Laboratory for Metabolic Networks

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Toshimori Kitami, Ph.D.

 

EDUCATION

 

1999-2005           Ph.D., Genetics • Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA 

 

1995-1999           B.S., Biological Sciences • University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

 

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 

2021-Present           Team Leader Laboratory for Metabolic Networks

RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Yokohama, JAPAN

 

2020-2021               Research Scientist in the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB)

University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Advisor: Dr. Rudi Balling

Host Laboratory: Dr. Carole Linster

What I learned: Metabolomics, systems biology, Parkinson's disease.

 

2013-2020               Young Chief Investigator (YCI) Laboratory for Cellular Bioenergetic Network

RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Yokohama, JAPAN

Host Laboratories: Dr. Shigeo Koyasu (& Dr. Kazuyo Moro), Dr. Hiroshi Ohno

What I learned: Immunology, microbiome, deep-phenotyping studies.

 

2005-2013               Postdoctoral Scientist in the Metabolism Program

Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA  

Advisor: Dr. Vamsi K. Mootha

What I learned: Mitochondrial biology, high-throughput screens, data analysis, omics technologies.

 

1999-2005               Doctoral Student in the Department of Genetics, School of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA  

Advisor: Dr. Joseph H. Nadeau

What I learned: Complex trait analysis, mouse genetics, systems biology, inborn errors of metabolism.