{"id":41,"date":"2026-04-09T14:51:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:03:02","slug":"members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/members\/","title":{"rendered":"Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2093\" height=\"2093\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/274\/2026\/04\/DSC00366_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/274\/2026\/04\/DSC00366_1.jpg 2093w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/274\/2026\/04\/DSC00366_1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/274\/2026\/04\/DSC00366_1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/274\/2026\/04\/DSC00366_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/274\/2026\/04\/DSC00366_1-2000x2000.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2093px) 100vw, 2093px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wataru Kobayashi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Principal Investigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Japan, Wataru studied biochemistry and structural biology with a focus on understanding how nucleosome structure regulates biological processes in the cell. Wataru obtained his Ph.D. from Waseda University under the supervision of Prof. Hitoshi Kurumizaka (2016). He continued as a Research Associate at Waseda University (2016-2019). Wataru was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (Austria) and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (Germany) in the group of Prof. Kiku\u00eb Tachibana (2019-2025). During his postdoc, he studied the molecular mechanisms of zygotic genome activation induced by transcription factors. Wataru joined the University of Dundee as a Principal Investigator and obtained a Wellcome Career Development Award to establish his own group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside the lab: Wataru enjoys cooking and playing a guitar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Wataru Kobayashi is a Principal Investigator in early embryo gene regulation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inspiro_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wataru-kobayashi-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}