Dr. Yachie is an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo and a Project Associate Professor at Keio University. He received bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees at Keio University in 2005, 2007 and 2009, respectively. He then undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at Dr. Fritz Roth's lab at Harvard Medical School and University of Toronto, where he developed a high-throughput protein interaction technology BFG-Y2H. Dr. Yachie has been appointed at the University of Tokyo and Keio University starting 2014. He received a Banting Fellowship awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada in 2012 and a PRESTO fellowship awarded by Japan Science and Technology Agency in 2014. His team is developing several new biotechnologies to measure dynamics of molecules, cells and cellular developments using DNA barcodes, genome editing and massively parallel sequencing.