Rate My Professor Toshiki Uji

Toshiki Uji is an Associate Professor of Aquaculture Genetics and Genomics in the Division of Marine Life Science, Department of Aquaculture Life Science at Hokkaido University’s Faculty of Fisheries Sciences. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University in 2006, followed by a Master of Science in 2008 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2012 from the Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences at the same institution, specializing in marine applied life science. His career includes postdoctoral research at Hokkaido University and a fellowship at the Roscoff Biological Station of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, supported by the Uehara Memorial Foundation, as well as positions as an academic researcher and specially appointed assistant professor at Hokkaido University. In 2015, he served as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Kumamoto University before returning to Hokkaido University as an assistant professor, advancing to his current role.

Uji’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of asexual and sexual reproduction in macroalgae, particularly red and brown algae, along with the development of breeding technologies. Key contributions include studies on codon-optimized selection markers for nuclear transformation in Pyropia yezoensis, ethylene regulation of sexual reproduction in the same species, factors influencing adventitious bud and callus induction in Sargassum horneri, and the role of DISTAG/TBCCd1 in basal cell fate determination in Ectocarpus. He has received the 2010 Marine Biotechnology Society Paper Award. Uji teaches courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including topics in developmental histology, fisheries resources, regional resource science, aquatic genetics and breeding, and advanced breeding biology.