasting memory for me from my 10 years of co-teaching toxicology with Fumio, it was him hooking his glasses over just one ear and talking over them about how exciting biochemistry and molecular biology was,” Hammock said. “He always inspired me.”
Dr. Matsumura's wife, Teruko, related that Fumio loved skiing and was quite proficient at it. "Olympic officials held a collegiate ski meet in Squaw Valley prior to the 1960 winter games," she said. "Fumio was a collegiate skier at the University of Alberta, and competed as a jumper and slalom racer at that pre-Olympic event. Later, he was a postdoc in Europe when the Canadian Olympic ski team was touring the continent. The coach knew Fumio and invited him to ski with them during that tour."
Seiber said the American Chemical Society was planning to celebrate his 80th birthday at its national meeting in San Francisco in 2014, which also coincides with the Pesticide Chemistry Congress to be convened by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
"Fumio will be greatly missed by the international community of researchers who will gather at the 2014 IUPAC Congress," Seiber said.
Dr. Matsumura, the son of the late Taga Oki and Takashi Matsumura of Japan, is survived by his wife, Teruko (Akashi), of Davis, whom he married in 1965; and two sons, Ichiro of Decatur, Ga., an associate professor of biochemistry at Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.; and Miko of San Jose, a software specialist with Java Corp. Miko and his wife, Elisabeth "Lis" (Jorgens) have a son, Jackson, 7. He is also survived by his older brother Takatoshi and younger sister, Yasue, of Japan. He was preceded in death by his younger brother, Yasuo.
The funeral service will be private.
The family has established a memorial fund in his honor through the UC Davis Foundation. Gifts to the fund should be made payable to UC Davis Foundation with “Fumio Matsumura Annual Symposium Endowment” noted in the memo line.
Checks should be mailed to:
The Departments of Environmental Toxicology and Entomology will hold a public memorial service from 2 to 3 p.m., Friday, Jan. 25 in the UC Davis Conference Center, Ballrooms A, B, and C. A reception will follow.
The family has established a memorial website at fumiomatsumura.com.
--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894
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- Entomology Open Houses: 'Flower Lovers, the Bees
- A Fence to 'Bee-Hold
- Nils Helge Schebb: Award for Research Paper
- Newly Published: IPM in Practice: Second Edition
- New Entomology Displays, the Work of Ivana Li
- William Reisen Receives Harry Hoogstraal Award
- UC Davis Flavor on Onward California Tour Is
- Tim Linksvayer: ‘Colony-Level Social Insect Gene Regulatory Networks’
- Micky Eubanks: Aphids Rule Their World Via Powerful Indirect Effects
- Who's Organizing the Fall Seminars
- Tara Thiemann, Jenny Carlson Win Hazeltine Memorial Fellowships for Mosquito Research
- William Hazeltine II (1926-1994)
- Kelly Liebman, Wei Xu Receive Hazeltine Memorial Fellowship Awards for Mosquito Research
- Tara Thiemann, Ashley Horton Receive William Hazeltine Student Research Fellowships
- Mosquito Researchers Receive William Hazeltine Research Fellowships
- Two UC Davis Doctoral Students Receive Hazeltine Fellowships to Study Mosquito-Borne Diseases
- Robbin Thorp's Bumble Bee Research Yields Professorship Award
- Robbin Thorp's Mission: Saving Franklin's Bumble Bee
- Like to Volunteer to Work on Next UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Project?
- Miss Bee Haven: A Bee-utiful Work of Art in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility
- Beauty of Pollination: Oct. 27 at RMI
- Nor Cal Entomology Society Will Meet Nov. 1
- Bohart Open House on Oct. 27
- Emmet Brady to Discuss Insects in Urban Culture
- Fulbright Fellowship Recipient to Bruce Hammock Lab
- Bruce Hammock, Thomas Scott Named ESA Fellows
- Bruce Hammock Receives UC Davis Distinguished Teaching Award
- Bruce Hammock Named 2000 Faculty Research Lecturer
- Entomologist Bruce Hammock Elected to National Academy of Sciences
- Sarjeet Gill: Bacterial Toxins in Disease Mosquito Vector Control
- Taro Ohkawa: Baculovirus Manipulation of the Host Actin Cytoskeleton: Roles in Entry and Egress
- Weekend Open Houses at the Bohart Museum
- Taking at Poke at Pokemon
- Taking a Poke at Pokemon
- Three Receive 2012 William Hazeltine Memorial Research Fellowship Awards
- Mosquito Researchers Receive William Hazeltine Research Fellowships
- Brian Johnson, Eric Mussen to Speak at CSBA Meeting
- UC Davis Linnaean Team Ready to Compete
- Cutting Bergmann's Rule Down to Size
- James Mallet Lecture on Heliconius Butterflies
- Bohart Museum Open House Nov. 18: Insect Societies
- Speakers for Winter Quarter Seminar Series
- Kevin Cloonan Wins Award for ESA Grad Student Research Presentation
- Thomas Frances Leigh
- Marc Tatar to Deliver Leigh Seminar
- UC Davis to Test Experimental Drug for Laminitis in Horses
- The Timing, Causes and Implications of Climate Change for Mayfly Drift
- Art in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven
- Rick Karban, Jay Rosenheim Named AAAS Fellows
- Jay Rosenheim Wins Outstanding Teaching Award
- The Perfect Holiday Gift
- International Agriculture Fellowship
- Wear Your Bugs!
