Participated in a meeting at Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University before noon.
Returned to Okazaki for an ExCELLS meeting and then enjoyed a dinner with
IMS colleagues.
Have a happy new year!
Our recent work “Effects of a Hydrophilic/Hydrophobic Interface on Amyloid-β Peptides Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and NMR Experiments” in collaboration with Drs. Itoh and Okumura (ExCELLS) has been published in Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b11609
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Prof. Kato participated in an organizer meeting of ISMAR 2021 and enjoyed a lunch with Prof. Chojiro Kojima (Yokohama National University) after the meeting.
Enjoyed an ExCELLS Seminar given by Prof. Azusa Kamikouchi from Nagoya University and happy hour after the seminar.
This is the final NINS Directors Meeting of the year. Otsukaresama deshita!
May and Gift had a flash-talk and a poster presentation in SOKENDAI Asian Winter School 2018.
Enjoyed discussion with Drs. Okumura and Itoh.
Celebrated acceptance of our joint paper for publication!
Visited National Astronomical Observatory of Japan to take part in a NINS Directors meeting and joined a NAOJ facility tour.
Enjoyed discussion with Prof. Uchihashi group!
The last lab seminar in 2018 was held in Nagoya. Our NCU and ExCELLS lab members presented their research progresses in English.
After the seminar, we enjoyed an End-of-year party at Kanayama!
Enjoyed happy hour hosted by Iino group! With Dr. Ken’ya Furuta (NICT), who gave an excellent seminar talk.
Enjoyed lectures delivered by Drs. Hitoshi Nishimasu (The University of Tokyo) and Yusuke Nakasone (Kyoto Univ.)!
Enjoyed lectures delivered by Drs. Hikaru Kuramochi (RIKEN) and Koji Oohora (Osaka Univ.)!
We enjoyed collaborative discussion with Dr. Takai, Dr. Imachi, and Dr. Nakagawa (Kyoto Univ.) at JAMSTEC.
Dr. Yusaku Ohta has just joined Bioimage Informatics Group of ExCELLS.
Dr. Yanaka attended and acted as discusser in the 9th conference on biomolecular screening.
Prof. Kato presented our research at a NINS council meeting.
He moved to Yokohama to participated in an executive committee meeting of Protein Science Society of Japan. (Had a nice dinner with Prof. Uchiyama after the meeting.)
On the following day, he served as a poster discusser at the 41st Annual Meeting of the molecular Biology Society of Japan.
Prof. Kato chaired a session in the 16th JCGG Symposium.
Our President and NINS Directors visited ExCELLS.
We very much enjoyed the research interaction at The 2nd IMS-NANOTEC Joint Research Meeting.
Prof. Kato chaired a symposium session co-organized by Science Council of Japan and the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.
Dr. Yagi gave an invited lecture at “The 10th Asian Community of Glycoscience and Glycotechnology”.
We had an annual inter-lab seminar with Prof. Weontae Lee’s group at Yonsei University.
Prof. Kato gave an invited talk at the 18th KIAS Conference on Protein Structure and Function.
A junior high school student came to observe work experience in our lab.
Prof. Kato gave an invited lecture at the 6th International Symposium on Drug Discovery and Design by NMR organized by Yokohama NMR Association.
(Enjoyable banquet snapshots)
A new AFM equipment was demonstrated at IMS.
Yuka, Saki, Duckyong and Misaki gave a presentation on their graduation thesis.
Dr. Yanaka gave a public talk on ExCELLS activity at Natural History Museum Sea of Life.
We had a collaborative discussion with Prof. Makoto Fujita group.
Dr. Yanaka is now in Kumamoto on business trip.
Dr. Yagi and Fumiko visited Prof. Naguro at the University of Tokyo.
Dr. Benjamin List (Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung) visited Okazaki for IMS external evaluation.
Prof. Kato gave a lecture at a study session organized by Japan Industry Association in cooperation with JAXA.
Dr. Satoh gave an invited lecture at Society for Glycobiology 2018.
Duckyong, Kana and Fumiko gave an oral presentation at the Tokai Branch Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.
Kana received the Best Presentation Award. Congratulations!
We had a party to welcome Rino.
Dr. Yagi received the Award for international collaborative publication from Nagoya City University President.
We served boiled dumplings at the university festival.
A lot of guests visited us and enjoyed making artificial roe!
Yogo-san is performing neutron scattering experiments at Institut Laue-Langevin.
The 1st ExCELLS Symposium was a great success!
We enjoyed multidisciplinary discussion.
Enjoyed collaborative discussion with Dr. Arakawa (Keio Univ.) and Drs. Aoki and Okumura groups.
Enjoyed a dinner with frontier glycoscientists.
Drs. Saito, Kanaya, and Kawakita (J-PARC Center) visited our lab.
Enjoyed welcome lunch for Gift-san!