2022/3/31 Farewell@Okazaki

Greetings with Dr. Naoto Ueno from NIBB. We wish you continued success.

2022/3/30 Cherry blossoms@Nagoya

The cherry trees on the Yamazaki River have bloomed beautifully.

2022/3/29 Seminar@Web

This is the last ExCELLS seminar of this fiscal year. Dr. Norikazu Ichihashi (the University of Tokyo) gave a very interesting talk.

2022/3/29 Meeting@Kiryu

Hriokazu gave a presentation at the 3rd Biomolecular Chemistry Seminar.

2022/3/29 Visitors@Okazaki

People from Okazaki Shinkin Bank and FusionX visited ExCELLS.

2022/3/28 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki/Nagoya/Kyoto.

In the afternoon, we enjoyed a discussion with Dr. Nakagawa.

2022/3/28 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki/Nagoya/Kagoshima

The meeting with Dr. Ito (Kagoshima University) was very useful.

2022/3/25 [Press Release] The Fab portion of immunoglobulin G has sites in the CL domain that interact with Fc gamma receptor IIIa

Our recent work has been published in mAbs.
DOI: 10.1080/19420862.2022.2038531

2022/3/25 Business trip@Tokyo

The NINS Directors Meeting at the end of the fiscal year. After the meeting, we had a thank-you party for Dr. Akio Komori, President of NINS.

2022/3/25 Award@Nagoya

Rino was awarded from The Japanese Biochemical Society Chubu Branch. Congratulations!

2022/3/25-28 Meeting@Web

Maho gave a presentation at the 142nd Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.

2022/3/24 Graduation day@Nagoya

Congratulations on your graduation! We wish you new breakthroughs.

2022/3/23 Meeting@Okazaki

Prof. Kato gave a presentation at the final results briefing of the NIPS Networked Accelerated Project.

2022/3/22 Commemorative event@Okazaki

Participated in the gratitude meeting for Dr. Maki Kawai, Director General of IMS. Thank you very much for all the help you have given us over the past six years.

2022/3/18 Graduation thesis presentation & Farewell@Nagoya

Jinbo, Chise, and Kotaro presented their graduation research.
We also congratulated Rino, Chise, and Kotaro for their graduation from the Kato Group.

2022/3/17 Thank-you party@Okazaki

The Kato Group held a thank-you party for Dr. Maki Kawai, Director General of IMS.

2022/3/17 Meeting@Web

Jiana and Kotaro gave presentations at the Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society of Japan Chubu.

2022/3/16 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki/Tokyo

Another discussion was held with Dr. Shino Manabe (Hoshi University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences).

2022/3/16 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki/Tokyo

Discussed with Dr. Kunihiro Kuwajima.

2022/3/15-17 Meeting@Web

Hirokazu presented his research at the Annual Meeting of JSPS Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Organelle Zone”.

2022/3/10 [Press Release] Overall structure of fully assembled cyanobacterial KaiABC circadian clock complex by an integrated experimental-computational approach

Our recent work has been published in Communications Biology.
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03143-z

2022/3/10 Farewell@Okazaki

Thank you, Takeda-san, Director of Okazaki Administration Center, for all the help you have given us!

2022/3/9 Farewell@Okazaki

ExCELLS PIs presented a bouquet of flowers to Isogai-san as a token of appreciation for all she has done.
Thank you very much!

2022/3/8 Seminar@Okazaki

Shigetaka and Chris presented their topics at the ExCELLS seminar.

2022/3/5 Commemorative event@Nagoya

Attended Prof. Tsunehiko Higuchi’s final lecture at NCU.

2022/3/4 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki/Nagoya/Daejon

Together with the Uchihashi Group, we had a meeting with Dr. Ji-Joon Song (KAIST) about our joint research.

2022/3/4 Seminar@Web

Attended the ExCELLS seminar by Dr. Hitoshi Kasai (Tohoku University).

2022/3/3 Master’s thesis presentation@Nagoya

Rino’s master’s thesis presentation has just finished successfully.

