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Aki Minoda, PhD Unit Leader, Epigenome Technology Exploration Unit, RIKEN
1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045 JAPAN [email protected]
Research 2018 – Present RIKEN, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences Unit Leader of Epigenome Technology Exploration Unit 2013 – 2018 RIKEN, Center for Life Science Technologies Unit Leader of Epigenome Technology Exploration Unit 2011 - 2013 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA Project Scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Gary Karpen.
Managing modENCODE project (Drosophila Chromosomal Group, NHGRI-funded)
2005 - 2011 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA Postdoc in the laboratory of Dr. Gary Karpen. Research interests: Genome-wide Mapping of Chromosomal
Proteins and Histone Modifications by ChIP-chip and ChIP-seq in Drosophila melanogaster (as part of the modENCODE project).
Education
2000 - 2005 Cancer Research UK, London, UK PhD Cell Biology in the laboratory of Dr. Takashi Toda. Research interests: Characterisation of a novel nuclear actin-
related protein Arp4/Alp5 in fission yeast, which is required for acetylating histone H4 in vivo.
1997 - 2000 University College, London, London, UK B.Sc Microbiology
Summer 1999 Japan Women's University, Tokyo, Japan Summer internship in the laboratory of Prof. Masako Osumi. Project: Characterising fission yeast mutant morphology with
electron microscopy (TEM and SEM).
2000 University College, London, London Thesis project in the laboratory of Dr. Helen Donoghue. Project: Identifying heat shock proteins of Mycobacterium vaccae.