NIG is located in Mishima, which is one hour away from Tokyo by the bullet train. It takes for 15 min from the JR Mishima station to NIG by the shuttle bus or taxi.
National Institute of Genetics (NIG),
Yata 1111, Mishima,
Shizuoka 411-8540,
Japan
NIG HP
Masato Kanemaki, PhD
mail: mkanemak(AT)nig.ac.jp
Tel: 0559-81-5830 (office), 0559-81-5866 (Lab)
Fax: 0559-81-5830
2024
2024.4.8
Assistant Prof. Yukosuke Yamaguchi has published a paper in Nature Communications as the first and co-corresponding author. In this paper, the contribution of UHRF1 to DNA methylation was analyzed in detail using the auxin-inducible degron technology. This research was conducted at the Defossez lab in Paris, and Prof. Kanemaki also participated as a collaborator.
2024.4.1
Dr. Kosuke Yamaguchi has joined our lab as an assistant professor.
2024.3.23
Our laboratory has published a new paper on the degron technology in bioRxiv. This is the result of a project led by graduate student Yuki Hatoyama and Moutushi Islam.
2024.2.28
Professor Kanemaki received the 23rd Yamazaki Teiichi Prize. The award ceremony and acceptance lecture took place at GAKUSHIKAIKAN (Japanese Academy of Sciences) on February 28, 2024.
2023
2023.8.21
Our collaborative research findings have been published in Science. In this paper, we found that DONSON as a novel DNA replication factor essential for the formation of the CMG helicase during the replication initiation process. Our research group generated DONSON-degron cells. For more detailed information, please visit here.
2023.8.3
Our collaborative research findings have been published in Nature. We provided degron cells of WAPL, which controls the amount of chromatin-bound cohesin.
2023.6.7
Our PhD student, Yuki Hatoyama, gave an oral presentation at the 3R Workshop (Kyushu University) and received the Student Award. Congratulations!
2023.5.5
A review article on the function of MCMBP has been published in Biochenical Society Transactions. A PhD student, Yuki Hatoyama, wrote this review paper as the first author.
2023.4.28
The results of our joint work with Prof. David Cortez at Vanderbilt University have been published in Science. We revealed the RAD51-dependent reversed fork structure when the replication fork is arrested.
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