Personnel

Shintaro Iwasaki, Ph.D.Chief Scientist (RIKEN)/Visiting Associate Professor (The University of Tokyo) Life is full of unknowns. Still simple and fundamental questions have not been answered. Our lab welcomes anybody who share such a question and enjoy science with us. researchmap Google Scholar ORCID

Miho TsunashimaAdministrative Assistant I am happy to be here in the Iwasaki Lab. and will support your administrative work!

Mari MitoLab Technician It is quite exciting to work close to novel discovery. I would like to support research by courteous experiments. ORCID

Masami ShimaLab Technician I enjoy learning new techniques such as ribosome profiling. ORCID

Yuichi Shichino, Ph.D.Visiting Scientist / Professor, Institute of Medicine, Tsukuba University I’m interested in the fundamental mechanisms of the translation initiation process. It is one of the most exciting moment of research when I find a clue of fact from unintended results. researchmap Google Scholar ORCID

Tatsuaki Kurata, Ph.D.Research Scientist I am working to reveal survival strategies related to protein synthesis in bacteria. researchmap Google Scholar ORCID

Naohiro Kawamoto, Ph.D.RIKEN Special Postdoctoral Researcher I focus on the important role of translation in the circadian clock and vice versa. The translation mechanisms of plants, algae and cyanobacteria are also of interest to me. I hope to develop research that people will find exciting. researchmap Google Scholar ORCID

Hirotaka Toh, Ph.D.RIKEN Special Postdoctoral Researcher I would like to frontier new science fields at my own pace. researchmap Google Scholar ORCID

Akira Yamashita, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Researcher I have been focusing my research on the nervous system, but I would like to expand my research interest from now on. researchmap Google Scholar ORCID

Elie M. Teyssonniere, Ph.D.JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan I'm interested in the genetic basis of translation regulation in large populations. I love analysing large biological datasets. researchmap Google Scholar ORCID

Taisei WakigawaResearch Associate I am very excited to start a project in a new environment. I would like to enjoy science. researchmap ORCID

Kotaro TomuroBOOST Fellow / RIKEN Junior Research Associate / Student Trainee / WINGS-PES Fellow / Ph.D. Student (The University of Tokyo) I am grateful for the opportunity to conduct research in this perfect environment. I would like to cherish originality and philosophy in my science. researchmap Google Scholar ORCID

Xuefang GuBOOST Fellow / Student Trainee / Ph.D. Student (The University of Tokyo) I am eager to gain experience with next-generation sequencing in a new environment. My passion lies in everything related to mitochondria, and I enjoy the pursuit of science. ORCID

Kaho MaetaRIKEN Student Researcher / Student Trainee / WINGS-PES Fellow / Master's Student (The University of Tokyo) I'm interested in compartmentalized gene expression regulations. Learning a variety of methods and perspectives, I will enjoy science to research translation. ORCID

Takahiro GojoStudent Trainee / Master's Student (The University of Tokyo) I follow my curiosity wherever it leads, and value the time spent facing what I don’t yet understand.

Alumni Rie Yokoyama:
Yuma Tsukada: The Japan Research Institute, Limited
Margo Le Creff-Le Balc’h: Master's Student, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Hironori Saito, Ph.D.: Postdoc, Stanford University, US
Peixun Han, Ph.D.: Postdoc, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Antonios Apostolopoulos, Ph.D.: Postdoc, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Sylvia Almeida: Ph.D. Student, University of Tronto, Canada
Jagat Chhipishrestha, Ph.D.: Postdoc, Washington University in St. Louis, US
Eriko Matsuura-Suzuki, Ph.D.: RIKEN GENESIS CO., LTD., Japan
Mingming Chen, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor, Guangdong Ocean University, China
Tomoya Fujita, Ph.D.: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Japan
Haruna Yamashiro, Ph.D.: Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley, US
Yusuke Kimura, Ph.D.: accenture, Japan
Marco Öchsner: Ph.D. student, University of Cambridge, UK
Agathe Gilbert: Master's student, Institut Pasteur, France