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| Tetsuji Kakutani
is studying epigenetic gene control using the flowering
plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. He received his Ph.D.
from Kyoto University, Faculty of Science in 1987 for
developmental biology on the cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium
discoideum. He has been working on Arabidopsis
since he was a post-doctoral fellow in Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory. He is Associate Professor in the National
Institute of Genetics. His hobbies are tennis and 'go'
(an Asian board game). His current research interest is
the evolution of heterochromatin and development of endosperm
(a tissue supporting embryonic growth in plants). |
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