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2025
July 28, 2025
We held a farewell lunch for Lydia as her 10-month study abroad program has come to an end.
As a parting gift, we chose a stylish kanzashi hair ornament—perfect for fashionable Lydia.
Thank you for all your hard work! Please come visit the lab again sometime!
July 25, 2025
Lydia presented her research at the FrontierLab Final Presentation Meeting. Great job!!
July 4, 2025
Our new paper has been published in Communications Medicine!
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-00967-8
This is a collaborative study with Dr. Matsuura from the Department of Gastroenterology at Kobe University, Dr. Abe (a former undergraduate student at Osaka University, now a resident), and Dr. Niioka from the Institute of Data-Driven Innovation at Kyushu University.
June 17, 2025
Our review on cellular senescence and gastrointestinal diseases has been published online in Gastroenterology.
"Senescence, aging and disease throughout the gastrointestinal system"
https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2025.06.010
It’s a major achievement led by Dr. Sofia Ferreira-Gonzalez as the first author!
May 14,2025
Congratulations to Kitano-kun! The collaborative paper on esophageal adenocarcinoma with Kyoto University's Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery has been published, with him as the first author.
https://www.ghadvances.org/article/S2772-5723(25)00047-0/fulltext
May 1,2025
Nakamura-san has joined the lab as a technical assistant. Welcome!
March 10, 2025
We all had lunch to celebrate Hayashi-kun's graduation and Kitano-kun's paper acceptance.congratulations!
January 6, 2025
Kobayashi, a specially appointed researcher, has joined our team. Welcome！
2024
December 15, 2024
Ogawa-kun presented his research, "Investigation of the Relationship Between Polyploidy and DNA Damage," at the West Japan Medical Student Academic Forum 2024 and received the Oral Presentation Award. Congratulations!
October 22, 2024
Hayashi-kun's paper was published in Cell Death Discovery.
The paper reveals that polyploidization promotes the accumulation of genomic damage while mitigating its impact. This can be one of the mechansms of cancer evolution, and polyploid cells can be a source of cancer development and treatment resistance.
October 21, 2024
Lydia’s welcome party and celebration for Hayashi-kun's paper publication.
October 1, 2024
Lydia, an exchange student from the University of Manchester, has joined our team. Welcome！
September 30‐October 2, 2024
Matsumoto presented at the Joint Symposium on Ploidy and Size Biology held at the National Institute of Genetics.
September 19-21, 2024
Matsumoto, Hayashi, and Harada participated in the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association (Fukuoka). Matsumoto gave a presentation at the symposium. Hayashi and Harada’s poster presentations were also very well received.
26-27 July 2024
Matsumoto gave a presentation at the 31st Hepatocyte Research Symposium (@University of Tokyo).
2024/7/25
Matsumoto gave a presentation at Juntendo University. Thank you to Dr. Shigeo Ohno and Dr. Kazunori Sasaki for the invitation.
2024/7/1
Ms. Ochi has joined us as a new member. Mr. Kitano and Mr. Nagata have been transferred to our group.
We held a mini welcome party in the lab.
June 1, 2024
Ms. Yamashita has been transferred and joined the team.
16-17 May 2024
Matsumoto gave a presentation at the 6th Young Researchers' Meeting of the Japanese Society for Cancer and Metabolism (at Okayama University).
14-30 May 2024
Large experimental benches, safety cabinets, clean benches, freezers, and other items were delivered into the lab one after another.
19/04/2024
Lab members held a farewell and celebration party for Harada-kun.
2024/4/16
Matsumoto has been appointed as a tenure-track associate professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University.