Masayuki Onishi, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Biology
The Onishi lab is interested in the molecular details and evolution of cell division and its coordination with organelle segregation. The lab’s current focus is on elucidating how the unicellular model alga Chlamydomonas forms an animal-like cleavage furrow without a canonical contractile actomyosin ring, and how this process is coordinated with the division of the chloroplast, an organelle that emerged as a bacterial endosymbiont.
