Takeshi Yoshimatsu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Email: takeshi@nospam.wustl.edu
Additional Titles:
Visiting Associate Professor, BioRTC, Yobe State University, Nigeri Visiting Research Fellow, The School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK
Research Interest:
Education:
- 2006 PhD, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2003 MSc, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2001 BA, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Positions and Scientific Appointments:
- 2022 Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, MO
- 2022 Associate Professor, Yobe State University, Damatsuru
- 2022 Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sussex, Brighton
- 2020-2022- Research Fellow, University of Sussex, Brighton
- 2016-2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sussex, Brighton (Marie Curie Fellow-2017-2019)
- 2013-2016 Acting Instructor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- 2008-2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Uehara Postdoc Fellow 2008-2009)
- 2006-2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Awards/Honors
- 2022 Special Recognition Award by the Yobe State Governor
- 2022 Moorfield Eye Charity Springboard Award
- 2022 Macular Society Seedcorn Award
- 2017-2019 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship
- 2019 Post-doc Award, Sussex Neuroscience 2019
- 2011 Travel Award from Carl Zeiss Microscopy (Gordon Research Conference)
- 2088-2009 Uehara Foundation Fellowship
- 2007 Travel Award from Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
- 2006 IUBMB Young Scientists Program Travel Award
- 2005 The Research Talk Competition of IMCB (1st Place)
- 2004 The Naito Foundation Subsidy for Promotion of Specific Research Projects