Torii received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degree from the University of Tsukuba. She became a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology (formerly Botany), University of Washington in 1999, then became Associate Professor in 2005, Full Professor in 2009, and received the title of College of Arts and Sciences Endowed Distinguished Professor of Biology in 2011. Since 2011, Torii is an investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Currently, she is Johnson & Johnson Centennial Chair in Plant Cell Biology at the Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Since 2013-2022, Torii ran her second lab at the Institute of Transformative Biomolecules (WPI-ITbM) at Nagoya University, Japan as an Oversea Principal Investigator.
B.S.
in Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tsukuba, Japan
M.S.
in Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Ph.D.
in Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Stephen Hales Prize
- American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) (2023)
Bateson Lecture
- John Innes Centre (JIC), UK (2023)
Asahi Prize
- Asahi Shimbun Foundation (2021)
Saruhashi Prize
- Nagoya University (2015)
Elected Fellow
- American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) (2015)
Science Lectureship Award
- Chiba University, Japan (2015)
Inoue Prize for Science
- Inoue Foundation for Science (2014)
Elected Fellow
- American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) (2012)
Elected Member
- Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) (2012)
Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
- University of Washington (2010)
JSPS Prize
- Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences (2008)
