Faculty	Kanae Ando, Ph.D. Professor Biographical research profile Kanae Ando, Associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Dr. Ando received her Ph.D. in Pharmacological Sciences from University of Tokyo in 2001. After completion of her degree, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 2006, she was appointed as Assistant Professor and PI in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Thomas Jefferson University, Pennsylvania, USA. She joined to Department of Neuroscience at Thomas Jefferson University when it was founded in 2008. In the fall of 2014, Dr. Ando was appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan. Her research focuses on molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of neurological diseases. Multiple genetic and environmental factors influence brain development, aging, and vulnerability to disease. She uses Drosophila as a powerful genetic model system to dissect such complexity and understand the brain. Tokyo Metropolitan University launched a Biology English program, a full biology undergraduate program in biology taught in English in 2015. Dr. Ando serves as the organizer of this program since 2018.
	Taro Saito, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
	Akiko Asada, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Graduate Students	Sophia Limlingan Arisa Tamura Jun-qi Huang Takuya Kawazoe Kano Shindo Koumi Yoda Kaiei Sawamura Kano Shindo Kotone Watanabe
Undergraduate Students & Research Students	Mika Harada Maya Hidaka Kiko Mimura Kantaro Yamashita Zheng Yong
Visiting Scientists & Research Assistant	Shin-ichi Hisanaga, Ph.D. (Visiting professor, Emeritis professor) Emiko Suzuki, Ph.D.(Visiting associate professor) Toshiharu Suzuki, Ph.D. (Visiting professor) Isao Uemura, Ph.D. Akio Sekigawa, Ph.D. Shuhei Niitsu, Ph.D. Miyuki Takahashi, Ph. D. JunRyoo Watanabe, Ph.D. (Visiting assistant professor) Ambika Krishnankutty, Ph. D. (Research Assistant)
Alumni	Iori Kato (MS, Mar 2025) Miyu Enomoto (MS, Mar 2025) Shohei Takaki (MS, Mar 2025) Akiharu Fukuda (BS, Mar 2025)i Toshiya Oba (PhD, Mar 2024) Kanako Shinno (PhD, Mar 2024) Grigorii Sultanakhmetov (PhD, Mar 2024) Aoi Fukuchi (MS, Mar 2024) Sho Nakajima (MS, Mar 2024) Nanako Takasugi (MS, Mar 2024) Naoko Nozawa(PhD, Mar 2023) Marie Noguchi (MS, Mar 2023) Chihiro Yamamoto (MS, Mar 2023) Saori Abe (Bachelor's degree in Science., March 2023) Mikiko Oka (PhD, Sep 2021) Current position: postdoctoral fellow, Baylor Colledge of Medicine, TX, USA Joma Ono (Master's degree in Science., March 2021)  Shingo Aizawa (Master's degree in Science., March 2021)  Jo Murei (Bachelor's degree in Science., March 2021) Hidemi Hayashi (Bachelor's degree in Science., March 2020) Maki Tajimai (Bachelor's degree in Science., March 2020) Delina Tuerde (Ph.D., March 2020) Tomoki Chiku (Master's degree in Science., March 2019) Motoki Hayashishita (Master's degree in Science., March 2018)  Keiya Ito ( Master's degree in Science., March 2019) Lin Chen (Bachelor's degree in Science., March 2019)