Fumi Kubo, PhD
Research interest: Visual system and behavior in zebrafish
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Education
Born in Yokohama, Japan
2002　BA in Biology, Kyoto University
2004　MSc in Biology, Kyoto University
2007　PhD in Biology, Kyoto University (Supervisors: Masatoshi Takeichi & Shinichi Nakagawa)

Research experiences
2007-2010　RIKEN, Special Postdoctoral Fellow (Shinichi Nakagawa’s lab)
2010-2014　Postdoc, University of California, San Francisco, USA
& Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany (Herwig Baier’s lab)
2015-2017　Project leader (W2), Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
2018-present　Associate professor, National Institute of Genetics, Japan, Department of Genetics, School of life science, SOKENDAI

Honors and Awards
2005-2007　Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2007-2010　Special Postdoctoral Researchers program, RIKEN
2010-2011　Toyobo Biotechnology Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellowship
2011-2014　Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), Long-Term Fellowship
2016　Young Investigator Award, Japanese Neuroscience Society
2019　The Young Scientists’ Prize, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan