Research in 2015

A novel negative feedback loop involved in plant vascular cell division and differentiation

Kyoko Ohashi-Ito(Associate professor of our department)
Hirofumi Katayama(Doctor's student of our department)
Hiroo Fukuda(Professor of our department)

[Press Release] 2015/11/24 <in Japanese>
Current Biology DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.10.051

Ultra-high voltage electron microscopy of primitive algae illuminates 3D ultrastructures of the first photosynthetic eukaryote 

Toshiyuki Takahashi(Doctor's student of our department)
Hisayoshi Nozaki(Associate professor of our department)

[Press Release] 2015/10/8 <in Japanese>
Scientific Reports DOI:10.1038/srep14735

Molecular mechanism underlying abnormal brain development in Down syndrome

Nobuhiro Kurabayashi(Research Associate of Molecular Genetics Research Laboratory)
Kamon Sanada(Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics Research Laboratory)

[Press Release] 2015/9/16 <in Japanese>
EMBO reports DOI:10.15252/embr.201540374

Wnt signaling specifies receptive fields of sensory neurons—

Kei-ichiro Yasunaga(Researcher of our department)
Akane Tezuka(Master's student of our department)
Nastuko Ishikawa(Master's student of our department)
Yusuke Dairyo(Doctor's student of our department)
Kazuo Emoto(Professor of our department)

[Press Release] 2015/8/25 <in Japanese>
Genes and Development doi: 10.1101/gad.262592.115

Molecular architecture of DNA scissors for genome editing —Crystal structure of small CRISPR-Cas9—

Hiroshi Nishimasu(Research Associate of our department/Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology ,JST)
Ryuichiro Ishitani(Associate Professor of our department)
Feng Zhang(MIT Assistant professor/Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Core Member)
Osamu Nureki(Professor of our department)

[Press Release] 2015/8/28 <in Japanese>
Cell 27 August 2015 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.08.007

Nitrate uptake mechanism by nitrate/nitrite antiporter NarK

Masahiro Fukuda(Doctor's Student of our department)
Hironori Takeda(Doctor's Student of our department)
Hideaki Kato(Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine)
Koichi Ito(Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
Ryuichiro Ishitani(Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science)
Osamu Nureki(Professor of our department)

[Press Release] 2015/5/11 <in Japanese>
Nature Communications 11 May 2015 doi:10.1038/ncomms8097

Molecular mechanism of light-driven sodium transport by KR2 sodium pump

Hideaki Kato(Project Researcher of our department)
Hideaki Kandori(Professor of Department of frontier materials,Graduate School of Engineering,Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Osamu Nureki(Professor of our department)

[Press Release] 2015/4/7 <in Japanese>
Nature April 2015 doi:10.1038/nature14322

Regulation of axillary meristem initiation.

Hiro-Yuki Hirano(Professor of our department)
Wakana Tanaka(Graduate school of Frontier Science of The university of Tokyo,Department of Integrated Biosciences,Research Fellowship for Young Scientists from JSPS)

[Press Release] 2015/4/4 <in Japanese>
The Plant Cell April 2015 tpc.15.00074

Local endocytosis drives neuronal degeneration

Kazuo Emoto(Professor of our department)
Takahiro Kanamori(Researcher of our department)

[Press Release] 2015/1/19 <in Japanese>
Nature Communications10.1038/ncomms7515

Stay away from my girl: Hormone for mate-guarding

Saori Yokoi(Doctor's Student of our department)
Hideaki Takeuchi(Research Associate of our department)

[Press Release] 2015/1/19 <in Japanese>
PLOS Genetics February 26, 2015 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005009

Molecular mechanism of sugar transport by SemiSWEET transporter

Yongchan Lee(Master's Student of our department)
Tomohiro Nishizawa(Project Research Associate of our department・Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology ,JST)
Keitaro Yamashita(SPD of RIKEN SPring-8 Center)
Ryuichiro Ishitani (Associate Professor of our department)
Osamu Nureki(Professor of our department)

[Press Release] 2015/1/19 <in Japanese>
Nature Communications 19 January 2015 ;6:6112

 Here, the latest research results that made the press release from the University of Tokyo are posted in 2015. In addition to these results, many other research results have been published at all times from the Department of Biological Sciences. Please refer to each lab web page for the latest publications.

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