Rippei Hayashi

Dr. Rippei Hayashi is a Research Fellow and Group Leader at the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) at the Australian National University (ANU), leading the Hayashi Group focused on transposon defense and animal development. He holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo and has conducted postdoctoral research at Cancer Research UK and the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) in Vienna. His research integrates Drosophila genetics with RNA biology to study gene expression control mechanisms, particularly host-transposon interactions and their roles in developmental processes.

His research interests include transposon silencing, pre-mRNA splicing, organogenesis, and RNA modifications. He supervises multiple research projects, including the role of phase separation in transposon defense, Paf1 complex functions, and small RNA trimming mechanisms. He has mentored numerous students at undergraduate, Honours, Masters, and PhD levels. Dr. Hayashi’s lab is part of the Division of Genome Sciences and Cancer and the Shine-Dalgarno Centre for RNA Innovation.

His work has contributed to understanding RNA surveillance, stem cell regulation, and the evolution of endogenous retroviruses. Current projects explore novel splicing rescue pathways and the interplay between transposon defense and gonadal development. Collaborative efforts include developing tools like R2Dtool for RNA feature analysis.