Mike Jones
Yoshiki
Sasai
Jim
Smith
Gerald
H. Thomsen
Naoto
Ueno
John
Wallingford
Akihito
Yamamoto |
Yoshiki Sasai
Yoshiki Sasai received
his M.D from the Kyoto University School of Medicine in 1986,
and went on to complete a Ph.D on neural specific transcriptional
regulators at the same institution in 1992. From 1993 to
1996 he undertook a fellowship in the De Robertis lab at
the UCLA School of Medicine before returning to Japan to
take up an associate professor position at the Kyoto University
School of Medicine. In 1998 he was appointed professor at
the Kyoto University Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences,
and took up his current position as group director at the
CDB in 2000.
The Sasai lab uses Xenopus in
unraveling the structure and extent of the signaling networks
involved in setting up the dorsal-ventral axis and determining
neural fate in the ectoderm. Dr. Sasai is also interested
in inducing mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells to differentiate
into a range of specialized neuronal types - a field of study
that shows interesting clinical promise in its application
to human ES cells. |
