Assistant Professor
National Institute for Basic Biology
Yuhei Goto earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from University of Tokyo in Japan in 2017, investigating the molecular mechanism underlying chromosome segregation at cell division by genetics and biochemistry. He went to Division of Quantitative Biology (Prof. Kazuhiro Aoki) in National Institute for Basic Biology as a postdoc from 2017, and as an assistant professor since 2019, where he studied quantitative live cell imaging and optogenetic manipulation of intracellular signaling and cell cycle. Now he aims to develop novel optogenetic tools to control cell cycle progression and cell division, using red-light photoreceptors.