31 December 2019Yang-Chi-Chun and Hisao Masai (Genome Dynamics Project) published a paper entitled ”Cdc7 activates replication checkpoint by phosphorylating the Chk1 binding domain of Claspin in human cells.” in eLife

13 December 2019Hikaru Tsuchiya (Laboratory of Protein Metabolism) published a paper entitled “Structural insights into ubiquitin recognition and Ufd1 interaction of Npl4” in Nature Communications.

27 November 2019Miharu Nakanishi (Mental Health Promotion Project) published a paper entitled ”Midlife Psychological Well-Being and its Impact on Cognitive Functioning Later in Life: An Observational Study Using a Female British Cohort” in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

8 November 2019Dr. Masato Hosokawa (Dementia Research Project) was awarded the Encouragement Award (Best Basic Research) at the Japan Society for Dementia Research Annual Meeting in 2019.

6 November 2019Tetsuya Hirabayashi (Laboratory of Biomembrane) published a paper entitled "SDR9C7 catalyzes critical dehydrogenation of acylceramides for skin barrier formation" in The Journal of Clinical Investigation

16 October 2019Yukio Nishimura (Neural Prosthesis Project) published a paper entitled ”Bypassing stroke-damaged neural pathways via a neural interface induces targeted cortical adaptation” in Nature Communications.

16 October 2019Takahiko Noro (Visual Research Project) published a paper on glaucoma-like degeneration of the visual system in aged marmosets in Scientific Reports

10 October 2019Dr. Fumika Koyano (Ubiquitin Project) published a paper on “Parkin‐mediated ubiquitylation redistributes MITOL/March5 from mitochondria to peroxisomes” in EMBO Reports

17 September 2019Keisuke Kamimura (Neural Network Project) published a paper entitled ”The HSPG Glypican Regulates Experience-Dependent Synaptic and Behavioral Plasticity by Modulating the Non-Canonical BMP Pathway” in Cell Reports

26 August 2019Takahiro Sanada (Viral Infectious Diseases Project) published a paper on “Construction of complete Tupaia belangeri transcriptome database by whole-genome and comprehensive RNA sequencing” in Scientific Reports

22 August 2019Yuki Nakayama & Toshio Shimizu, etal (ALS Nursing Care Project) published a paper on “Body weight variation predicts disease progression after invasive ventilation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis” in Scientific Reports

23 July 2019Kazuhiko Namekata (Visual Research Project) published a paper on the role of DOCK8 during neurodegeneration in Journal of Biological Chemistry.

15 April 2019Daisuke Yamane (Viral Infectious Diseases Project) published a paper on “Basal Expression of Interferon Regulatory Factor 1 Drives Intrinsic Hepatocyte Resistance to Multiple RNA Viruses” in Nature Microbiology