Speakers

Tomoya Kitajima received his Master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Tokyo, for his thesis on identification of Shugoshin as a conserved protector of chromosome cohesion at centromeres. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2004, he served as a research associate at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at the same university, before moving to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany as a postdoctoral researcher. He was appointed Team Leader at the CDB in 2012. His current study focuses on cell biology of chromosome segregation errors during meiosis in mammalian oocytes.