Enjoyed collaborative discussion with Prof. Sugiyama and Dr. Morishima (Kyoto University).

Yamada-san has just joined us. Welcome!

Drs. Yagi and Yanaka gave a talk at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society. Dr. Yagi recieved the Young Investigator Award and gave an award lecture.

Dr. Ken Takai gave an ExCELLS seminar for collaborative discussion.



Gift from Kasetsart University has just joined us.

Dr. Yagi performed experiments at Nagoya University.

At The 56th Annual Meeting of the Japan Biophysical Society, Dr. Yanaka gave an invited talk at a symposium and May gave an oral presentation, and Taichiro gave a poster presentation.


Participated in a ‘thank-you’ party for Koyasu-sensei.

Yui gave a last talk about her achievements during her stay in our lab!

We had collaborative discussion with Dr. Uchihashi group

We had a farewell party for Yui.

Dr. Yagi gave an invited lecture at Fourth Polish-Korean Conference on “Protein Folding: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches”.


Prof. Kato gave a talk at the 1st Symposium of Development of Science Fields
Based on Bio-analysis Forum, the Society for Biotechnology, Japan.
(A snapshot at the get-together.)

Dr. Satoh and Umezawa-san performed X-ray diffraction experiments at Aichi Synchrotoron.

Rena and Tatsuya gave an poster presentation at the 15th Forum of the Glycoscience base for Chubu.


Rena recieved the Young Scientist award. Congratulations!

At The 27th Annual Meeting of the Bioimaging Society, Dr. Yagi gave an invited talk at a symposium and Saki gave an poster presentation.

Dr. Yagi visited Prof. Tamura at Tottori University.

May-san has finished her oral defense for master degree.

Officers from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology visited ExCELLS.

Participated in the 37th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Carbohydrate Research.
Saito-kun gave an talk and Dr. Suzuki and Honda-san presented a poster.
Prof. Kato acted as chairman, symposium organizer, and panelist.



Rina attended the summer school as a staff member.


We had a collaborative discussion with Dr. Watanabe, who has just started working at ExCELLS.

Our amyloid samples has just arrived at our lab after space experiment!

Rina is preforming an external experiment at Osaka University.

Abe-san enjoyed her stay in our lab.

We had a collaborative discussion at Okazaki.

Dr. Yanaka and Yasuhiro attended 19th Young NMR Scientist Meeting.


Beautiful fireworks in Okazaki!



Prof. Kato gave an invited talk at ICCC2018.

Dr. Satoh and Umezawa-san performed X-ray diffraction experiments at Aichi Synchrotoron.

The 2nd ExCELLS seminar was delivered by Dr. Ryuji Kawano from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.

The joint lab seminar was held in NCU. Our ExCELLS and NCU lab members presented their research progresses in English!
Dr. Yanaka is performing experiments at Nagoya University.
We enjoyed BBQ party as ExCELLS joint event.

The 2nd space experiment has just finished.

We had a collaborative discussion at Okazaki.

Prof. Sugiyama (Kyoto Univ.) organized the meeting for collaborative researches at Kyoto Univ.

Dr. Yamaguchi (RIKEN) gave a lecture at Nagoya City University.

The Young Scientists Forum 2018 was successful!
Dr. Yagi gave a talk and Dr. Yanaka chaired the discussion session.


Taiki won the poster prize at the Young Scientists Forum 2018.

We hosted the Frontier Bioorganization Forum 2018.
The event was successful!



Prof. Kato visited Profs. Hiroyuki Enomoto and Satoshi Imura at National Institute of Polar Research.

Enjoyed interesting exhibits in Polar Science Museum.

Enjoyed the 1st ExCELLS Seminar delivered by Dr. Satoshi Toda from UCSF.