Researcher at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
Japan
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- Researcher, Science Communication at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Past
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- Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Santa Cruz
- Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University
- Visiting Researcher at Stanford University
- Education
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- The University of Tokyo
- The University of Tokyo
- The University of Tokyo
- Gyosei Junior & Senior High School
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Senkei Umehara’s Experience
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Researcher, Science Communication
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
(Government Administration industry)
July 2009 — Present (8 months)
At a major funding agency in Japan (mostly equivalent to NSF), I am learning how to effectively communicate science to society and the general public. The experience will be a big plus when I seek to catalyze communication among scientists at the interface of disciplines, and to help sharing the true value of scientific achievements found in my home country with worldwide communities.
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Postdoctoral Scholar
UC Santa Cruz
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
April 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 4 months)
Continuing the nanopipette study in a brand-new laboratory at UC Santa Cruz, in collaboration with Stanford Genome Technology Center.
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Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
June 2007 — March 2008 (10 months)
Developing a nanopipette-based electrical biosensor/nanoinjector.
Extrapolating the idea of patch clamp electrodes, I am trying to build their nanoscale counterpart. A nanopipette I use has an approx. 50-nm pore in diameter at the tip, and potentially is capable of detecting (single) molecules without prior labeling and of injecting materials directly into a particular cell. It shares some important physical properties with nanopores but is unique in that it can be used for live cell analysis in real time. -
Visiting Researcher
Stanford University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 9 months)
Senkei Umehara’s Education
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The University of Tokyo
Ph.D. , Multidisciplinary Sciences , 2004 — 2007
Studied how individual bacterial cells, Escherichia coli, respond to environmental perturbations.
The target cell was cultured in a microstructure and continuously monitored with a high-magnification microscope equipped with optical tweezers, thereby the cell was kept isolated from its “sisters” produced by binary fission while it remained in the same culture condition. I compared the growth curves and motility behavior of a mother and its daughter (well, they’re identical at the same time) to speculate what kind of information can be heritable without altering the genome at a single-cell level, without interacting with other cells around. -
The University of Tokyo
M.S. , Multidisciplinary Sciences , 2002 — 2004
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The University of Tokyo
B.S. , 1998 — 2002
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Gyosei Junior & Senior High School
1992 — 1998
Ecole de l'Etoile du Matin
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Senkei Umehara’s Groups:
Biophysical Society (USA), Biophysical Society of Japan, American Association for the Advancement of Science
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SPM (Scanning Probe Microscopy) Society
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