| Akira Nakamura received both his baccalaureate and his Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba. He spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the same institution before moving to the Department of Biology at McGill University in Montreal in 1995 to work as a postdoc under Paul Lasko, before returning to Japan in 1997 as a research associate at the University of Tsukuba. He was appointed assistant professor in the university's Gene Research Center and Institute of Biological Sciences in 2000 and was subsequently appointed CDB team leader in March 2002. His current research focuses on the mechanisms by which germ plasm is assembled and controls germ cell development, using the fruitfly Drosophila and an ascidian, Ciona intestinalis as model organisms. |
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