Kikuë Tachibana
Japanese-Austrian molecular biologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kikuë Tachibana (born 1978 in Graz, Austria[1]) is a Japanese-Austrian molecular biologist and director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried, Germany. Formerly, she was a group leader at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) in Vienna, Austria.
Tachibana was educated in Japan, Austria, and the UK.[2] She obtained her PhD working on the cell cycle and cancer formation in the group of Ron Laskey at Cambridge University, UK.[3][2] She later joined the lab of Kim Nasmyth in Oxford, UK as a post-doc, where she did pioneering work on the role of the protein cohesin in female mouse germ cells.[3] In November 2011 she joined IMBA as a group leader, where she investigates totipotency in mouse oocytes and zygotes as well as the role of maternal aging on egg cell health using mouse as a model system.[3][4]
In 2017, Tachibana was awarded the Walter Flemming medal.[2] In 2018, she received the "Förderpreis der Stadt Wien", an award from the city of Vienna for outstanding scientific work.[5]
- Tachibana-Konwalski, Kikuë (March 2017). "Single-nucleus Hi-C reveals unique chromatin reorganization at oocyte-to-zygote transition" Nature. 544 110-114. This article has been cited 279 times according to Google Scholar, .[6]
- Tachibana-Konwalski, Kikuë (February 2016). "Chromosome Cohesion Established by Rec8-Cohesin in Fetal Oocytes Is Maintained without Detectable Turnover in Oocytes Arrested for Months in Mice." Current Biology. 26 5, 678-685.
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