Characterization of master regulators of secondary cell wall formation
Study of gene expression in plants
Improvement of woody biomass
Generation of useful plants using genome editing system

BEng, Tokyo University of Science, 1996

Research Fellowship for Young Scientists from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2000-2002 
Research Associate, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, 2002-2003
Special Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN 2003-2006
Researcher, Plant Science Center, RIKEN, 2006-2009
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, NARA Institute of Science and Technology, 2009-2011
Associate Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Saitama University, 2011-2014
Researcher, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 2011-2014
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 2014- 
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 2015-2016

Basic Biology
Experiments in Applied Chemistry III

Nagahage ISP, Matsuda K, Miyashita K, Fujiwara S, Mannapperuma C, Yamada T, Sakamoto S, Ishikawa T, Nagano M, Ohtani M, Kato K, Uchimiya H, Mitsuda N, Kawai-Yamada M, Demura T, Yamaguchi M* (2023) NAC domain transcription factors VNI2 and ATAF2 form protein complexes, and regulate leaf senescence. Plant Directs 7: e529 

Ailizati A, Nagahage ISP, Miyagi A, Ishikawa T, Kawai-Yamada M, Demura T, Yamaguchi M* (2022) VNI2 effectively inhibits transcriptional activities of VND7 through a conserved sequence. Plant Biotechnol. 39: 147–153

Ailizati A, Nagahage ISP, Miyagi A, Ishikawa T, Kawai-Yamada M, Demura T, Yamaguchi M* (2021) An Arabidopsis NAC domain transcriptional activator VND7 negatively regulates VNI2 expression. Plant Biotechnol. 38: 415–420

Nagahage ISP, Sakamoto S, Nagano M, Ishikawa T, Kawai-Yamada M, Mitsuda N, Yamaguchi M* (2020) An Arabidopsis NAC domain transcription factor, ATAF2, promotes age-dependent and dark-induced leaf senescence. Physiol. Plant.170: 299–308

Tamura T, Endo H, Suzuki A, Sato Y, Kato K, Ontani M, Yamaguchi M*, Demura T* (2019) Affinity-based high-resolution analysis of DNA binding by VASCULAR-RELATED NAC-DOMAIN7 via fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Plant J.100: 298–313