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Kathy Takayama's research has focused on the regulation of RNA processing mechanisms in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. She holds a B.S. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow from 1991–1993 in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Madison-Wisconsin. In 1994 Kathy joined the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia where she became a faculty member of the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences. In addition to her work on RNA regulation, Kathy has engaged in cross-disciplinary research on the impact of visualizations on learning in the sciences. She has also developed online collaborative learning tools for scientific inquiry and has worked nationally and internationally with students. Kathy is a Carnegie Scholar, and a founding member of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She also serves on the National Steering Committee of the NSF Biology Scholars Program, and Co-Chairs the Biology Scholars Writing Residency Program.

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