2014 Lab Trip
On September 24-25, 2014, we went on our annual lab trip.
Transcription Cycle Seminar Held
With support from the KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Transcription Cycle,” we are pleased to invite Professor Cheng-Ming Chiang (UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas) to our university to hold a seminar on Friday, December 6 from 16:30 to 18:00 at B2 Building 226 Lecture Room The seminar was entitled “Epigenetic Control
Congratulatory Party for Professor Yamaguchi’s Inauguration
In commemoration of Professor Yamaguchi’s promotion to Professor Handa’s successor as of July 1, a celebration was held on Saturday, November 23. More than 100 people, mostly alumni of the laboratory, attended the event. On the same day, a commemorative lecture was held at 12:30 p.m. in the Royal Blue Hall of Tokyo Tech’s Kuramae
Outreach Activity
On November 9, Professor Yamaguchi gave an outreach lecture to first and second graders at Seibi Gakuen High School.
New Paper Accepted
PhD student Vipul Gupta’s paper “Salicylic acid induces mitochondrial injury by inhibiting ferrochelatase heme biosynthesis activity was accepted for publication in Molecular Pharmacology and is posted on the website as a preliminary electronic version. In this paper, we discovered a new intracellular target protein of salicylic acid (acetylsalicylic acid = precursor of aspirin), an antipyretic
Greetings from PI
Today, July 1, 2013, I have been appointed as Professor in the Department of Biological Information, the Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology. This is a promotion from the position of Associate Professor in the same department. I have no doubt in my mind that all of this is not entirely
New Paper Accepted
PhD student Satoki Karasawa’s paper “Vitamin K2 covalently binds to Bak and induces Bak-mediated apoptosis” has been accepted for publication in Molecular Pharmacology Molecular Pharmacology and a preliminary version has been published online. Please click here for more details.
New Review Article Accepted
A new review article on gene expression regulation has been published in BBA. Please click here for details.