Faculty	Kanae Ando, Ph.D. Associate Professor Biographical research profile Kanae Ando, Associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Dr. Ando received her Ph.D. in Pharmacological Sciences from University of Tokyo in 2001. After completion of her degree, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 2006, she was appointed as Assistant Professor and PI in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Thomas Jefferson University, Pennsylvania, USA. She joined to Department of Neuroscience at Thomas Jefferson University when it was founded in 2008. In the fall of 2014, Dr. Ando was appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan. Her research focuses on molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of neurological diseases. Multiple genetic and environmental factors influence brain development, aging, and vulnerability to disease. She uses Drosophila as a powerful genetic model system to dissect such complexity and understand the brain. Tokyo Metropolitan University launched a Biology English program, a full biology undergraduate program in biology taught in English in 2015. Dr. Ando serves as the organizer of this program since 2018.
	Taro Saito, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
	Akiko Asada, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Graduate Students	Kanako Shinno Toshiya Oba Grigori Sultanakhmetov Sophia Limlingan Aoi Fukuchi Daiki Honma Sho Nakajima Nanako Takasugi Iori Kato Miyu Enomoto Shohei Takaki Arisa Tamura
Undergraduate Students & Research Students	Rintaro Abe Takuya Kawazoe Yuta Kondo Kano Shindo Koumi Yoda
Visiting Scientists	Shin-ichi Hisanaga, Ph.D. (Visiting professor, Emeritis professor) Emiko Suzuki, Ph.D.(Visiting associate professor) Isao Uemura, Ph.D. Akio Sekigawa, Ph.D.
Alumni	Naoko Nozawa(PhD, Mar 2023) Marie Noguchi (MS, Mar 2023) Chihiro Yamamoto (MS, Mar 2023) Saori Abe (Bachelor's degree in Science., March 2023) Mikiko Oka (PhD, Sep 2021) Current position: postdoctoral fellow, Baylor Colledge of Medicine, TX, USA Joma Ono (Master's degree in Science., March 2021)  Shingo Aizawa (Master's degree in Science., March 2021)  Jo Murei (Bachelor's degree in Science., March 2021) Hidemi Hayashi (Bachelor's degree in Science., March 2020) Maki Tajimai (Bachelor's degree in Science., March 2020) Delina Tuerde (Ph.D., March 2020) Tomoki Chiku (Master's degree in Science., March 2019) Motoki Hayashishita (Master's degree in Science., March 2018)  Keiya Ito ( Master's degree in Science., March 2019) Lin Chen (Bachelor's degree in Science., March 2019)