Work Experience

2022.10 - current           Project Associate Professor (adjunct), School of Frontier Engineering, Kitasato University

2020.07 - current           Chief Researcher, Research Center for Genome & Medical Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science

2020.07 - 2022.03         Visiting Researcher, Department of Genetics, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (RIeM), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.

2019.04 - 2020.06        Designated Lecturer, Department of Genetics, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (RIeM), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.

2018.10 - 2022.03        Visiting Researcher, Laboratory for Phyloinformatics, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), RIKEN, Kobe, Japan.

2018.10 - 2020.03        Visiting Researcher, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo.

2018.10 - 2019.03        Designated Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (RIeM), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.

2018.04 – 2018.10      Special Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory for Phyloinformatics, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), RIKEN, Kobe, Japan.

2016.04 – 2018.03      Special Postdoctoral Researcher, Phyloinformatics Unit, Center for Life Science Technologies (CLST), RIKEN, Kobe, Japan.

2014.11 – 2016.03      Research scientist, Phyloinformatics Unit, Center for Life Science Technologies (CLST), RIKEN, Kobe, Japan.

2013.04 – 2014.11      Research scientist, Genome Resource and Analysis unit, Center for Developmental Biology (CDB), RIKEN, Kobe, Japan.

2011.04 – 2013.04      Technical Staff, Biomedicinal Information Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo Japan.

2009.04 – 2011.03      Research fellow, Biomedicinal Information Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo Japan, dispatched from Japan Industrial Technology Association.

2008.05 – 2009.03      Research fellow, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo Japan.

Education

2013.03              Ph.D., Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, The Graduate University of Advanced Science.

2004.03              M.Sc., Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University.

2002.03              B.Sc., Faculty of Science, Kyoto University.

Research grants

2023.04 –                      Platform for Advanced Genome Science (PAGS), JSPS (22H04925)

2022.04 –  2023.03     Platform for Advanced Genome Science (PAGS), JSPS (22H04925)

2021.12 –                      Japan Program for Infectious Diseases Research and Infrastructure (Interdisciplinary Cutting-edge Research), AMED (Co-Investigator)

2021.04 –                     Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), JSPS (Principal Investigator, 21K06132).

2020.02 –  2021.03    Research Grant FY 2019, Shimadzu Science Foundation

2019.12 –  2020.12    Research Grant FY 2019, Mochida Memorial Foundation for Medical and Pharmaceutical Research

2019.12 –  2021.03    Research Grant FY 2019, Suzuken Memorial Foundation

2019.10 –  2020.10    The 33rd Research Grant FY 2019, Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications

2019.10 –                     Fund for Fostering Joint International Research (B), JSPS (Co-Investigator, 19KK0249).

2016.09 – 2018.03     Incentive Research Project, RIKEN.

2016.04 – 2019.03     Special Postdoctoral Researchers Program, RIKEN.

2013.03 – 2014.03     Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, JSPS (Co-Investigator, 24657168).

2012.05                        Overseas Travel Scholarship, Association for Propagation of the Knowledge of Genetics.

2005.06                        Overseas Travel Scholarship, Hokkaido University Clark Memorial Fund.

Teaching

FY2018 –          Part-time lecturer (生物学特殊講義III，生物学特殊講義II (大学院)), Faculty of Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Natural Science, Konan University.

2018.03             Part-time lecturer for a schooling for successful candidates, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Konan University.

2017.03             Part-time lecturer for a schooling for successful candidates, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Konan University.

2017.02             AJACS Owari; 64th AJACS hands-on training workshop, Fujita Health University. [Webpage (in Japanese)] [TogoTV (in Japanese)]

2016.03             Part-time lecturer for a schooling for successful candidates, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Konan University.

2015.09             AJACS Iyo; 57th AJACS hands-on training workshop, Ehime University. [Webpage (in Japanese)] [TogoTV (in Japanese)]

2013.11             AJACS Ezo 3; 43rd AJACS hands-on training workshop, Hokkaido University. [Webpage (in Japanese)] [TogoTV (in Japanese)]

Symposium Organization

2023.09             Symposium on "'Shedding the Light of Evolution on the Diversified Cell Deaths in Animals" in 25th Annual Meeting of the Society of Evolutionary Studies Japan, Ryukyu University, Okinawa, Japan

2022.08             Symposium on "'ゲノムの場'の不均一性が駆動する遺伝子進化" in 24th Annual Meeting of the Society of Evolutionary Studies Japan, Numadzu, Shizuoka, Japan

2018.08             Symposium on "ゲノム進化研究とそのための情報技術〜Quest for Orthologs日本開催に向けて" in 20th Annual Meeting of the Society of Evolutionary Studies Japan, University of Tokyo, Japan (co-organized by Dr. Wataru Iwasaki)

2014.03             International Symposium on "Germline Mutagenesis and Biodiversification," Kyushu University (co-organized by Dr. Arikuni Uchimura and supported by the Genetics Society of Japan and the Research Center for Nucleotide Pool and Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University).

Qualification

2010.01             The Certification Examination for Bioinformatics Engineers (administrated by JSBi).