Rate My Professor Yamato Yoshida

Yamato Yoshida serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo. His research centers on organelle biology, quantitative biology, and multi-omics approaches. Yoshida investigates the division mechanisms of plastids and mitochondria, which originated from endosymbiotic bacteria and multiply exclusively through binary fission in eukaryotic cells. His work examines the plastid-division machinery, including the inner FtsZ ring and outer PD ring, as well as parallels with mitochondrial-division machinery across primitive eukaryotes to higher plants and animals.

Key publications include Yoshida et al. (2006) in Science on plastid division components, Yoshida et al. (2010) in Science, Yoshida et al. (2016) in Nature Plants, Yoshida et al. (2017) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Yoshida (2018) in Journal of Plant Research, and Yoshida and Mogi (2019) in Microscopy. Yoshida aims to elucidate conserved mechanisms of organelle division at the molecular level using techniques from cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, synthetic biology, and bioinformatics, including single-molecule microscopy and multi-omics analyses. His laboratory explores the full set of molecular processes governing organelle proliferation in eukaryotic cells.