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Group Director: Kazuki SAITO, Ph,D

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Kazuki Saito graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1977 and obtained PhD for bio-organic chemistry/biochemistry of pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Tokyo in 1982. After staying in Keio University in Japan and Ghent University in Belgium (Prof. Marc Van Montagu's laboratory), he began molecular biology and biotechnology of plant primary and secondary metabolism in Chiba University in Japan. He served as a professor at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, from 1995 until 2020. Since 2005, he has been appointed as a group director at the Center for Sustainable Resouce Science. His current research interests are metabolome-based functional genomics, biochemistry, molecular biology and biotechnology of primary and secondary metabolism in plants. He was inaugurated as the director of RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in 2020.

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Group Director
Kazuki SAITO
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Senior Research Scientist
Naoyuki UMEMOTO
Research Scientist
Amit RAI
Toshiya MURANAKA (Osaka univ.)
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Senior Visiting Scientist
Mami YAMAZAKI (Chiba univ.)
Miyako KUSANO (Tsukuba univ.)
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Akira OIKAWA (Kyoto univ.)
Senior Visiting Scientist
Tsubasa SHOJI (Toyama univ.)
Senior Visiting Scientist
Takayuki TOHGE (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Visiting Scientist
Hikaru SEKI (Osaka univ.)
Visiting Scientist
Yozo OKAZAKI (Mie univ.)
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Tetsuya MORI (Mass Spectrometry and Microscopy Unit)
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Ryosuke SASAKI (Mass Spectrometry and Microscopy Unit)
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Makoto KOBAYASHI (Mass Spectrometry and Microscopy Unit)
Tomoko NISHIZAWA (Concurrent Post : Mass Spectrometry and Microscopy Unit)
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Kouji TAKANO (Concurrent Post : Mass Spectrometry and Microscopy Unit)
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Miwako IKENAGA
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Fumi AZUMI
Kiyoko MOROHOSHI (Mass Spectrometry and Microscopy Unit)
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Chieko KOMORI (Mass Spectrometry and Microscopy Unit)
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