CV

Updated on Apr 2025.

Professional experience

• Apr 2024 – present: Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Ryota Uehara at Hokkaido University, Japan.
• July 2024 – Nov 2024: Visiting scholar in High-Throughput Molecular Genetics Core (group leader: Jin Zhu) at Mechanobiology Institute in National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Education

• 2022 – Mar 2025: PhD in Life Science, in the group of Ryota Uehara at Hokkaido University, Japan.
• 2020 – 2022: MS in Life Science, in the group of Ryota Uehara at Hokkaido University, Japan.
• Sep 2020: Summer Course in Sugashima Marine Biological Laboratory, in the group of Gohta Goshima at Nagoya University, Japan.
• 2016 – 2020: BS in Biology, in the group of Ryota Uehara at Hokkaido University, Japan

Skills

• Cell biology (basic cell culture, immunofluorescence, flow cytometry)
• Bioengineering (electroporation, chemical transfection, CRISPR-Cas9 (knockin, transcriptional activation))
• Biochemistry (western blotting, immunoprecipitation)
• DNA work (basic plasmid work, PCR)
• Programming (R, python)
• Computational operation (Linux, git, LaTeX)
• Statistics
• Mathematical modelling (MATLAB)

Work experience

• 2021 – 2025: Research Assistant
  • Global Facility Center, Hokkaido University
  • Duties includes: Assitant for the use of flow cytometer and cell sorter
  • Supervisor: Dr. Ryuta Sasaki

Teaching

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Fellowships and Grants

1. 2022 – 2025: Hokkaido University-Hitachi Joint Cooperative Support Program for Education and Research.
   • “Investigation of the principle of haploid instability and establishment of stable haploid cell using interspecies comparative analysis and gene editing.”
   • JPY 8,400,000 as a research fund, and JPY 7,200,000 as a living fee.
2. 2021: The Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant.
   • “Identification of mitotic spindle factors that control ploidy dynamics in cancer cells.”
   • JPY 640,000

Awards

1. 2023: IGP 2023 Publication Award. Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University.
2. 2023: Hamamatsu Photonics Award (Best Discusser Award), The 9th Annual Meeting of Young Researchers in the Japan Society for Cell Biology, Nara, Japan.
3. 2023: Best presentation award. Research Meeting of Cell Biology at Hokkaido University in 2023, Hokkaido University.
4. 2022: The refund exemption offer for particularly outstanding performance. Japan Student Services Organization.
   • Full exemption for JPY 1,200,000
5. 2020: English Presentation Award (IGP Award). Master thesis defence in Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University.

Memberships in scientific societies

1. 2021 – present: Japan Society for Cell Biology
2. 2021 – present: Molecular Biology Society of Japan

Publications and talks

Please see Publication and Talks.