【Researches Brief】 developmental biology 1. examining "morphology from an egg to a larva" in various fields from experimental ecology to molecular biology 2. developmental biology of organogenesis 3. molecular biological reserch of cell reproduction and differentiation 【the Professor's Brief Profile】 born on Sept. 6 , 1944 1967 graduated from School fo Science, Tokyo Univ. of Education 1972 Ph. D at the Graduate School of Science, the Univ. of Tokyo 1972 researcher at the Research Institute of Molecular Biology, the Free University of Berlin, Germany 1974 associate professor at College of Humanities and Sciences, Yokohama City University 1986 professor at College of Humanities and Sciences, Yokohama City University 1993 professor at School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo 1995 assistant president of the University of Tokyo 1996 professor at Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo 1999 councilor of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo (interlock) 2001 special assistant dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo 2003 dean of School and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo