Imoto Lab Team

Dr. Imoto received a PhD in cell biology from the University of Tokyo in Japan. He then trained as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Yukio Fujiki, PhD, at Kyushu University and in the laboratory of Shigeki Watanabe, PhD, at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In 2024 Dr. Imoto joined the St. Jude faculty as an Assistant Member in the Department of Developmental Neurobiology. His work focuses on understanding the process of synaptic membrane fission and the development of experimental techniques that allow for its visualization.