Molecular geneticist and genomicist with fifteen years of research experience spanning medical parasitology, infectious-disease genomics and molecular biology, trained and appointed at three medical faculties: the Department of
Parasitology and the Frontier Science Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki (Japan), and currently the Department of Biochemistry within the Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford (UK).
Twenty-four peer-reviewed publications including Nature Communications, Science Advances, Communications Biology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B and Scientific Reports. Serving Editorial Board Member and handling editor for Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio) and BMC Genomics, having managed 22 manuscripts through full peer review during 2025 alone. Appointed Expert Evaluator for European Commission / Horizon Europe research programmes.
Routinely assesses manuscripts on scientific merit, methodological soundness, statistical and bioinformatic rigour,
reproducibility of computational analyses, and clarity of English-language presentation — and is accustomed to editorial turnaround deadlines. Available for expedited review within a 2–3 day turnaround.
Sequencing platforms and data: Illumina, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore; whole-genome, transcriptome (RNA-seq)
and small RNA-seq datasets.
● Assembly and annotation: chromosome-level and telomere-to-telomere assembly, Hi-C scaffolding, structural
variation mapping, synteny analysis, transposable element annotation.
● Analysis: comparative and functional genomics, phylogenomics, population genomics, variant discovery, positive selection and molecular evolution analysis, differential expression.
● Computing and statistics: Linux, Python, R, HPC pipeline development, biostatistics, data visualisation,
reproducible research practice.
Primary specialisation — Medical parasitology and helminth genomics. Human and animal parasitic helminths:
Strongyloides spp., cestodes (Sparganum proliferum / Spirometra), filarial and soil-transmitted nematodes. Genome
analysis of parasitic worms, aberrant larval proliferation and pathogenesis, parasitism gene evolution, host–parasite
interaction, molecular and NGS-based diagnostics for parasite species identification.
Primary specialisation — Genomics, comparative genomics and bioinformatics. Chromosome-level and telomere-to-
telomere genome assembly; Hi-C scaffolding; short- and long-read sequencing (Illumina, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore);
genome annotation; variant discovery; phylogenomics; population genomics; synteny and structural variation analysis; reproducible HPC pipeline design.
Primary specialisation — Regulatory RNA and epigenetic silencing. Small RNA biology and small RNA-seq; PIWI-
interacting RNA (piRNA) and piRNA-like pathways; transposable element activity, annotation, containment and genome integrity; germline gene regulation; non-coding regulatory element evolution.
Secondary areas. Chromosome architecture, segregation and karyotype evolution; chromatin diminution; sex-
determination mechanisms and reproductive-mode transitions; molecular evolution and positive selection analysis;
microbial and endosymbiont genomics; microbiome-adjacent comparative analyses; invertebrate model systems
(Caenorhabditis elegans and relatives).
Cross-cutting methodological review competence. Experimental design and statistical validity; transcriptome /
differential expression analysis; biostatistics and data visualisation; code and data availability, reproducibility and FAIR
compliance; assessment of computational methods sections; scientific English editing for non-native-speaker
manuscripts.
