2013 Lab Trip
On September 20-21, 2013, we went on our annual lab trip.
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
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
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.
A new review article on gene expression regulation has been published in BBA. Please click here for details.
A new paper, “Identification of DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunits (DNA-PKcs) as a novel target of Bisphenol A DNA-PKcs as a novel target of Bisphenol A” has been published in PLoS ONE. This paper identifies a novel intracellular target factor for Bisphenol A, a compound considered an endocrine disruptor. For more information, please see the
On May 12, 2012, a welcome party for newcomers was held in Yokohama Chinatown.