Dr. Yasunori Saheki is an Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He obtained his M.D. from Okayama University Medical School, Japan, in 2005 and his Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University, USA, in 2010 under the mentorship of Dr. Cori Bargmann. After finishing his postdoctoral training with Dr. Pietro De Camilli at Yale University, USA, he joined the faculty at LKCMedicine as a Nanyang Assistant Professor in 2016. In 2020, he was selected as a European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Global Investigator. He was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 2022. He was appointed as Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs in 2023 and subsequently as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs in 2024. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Resource Development and Analysis, Kumamoto University, Japan. He was awarded the National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF) Investigatorship in 2024. His laboratory employs mammalian cell biology and C. elegans genetics to tackle fundamental questions in cellular lipid regulation as well as the mechanisms that underlie neurological disorders.