Kaoru Sugimoto

Kaoru Sugimoto is a Senior Research Fellow in the Division of Biology at California Institute of Technology. Her research goal is to understand mechanisms of plant regeneration. After getting a Ph.D. in animal developmental biology in Makoto Asashima’s lab in the University of Tokyo, she moved to the field of plant biology and joined Elliot Meyerowitz’s lab in 2006. In her years of postdoctoral research, she has especially focused on describing the cellular origin and the differentiation states of regenerating cells in Arabidopsis plant, and has reviewed various regeneration systems in plants and animals as a comparative study. Her research paper and review on plant and animal regeneration are highly evaluated in the both fields of plant and animal development, and she was invited to talk in various fields of international symposiums on stem cell and regeneration topics in 2013, such as International Nephrology Society Forefronts Symposium on “Kidney Regeneration and Stem Cells” held in Italy and Keys Symposium on “Plant Stem Cell” held in the Netherlands.

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