Ikue Mori (scientist)

[2] She is Director[3] of Neuroscience Institute[4] and Professor of Molecular Neurobiology[5] of the Graduate School of Science in Nagoya University, Japan.

student majoring in population genetics using Drosophila melanogaster in Ochanomizu University, she studied theoretical biology and evolution in University of Sussex, UK, under the supervision of Brian Charlesworth as a visiting student, supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

From April to August in 1983, she was supervised by Kunitada Shimotohno to learn molecular Biology at National Cancer Research Center, Japan.

[7] In September 1983, she joined Biology and Biomedical Science Program in Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied genetics in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans under the supervision of Robert Waterston.

[7] After receiving her PhD, she was appointed as assistant professor in Kyushu University, Japan, where she started to work on thermotaxis in C. elegans, aiming to clarify molecular, neural and circuit mechanisms underlying learning, memory and decision-making.