Shinya Lab.
Meiji University
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We are interested in the cause and consequences of differences in shape, behavior, and life history. Our research is conducted with microscopic worms "nematodes".
Meiji University
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Ryoji Shinya, Ph.D. (PI)
shinya[at]meiji.ac.jp |
Ryoji Shinya is an Associate Professor in the School of Agriculture at the Meiji University, Japan. He graduated from Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine in 2007 and joined the Graduate School of Agriculture at Kyoto University for his Ph.D., which he received in 2012. During his Ph.D. project, he worked on uncovering the molecular mechanisms of how the pine wood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus causes pine wilt disease using genetics, proteomics, and plant pathological approaches. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Dr. Koichi Hasegawa laboratory at Chubu University, Japan, and Dr. Paul W. Sternberg laboratory at Caltech, USA, he has learned C. elegans biology and attempted to apply the techniques established in C. elegans to other nematodes, especially the fungal-feeding and plant-parasitic nematodes. His research has been to establish a new laboratory model system using B. okinawaensis. After his postdoctoral work in the US, he returned to Japan when he joined the Meiji University as a faculty in 2017. He is an Investigator with the JST PRESTO, with whom he joined in 2017.
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