Kikuë Tachibana
Kikuë Tachibana (born 1978 in Graz, Austria[1]) is a Japanese-Austrian molecular biologist and director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried, Germany. Formerly, she was a group leader at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) in Vienna, Austria.
Education and career
Tachibana was educated in Japan, Austria, and the UK.[2] She obtained her PhD working on the cell cycle and cancer formation in the group of Ron Laskey at Cambridge University, UK.[2][3] She later joined the lab of Kim Nasmyth in Oxford, UK as a post-doc, where she did pioneering work on the role of the protein cohesin in female mouse germ cells.[3] In November 2011 she joined IMBA as a group leader, where she investigates totipotency in mouse oocytes and zygotes as well as the role of maternal aging on egg cell health using mouse as a model system.[3][4] She became research director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in 2021.[5]
Awards and honours
In 2017, Tachibana was awarded the Walter Flemming medal.[2] In 2018, she received the Förderpreis der Stadt Wien, an award from the city of Vienna for outstanding scientific work.[6]
Selected publications
- Tachibana-Konwalski, Kikuë (March 2017). "Single-nucleus Hi-C reveals unique chromatin reorganization at oocyte-to-zygote transition" Nature. 544 110-114. This article has been cited 891 times according to Google Scholar.[7]
- Tachibana-Konwalski, Kikuë (February 2016). "Chromosome Cohesion Established by Rec8-Cohesin in Fetal Oocytes Is Maintained without Detectable Turnover in Oocytes Arrested for Months in Mice." Current Biology. 26 5, 678-685.
References
- ↑ "Kontrollverlust in der Eizelle". idw-online.de. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- 1 2 3 "Kikuë Tachibana-Konwalski receives Walther Flemming Award". www.oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved 2026-08-10.
- 1 2 3 "Kikuë Tachibana- Konwalski erhält für ihre Forschung an der Eizelle die renommierte Walther Flemming-Medaille". www.imba.oeaw.ac.at (in German). Archived from the original on 2019-12-12. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ↑ "Interview mit Kikue Tachibana-Konwalski". www.oeaw.ac.at. Archived from the original on 2019-12-12. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ↑ p534396 (2021-10-07). "The MPI of Biochemistry welcomes two new research directors at the Martinsried Campus". Innovations- und Gründerzentrum Biotechnologie IZB. Retrieved 2026-08-10.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "IMBA Group Leader Kikuë Tachibana receives prize from the City of Vienna ("Förderpreis der Stadt Wien")". LISAvienna - life science austria. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ↑ Google Scholar Author page, Accessed August 10, 2026