Affiliation: The University of British Columbia, School of Biomedical Engineering, Vancouver, Canada

Dr. Yachie is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Synthetic Biology at the School of Biomedical Engineering (SBME) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). His research program (https://yachie-lab.org/) is combining technologies in cell engineering, genome editing, and computational biology and developing new measurement technologies for mammalian development and cell differentiation. Dr. Yachie received his PhD degree in Systems Biology from Keio University in 2009 and completed his postdoctoral training at Dr. Fritz Roth’s lab from Harvard Medical School and the University of Toronto. He is also a recipient of the JSPS DC1 (2007-2009), PD (2009-2010), and “Research Abroad” (2010-2012) fellowships from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012-2014), the PRESTO Researcher-ship awarded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (2014-2018), and the Young Scientists Award by the Minister of Education and Science, Japan (2020).