Work Experience

October 2018 – Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo October 2016 – September 2018 PRESTO Researcher Franck Polleux lab, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University November 2013 – September 2016 Post Doctoral Fellow Franck Polleux lab, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University March 2013 – October 2013    Research Associate Franck Polleux lab, Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute April 2007 – February 2013    Assistant Professor Laboratory of Cell Signaling (Yukiko Gotoh Lab.), Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo  April 2006 – March 2007    Research Fellow Laboratory of Cell Signaling (Yukiko Gotoh Lab.), Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo

Education

April 2003 – March 2006       Ph. D. student Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo  Awarded the degree of Ph.D. (Mar 23, 2006). (Supervisor: Yukiko Gotoh) Thesis Title: Roles of the canonical Wnt pathway in neocortical neural precursor cells (Hirabayashi et al., Development 2004). April 2001 – March 2003       M.S. student Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo  Awarded the degree of M.S. (Supervisor: Yukiko Gotoh) April 1997 – March 2001     Undergraduate student Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan).  Awarded the degree of B.E. (Supervisor: Takuzo Aida)