Affiliation: National Institutes of Health, National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute, Cell and Developmental Biology Center

Dr. Takashi Akera graduated from the University of Tokyo with a PhD in Biophysics and Biochemistry in 2014. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Lampson from 2015 to 2019. Dr. Akera joined the NIH in 2019 as an Earl Stadtman tenure-track Investigator and leads the Laboratory of Chromosome Dynamics and Evolution. His lab uses mouse oocyte system to reveal both the cell biological basis and evolutionary consequences of meiotic drive, where selfish DNA violate Mendel's Law of Segregation to increase their own rate of transmission.