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| Koji Tamura received his B Sc,
Master's degree and doctorate from the Tohoku University
Faculty of Science. He received support for a postdoctoral
fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science in 1993, and in 1994 was named assistant professor
at Tohoku University, where he served until 1997. He spent
the period from 1998 to 1999 at the Salk Institute with
the support of a JSPS foreign research fellowship, before
returning to Tohoku University as an associate professor.
His lab focuses on limb development and regeneration in
vertebrates, using several model organisms, including
mouse, chick, lizard, Xenopus, zebrafish, flounder,
shark, and ray. Their research seeks to develop a better
understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying 1)
pattern formation in limb development, 2) species-dependent
capacities for limb regeneration, and 3) diversity of
limbs and external morphology in vertebrates. Another
recent area of interest is the developmental mechanisms
involved in left-right asymmetry in flounders. |
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