Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Dr. Kenichi Ishii earned his PhD in 2012 from the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Tokyo. From 2012 to 2015, he conducted research as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Science. He later joined Dr. Kenta Asahina’s laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies as a postdoctoral researcher, where he studied social behavior and the neurogenetic mechanisms underlying it in fruit flies. Since 2020, he has served as an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Science. His current research focuses on social behavior and sensory perception, particularly nociception.