[1] He was appointed an assistant professor at the National Institute for Basic Biology in Okazaki, Aichi, Japan in 1978.

[3] Kondo served as Dean of the School of Science from 2006 to 2009 and President of the Institute for Advanced Research of Nagoya University from 2007 to 2013.

[7] Promoter-trap and microarray analysis performed by Kondo in the cyanobacteria Synechococcus revealed that many, if not all, genes displayed a rhythmic, circadian component to their expression.

[7] Kondo next employed a forward genetics approach and developed a luciferase reporter system to identify clock mutants in Synechococcus.

[7] Kondo's characterization of kaiABC behavior provided a molecular mechanism by which proteins respond to changes in time and enabled the fields of bacterial genetics and quantitative biochemistry to aid investigation of the biological clock.