Shuichi Onami

Shuichi Onami received his D.V.M. from Department of Veterinary Medical Science, the University of Tokyo in 1994, and received his Ph.D. from Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Advanced Studies in 1998. He worked as a researcher and then group leader at Systems Biology Group, ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (1999–2001), and was an associate professor at Keio University (2002–2006). In the meantime, he also worked as a visiting associate at Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology (2000-2002). He joined RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center as a senior scientist in 2006, and became a team leader at RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in 2008, a team leader at RIKEN Planning Office for the Center for Computational and Quantitative Life Science in 2010 and then a team leader at RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center in 2011. He invented an automated system for measuring cell division dynamics in C. elegans embryos and pioneered quantitative modeling in C. elegans embryo. His current research interests include mathematical modeling of animal development and its application to medicine.

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