Email: mhayashi3@wisc.edu
In 2002, Masaya graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) with a B.S. in Life Science. When he was a senior student there, he studied E. coli chaperonin, GroEL, which was his first acquaintance with molecular chaperones. He received his M.S. in Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology from University of Wisconsin- Madison in 2004. He then joined the Craig lab and is currently pursuing a Ph.D in the Biochemistry Department.
In his research, Masaya studies the function of ribosome-associated molecular chaperones, focusing on J-type chaperone, Zuotin. The DnaJ-related protein functions as the partner of the Hsp70 Ssb in yeast.