We held a party on the 15th anniversary of Prof. Kato group.




We celebrated Prof. Kato’s birthday with a special cake. Have a great year!!

This event was also coupled with a farewell party for Ninagawa-san. All the best wishes for him!

Prof. Kato appeared on a broadcasting program provided by the Open University of Japan.
Program was filmed in September of last year.



With Katsuaki Oyama (Ritsumeikan University), a poster award winner, at the banquet.
Dr. Maho Yagi-Utsumi gave a talk at the workshop on the last day.


A second sitting with the JSPS project team members (in back)

Prof. Kato gave a lecture in the satellite workshop of the PSSJ meeting.
A banquet with the organizers and the invited speakers.

Takayasu is performing X-ray diffraction experiments at Photon Factory.
Best wishes for your experiments!

Research progress reports were presented by the groups of Dr. Masaaki Sugiyama (Kyoto Univ.) and Dr. Kazuki Terauchi (Ritsumeikan Univ.).

Enjoyed Kyoto atmosphere at a restaurant facing the Kamo-gawa River.

Dr. Kiattawee Choowongkomon (Kasetsart University) is staying at Nagoya City University as a visiting scholar.

The Symposium “Supramolecular Dynamics at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology” organized by our project team members was a great success!

The banquet was held in a congenial atmosphere.

Our alumnus Dr. Kenta Okamoto (Uppsala University) visited Yamate Campus with his colleagues.

Su-san from Kasetsart Univ. has just rejoined us!


Our recent work “Self-Assembled Spherical Complex Displaying a Gangliosidic Glycan Cluster Capable of Interacting with Amyloidogenic Proteins” in collaboration with Prof. Makoto Fujita (The University of Tokyo) and Dr. Sota Sato (Tohoku University) has been published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed..
Arunima is performing X-ray diffraction experiments at SPring-8.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

We had a farewell party for Pom-san.

We joined the annual meeting held in Matsumoto.

Prof.Masanori Tachikawa (Yokohama City Univ.) and our alumna Dr.Yukiko Kamiya(Nagoya Univ.) visited our Okazaki lab for collaborative discussion.

Successful collaboration with Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation!
Our joint paper has just been published.DOI 10.1007/s10858-015-9930-y

We had a farewell party for Dr. Satoru Kobayashi (OIIB/NIBB).

Prof. Toshio Yanagida and Prof. Hideki Masuda visited Yamate Campus for IMS external evaluation.

We had collaborative discussion with Prof. Masaaki Sugiyama (Kyoto
University) and Prof. Susumu Uchiyama (Osaka University) at our Okazaki lab.

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

Obayashi-kun, Kawamura-kun, Son-kun, Matsumura-san have just joined us.
Welcome!

Arunima is performing X-ray diffraction experiments at SPring-8.
Good luck!

OIIB PIs had a new cemester get-together with our new Corresponding Director, Dr. Masayuki Yamamoto (Director General of NIBB).

We had collaborative discussion with Prof. Masaaki Sugiyama (Kyoto
University) and Prof. Susumu Uchiyama (Osaka University) at our Okazaki lab.

The beautiful cherry-tree-lined path along the Yamazaki-gawa Brook.


Dr.Kenichi Yuyama(National Chiao Tung University)visited our Okazaki lab for collaborative discussion and gave a seminer.
