Masayuki SU'ETSUGU personal link

Dr. Su'etsugu has received his PhD from Kyushu University, Japan in 2005, and continued his work on initiation regulation of chromosome replication in Escherichia coli, as Assistant Professor at the same university. He then joined Jeff Errington's lab as a postdoctoral researcher at Newcastle University, UK to study cellular dynamics of replication machinery of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome. After moving back to Japan, he became an Associate Professor at Rikkyo University, Tokyo in 2013, and started his laboratory. He was also JST-PRESTO researcher. His laboratory currently focuses on synthetic biology based on in vitro reconstitution of bacterial cellular systems, and is developing a genome-synthesis technology with the support of CSTI ImPACT (2016-2018) and of JST CREST (2018-2023). He is also the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of the spin-off company, OriCiro Genomics, Inc. (https://oriciro.com).