Now, RIKEN is calling for applications for the position of Special Postdoctoral Researcher (SPDR) for FY 2021.
https://www.riken.jp/en/careers/programs/spdr/career2021/index.html
Also, we can employ one junior postdoc (within around 5 years after getting PhD) in my laboratory now.
Please let me know if you’re interested to study using human iPS cells in Tsukuba, Japan!
A new co-authored article has been published in Cell Reports.
This study reveals the molecular mechanisms of retroviral silencing associated with pluripotency and reprogramming and is mainly done by Gene regulation Lab in University of Tsukuba (my former lab).
Congratulations, Phuon Linh, Nishimura-sensei, and Hisatake-sensei!
Bui PL, Nishimura K, Seminario Mondejar G, Kumar A, Aizawa S, Murano K, Nagata K, Hayashi Y, Fukuda A, Onuma Y, Ito Y, Nakanishi M, Hisatake K. Template Activating Factor-I α Regulates Retroviral Silencing during Reprogramming. Cell Rep. 2019 Nov 12;29(7):1909-1922.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.10.010. PubMed PMID: 31722206.
A new co-authored article has been published in PLos One.
This study establishes the knock-in mice in UCP1 locus to illuminate the brown and beige fat tissues in living animals and mainly done by gene regulation laboratory (my former lab) in University of Tsukuba.
Congratulations, Fukuda-sensei, Honda-san, and Hisatake-sensei!
Fukuda A, Honda S, Fujioka N, Sekiguchi Y, Mizuno S, Miwa Y, Sugiyama F, Hayashi Y, Nishimura K, Hisatake K. Non-invasive in vivo imaging of UCP1 expression in live mice via near-infrared fluorescent protein iRFP720. PLoS One. 2019 Nov 15;14(11):e0225213. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225213. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31730675.
An intern student, Dorian Luijkx, in the Master Course of Utrecht University, has joined our team. He will stay and do experiments until next July in our lab. Good luck and have fun with us!
RIKEN Junior Research Associate program is now open. This program is to give salary for PhD students who are working in RIKEN laboratory and are enrolled in PhD course in Japanese University. This time is for those starting from April or October next year.
If you are eligible and interested in our laboratory research, please email me. Since the application deadline is November 8th, please contact me as soon as possible.
(Although if you contact me, please understand that I cannot promise that you can apply. Also, although if you are allowed to apply with my approval, I cannot promise that you can work in our laboratory unless the application will be accepted.)
I’m appointed as an associate professor (cooperative graduate school program) in Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba.
I’ll give lectures and training programs for the graduate students in the PhD course in biomedical sciences.
I will be awarded Tsukuba Encouragement Award (Young researchers division) from the Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki.
This award is given to “Researchers who carrying out current research in the prefecture(age below 40), and with potential to achieve significant research results”.
The ceremony with my lecture will be held on November 13.
On October 2, 2019, I will give an invited lecture at Tsukuba Conference (筑波会議) in Tsukuba International Conference Center.
In order to join this conference, it needs to apply.
Please see the information below.
I wrote a part of a technical book from Springer Nature.
On June 9, I gave an invited lecture at Society for In Vitro Biology in Tampa , Florida, USA. I introduced my studies and our bioresource entitled “Disease Modeling Using Disease-specific iPS Cell Collection in RIKEN Cell Bank”.