Jun-ichi Nakayama

Jun-ichi Nakayama received his bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees in bioscience from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the last in 1999 for his work on the cloning and characterization of mammalian telomerase components. He spent the period from 1999 to 2001 as a postdoctoral researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Shiv Grewal's lab, before returning to Japan in December 2001 as a PRESTO researcher in the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST). He was appointed team leader of the Laboratory for Chromatin Dynamics in 2002.