Speakers

Tatsushi igaki is a Professor in the Graduate School of Biostudies at Kyoto University, where he leads a research group dedicated to using Drosophila genetics to build a picture of the cell-cell communications, especially cell-cell competition and cooperation, underlying the establishment and maintenance of multicellular systems. He received his Ph.D. from Osaka University in 2003 under Masayuki Miura. He then moved to Yale University as a postdoc to work with Tian Xu. In 2007, he started his own lab at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor. He secured tenure a few years later and moved to Kyoto University as a Professor in 2013.