PEOPLE
Principal Investigator
Naoki Kubo / 久保 直樹, M.D., Ph.D.
Team Director / チームディレクター
Research Interests
Epigenomics, non-coding genome regulation, 3D genome organization, single-cell multi-omics, and bioinformatics.
Career & Education
2024–present Team Director, RIKEN BRC
2026–present Professor (School of Integrative and Global Majors), University of Tsukuba
2024 Project Lecturer, Osaka Univ. (Dr. Masahito Ikawa)
2021–2024 Project Asst. prof., Kyushu Univ. (Dr. Hiroyuki Sasaki)
2016–2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, UC San Diego (Dr. Bing Ren)
2012–2016 Ph.D., Kyushu Univ. (Dr. Hiroyuki Sasaki)
2007 M.D., Kyushu Univ.
Members
Feiyang Zhang / 張 菲楊, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher / 博士研究員
Research Interests
Epigenomics, single-cell multi-omics, AI-driven computational cell biology
Career & Education
2026–present Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN BRC
2024–2026 Postdoctoral Researcher, Brain Research Center, Wuhan Univ.
2022-2024 Wuhan Univ. and Kyoto Univ. (Joint Ph.D. sponsored by CSC) hosted by RIKEN BDR.
2016-2024 M.D., Ph.D. Wuhan Univ.
| Eiko Yokoyama / 横山 英子 | Technical Staff II |
| Yumiko Yamasaki / 山崎 裕美子 | Technical Staff II |
| Ahmadi Sadequllah | Technical Staff II |
| Kaita Akaike / 赤池 哉太 | Ph.D. Student (Showa University) |
| Daigo Takagi / 髙木 大吾 | Ph.D. Student (Tokyo University of Science) |
| Benson Benny Elamthuruthy | Master's Student (CUSAT, India) |
| Nithya Satheesh Nair | Master's Student (VIT, India) |
| Kuniya Abe / 阿部 訓也 | Research Advisor |
| Michiko Ikezawa / 池澤 美智子 | Administrative Assistant |
Visiting Members
| Yashuhiro Murakawa / 村川 泰裕 | Professor, Kyoto University / Team Director, RIKEN IMS |
| Kenji Kamimoto / 神元 健児 | Professor, Osaka University |
| Shigeyuki Shichino / 七野 成之 | Associate professor, Tokyo University of Science |