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| Jun-ichi Nakayama received his
bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in bioscience
from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the last in 1999
for his work on the cloning and characterization of mammalian
telomerase components. For his Ph.D. study, he won the
1998 Prize of the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation. He
spent the period from 1999 to 2001 as a postdoctoral researcher
at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Shiv Grewal's
lab. He used the fission yeast S. pombe as a model
system to study chromatin structure and showed that a
methyl modification on histone H3 has a critical role
in maintaining heterochromatin structure. He returned
to Japan in December 2001 as a PRESTO researcher in the
Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST). He was
appointed the team leader of the RIKEN CDB Laboratory
for Chromatin Dynamics in 2002. His research focuses on
epigenetic gene regulation by dynamic changes in higher-order
chromatin structure. |
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