Azusa Inoue, Ph.D.
2019- Visiting Associate Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
2018- YCI/Senior Scientist at RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences
2012-18 Postdoc/Research Specialist at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital, USA
2011-12 Postdoc at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
2011 Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Japan
2006 Bachelor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
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Chisayo Kozuka, Ph.D.
2018.10- Research scientist at RIKEN IMS
2016-18 Research fellow at Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
2013-16 JSPS PD at University of the Ryukyus, Japan
2013 Ph.D. at University of the Ryukyus, Japan
2008 Bachelor at Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University
Selected publications
Kozuka C, Kaname T, Shimizu-Okabe C, Takayama C, Tsutsui M, Matsushita M, Abe K, Masuzaki H. Impact of brown rice-specific γ-oryzanol on epigenetic modulation of dopamine D2 receptors in brain striatum in high-fat-diet-induced obesity in mice. Diabetologia 2017; 60:1502
Kozuka C, Yabiku K, Sunagawa S, Ueda R, Taira S, Ohshiro H, Ikema T, Yamakawa K, Higa M, Tanaka H, Takayama C, Matsushita M, Oyadomari S, Shimabukuro M, Masuzaki H. Brown riceeduces the preference for high-fat diet by inhibiting of hypothalamic endoplasmic reticulum stress in mice. Diabetes 2012; 61:3084
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Hailiang Mei, Ph.D.
2020.1- Postdoctoral Researcher at RIKEN IMS
2017-2019 Postdoc at Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
2017 Ph.D at the Beijing Institute of Genomics, CAS, China
2010 Bachelor at Huazhong agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Selected publications
Qiu Q*, Mei H*, Deng X*, He K*, Wu B*, Yao Q, Zhang J, Lu F, Ma J, Cao X. DNA Methylation Repels Targeting of Arabidopsis REF6. Nat Commun
2019; 10:2063
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Ryoyo Hayashi, Graduate student
2020.4- JSPS scholar DC1
2019.4- Graduate student at Tokyo Metropolitan Univ/RIKEN IMS
2018 Bachelor at Biological Sciences, Faculty of Urban Liberal Arts, Tokyo Metropolitan University,
Selected publications
Hayashi R, Takeo S, Aigaki T. Sir2 is essential for intergenerational effects of parental diet on offspring metabolism in Drosophila. Biorxiv
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Mami Kumon, Technical Staff
2019.10- Metabolic Epigenetics YCI Lab at RIKEN IMS