Taro Tomono, PhD

After graduating from the University of Tokyo with a BSc, Dr. Tomono received Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from the University of Tsukuba as an adult graduate student. After obtaining his Ph.D., he worked as a 1st postdoc in Schaffer's lab at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). He joined Müschen's lab as s 2nd postdoc since August 2022.

From his MSc to 1st postdoc, he researched mass purification method and capsid/viral genome engineering of adeno-associated viral vector (AAV vector) for the improvement of AAV gene therapy. In the Müschen lab, he studies the mechanism and function of Ca²⁺ oscillation of B cells.