Three new team leaders join RIKEN BDR

Team Leader Oginuma is the head of the Chrono-Developmental Biology RIKEN ECL Research Team. He is interested in the molecular mechanisms controlling embryonic time. Using the turquoise killifish, N. fuzeri, his laboratory aims to clarify the mechanisms of a highly evolved clock-stopping mechanism, called diapause.

Team Leader Kojima leads the Laboratory for Multimodal AI Framework, where he and his team will develop AI technologies to handle multimodal and hierarchical data, such as images, natural language, acoustic signals, time-series data, and structured data, while applying these technologies to address diverse life science problems.

Dr. Reiya Taniguchi was appointed as Team Leader at RIKEN BDR, to head the Laboratory for In situ Structural Biology from January 1, 2025. He is undertaking research to explore how proteins and other macromolecules interact with their crowded surroundings to fulfill their biological functions using cryo-electron tomography. Due to reorganization of laboratories under RIKEN, his research activities were moved to the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) as of April 1, 2025.