Current Members
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

Current Students

Graduate students:

Ran Wei
Delina Tuerde
Mikiko Oka
Tomoki Chiku
Anni Huo
Kanako Shinno
Shingo Aizawa
Toshiya Oba
Jouma Ono

Undergraduate Students:

Hidemi Hayashi
Maki Tajima



Former Graduate Students:

Motoki Hayashishita
(Master's degree in Science., March 2018)
currently works in a clinical research-associated company

Keiya Ito (Master's degree in Science., March 2019)
currently works in a retailor for outdoor clothing and equipment

Lin Chen (Bachelor's degree in Science, March 2000)
currently pursuing a graduate degree at graduate school of Science,University of Tokyo