2025/6/30-7/3 Meeting@Bilbao

Prof. Kato delivered an invited lecture at the 40th Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry.

2025/6/28 Meeting@Nagoya

Organized the 28th Comparative Glycome meeting. Hirokazu gave a presentation.

2025/6/25-29 International conference@Pune

Prof. Kato delivered a plenary lecture at the Joint Meeting of the 11th Asia-Pacific NMR (APNMR) Conference and the 30th National Magnetic Resonance Society (NMRS) Symposium.

2025/6/25 [Press Release] Space-based experiment opens new avenues in Alzheimer’s research — First structural analysis of Tottori-type amyloid β fibrils conducted in microgravity —

Our recent work has been published in ACS Chemical Neuroscience.
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.5c00217
Press Release
EurekAlart!

2025/6/23-27 Symoosium@Tsuruok

Maho gave a poster presentation at the 16th International Symposium on Tardigrada.

2025/6/21-22 Conference@Himeji

Prof. Kato gave an invited lecture at the 2025 Korea-Japan Joint Conference on Protein Science.

2025/6/21 Board meeting@Osaka

Maho joined the board meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan and had a great time connecting with the other members.

2025/6/17-20 Meeting@Himeji

Maho and Saeko served as workshop organizers at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Protein Science Society of Japan. Prof. Kato also gave an invited lecture. The event provided a great opportunity to deepen connections with various participants.

2025/6/16 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki

Dr. Uchihashi visited the Okazaki lab.

2025/6/12 Seminar@Okazaki

A snapshot of the scene after the Okazaki Group seminar.

2025/6/12 Recording @ Okazaki

The program “Channel Okazaki” was filmed at our Okazaki lab.

http://okazaki.ch-mics.jp/archives/?p=3242


2025/6/9 Site visit@Osaka

Prof. Kato visited Nagoya University as the program officer for the AMED Proteostasis Program.

2025/6/4 Site visit@Osaka

Prof. Kato visited the University of Osaka as the program officer for the AMED Proteostasis Program.

2025/6/2 Collaborative discussion@Nagoya

We had a meeting with the Gifu University group regarding the Human Glycome Atlas Project.

2025/5/28 Outreach activity@Okazaki

As part of a class called “Laboratory Tour around Nagoya City University,” we introduced ExCELLS to fourth-year students of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

2025/5/25-30 International conference@Edmonton

Assoc. Prof. Yagi and Seigo presented a talk at Glyco27.
Prof. Kato participated as a representative of Japan, served as a session chair, and also gave a presentation.
Glyco28 will be held in Makuhari in 2027!





2025/5/24 Meeting@Nagoya

We participated in the 89th Annual Meeting of the Chubu Branch of the Japanese Biochemical Society.
Ryuhei, Natsumi, Rei, and Sora presented their research in the poster session.


2025/5/20 Visitor@Okazaki

Dr. Kazuki is visiting our lab in Okazaki. We had an enjoyable time together, joined by the Uchihashi and Murata groups.

2025/5/16 Lecture@Shizuoka

Maho delivered a lecture for graduate students at Shizuoka University.

2025/5/16 Farewell@Okazaki

Thank you very much, Isogai-san, for all your support up until now!

2025/5/13-14 Presentation meeting@Okazaki

After completing the IMS Presentation 2025, we deepened our interactions with our colleagues from IMS.



2025/5/13-14 Visitors@Okazaki

Members of Dr. Yoshiki Yamaguchi’s group from Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University are visiting for ExCELLS joint research.


2025/5/12 Meeting@Tokyo

Participated in a preparatory meeting of the 4th UK-Japan Frontiers of Science Symposium (UK-JapanFoS).


2025/5/10 Meeting@Tokyo

We had a discussion with members of the biophysical NMR community.

2025/5/1 Collaborative meeting@web

The discussion among the CREST team was highly engaging and led to meaningful exchanges of ideas.

2025/5/1 Promotion@Nagoya

Dr. Maho Yagi-Utsumi has been promoted to Associate Professor.

2025/4/30 Collaborative discussion@web

We had a joint research meeting with Dr. Kuwajima.

2025/4/24 Meeting@web

We held a kickoff meeting for the ExCELLS “Creation of neo-life forms” team via a web-based joint research discussion.

2025/4/23 Visitors@Okazaki

ExCELLS welcomed the distinguished visitors from the Research Promotion Bureau of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

2025/4/22 Commemorative Ceremony@Okazaki

The 50th Anniversary Commemorative Ceremony of the Institute for Molecular Science was held.
A tour of the Open Mix Lab at the Yamate Campus was conducted.

2025/4/21-22 Visitors@Okazaki

Dr. Shino Manabe and Dr. Methanee Hiranyakorn from Hoshi University are visiting our lab in Okazaki for collaborative research.

2025/4/21 Collaborative discussion@web

We had a meeting with Dr. Hideo Yokota (RIKEN).

2025/4/10 Welcome@Okazaki

We enjoyed a welcome luncheon and dinner for our new members at the Okazaki labs.

2025/4/10 Seminar@web

We held our first research seminar with the doctoral members this semester.

2025/4/8 Collaborative discussion@Okazaki

Dr. Masaaki Sugiyama (Kyoto University) visited our Okazaki Lab.

2024/4/8 Collaborative discussion@web

We had a collaborative research meeting with Dr. Sakae from Research organization for lnformation Science and Technology.

2025/4/7 Collaborative discussion@web

We had a meeting with the Gifu University group regarding the Human Glycome Atlas Project.

2025/4/5 Cherry blossoms@Okazaki

The cherry blossoms in Okazaki are in full bloom and beautiful!

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2025/4/4 Cherry blossoms@Nagoya

Cherry blossoms are in full bloom again this year.(@Yamazaki River in Nagoya)

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2025/4/4 Seminar@Nagoya/Okazaki

We enjoyed our first lab seminar of the semester with new members joining us. Lively discussions took place.

2025/4/4 Collaborative discussion@web

We had a meeting with Dr. Akiko Ishii and Dr. Noritaka Hashii (National Institute of Health Sciences) regarding the AMED project.

2025/4/2 New member@Nagoya

Tokio, Rina, Momoka, and Ikumi have joined us as PhD students.
Dr. Seita Tomida has also joined us as a Research Assistant Professor.

2025/4/1 New members@Okazaki

We’re pleased to welcome several new members to ExCELLS: Drs. Kaoru Katoh, Ken Kato, You-Rong Lin, and Mika Togane.
We look forward to working with them.
Seigo has been promoted to Associate Professor.