Research seminars
2026
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6.25（Thrs.）
Single-Cell Imaging and Control of Microbial Metabolism and Colonization by Targeting Electron Transfer via Protein Nanowires
Nikhil Malvankar [Associate Professor, Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University]
- Date and Time25 June, 2026 (Thu), 15:00-16:00
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
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6.16（Tues.）
Toward understanding the synchronization between dual translation systems
(OsakaMito2026 The Gemstone Series 2)Taisei Wakigawa [Postdoctoral Researcher, RNA Systems Biochemistry Laboratory, RIKEN]
- Date and Time16 June 2026 (Tue), 16:00-17:00
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
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5.18（Mon.）
Cellular Decision Making in Pathogens: From High-Resolution scRNA-seq to Genome Architecture
T. Nicolai Siegel [Professor, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Experimental Parasitology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany]
- Date and Time18 May 2026 (Mon), 16:00-17:00
- Place1F 106 Small Hall, CiDER
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3.23（Mon.）
Centromere-driven genomic innovations and the emergence of anti-fungal drug resistance
Kaustuv Sanyal [Dept of Biological Sciences, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India]
- Date and Time23 Mar, 2026 (Mon), 16:00-17:00
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
2025
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12.1（Mon.）
Regulation of microtubule dynamics by protofilament stiffness and oligomersation of end-binding protein complexes
Vladimir Volkov [School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London]
- Date and Time1 Dec. 2025 (Mon), 16:15-17:15
- Place2F 203 Meeting Room, CiDER, The University of Osaka
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11.6（Thrs.）
Symmetry breaking in axon guidance and synapse formation
Yimin Zou [Professor, University of California San Diego]
- Date and Time6 Nov. 2025 (Thu), 15:00-16:00
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
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11.4（Tues.）
Mysterious E3 Giants as guardians of the cell
Tim Clausen [Senior Scientist, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria]
- Date and Time4 Nov. 2025 (Tue), 16:00-17:15
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
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10.29（Wed.）
Ubiquitin and Autophagy networks in Cancer and Infection
Ivan Dikic [Director of the Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University Frankfurt]
- Date and Time29 Oct. 2025 (Wed), 16:00-17:15
- Place1F 101 Big Hall, CiDER, The University of Osaka
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8.29（Fri.）
Beyond the Helix: Unprecedented Features of the Filovirus Nucleocapsid Revealed by in situ Cryo-Electron Tomography
Reika Watanabe [Staff Scientist, Center for Vaccine Innovation, La Jolla Institute for Immunology]
- Date and Time29 Aug. 2025 (Fri), 16:00-17:00
- Place3F Seminar Room, Nanobiology Building
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4.28（Mon.）
Driving out a tumor driver: dislodging Hexokinase 2 from mitochondria/ER contact sites to kill neoplastic cells
Francesco Ciscato [Principal Investigator, Institute of Neuroscience, National Research Council of Italy; Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy]
- Date and Time28 Apr. 2025 (Mon), 17:00-18:00
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
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4.15（Tues.）
Emergence of the pluripotent Epiblast in early mammalian development
Claire Chazaud [PI, University of Clermont Auvergne]
- Date and Time15 Apr. 2025 (Tue), 13:30-14:30
- Place3F Seminar Room, Nanobiology Building
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4.7（Mon.）
Understanding How DNA-Encircling Rings Are Loaded and Unloaded by Pentameric ATPase machines
Huilin Li [Chair and Professor, Department of Structural Biology; Ralph and Grace Hauenstein Endowed Chair in Structural Biology, Van Andel Institute]
- Date and Time7 Apr. 2025 (Mon), 15:00-16:00
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
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3.18（Tues.）
Dietary control of normal and malignant hematopoiesis
Daisuke Nakada [Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine]
- Date and Time18 Mar. 2025 (Tue), 14:00-15:00
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
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3.10（Mon.）
Pioneer factor-mediated repressive epigenetic mechanisms in cell fate control
Makiko Iwafuchi [Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine]
- Date and Time10 Mar. 2025 (Mon), 16:00-17:00
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
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2.6（Thrs.）
CENcycolopedia: The dynamic landscape of kinetochore architecture throughout the cell cycle
Aussie Suzuki [Assistant Professor, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, Department of Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison]
- Date and Time6 Feb. 2025 (Thu), 17:00-18:00
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
2024
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11.15（Fri.）
The PIDDosome in cell death and inflammation
Andreas Villunger [Professor and Deparment Head, Institute for Developmental Immunology, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria]
- Date and Time15 Nov. 2024 (Fri), 16:00-17:00
- Place3F Seminar Room, Nanobiology Building
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11.13（Wed.）
Genome Editing in Ants: Approaches to Understanding the Molecular Mechanism of Caste Differentiation
Masato Sorida [Postdoctral Research Fellow, Bonasio Lab, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA]
- Date and Time13 Nov. 2024 (Wed), 16:00-17:00
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
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11.11（Mon.）
Parting is such sweet sorrow: on chromosome segregation fidelity in health and disease
Geert J. P. L. Kops [Director, Hubrecht Institute-KNAW / UMC Utrecht]
- Date and Time11 Nov. 2024 (Mon), 16:00-17:00
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
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10.15（Tues.）
Decision making of dormancy breaking in fission yeast: exploring mechanisms how sleeping cells wake up
Masamitsu Sato [Professor, Waseda University]
- Date and Time15 Oct. 2024 (Tue), 17:00-18:00
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
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10.4（Fri.）
High resolution cryoEM studies of cytochrome bc1 and Nitric Oxide reductase
Svetlana Antonyuk [Leader, Institute of Systems, Molecular & Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool]
- Date and Time4 Oct. 2024 (Fri), 14:00-15:00
- Place2F Seminar Room, BioSystems Building
