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Keiko Torii is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry and Biophysics from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. After starting her academic career as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington in 1999, she advanced to Associate Professor in 2005 and became a Full Professor in 2009. In 2011, she was appointed as the College of Arts and Sciences Endowed Distinguished Professor of Biology. Torii is a Principal Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), focusing on Plant Cell Biology. Prior to her current role, she led a research lab at the Institute of Transformative Biomolecules (WPI-ITbM) at Nagoya University in Japan from 2013 to 2022. Her accolades include the Stephen Hales Prize from the American Society of Plant Biologists in 2023 and the Asahi Prize in 2021, among others, recognizing her significant contributions to plant biology.
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