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20240401

The project has been selected as a joint-use research project of the Institute for Basic Biology in 2024. Research title: 'Analysis of epigenetic modification dynamics in plant seed storage at ultra-low temperatures'.

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The project has been selected for a G-7 Scholarship Foundation Research and Development Grant. Title of the project: 'Development of a transposon-based library of mutants in radish.'

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The proposal has been accepted as a Joint Usage/Integrated Research Project of the Tsukuba Centre for Plant Innovation, University of Tsukuba, 2024. Title: "Epigenetic Regulation of Japanese Pepper Varieties under Drought Stress".

20240318

Mr Hasegawa presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists.

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A master's thesis presentation was held and Mr Sun received the best presenter award.

20240227

The 2023 Education and Research President's Award ceremony was held, at which plaques and supplementary prizes were presented.

20240208

Our paper was published in Frontiers in PLANT SCIENCE.

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One fourth-year student presented his graduation research at a poster presentation.

20240108-12

We visited Chulalongkorn University in Thailand on an Overseas Learning Satellite Programme.

20231219

Poster presented at the Hokkaido Botanical Society.

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As part of the consortium-forming 'Robust Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Engineering Research Programme' team in 2023, I participated in the Agribusiness Creation Fair held at Tokyo Big Sight.

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Second visit. Under the auspices of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) Accelerated Fund for International Collaborative Research (Strengthening International Collaborative Research), the group visited Washington University in St Louis, USA, to conduct joint research.

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One master's student and three doctoral students joined as new members.

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We participated in the 95th Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Japan held in Kumamoto, Japan in 2023.
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With the support of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) from the Accelerated Fund for International Collaborative Research (Strengthening International Collaborative Research), I visited Washington University in St. Louis, U.S.A., to conduct joint research.

2023.6.17-30

I have been working in collaboration with IPS2 Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay with the support of "Explorations Japon 2023" of the Embassy of France in Japan.

2023.6.7

Attended The 33rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2023) and presented a session on transposons.

2023.4.19

Our research has been selected for the 2023 Robust Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Engineering Research Program!

2023.4.3

One master's students and one fourth-year undergraduate students joined as new members.

2023.4.1

Our research was selected by the G-7 Scholarship Foundation for a research and development grant project in 2023!

2023.3.16

Participated in SSDay II at Ritsumeikan Keisho High School as an advisor (lecturer) for SSH projects.

2023.2.28

Presented at IPSR's joint research results meeting.

2023.2.22

Our project has been selected as the program “Exploration France 2023”.

2023.2.3

Participated in SSDay III at Ritsumeikan Keisho High School as an advisor (lecturer) for SSH projects.

2023.2.2

Two fourth-year students presented their graduation research at a poster presentation.

2022.12.21

Our paper was published in Frontiers in PLANT SCIENCE.

2022.10.2-8

Through the Hokkaido University Overseas Learning Satellite Project, a lecture was given at Prince of Songkla University in Thailand.

2022.9.16

Best Paper Award at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Japan.

2022.9.14

The 94th Annual Meeting of The Genetics  Society of Japan

2022.9.10

Sapporo Sosei High School SSH Project. Four second-year high school students performed practical training.

2022.8.4-5

Kushiro Koryo High School SSH Project. Five second-year high school students performed practical training.

2022.8.4

A review article on the relationship between environmental stress and transposons was published.
Environmental stress and transposons in plants.

2022.7.19

Our paper was published in Frontiers in PLANT SCIENCE.

