｜Graduate School of Life Sciences Tohoku University

Assistant Professor MATSUMOTO Hikari

Campus	Aobayama campus
Laboratory	Plant Cell Dynamics
Tel	+81-22-795-6669
E-mail	hikari.matsumoto.a6＠tohoku.ac.jp

Career	March 2020　Doctor of Science (Graduate School of Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan) April 2020 - April 2021　Postdoctoral fellow (Nagoya university) May 2021- Present　Assistant professor (Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku university)
Selected Publications	Matsumoto H., Kimata Y., Higaki T., Higashiyama T., Ueda M. (2021) Dynamic rearrangement and directional migration of tubular vacuoles are required for the asymmetric division of the Arabidopsis zygote. *Plant and Cell Physiology,* 62(8), 1280-1289. Kimata Y., Higaki T., Kurihara D., Ando N., Matsumoto H., Higashiyama T., Ueda M. (2020) Mitochondrial dynamics and segregation during the asymmetric division of Arabidopsis zygotes. *Quantitative Plant Biology,* 1:e3, 1-10 Matsumoto H., Yasui Y., Ohmori Y., Tanaka W., Ishikawa T., Numa H., Shirasawa K., Taniguchi Y., Tanaka J., Suzuki Y., Hirano H. Y. (2020) CURLED LATER1 encoding the largest subunit of the Elongator complex has a unique role in leaf development and meristem function in rice. The Plant Journal, 104(2), 351-364. Matsumoto H., Yasui Y., Kumamaru T., Hirano H. Y. (2017) Characterization of half-pipe-like leaf1 mutant that exhibit curled leaf phenotype. Genes Genetic Systems, 92(6), 287-291.
Activities in Academic Societies	Member of The Botanical Society of Japan, The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists

Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University