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Seminar at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Agriculture

TSUCHIKANE Yuki

Oct. 28, 2024

A seminar featuring Professor Kentaro Shimizu, PI of KEPLR, was held at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Agriculture.

• Date and Time: Friday, October 18, 16:00–17:30
• Location: Lecture Room 7, 1st Floor, Building 1, Faculty of Agriculture
• Speaker: Prof. Kentaro Shimizu
• Title: From Field Environments of Arabidopsis to the 10+ Wheat Genome Project

要旨:シロイヌナズナやイネのゲノム解読から20年近くを経て、ゲノムサイズが15GBにもなる異質六倍体パンコムギのゲノムが解読され、機能解析やオミクス解析が容易になった。コムギ10+ゲノムプロジェクトの第1期では、日本を代表する品種農林61号など世界の近代品種のde novoゲノムアセンブリなどを報告した。第2期では、汎トランスクリプトーム解析(White et al. bioRxiv)やゲノムワイドな選択の解析を行ってきた。そして、農林61号のアセンブリと東アジアのコムギ遺伝資源を活用して、有性生殖や病原抵抗性に関わる量的遺伝子座の解析を進めている。さらに、近隣個体の遺伝子型を考慮したNeighbor GWAS法を野外環境のシロイヌナズナに適用し、遺伝子型の混合によって昆虫食害を減少させる手法を開発した(Sato et al. Nature Communications 2024)。今後の可能性などについても論じたい。

The 10th KEPLR Seminar Series Held

OBAYASHI Takeshi

Oct. 2, 2024

The 10th KEPLR Seminar Series was hosted by the Ohbayashi and Ueda groups at Tohoku University.

Author

OBAYASHI Takeshi

  • Professor
  • Obayashi Group
  • Tohoku University
  • Environmental Responses
  • Multi-omics
  • Modelling

“Data Science Cafe 4th” held at Tohoku University

TSUCHIKANE Yuki

Jul. 24, 2024

Co-hosted by KEPLR and the International Joint Graduate Program in Data Science at Tohoku University, the workshop “Data Science Cafe 4th,” where students dedicated to research across borders gathered, was held at Tohoku University.

Event Title: Data Science Cafe 4th
Date: July 22, 2024 (14:00-15:30)
Location: Medium lecture room (2F), Graduate School of Information Sciences

Program
Talk 1 Aisha Ahmad Abu (Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University)
Talk 2 Kazuki Fukushima (Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University)
Talk 3 Eloïse Lasserre (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)
Talk 4 Sakumi Nakagawa (Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University)

The 9th KEPLR Seminar Series Held

SATO Yoshikatsu

May. 20, 2024

The 9th KEPLR Seminar Series was hosted by the Sato Group at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University.
The first part of the event included a facility tour.

6th Floor Live Imaging Center
The ITbM Imaging Center has the largest number of users among the dozen or so centers nationwide. During the introduction to the Live Imaging Center, there were demonstrations with dedicated presenters for fluorescence lifetime imaging, confocal microscopes with micro-robot tools, and optical tweezers.
In the Plant Culture Room, Torenia, Utricularia, Schistostega, and Physcomitrella were exhibited.

General Laboratory

Mix Office

The second part of the event included research presentations by the Sato Group and discussions among the participants.


Program
Date and Time: Thursday, May 16th, 14:00 ~
Venue: Lecture Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University
14:00-15:20
Facility Tour:

15:30-16:50
Research Presentations (Lecture Room)
Yoshikatsu Sato: Chemical Tools and Imaging
Fumika Okamoto: Dynamic Tracking Imaging of Pollen Tube Elongation
Chie Mitsui: Exploration of Novel Chloroplast Positioning Control Factors (Turbo ID & Chemical Compound Target ID)
Break
Yuko Ukai: Automatic Protoplast Retrieval Using Micro-Robot Tools
Takeshi Aoyama: Localization and Dynamics of Auxin

Author

SATO Yoshikatsu

  • Associate Professor ,Center Chief of Live Imaging Center
  • Sato Group
  • Nagoya University
  • Reproductive Development
  • Environmental Responses
  • Cell-to-cell Communications
  • Genome Flexibility
  • Imaging
  • Chemical tools

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Lecture by Prof. Sakakibara at the University of Zurich

SAKAKIBARA Keiko

May. 13, 2024

On May 9, 2024, a seminar titled "Establishment of new model systems to study land plant evolution: hornworts and streptophyte algae" was held at the Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich. The seminar was presented by Prof. Keiko Sakakibara.

Author

SAKAKIBARA Keiko

  • Associate Professor
  • Sakakibara Group
  • Rikkyo University
  • Genome Flexibility
  • Genome editing