Person
Takamiya, Masanari
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Biography and Research Interest
In my B.Sc./M.Sc./Ph.D. courses in Japan (1993-1999) and the first postdoc for the next several years (1999-2002), I put all my heart and soul into purifying muscle-derived neurotrophic factors in combination with primary spinal neuron culture. After I spent my whole 20s in the field of applied bio-chemistry, I realized that I was not cut out for 'chemistry' in the first place. I wanted to see the life.
I met with J.A. Campos-Ortega in 2002 and learned embryology. I got overwhelmed by infinite variety of morphological phenotypes caused by transgenetics. His last words to me on his bed of sickness were, 'You should somehow come to a working hypothesis....and try to verify (or falsify, rather) that hypothesis.' This is how he was, always full of energy and thoughtfullness.
I jumped in U. Straehle lab in 2006, since I got absorbed in his idea to connect embryology and adult pathology: cornea project.
I met with J.A. Campos-Ortega in 2002 and learned embryology. I got overwhelmed by infinite variety of morphological phenotypes caused by transgenetics. His last words to me on his bed of sickness were, 'You should somehow come to a working hypothesis....and try to verify (or falsify, rather) that hypothesis.' This is how he was, always full of energy and thoughtfullness.
I jumped in U. Straehle lab in 2006, since I got absorbed in his idea to connect embryology and adult pathology: cornea project.
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