Research Career
Jan, 2024 - present: Specially-appointed Professor, Dept. of System Pathology for Neurological Disorders,
Brain Research Institute, Niigata Universiy, Japan
Apr, 2023 - Dec, 2023: Project Assistant Professor, Ecological Genetics Laboratory (Jun Kitano Lab), National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Oct, 2016 - Mar, 2023: Senior Staff Scientist, Department for Integrative Evolutionary Biology (Ralf J. Sommer Lab), Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen (previously known as Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology), Germany
Apr, 2014 - Sep, 2016: JSPS Research Fellow (Postdoctoral fellow), Ecological Genetics Laboratory (Jun Kitano Lab), Center for Frontier Research, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Oct, 2011 - Mar, 2014: Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecological Genetics Laboratory (Jun Kitano Lab), Center for Frontier Research, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Apr, 2009 - Mar, 2011: JSPS Research Fellow (PhD fellow), Norihiro Okada Lab, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Education
Apr, 2008 - Sep, 2011 Doctor of Science, Norihiro Okada Lab, Gaduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Oct, 2010 - Dec, 2010 Visiting student, Katie Peichel Lab, Division of Human Biology, Fred Hatchinson Cancer Research Center, WA, USA
Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2008 Master of Science, Norihiro Okada Lab, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Apr, 2003 - Mar, 2007 Bachelar of Science, Norihiro Okada Lab, Department of Biosystem, School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Awards
Aug, 2023 The research encouragement award in Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan
Sep, 2021 Next Leader Award, Oral Presentation "Evolution of genome structure facilitating speciation in Pristionchus", Future of the nematodes studies 2021, Japan
Sep, 2015 Best Paper Award, Oral Presentation, The 87th meeting of Genetics Society of Japan
Sep, 2013 Best Paper Award, Oral Presentation, The 85th meeting of Genetics Society of Japan