2015/12/22 Joint seminar@Nagoya

OIIB and NCU members got together for the seminar.

2015/12/21 Day business trip@Higashi Hiroshima

Arrived at Hiroshima University. It’s cold in Japan.

2015/12/20-21 SAXS epxperiments@Tsukuba

Akemi and Rina performed SAXS experiments at Photon Factory.

2015/12/15-20 Pacifichem 2015@Honolulu

Prof. Kato and Dr. Yanaka gave a talk at Paficichem 2015

2015/12/9-10 OIIB retreat@Okazaki

Kato’s lab organaized the retreat this year!

Enjoyed discussion from morning till midnight.

Arunima and Gengwei persented posters.

2015/12/1-4 BMB2015@Kobe

Prof. Kato and Dr. Miyata (Nagoya Univ.) organaized the Symposium
“Molecular system for creating, decoding, and destroying glycans”, in
which Dr. Yagi gave a talk. The banquet was held in a congenial atmosphere.

2015/12/1-3 NINS/IURC Colloquium@Kakegawa

Dr. Yanaka joined a multidisciplinary group discussion.

2015/11/28 The 12th Forum of the Glycoscience base for Chubu@Nagoya

Tong recieved the Young Scientist award!

2015/11/26-27 Protein Institute Seminar@Okazaki

Prof. Kato gave a talk. A lot of parcipitants joind the drinking party!

2015/11/25 Collaboration@Okazaki

Our collaborative research with Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. has just been published on PLoS ONE!
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140120

2015/11/22-23 The 4th International Meeting on “Dynamical ordering and integrated functions”@Fukuoka

Many research group members atended the meeting along with the foreign guests!

Many students from our lab joind the discussion!

Our lab member Zhu won the poster prize!

2015/11/19 Award@Nagoya

The certificate for the Best Presentation Award at the Tokai Branch Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan just arrived!

2015/11/18 The Special Lecture of Tokai Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan@Nagoya

Dr. Kouhei Tsumoto from the University of Tokyo visited us and gave a lecture!

2015/11/16 New member@Okazaki

Dr. Kuakarun Krusong from Chulalongkorn Univ. has just joined us!

2015/11/12 The Special Lecture of Tokai Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan@Nagoya

Dr. Alexander Wlodawer from NIH visited us and gave a lecture!

We had delicious Japanese dinner.

2015/11/10 Collaborative discussion@Nagoya

We had collaborative discussion with Prof. Masaaki Sugiyama (Kyoto University).

2015/11/9 Welcome party@Nagoya

We had a party to welcome Rena to the NCU lab.

2015/11/8 Outreach activities@Tokyo

“The second Science Cafe for junior and senior high-school girls” was held at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Yanaka and our alumna Dr. Kamiya talked with youger girls about excitement and fascination of science while having a cake and tea!
https://kato-group.ims.ac.jp/event/20151108.html

2015/11/6-8 The 54th Annual Meeting of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Society of Japan@Tsudanuma

Came directly from Korea.

2015/11/5-6 The 47th Annual Meeting of Korean Magnetic Resonance Society@Buyeo

The meeting was held in the historical place associated with the ancient kingdom Paekche.

Enjoyed an outdoor BBQ party!

2015/11/1 The Tokai Branch Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan@Nagoya

Rina and Yuki gave an oral presentation.

Rina recieved the Best Presentation Award. Congratulations!

2015/10/28 Farewell lunch@Okazaki

We had a farewell lunch for Naito-san.

Many thanks for all the help you have given us!

2015/10/19-20 The 13rd Symposium of the Japan Consotrium for Glycobiology and Glycotechnology@Nagoya

The Symposium organized by our project teams was a great success!

Enjoyed multidisciplinary interaction!

2015/10/17 Open campus@Okazaki

We preformed GFP denaturation and renaturation.

A lot of guests visited us!

2015/10/16 Promotion@Okazaki

Dr. Maho Yagi-Utsumi has just been promoted to Assistant Professor in IMS.

2015/10/13 Welcome party@Okazaki

We had a party to welcome new members to the Okazaki lab.

2015/10/13 New Member@Okazaki

Yohei Yamamoto-san from Tokyo University of Agriculture and technology has just joined us.

We had collaborative discussion with Dr. Takeshi Kondo (Hamamatsu University School of Medical) at our Okazaki lab.

2015/10/7 The 2nd Young Scientist Meeting on “Dynamical ordering and integrated
functions”@Gamagori

Rina presented her research topics on behalf of our group.

2015/10/2 New member@Okazaki

Jintawee-san from Chulalongkorn Univ. has just joined us!