Prof.Klaus Schulten(The University of Illinois)visited Yamate Campus.
We joined the annual meeting held in Kobe.
Commemorative lecture and party for retirement of Prof. Koichi Furukawa from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine.
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.
Congratulations Takuya and Kousuke on your graduation from NCU!
We had a farewell party for Saito-kun and Suzuki-kun at Kanayama.
Saito-kun gave a presentation on his graduation thesis.
“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
The 3rd IMSS Science Festa was held at Tsukuba International Congress Center.
The Anual Meeting of Biophysical Society of Japan Chubu was held at Okazaki Conference Center.
Our collaborator Dr.Ishii (OIIB) won the Presentation Award.
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!
Satoh-sensei and Tong are performing SAXS experiments in collaboration with Kamikubo-sensei (NAIST).
Prof.Masanori Tachikawa (Yokohama City Univ.) and our alumna Dr.Yukiko Kamiya(Nagoya Univ.) visited our Okazaki lab for collaborative discussion.
Our Foreign Councilor Prof. Ian Walmsley (Pro Vice-Chancellor at University of Oxford) visited Yamate Campus.
Yuki and Rina are performing X-ray diffraction experiments at SPring-8.
Good luck!
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
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.
The news story was posted to the Alzforum website.
http://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/voila-sorla-sorting-receptors-structure-solved
Profs. Matsmori (Kyushu Univ.) and Iwata (Gakushuin Univ.) visited our Okazaki lab for collaborative discussion.
Dr. Yamaguchi gave a lecture at Okazaki High School.
We have an annual inter-lab seminar with Prof. Weontae Lee’s group from Yonsei University.
Enjoyed the spa and sightseeing at Hakone!
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
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”.
Frontier NMR researchers came together at Yamate Campus
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!
Happy New Year!!
We enjoyed drinking party together.