Kazufumi MOCHIZUKI

Education: 2000 Ph. D, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, School of Life Science, Department of Genetics, Japan Thesis title: Analyses of the molecular markers for the germline stem cells in Hydra 1997 Master of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Japan Thesis title: Molecular cloning of factors regulating glycolipid (ganglioside) biosynthesis 1995 Bachelor of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Japan Postdoctoral Training and Employment History: 2016-present Group Leader (CNRS, DR2), Institute of Human Genetics (IGH), Montpellier, France 2006-2016 Group Leader, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna, Austria 2001-2005 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Rochester, Laboratory of Prof. Martin A. Gorovsky, Rochester, NY, USA Research Project: Roles of an RNAi-related mechanism in the genome rearrangement in Tetrahymena 2000-2001 Postdoctoral fellow, National Institute of Genetics, Laboratory of Prof. Toshitaka Fujisawa, Mishima, Japan Research Project: Germline cell differentiation in Hydra