Kiyoe Ura

Kiyoe Ura received her Ph.D. degree in 1992 from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai) at the National Institute of Genetics, where she studied the regulation of the Hox gene cluster with Susumu Hirose. She then received a research fellowship from JSPS to study chromatin structure and function with Alan Wolffe at NIH. After spending four years as a postdoctoral fellow at NIH, she returned to Japan to begin her own study on chromatin, first as Assistant Professor at Kurume University School of Medicine (1996-1997), then as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Fumio Hanaoka at Osaka University (1998), and later as Assistant Professor in the laboratory of Yasufumi Kaneda at Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. She has also served as a PRESTO researcher in JST (2009 to 2014), and will be appointed Associate Professor in the same laboratory from the end of 2010.

Dr. Ura’s research interests have been centered around developmental gene regulation and chromatin function focusing on histone diversity. Her studies aim to establish a new perspective on developmental gene regulation in which chromatin modifications and transcription factors are integrated into the nuclear architecture. She believes that these phenomena have the potential to provide the molecular basis of stem cell dynamics and nuclear reprogramming.
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