Hirokazu Tsukaya: The Plant Cell First Author

Hirokazu Tsukaya, first author of “The leaf meristem enigma: The relationship between the plate meristem and the marginal meristem“

Current Position: Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Education: PhD, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Non-scientific Interests: essay writing, reading, gardening, botanical expedition, gastronomy

Brief bio: My major research interests are the basic mechanisms underlying leaf-shape determination and its evolution. I have been studying plants as a professional scientist since my graduate school days. Yet, my passion towards plants started when I was a teen ager, hence my basal background is the biodiversity of plants. Provided that, even after becoming a plant developmental geneticist of Arabidopsis thaliana during my Graduate School period, I have been constantly engaged in plant tanoxomy, as well. To date, I had described a dozen of new taxa majorly from Southern Eastern Asia. To this end, in my laboratory we have been studying not only Arabidopsis, but also a number of non-model plants.

 

姓名：塚谷裕一

当前职位：教授，东京大学（日本）理学院

教育背景：博士，东京大学（日本）理学院

兴趣爱好：散文写作，阅读，园艺，野外植物考察，美食

个人简介：我的主要研究兴趣为叶性器官形态决定和演化的基本机制。在这方面，我的实验室主要以拟南芥及一些非模式植物为研究对象。我对植物学的热情始于青少年时期并且自研究生时期以来一直研究植物学，因而我对于植物多样性也有强烈的兴趣。虽然在研究生毕业之后我的主要研究方向以拟南芥的发育遗传为主，我也经常进行植物分类学的工作。在这方面，我描述并命名了东南亚地区的一些新类群。