2022/3/2 Opening ceremony@Okazaki

A grand opening ceremony was held for the cryo-EM facility established at ExCELLS.

2022/3/1 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki

Our collaboration with the Uchihashi Group is progressing well.

2022/2/24-25 Research Meeting@Web

We participated in the kick-off meeting of the CREST “Cell Dynamics” Research Area.

2022/2/15 Collaborative discussion@Web

Today we had a series of online meetings.
Firstly, we enjoyed a meeting with Prof. Kay-Hooi Khoo in the morning.

In the afternoon, we enjoyed a discussion with our CREST team members.

Then, in the evening, we have a meeting with the Murata Group.

2022/2/12 Meeting@Okazaki/Nomi/Vancouver

Enjoyed a chat with Prof. Yamaguchi (JAIST) and Dr. Yogo (University of British Columbia)!

2022/2/9 Meeting@Web

Hirokazu presented his research at the Proceedings of the 56th KURNS Scientific Meeting.

2022/2/9 Collaborative discussion@Web

Today we have a meeting with the Okumura Group.

2022/2/8 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki/Tsukuba

We had a meeting regarding the Kibo Amyloid project with JAXA people.

2022/2/8 Collaborative discussion@Nagoya/Okazaki

Had a meeting with Prof. Uchihashi.

2022/2/7 Meeting@Web

Attended the group meeting of AMED Next-generation Antibody Research Group.

2022/2/3 Collaborative discussion@Yonago/Fukuoka/Nagoya/Okazaki

We had a meeting with the Kouzuki Group (Tottori University) and the Nishida group for ExCELLS Themed Research.

2022/2/1-2 ExCELLS Retreat for Young Scientists@Web

It was a very meaningful event. Thank you very much to all the organizers!

2022/1/31 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki/Nagoya/Tsuruoka

Enjoyed a meeting on the ExCELLS Themed Research on anhydrobiosis of tardigrades!

2022/1/29 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki/Sendai/Nomi

We had a meeting with Drs. Yoshiki Yamaguchi (Tokyo Medical and Pharmaceutical University) and Takumi Yamaguchi (JAIST).

2022/1/28 External evaluation@Web

ExCELLS was externally evaluated by Dr. Christian Griesinger (Max Planck Institute), Dr. Yoshie Harada (Osaka University), and Dr. Hiroshi Masuhara (National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University).

2022/1/25 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki

Enjoyed a collaborative discussion with the Uchihashi Group!

2022/1/20 Visitor@Okazaki

Prof. Kazutaka Shibatomi (Toyohashi University of Technology) visited our Okazaki lab.

2022/1/19 Visitor@Nagoya

Kondo-san visited our NCU lab.

2022/1/19 Collaborative discussion@Tokyo/Nagoya/Okazaki

We had a meeting with Prof. Kiyoko Flora Aoki-Kinoshita (Soka University) to discuss a collaboration for the upgrading of Web application GALAXY.

2022/1/16 Meeting@Web

Maho presented our research at the 6th Tardigrade Research Meeting.

2022/1/13 Meeting@Web

Jinbo gave an oral presentation at the 17th Forum of the Glycoscience base for Chubu.

2022/1/12 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki/Vancouver

Had a meeting with Dr. Yogo (University of British Columbia) to discuss the publication of our paper.

2022/1/11-14 Collaborative experiment@Tokyo

Kotaro is being instructed in collaborative experiments at Tokyo University of Science.

2022/1/10-12 Meeting@Tokyo

The kick-off meeting of the Proteostasis area of AMED-CREST/PRIME was held.
Dr. Yagi made a presentation online.

2022/1/6 Collaborative discussion@Tokyo/Nagoya/Okazaki

Had a Meeting with Prof. Kiyoko Flora Aoki-Kinoshita (Soka University) to discuss our joint research.

2022/1/4-7 Study session@Okazaki

Enjoyed a full NMR study session with Dr. Hajime Sato (Bruker Japan)!