Team

Principal Investigator

• Mariko Sasaki

  Associate Professor

  2001　School of Engineering, Osaka University (B.S. in Engineering, Yoshikatsu Murooka Lab)
  2004　Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University (M.S. in Engineering, Yoshikatsu Murooka Lab)
  2012　Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, Scott Keeney Lab)
  2012–2015 National Institute of Genetics, Laboratory of Cytogenetics, JSPS PD (Takehiko Kobayashi Lab)
  2015-2023　Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Assistant Professor and Lecturer (Takehiko Kobayashi Lab)
  2023–present　National Institute of Genetics, Laboratory of Gene Quantity Biology, Associate Professor
  
  Hobby：Cooking（not daily cooking as housework, but cooking as a hobby）
  Message："Let the cells tell you what is happening inside the cells." "Do not fit the data to your model. Let the data speak for themselves."

Postdoctoral fellow

• Peixun Han

  Hometown: China
  Education: Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Bachelor's Degree)
  Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo (Ph.D., Shintaro Iwasaki Laboratory)
  Message: Love fluffy animals!

Graduate Students

• Muneaki Yoshino

  D2

  Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University
• Jason Hernandez

  D2

  Colorado State University
  B.S. in Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  Minor in Bioinformatics and Japanese

Lab technician

• Kae Kato
• Shuka Miura

Administrative assistant

• Masumi Hashimoto