The O'Brien Lab is thrilled to welcome a new post-doc, who joined our lab in April! Takao Ito obtained his Ph.D. in Tumor biology from Kyoto University in Japan in 2021. In his grad work, he used the Drosophila imaginal disc to study how tumor cells overcome cellular senescence. In the O’Brien lab, he plans to investigate cellular senescence during aging of the Drosophila adult midgut. Takao arrived with a postdoc fellowship already in hand from the Naito Foundation. Welcome, Takao!
