Dr. Ryozo Imai majored Chemistry and Chemical engineering in his undergraduate study at Waseda University. He received M.S in Life Chemistry from Tokyo Instutute of Technology and Ph.D. in Agricultural Chemistry from University of Tokyo. His graduate study is on microbial degradation of xenobiotics. 

Dr. Ackeley graduated from Konan University majoring Biology. After finishing his master's degree, he worked at Japan Grassland Agriculture and Forage Seed Association. He then moved to the National Grassland Research Institute at Nasu. He received a PhD degree in Biology from Konan University. In this lab, he is applying iPB technology for genome editing in wheat commercial varieties.

Dr. Sasaki gradated from Tsukuba University and received PhD from Hokkaido University. His major is molecular biology and crop biotechnology. He is currently developing iPB technology for a variety of crop and horticultural plants.

Dr. Tezuka joined Imai lab in 2012 as an undergrad student. He graduated from Hokkaido University in 2014 majoring Bio-functional Chemistry. He received his PhD in Agricultural Science from Hokkaido University in 2019. He was appointed by NARO in 2022 as a staff researcher. His current research focus is development of iPB method for HDR-based genome editing.

Dr. Urano graduated from Japan Women's University with her major in biology. As a graduate student she studied at Shinozaki Lab in RIKEN and received her PhD from University of Tsukuba. She was a researcher at RIKEN before she joined the lab in 2021.

Dr. Takemoto graduated from the University of Tokyo and received his PhD in Biology from the school in 2018.  His PhD research is on membrane traficking in Arabidopsis. He did his Ph D research on plant hormone with Dr. Shinjiro Yamguchi at Kyoto University.

Dr. Kuriyama graduated from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and obtained his Ph.D. there. His Ph.D study was on gene silencing in Petunia. He joined our lab in 2023. He is currently a trainee at Imai Lab.

Dr. Fujii received his bachelor's and Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University majoring crop science. He did postdoc researches on soybean breeding at NARO Institute of Crop Science and on quinoa breeding at JIRCAS. He is currently developing an iPB-based genome editing system in soybean.

Dr. Ogawa graduated from Kyoto University. He received a Ph.D in Plant Pathology from Kyoto University in 2023. He specialized in plant-microbe interactions. He joined Imai lab in 2023 and currently working on soybean genome editing.

Dr. Nagata graduated from Kyushu University majoring Agronomy.  He received his Ph.D. in Entomology from Kyushu University. He has long career in the research on plant molecular biology at NARO and other insititutes.  

Dr. Suzuki joined the lab in 2020. He received his Batchelor's and Doctor's degrees from Tokyo University of Science. After doing postdoc in Imai Lab, he now works for Ezaki Glico Co.