2015/3/31 Prof.Schulten visited us@Okazaki

Prof.Klaus Schulten(The University of Illinois)visited Yamate Campus.

2015/3/25-28 The 135th Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan@Kobe

We joined the annual meeting held in Kobe.

2015/3/27 Commemorative events@Nagoya

Commemorative lecture and party for retirement of Prof. Koichi Furukawa from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine.

2015/3/26-29 The 95th Chemical Society of Japan Annual Meeting@Funabashi

Members of Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Dynamical Ordering
& Integrated Functions” including Prof. Kato gave talks in the Special
Program Lecture.

Good time for collaborative discussions at the banquet.

Mr. Yan and Dr. Yamaguchi also presented the research talks.

2015/03/25 Graduation day@Nagoya

Congratulations Takuya and Kousuke on your graduation from NCU!

2015/3/23 Farewell Party@Nagoya

We had a farewell party for Saito-kun and Suzuki-kun at Kanayama.

2015/3/23 The Joint Workshop of IMS & NCU and Graduation Thesis Presentation@Nagoya

Saito-kun gave a presentation on his graduation thesis.

2015/3/21 Outreach activities@Tokyo

“Science Cafe for junior and senior high-school girls” was held at the University of Tokyo.

Dr. Maho Yagi-Utsumi talked with youger girls about excitement and fascination of science while having a cake and tea!

https://kato-group.ims.ac.jp/event/20150321.html

2015/3/16-18 The 3rd IMSS Science Festa@Tsukuba

The 3rd IMSS Science Festa was held at Tsukuba International Congress Center.

2015/3/10 The anual meeting of Biophysical Society of Japan Chubu@Okazaki

The Anual Meeting of Biophysical Society of Japan Chubu was held at Okazaki Conference Center.

Our collaborator Dr.Ishii (OIIB) won the Presentation Award.

2015/3/5 “The 4th symposium of Gifu research community on structural biology, medicine, and logic-based drug discovery “@Gifu

Prof. Kato gave a lecture in “The 4th symposium of Gifu research community on structural biology, medicine, and logic-based drug discovery” at Gifu Pharmaceutical University.
http://www1.gifu-u.ac.jp/~kamatari/gnmr/20150305poster1b.pdf

Good time at the banquet!

2015/2/28 SAXS@Nara

Satoh-sensei and Tong are performing SAXS experiments in collaboration with Kamikubo-sensei (NAIST).

2015/2/24 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki

Prof.Masanori Tachikawa (Yokohama City Univ.) and our alumna Dr.Yukiko Kamiya(Nagoya Univ.) visited our Okazaki lab for collaborative discussion.

2015/2/24 Prof. Walmsley visited us@Okazaki

Our Foreign Councilor Prof. Ian Walmsley (Pro Vice-Chancellor at University of Oxford) visited Yamate Campus.

2015/2/7 X-ray diffraction experiments@Harima

Yuki and Rina are performing X-ray diffraction experiments at SPring-8.
Good luck!

2015/2/4 “The 4th International Symposium on Drug Discovery and Design by NMR”@Yokohama

Prof. Kato gave a lecture in “The 4th International Symposium on Drug Discovery and Design by NMR” at RIKEN.
http://www.tsurumi.yokohama-cu.ac.jp/ynmr/workshop.html

2015/2/3 [Publication] Structural basis for amyloidogenic peptide recognithion by sorLA

Our recent work “Structural basis for amyloidogenic peptide recognithion
by sorLA” in collaboration with Prof. Junichi Takagi (Institute for Protein
Research) has been published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.

DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2954

The news story was posted to the Alzforum website.
http://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/voila-sorla-sorting-receptors-structure-solved

2015/2/3 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki

Profs. Matsmori (Kyushu Univ.) and Iwata (Gakushuin Univ.) visited our Okazaki lab for collaborative discussion.

2015/2/2 Outreach activities@Okazaki

Dr. Yamaguchi gave a lecture at Okazaki High School.

2015/1/30-2/1 The 5th Yonsei-IMS Joint Workshop “Multilateral approaches for investigating biomolecular structure and functions”@Hakone

We have an annual inter-lab seminar with Prof. Weontae Lee’s group from Yonsei University.

Enjoyed the spa and sightseeing at Hakone!

2015/1/24the CU-IMS Joint Workshop@Bangkok

Prof. Kato visited Bangkok to participate in the CU-IMS Joint Workshop at Chulalongkorn University
(With Prof. Supot Hannongbua, Dean of Faculty of Science)

Prof. Kato’s mentees actively working in Thailand

2015/01/13-16 The Winter School of Sokendai/ Asian CORE Program@Okazaki

Ms. Arunima Sikdar (DC2, Sokendai) won the Poster Presentation Award. Her presentation title was “Structural insight into functional role of archaeal homolog of proteasome assembly chaperone PbaA”.

2015/01/13  NMR Workshop@Okazaki

Frontier NMR researchers came together at Yamate Campus

2015/01/09-12 The 3rd International Symposium of JSPS Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Dynamical ordering of biomolecular systems for creation of integrated functions”@Shima

The presentation “NMR Approaches for Characterizing Interactions of Molecular Chaperons with Intrinsically Disordered Proteins”, Dr. Maho Yagi-Utsumi (Research Assistant Professor, OIIB) was selected as the Poster Presentation Award.

Great time with prominent researchers!

2015/01/08 New Year’s party@Nagoya

Happy New Year!!
We enjoyed drinking party together.