Midori earned her Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in the lab of Masayuki Yamamoto. She later completed her first postdoctoral research with Daiju Kitagawa at the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima. She then moved to the United States to pursue her second postdoctoral studies with Karen Oegema and Arshad Desai at the University of California, San Diego. Since August 2022, She has been conducting her research at OIST, initially as a Science and Technology Associate. In August 2024, she was awarded the Buribushi Fellowship and started leading her research group at OIST as the head of the Centrosome Dynamics and Evolution Group. Throughout her career, she has studied various model systems, including starfish, yeast, nematodes, and human cell culture. Her research focuses on fundamental mechanisms related to centrosomes, whose dysfunction can lead to cancer and developmental disorders. 

I am originally from Chiba, and I have been working at OIST as a Research Unit Administrator (RUA) since 2013. 
I feel honored to have joined the Centrosome Dynamics and Evolution Group since its inception, and I look forward to contributing to this research group with the knowledge and experience I have gained as an RUA. I will do my best to be a reliable person for the team and to enjoy working with them. 
I like to eat out, drink out, and travel on vacation, and also like to stay at home all day doing nothing but looking at the ocean, it is nice to live and work in Okinawa.