Yukiko Gotoh

Yukiko Gotoh received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1992 studying the activation and functions of MAP kinase. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Eisuke Nishida’s laboratory at the University of Tokyo for a year, and then assumed a position of Research Associate and Assistant Professor at the University when his lab moved to the Institute for Virus Research in Kyoto University. After spending a few years in the USA as a visiting scientist in the lab of Jonathan A. Cooper at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and Michael E. Greenberg at the Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, she returned to Japan in 1998 and was appointed Associate Professor in the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at the University of Tokyo. She was later appointed to Professor at the same institute in 2005. She has also served as Adjunct Associate Professor in the National Institute of Physiological Science (2002-2005), and Adjunct Professor in the National Institute of Genetics (2003-2007).

Her group is interested in the signal transduction pathways regulating neural stem/precursor cell fate, and the functions and regulation of the MAP kinase and Akt pathways.