Dr. Daisuke Urano received his bachelor's degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2002 and his Ph.D. in Bioscience from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in 2008. He completed his postdoctoral training with Professor Alan M Jones at the University of North Carolina in 2015. Dr. Urano is currently a Principal Investigator at the Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and an adjunct assistant professor at the National University of Singapore.