Speakers

Tomoya Kitajima received his Master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Tokyo, for his thesis on identification of Shugoshin as a conserved protector of chromosome cohesion at centromeres. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2004, he served as research associate at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at the same university, before moving to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany as a postdoctoral researcher. He was appointed Team Leader at the CDB in 2012.