【募集】助教 / ゲノムダイナミクス研究室 (PI: 前島一博) nig.ac.jp/nig/ja/2025/03… #採用情報

I am seeking an Assistant Professor in my lab. If you are interested, please contact me! 📩 国立遺伝研ゲノムダイナミクス研究室で助教を公募中です。ご興味のある方はぜひご連絡ください！ RTお願いします。 🔄 #AcademicJobs #AssistantProfessor #助教公募

Delighted to share my first preprint as a first author! We report the oldest vertebrate sex chromosome in sharks 🦈 and rays, and their unique sex determination mechanisms. I'm deeply grateful to my supervisor Shigehiro Kuraku🌊工樂 樹洋🍀 and coauthors. Read more: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My PhD students Katsuhiko Minami and Shiori Iida have won the 🏅Morishima Award for their outstanding PhD research 国立遺伝学研究所. Huge congratulations 🎉 — I’m so proud of them! 👏👏

Thank you, sensei! So happy and honored to receive the Morishima Award for my PhD research🥹 Big thanks to 国立遺伝学研究所 and everyone who’s supported me throughout this journey. Feeling super grateful!

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Honored to receive the SOKENDAI Award from 総研大 (総合研究大学院大学) for my PhD work! I can't thank Kazuhiro Maeshima, labmates and 国立遺伝学研究所 members enough for their support!. また、博士論文に対し、光栄なことにSOKENDAI賞をいただきました! これからもサイエンスの発展に貢献できるよう頑張ります。

Our new paper is out Science Advances👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🧬Our Repli-Histo labeling marks nucleosomes in euchromatin and heterochromatin in live human cells. 🔍Katsuhiko Minami et al.have developed a chromatin behavior atlas within the nucleus. 1/2

🧬My retrospective chromatin review is out@Proc Jpn Acad: doi.org/10.2183/pjab.1… Textbook models of 30-nm fibers are fading. A new paradigm: chromatin forms liquid-like domains—locally dynamic, yet globally stable at chromosome level (viscoelastic)—supporting genome function.✨

🎥 Video: See chromatin in action — each dot is a single nucleosome, dynamically fluctuating in a living HeLa cell (TMR-labeled, 50 ms/frame). Original paper: science.org/doi/full/10.11…

📢 NIG Postdoc Fellowship Call! nig.ac.jp/nig/career-dev… We’re seeking motivated postdocs to join our lab.🧬🔬 We study chromatin behavior in living cells using live-cell imaging and quantitative analysis: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… doi.org/10.2183/pjab.1… Interested? Please apply!

5月25日「最先端の細胞観察技術で見えてきた染色体の不思議な動き」 ハーバード大学分子細胞生物学部門 野崎慎 biolab51.peatix.com

Our new review paper is out @ JMB!　🧬 Katsuhiko Minami Adilgazy Semeigazin, MSc よしこりあん discuss DNA accessibility in euchromatin and heterochromatin in living cells. 📘 Free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHgb54HFZNbb 🔗 Also, check our previous paper on nucleosome motion: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🧵Thrilled to share my first-author paper published in J Cell Science Title: A single-chain antibody-based AID2 system for conditional degradation of GFP-tagged and untagged proteins (1/🧵) doi.org/10.1242/jcs.26…

Our new work bioRxiv 🔗biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… BRD4-NUT forms liquid-like condensates that locally constrain nucleosomes via bromodomain-mediated crosslinking: physical control of #chromatin by #LLPS transcription condensates. Adilgazy Semeigazin, MSc Katsuhiko Minami Masa A. Shimazoe

Honored to receive 1st Place Poster Award 🏆 at the EMBL meeting "Gene Regulation: One Molecule at a Time"! Thank you to all who visited and engaged in exciting discussions. Grateful to the organizers for an excellent event! #EMBLSingleMolecule

Single nucleosome imaging reveals principles of transient multiscale chromatin reorganization triggered by histone ADP-ribosylation at DNA lesions nature.com/articles/s4146…

Excited to announce my first first-author paper, now published in PNAS! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… We uncovered the oldest vertebrate sex chromosomes in sharks🦈 and rays with their potential sex determination mechanism based on differential X chromosome dosages.

今回出した論文で一番好きなデータが受精過程の紡錘体と染色体の動態を詳細に捉えたこのタイムラプス動画🎥 撮るのすごく大変だった