2022.4.6
  • Three master's students and two fourth-year undergraduate students joined as new members.
2022.1.31
Our joint research paper has been published in Journal of Plant Physiology.
2021.9.19-20
Associate Professor Ito gave a seminar at Hokkaido University Open Campus.
2021.9.10
Associate Professor Ito gave a commemorative lecture for receiving the Encouragement Award at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Japan.
2021.9.10
Ms.Hayashi's paper was selected for the 2021 GGS Prize.
2021.9.8
Ms. Niu, a 2nd year master student, gave an oral presentation at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Japan.
2021.9.7
Ms. Niu, a 2nd year master student, gave a poster presentation at the International Symposium IPSR Web Forum 2021.IPSR_Web_Forum_2021_poster_2
2021.8.25
Chen, a second-year master's student, gave a presentation at the master's thesis presentation.
2021.8.19
Published a paper on PLOS Genetics”.
2021.8.8
Published a paper on GGS”.
2021.8.2
Received the Genetics Society of Japan Incentive Award for 2021.
2021.4.27
I wrote a paper on how to detect the transposon ONSEN. How to Activate Heat-Responsible Retrotransposon ONSEN in Brassicaceae Species
2021.3.1
Mr Yamada, a second year master student, presented his master thesis at the conference.
2021.1.4
We have a new member in the PhD course.
2020.9.19
Presented at a symposium at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of Japan.
2020.9.5
Published a paper on GGS”.
2020.8.3
Published a paper on GGS”.
2020.4.1
We have a new member in the Master course.
2020.3.2
Three master's students presented at the master's thesis presentation.
2020.1.31
Poster presentation at graduate study
2019.12.7-8
Result presentation of cooperative research at Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University.
20191204
I attended the opening ceremony of Hokkaido University Satellite Office at Vietnam National University Hanoi.
2019.9.17-10.14
Visiting at the University of Wisconsin WID as Young teacher overseas dispatch support project encouraged by the President of Hokkaido University
2019.9.25-27
Meeting for young researcher of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at Gotenba.
2019.9.6
Lab tour of a Super Science High school (SSH) program of Sapporo Keisei high school.
2019.7.9-8.9
We collaborated with the University of Wisconsin with the support of JSPS.
2019.6.24
Published a paper on "DATABASE".
2019.6.12
Published a paper on "Plant Signaling & Behavior".
2019.4.2
Three students joined our lab.
2019.3.18-22
Visiting at China Agricultural University
2019.3.18
Post- transcirptional Gene Regulation in Plants (PGRP) 2019 at Nara.
2019.3.12-14
Annual meeting of the Japanese society of Plant Physiology at Nagoya.
2019.3.7-9
Visiting at Vietnam National University, Hanoi
2019.3.5-6
Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at University of Tokyo
2018.3.4-5
IPSR International Symposium and Symposium on Plant Stress Sciences
2019.2.14
Publiched a paper on "BMC Genomics".
2019.2.1
Poster presentation at graduate study.
2018.12.1-2
Result presentation of cooperative research at Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University.
2018.11.14
Publiched a paper on "Front. Genet.".
2018.9.19
The 90th Annual Meeting of The Genetics  Society of Japan
2018.9.3-7
Second Interdisciplinary and Research Alumni Symposium iJaDe2018
September 3rd to 7th | Kobe, Japan
 
