Satoshi completed my BS, MS and Ph.D. in Biotechnology at the University of Tokyo, where he learned biochemical approaches and RNA mass spectrometry to study RNA modification under the supervision of Dr. Tsutomu Suzuki. After completion of the short postdoc training at the University of Tokyo, Satoshi moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and joined Dr. Matthew Waldor's lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. During his postdoc training, Satoshi learned and developed high-throughput experimental approaches, including a pipeline to profile tRNA modifications in non-model organisms where tRNA modification is largely unexplored. Satoshi harness his expertise in biochemistry, bacteriology, and infection biology to discover new translation control mechanisms underlying bacterial pathogenesis and commensalism.