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Group Director
 
Ken ShirasuORCID
 
Senior Research Scientists
 
Yasuhiro Kadota
Shuta Asai
Takayuki Motoyama
 
Research Scientists
 
Nobuaki Ishihama
Sachiko Masuda
Naoyoshi Kumakura
 
Postdoctoral Researchers
 
Kazuki Sato
Max Fishman
Bruno Pok Man Ngou Google Scholar
Erika Ohno
Lin-Jie Shu
Anne Greifenhagen
 
Graduate Students
at The University of Tokyo
 
Erika Iino (D3)
Yuki Tanaka (D2)
Katsuma Yonehara (D2)
 
Zijie (Jenn) Li (exchange PhD student)
 
Technical Staffs
 
Kaori Takizawa
Noriko Maki
Ryoko Hiroyama
Arisa Shibata
 
Assistants
 
Yoko Nagai
Mika Fujita
 
Intern students
 
Maya Kokubu
Reika Hiraishi
Yutaro Abe
Taiyo Murasaki
Fusuke Matano
Ami Toyota
 
(Tokyo College of Biotechnology)
 
Supporting Staffs
 
Akiko Ueno
Naomi Watanabe
Kaoru Yoshida
Mizuki Yamamoto
Hiromi Mikami
 

Lab Alumni
RIKEN

 
Eri Kurai (Intern Student, Oct 2021 - Mar 2023)
Hayato Fukuda (Intern Student, Oct 2021 - Mar 2023)
Yuto Kawamura (Intern Student, Oct 2021 - Mar 2023)
Satoshi Ogawa (Postdoc、JSPS、Apr 2017-Jul 2022) now at UCR, USA.
Ippei Takahashi (Intern Student, Oct 2020 - Mar 2022)
Kazuya Ohashi (Intern Student, Oct 2020 - Mar 2022)
Anuphon Laohavisit (SPDR, Postdoc, Oct 2012 - Mar 2022) now atItBM Nagoya Univ.
Yu Ayukawa (Postdoc, JSPS, Apr 2018, June 2021) now at Max Planck Institute, Cologne
Nino Espinas (JSPS, Postdoc, Sep 2018 - Mar 2021) now at Univ of Lausanne
Yukihisa Goto (PhD Student, Postdoc, Apr 2015 - Mar 2021) now at Univ of Zurich, Switzerland. 
Takuma Aita (Intern Student, Oct 2019 - Mar 2021)
Manami Yamazaki (Intern Student, Oct 2019 - Mar 2021)
Pamela Gan (Postdoc-Researcher, Jan 2011-Jun2020) now at an industry lab
Yuji Ishigaki (Posdoc-Researhcer, Apr 2015-Mar 2020) now at an industry lab
Kouta Hidaka (Intern Student, Oct 2018-Mar 2020)
Ayako Tsushima (PhD. Student-Postdoc Apr 2014-Dec 2019) moved to John Innes Center, UK, now at Osaka Metropolitan University.
Takanori Wakatake (PhD. Student-Postdoc Apr 2012-August 2019), now at NARO, Japan. 
Aya Bridgeland (Summer Intern, June 2019-July 2019) now at Texas A&M Univ.
Asuka Yoshida    (Intern Student, Oct 2017-Mar 2019)
Kaho Obuchi      (Intern Student, Oct 2017-Mar 2019)
Kenji Fukushima (JSPS Apr 2018- Sep 2018) now at University of Wuerzburg, Germany with Sofja Kovalevskaja Award
Thomas Spallek(JSPS/SPDR Sep 2012 - Mar 2018) now at University of Gottinggen.
Yasunori Ichihashi (JSPS/SPDR/PRESTO Apr 2013 - Mar 2018) now at RIKEN BRC
Hinako Hanasaki (Intern Student, Oct 2016-Mar 2018) now at Gunma Univ
Takuya Kurokawa (Intern Student, Oct 2016-Mar 2018) now at a medical company
Soushi Tsuchiya (Intern Student, Oct 2016-Mar 2018) now at a chemical company
Hugh Mulvey (Techinical Stuff, Sep 2016- Aug 2017) now at Gregor Mendel Institute, Austria
Amal Boukteb (D2, National Institute of Agricultural Research of Tunisia, May-July 2017, Jan-Mar 2018)
Itsuhiro Ko (Summer Intern, Penn State Univ, July 2017)