- Positions Available
- Citations for Excellence for Susan Cobey, Susan Ragsdale
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- Fumio Matsumara to Deliver Paul A. Dahm Memorial Lecture at Iowa State University
- Fumio Matsumura: 1934-2012
- Organism: An Art/Science Show
- Draw a Bug at the Bohart Museum Open House on Dec. 15
- Walter Leal Elected to Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- Frank Zalom Represents ESA at CSSP Conference
- Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven Newsletters
- Native Pollinator Specialist Neal Williams Joins the UC Davis Department of Entomology Faculty
- Native Pollinator Specialist Neal Williams Joins the UC Davis Department of Entomology Faculty
- Native Pollinator Specialist Neal Williams Joins the UC Davis Department of Entomology Faculty
- Native Pollinator Specialist Neal Williams Joins the UC Davis Department of Entomology Faculty
- Oscar Bacon: The Oscar of All Trades
- Entomology Faculty Through the Years
- Erin Wilson: First Speaker of Winter Seminar Series
- Two from Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology Receive Grants
- The Bee Sting Felt Around the World
- Donna Billick: Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity and Community
- Bruce Hammock: Entomologist, Athlete and Now Actor
- A Beer for a Butterfly
- People Movement Drives Dengue Virus Transmission
- Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest: Shapiro May Have Won
- Neal Williams: America's Heartland
- Why 'Insect Tourists' Are Good for Sticky Plants
- Jeff Smith to Address Newly Formed California Bug Club
- Bohart Museum Open House: Extreme Insects
- Honey Bees Are More Effective at Pollinating Almonds When Other Species of Bees Are Present
- Robbin Thorp: Presentation on 'Buzzed for Bees'
- Michael Branstetter on Ants
- Michael Branstetter Wins President's Prize at ESA Meeting
- Nick Haddad: Landscape Conservation for Rare Insects
- Aspiring for Better Crop Pollination
- Nor Cal Entomology Society to Meet Feb. 6
- Shapiro's Significant Catch
- Who's Who in the Bemisia Zoo?
- Eric Mussen Wins Extension Award from PBESA
- Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 2
- Bedbugs and Butterflies at Bohart
- Jim Cane: Needs of Non-Social Bees
- NCSE: The Butterfly Effect
- Bruce Hammock: Bench to Bedside
- Sausalito Team Wins Häagen-Dazs-UC Davis Honey Bee Haven Design Competition
- Matan Shelomi and the Stick Insects
- Steve Reppert: Monarch Migration
- Troubling Honey Bee Shortage in California Almond Orchards
- BYOB' Really Means 'Bring Your Own Bug'; UC Davis Linnaean Team Educates Folks About Bugs on Good Day Sacramento
- UC Davis Entomologist Receives $3.75 Million USDA/AFRI Grant to Attack Thrips and Tospoviruses
- Rick Karban: Kin Recognition Affects Plant Communication and Defense
- Larry Godfrey: Alfalfa IPM Workshop
- Nick Mills: Light Brown Apple Moth
- Spring Seminars Announced
- Anupama Dahanukar: Insect Taste Receptors
- Robbin Thorp and Xerces Society: Saving a Bumble Bee
- Steve Nadler to Receive Henry Baldwin Ward Medal
- Kelli Hoover Seminar on March 5
- Poster Perfect!
- EGSA Awards Travel Grant to Daren Harris
- Neal Williams to speak at Bee Symposium in Sebastopol
- Sergio Rasmann Seminar on Plant Defenses
- Anna Whitfield Seminar on Plant Viruses
- Citations of Excellence Recipients: Nancy Dullum and Debbie Dritz, 60 Years of Service Between Them
- Significant Discovery: How Natural Temperature Fluctuations Affect the Population Growth Rate of the Dengue Mosquito
- Robert E. Page Jr.: The Spirit of the Hive
- Groundbreaking Research: Preventing Cardiac Fibrosis
- Recruitment Under Way for Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology
- Bohart Museum Open House: From Toe Biters to Flame Skimmers
- Diane Ullman: One-Hour Radio Interview
- Robert Kimsey, Alexander Nguyen on KQED
- Bruce Hammock:
- Brittany Nelms Publishes in Journal of Medical Entomology
- James Carey Seminar on Invasion of Medflies
- NSF Grant to Steve Nadler for Study of Nematodes
- Alex Van Dam Receives NSF Fellowship
- Louie Yang Receives Prestigious Career Award
- UC Davis Researchers: Key Discovery Involving Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cancer
- Claudio Gratton: Sustainable Bioenergy Landscapes: Can We Balance Our Need for Production and Biodiversity?
- Research Project on Walnut Twig Beetle Includes an Unusual Touch
- New Research Shows Dengue Now Affects Half the World's Population
- Bradley White: Ecological Genomics of Malaria Mosquitoes
- Honey and Pollination Center: Luncheon in the Garden
- Matan Shelomi: John Henry Comstock Award
- The Bee Team Wins Pacific Branch, ESA, Team Award
- UC Davis Linnaean Team Wins Second
- David Goulson: Ecology and Conservation of Bumble Bees
- Picnic Day: Lots of Bugs at Briggs and Bohart
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