2018.7.16-10.11
Collaboration research in INRA
2018.7.6
Mr. Nozawa won a scholarship of Mishima Kaiun Memorial Foundation.
2018.7.3-4
Lab tour of a Super Science High school (SSH) program of Kushiro Koryo high school.
2018.5.24
Publiched a paper on "Breeding Science".
2018.5.21
Lecture of a Super Science High school (SSH) program of Ritsumeikan Keisho high school.
2018.4.2
Two students joined our lab.
2018.3.28
Annual meeting of the Japanese society of Plant Physiology at Sapporo.
2018.3.19-20
Meeting of Plant Transgenic Design Initiative at Tsukuba
2018.3.14-15
Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at University of Tokyo
2018.3.6-7
IPSR International Symposium and Symposium on Plant Stress Sciences
2018.2.25-3.2
A tour of inspection to Thai.
2018.2.2
Poster presentation at graduate study
2017.12.2
Result presentation of cooperative research at Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University.
2017.11.9-10
Symposium of the Japanese Association for Food Immunology. jafi2017poster
2017.10.4-5
JST PRESTO meeting at Hokkaido Univ.
2017.9.26
New researcher joined our lab.
20170907-08
THE PLANT EPIGENETICS CONSORTIUM IN JAPAN- SECOND MEETING at NIG.
2017.8.6
Open campus 2017 at Hokkaido University.
2017.7.19-20
Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at University of Tokyo.
2017.7.1
Published a feature articles on “Iden”.
2017.6.12
Lab tour of a Super Science High school (SSH) program of Ritsumeikan Keisho high school.
2017.6.7
Publiched a paper on "Epigenomes".
2017.5.2
Workshop on Advanced Future Studies "Life, Humans, Mind, and Universe: Inquiring the Hidden Links"
2017.3.25
Meeting of retroposon at Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences. Poster
2017.3.16-18
Symposium of the Japanese society of Plant Physiology at Kagoshima.
2017.3.8-9
Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at RIKEN.
2017.3.6-7
Presentation of a master's thesis.
2017.2.27-28
International symposium Environmental Stress Adaptation & Memory in Plants at RIKEN.
2016.12.23
Published a paper on “PCP”.
2016.12.16
The 1st workshop of Endogenous Viral Element at Kyoto University. Poster
2016.12.14
Published a paper on GGS”.
2016.12.3
Result presentation of cooperative research at Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University.
2016.11.30
Poster presentation at CSHA at Awaji.
2016.11.18
dsc_0002_trim2The 6th symposium of Researcher's Network for plant RNA in Japan @ Hokkaido Univ.
2016.10.12-14
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2016.10.1
A new PhD student from Thailand joined our lab.
2016.9.7-9
2016%e5%b9%b4%e5%ba%a6%e9%81%ba%e4%bc%9d%e5%ad%a6%e4%bc%9aThe 88th Annual Meeting of The Genetics  Society of Japan
2016.9.5-6
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2016.4.1
A new  student joined our lab.
2016.3.15
Published a paper on “Scientific Reports”.
2016.2.2
Poster presentation at graduate study.
2016.1.22
The 14th meeting of young researcher in Hokkaido University.IMG_0221 IMG_0205 IMG_0201 IMG_0213
2015.12.19
Meeting of Plant Transgenic Design Initiative at Tsukuba.
2015.12.2
Workshop at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan
2015.11.18-19
Meeting for young researcher of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at Hamamatsu. 20151118
2015.10.23
Published a paper on “Genes & Genetic Systems”.
2015.8.28
The 14th meeting of young researcher in Hokkaido University.IMG_0149 IMG_0188 IMG_0191
2015.5.11
Published a paper "AtRBP1, which encodes an RNA-binding protein containing RNA-recognition motifs, regulates root growth in Arabidopsis thaliana" at Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.
2015.4.1
New two students joined our lab.
2015.3.16-18
Symposium of the Japanese society of Plant Physiology at Tokyo
2015.3.11-13
Symposium of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at University of Tokyo.
2015.3.2-3
IPSR International Symposium and Symposium on Plant Stress Sciences
2015.2.27
Transposon meeting at National Institute of Genetics.
2015.1.30
Poster presentation at graduate study
2015.1.17
Published a paper  "A small RNA mediated regulation of a stress-activated retrotransposon and the tissue specific transposition during the reproductive period in Arabidopsis" at Frontiers in PLANT SCIENCE"
2014.12.15-17
JST PRESTO meeting at Okinawa
2014.11.24-27
The 5th NIBB-MPIPZ-TLL Symposium at MPIPZ
2014.11.18
4th Epigenetic Seminar Series 2014 Seminar Poster(№4 Ito) (2)
2014.11.11
JST PRESTO meeting at Tokyo
2014.11.5-7
Meeting for young researcher of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at Kyoto.
2014.9.17-19
The 86th Annual Meeting of The Genetics  Society of Japan
2014.7.28-31
25th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (Vancouver, Canada)
2014.5.21
Published Transgenerational Epigenetics by ELSEVIER.
2014.5.15
Presentation at Japanese Conference for Laboratory Animal Science and Technology, Sapporo 2014
