Postdoctoral Scientist

Akari Maeda

Akari Maeda

Bio

I am interested in how individual plant cells sense and respond to environmental changes, particularly pathogen invasion.

During my PhD, I studied how the circadian clock maintains robustness to environmental fluctuations at the whole-plant level, which led me to recognize the importance of local, cell-type-specific responses that may be overlooked in population-level analyses.

I aim to uncover how single-cell responses to pathogen invasion are coordinated across cells and tissues using single-cell multi-omics approaches.

Job history

  • 2025 -

    Postdoctoral Scientist

    The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK
  • 2025 - 2025

    Postdoctoral Scientist

    Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
  • 2022 - 2025

    PhD in Bioagricultural Sciences

    Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
  • 2020 - 2022

    MSc Science

    Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
  • 2016 - 2020

    BSc Agriculture

    Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan