Summary
Kazunari Nozue is a plant physiologist and staff research associate with over a decade of hands-on experience translating big data and functional genomics into actionable insights for plant responses to environmental change. At UC Davis he led phenotype-genotype projects—developing shade avoidance phenotyping software, high-throughput imaging pipelines, and mixed-effects RNA-seq analyses—that uncovered novel defense-related pathways and informed mutant validation. Comfortable across disciplines, he combines genome assembly/annotation and transcriptomics in R/Bioconductor with image-based phenomics and practical lab management, and has applied that toolkit to diverse species from ferns to rice and Arabidopsis. He’s adept at managing multi-collaborator projects and mentoring students, and has a practical interest in shaping regenerative agriculture applications such as precision farming, microbiome interventions, and no-till systems. An early adopter of integrating time-course transcriptomics with phenotyping, he brings both computational rigor and experimental intuition to systems-level plant biology.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at 国際基督教大学 / International Christian University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology, General, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology, General at 東京都立大学 / Tokyo Metropolitan University
Japanese, English