2014.5.7
Published at Chromosome research.
2014.4.27
Published at Molecular Genetics and Genomics.
2014.4.8
New researcher joined our lab.
2014.4.1
New two students joined our lab.
2014.3.18-20
Symposium at the Japanese society of Plant Physiology at Toyama
2014.3.9-11
Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at Kyoto
2014.3.5-8
Symposium at IPSR
2014.2.24-26
JST PRESTO meeting at Tokyo
2014.2.17
Published a paper on “Journal of Plant Physiology”
2014.1.31
Meeting for Young Researcher at Hokkaido University
2014.1.29
Poster presentation at graduate study
2013.11.13-15
Meeting for young researcher of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at Zao
2013.10.12
Conference of Japanese Society of Breeding at Kagoshima
2013.10.10
Transposon meeting at National Institute of Genetics
2013.9.19
Conference of Genetics Society of Japan at Yokohama
2013.9.1
Published a review on “Kagaku to Seibutsu”
2013.7.11-13
JST PRESTO meeting at Otsu
2013.6.25-24
24th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (Sydney, Australia)
2013.6.18
Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at Sendai
2013.6.14
CMCB2013 at (Suzhou, China)
2013.6.3-7
Training course of Plant Global Education Project at NAIST
2013.5.7
Published a review on “Genes & Genetic Systems”.
2013.5.1
Published a review on “Jikken Igaku”
2013.4.19
Symposium of JST at Tokyo
2013.4.18-19
Meeting of Plant Global Education Project at NAIST
2013.4.1
A new student joined our lab
2013.4.1
A new technician joined our lab
2013.3.25
A graduation ceremony
2013.3.21
Adopted to the joint research at National Institute of Genetics (B)
2013.3.19
Adopted to the joint research at Institute of Plant Science and Resources
2013.3.13
Presentation of Master Degree defense
2013.2.12
Adopted to Plant Global Education Project at NAIST
2013.2.5
Poster presentation at graduate study
2013.1.28
Published a paper at “Gene”
2013.1.15-16
Workshop of Plant Electronic Microscope for young researcher
2012.12.17-19
Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at Sapporo
2012.12.14
Workshop at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan
2012.12.9
Symposium at the Society for the Study of Species Biology
2012.10.16-17
Conference of Frontiers in Plant RNA Research 2012
2012.10.11
Conference of Comparative Genomics and Breeding of Brassicaceae
2012.9.26
Conference of Genetics Society of Japan at Fukuoka
2012.8.2
FUJIHARA SEMINAR 2012 at Kyoto
2012.7.24-27
Meeting for young researcher of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at Jozankei
2012.7.17-19
JST PRESTO meeting at Yokohama
2012.4.2
Two students join our lab.
2012.3.28
Adopted to the joint research at National Institute of Genetics (B)
2012.3.22
The 8th Okazaki Biology Conference
2012.3.22
A graduation ceremony
2012.3.16
Symposium at the Japanese society of Plant Physiology at Kyoto
2012.3.5-7
Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at Nagoya
2012.2.26
Conference of Genomic Impact of Eukaryotic Transposable Elements at Pacific Grove, CA, USA
2012.2.1
Poster presentation at graduate study
2012.1.18-20
JST PRESTO meeting at Fukuoka
2011.12.14
Published a paper at “Plant & Cell Physiology”
2011.12.12
Published a review at “Development, Growth and Differentiation
2011.11.18
Joint symposium of Hokkaido University and Seoul University at Seoul
2011.11.1
A new technician joined our lab
2011.9.20
Conference of Genetics Society of Japan at Kyoto
2011.9.9
Practice for high school students
2011.8.24
Adopted to JST PRESTO
2011.8.16
Seminar at RIKEN
2011.6.24
Adopted to the Akiyama Life Science Foundation
2011.6.23-22
22th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research
2011.6.13-15
Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas at Kurashiki
2011.6.9
Appeared on the special issue on Nature Japan
2011.4.11
Adopted to Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation
2011.4.4
Appeared a Published article on the newspaper
2011.4.3
Adopted to the joint research at National Institute of Genetics (B)
2011.4.1
Published a review on “FIRSTAUTHOR ‘s”
2011.3.24
A graduation ceremony
2011.3.14-15
Presentation of Master Degree defense
2011.3.13
Published a paper on “Nature”
2011.2.2
Poster presentation at graduate study
2010.11.26
Joint symposium of Hokkaido University and Seoul University at Sapporo
2010.11.1
Received a prize of Best Paper at the Conference of Genetics Society of Japan
2010.10.1
Adopted to the joint research at National Institute of Genetics (A)
2010.9.21
Conference of Genetics Society of Japan at Sapporo
2010.4.1
Joined Dr. Ito as a Assistant Professor

Photo Gallery

I went rafting with lab members from Washington University in St. Louis, where we are collaborating.

Event

  • A farewell party was organised for Mr Sun.

  • Graduation ceremony

  • A year-end party was held at the lab. We had a dumpling party this year.