Simon Saucet (JSPS Pd Fellow, Oct 2014 - Mar 2017) now at INRA Sophia Antipolis, France
Kie Kumaishi (Intern Student, Oct 2015-Mar 2017) now at RIKEN BRC
Kana Tsurii (Intern Student, Oct 2015-Mar 2017)
Takuya Okubo (Intern Student, Oct 2015-Mar 201) now at a chemical company
Haruka Kobayashi (Visiting from Cambridge Univ, July 2016- August 2016)
Youhei Sato (Intern Student, Oct 2014-Mar 2016)  now at a chemical company
Satoko Yoshida (Senior Researcher, Aug 2006 - Mar 2016) now Prof at NAISTORCID
Songkui Cui (Postdoctoral Researcher, Mar 2016) now Prof at Kunming Univ, China.
Seung-won Choi (Postdoc, Apr 2013- Feb 2016) now at ICU
Timothy Westlake (NSF Summer student, Cornell University, July-Sep, 2015) now at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Juliane Ishida (Msc/PhD Student/ postdoc, Ape 2008 - Sep 2014) now Assist Prof at Federal Univ of Minas Gerais, Brazil 
Takashi Yaeno (RIKEN Research Scientist, Apr, 2008- Mar 2013), now Assoc Prof at Ehime Univ.
Yuko Sekimoto-Sasaki (JSPS Fellow, Apr 2007- Mar 2013) now Assist Prof at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Rebecca Lyons (RIKEN Special Researcher, Researcher、Apr, 2009- May, 2012)
Kohki Yoshimoto (RIKEN Special Researcher, Researcher、Apr, 2007- Dec, 2011)now Associate Prof at Meiji University
Ivana Saska (Aug, 2008-Dec, 2011)
Hirofumi Nakagami (RIKEN Research Scientist) (Mar, 2006-Mar, 2010)now PI at Max Planck Institute.
Sumire Fujiwara (RIKEN Special Researcher) (April, 2009-Feb, 2010)
So Young Yi (JSPS Pd Fellow, RIKEN Research Scientist) (April, 2007-Mar, 2010)
Kazuya Ichimura (Sainsbury Laboratory Research Scientist, RIKEN Research Scientist) (April, 2002-Sep, 2009)
Thomas Gänsewig (Student, DAAD fellowship, Feb-Dec, 2011)Regina Kühner (Student , DAAD fellowship, from University of Würzburg) (April-Sep, 2009)
Yoshiteru Noutoshi (Sainsbury Laboratory, RIKEN Research Scientist) (Jan, 2005-Jan, 2009)now Assoc Prof at Okayama Univ.
Marco Trujillo (Sainsbury Laboratory Research Scientist, JSPS Fellow) (Oct, 2005-Sep, 2008)
Benjamin Schwessinger (Student from Sainsbury Lab) (Apr-Jul, 2008)
Arsalan Daudi (JSPS Fellow) (Apr-Dec, 2007)
David Geenshields (Student, JSPS Summer Program) (Aug-Sep, 2006)

The Sainsbury Laboratory

Akira Takahaahi (Postdoc, 2001-2003), now Researcher at NIAS, MAFF.
Cristina Azevedo (PhD Student, Postdoc, 2000-2004) now PI at InnovPlantProtect University College London
Ari Sadanandom (Postdoc, 2000-2002) now Professor at Durham University
Jack Peart (Postdoc, 2002-2004) now at Illumina, UK
Rudy Maor (Postdoc, 2003-2005)
Marta Boter (Postdoc, 2004-2006) now Researcher at Center for Biotechnology and Genomics, Madrid, Spain
Pedro Rocha (Postdoc, 2000-2001) now at  Instituto Interamericano de Cooperaci para la Agricultura (IICA)
Maria joao Santos Rosa (PhD student, 2000-2005)
Joana Hopkins (Ms Student, 2003-2004)
Alexander Graf (Dipolma Student, 2004) now PI at Max Planck Institute, Germany)