Brain Research Institute, Niigata University Field for Evolutionary Brain Pathology Department of Neuroscience of Disease Care fish, Cure human

Akiko Sakai

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Career

March 1993: Graduated from Kanagawa Prefectural Tama High School March 1997: Graduated from International Christian University March 1999: M.Sc., Tokyo Institute of Technology November 2003: Ph.D. (Science), Kyoto University (Prof. Mitsuhiro Yanagida) May 2004: Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School (JSPS overseas fellow) (Dr. Kami Ahmad) August 2008: GCOE researcher, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Prof. Katsuhiko Shirahige) April 2009: GCOE Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology March 2011: Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Niigata University (Assoc. Prof. Kiyoshi Sugiyama) January 2013: JSPS RPD Fellow, Niigata University October 2017: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biochemistry, Niigata University School of Medicine (concurrent) April 2018: JSPS RPD Fellow, Niigata University April 2021: Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience of Disease, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University

In their words

I have studied diverse biological phenomena with chromosomes and chromatin as a keyword.

Selected publications

  • Kodera, K., Hishida, R., Sakai, A., Nyuzuki, H., Matsui, N., Yamanaka, T., Saitoh, A., Matsui, H.*. GPATCH4 contributes to nucleolus morphology and its dysfunction impairs cell viability. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 693:149384. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.149384