News

• 2024/03

  The paper has been awarded the prize for the "SEB-Wiley-TPJ Outstanding Paper awards for 2022 in the Resource Article category".
  A collection of inducible transcription factor-glucocorticoid receptor fusion lines for functional analyses in Arabidopsis thaliana Plant J. 2022 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.16365

• 2023/07

  The paper has been published.
  Kanchana Pandian, Minami Matsui, Thomas Hankemeier, Ahmed Ali, Emiko Okubo-Kurihara "Advances in single-cell metabolomics to unravel cellular heterogeneity in plant biology",Plant Physiology, kiad357,https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad357

• 2023/01

  The paper has been published.
  Chika Akagi, Yukio Kurihara, Yuko Makita, Masaharu Kawauchi, Tomohiko Tsuge, Takashi Aoyama, Minami Matsui, "Translational activation of ribosome-related genes at initial photoreception is dependent on signals derived from both the nucleus and the chloroplasts in Arabidopsis thaliana.", Journal of Plant Research, 10.1007/s10265-022-01430-8
  Please also see the press release. "Mechanisms of translational activity of ribosome biosynthesis-related genes by blue light."https://www.riken.jp/press/2023/20230120_2/index.html

• 2023/01

  The paper has been published.
  Kurihara, Y.*, Makita, Y.*, Kawauchi, M., Kageyama, A., Kuriyama, T., Matsui, M. *These authors are equal contributions., "Intergenic splicing-stimulated transcriptional readthrough is suppressed by nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in Arabidopsis.", Communications Biology, 10.1038/s42003-022-04348-y
  Please also see the press release. "Uncovering Unknown Transcriptional and Post-transcriptional Regulations,"https://www.riken.jp/press/2023/20230116_1/index.html

• 2022/12

  The director, a trader, and a researcher from the Rubber Research Institute of Vietnam visited our laboratory.
  

• 2022/12

  The 3rd Rubber Research Meeting was held at Tohoku University. Dr. Matsui gave a lecture about SATREPS project. And Research Scientist Dr. Kurihara and Visiting Researcher Dr. Makita gave poster presentations.
  

• 2022/10

  A farewell party was held for Kyoko Yokomizo.
  

• 2022/08,09

  In the SATREPS Project for "Development of Complex Technologies for Prevention and Control of Rubber Tree Leaf Fall Diseases",Dr. Matsui and Visiting Researcher Dr. Makita(Maebashi Institute of Technology) and others visited the University of Indonesia and the Indonesian Rubber Research Institute for inspection and the 2nd JCC meeting.
  

• 2022/07

  The paper has been published.
  Shimada S, Yanagawa Y, Munesada T, Horii Y, Kuriyama T, Kawashima M, Kondou Y, Yoshizumi T, Mitsuda N, Ohme-Takagi M, Makita Y, Matsui M.
  A collection of inducible transcription factor-glucocorticoid receptor fusion lines for functional analyses in Arabidopsis thaliana.
  Plant J. 2022 Jul;111(2):595-607. doi: 10.1111/tpj.15796. Epub 2022 May 21. PMID: 35510416.
  

• 2022/06

  In the SATREPS Project for "Development of Complex Technologies for Prevention and Control of Rubber Tree Leaf Fall Diseases", Dr. Matsui and Dr. Ota (Nagasaki Univ.) visited Indonesia, gave a seminar and inspected rubber tree fields.
  

• 2022/06

  The 1st JCC meeting of SATREPS Project for "Development of Complex Technologies for Prevention and Control of Rubber Tree Leaf Fall Diseases” was held online on June 2nd.
  

• 2022/05

  Farewell Party for Mr.Yukio Kurihara.
  

• 2022/03

  Farewell for Ms.Yuuko Makita.
  

• 2022/03

  Farewell Party for Ms.Yuuko Makita and Ms.Ami Kageyama.
  

• 2021/12

  The kick-off meeting of SATREPS Project for "Development of Complex Technologies for Prevention and Control of Rubber Tree Leaf Fall Diseases” was held online.
  

• 2021/06

  Press release:"Dual photoreceptor identified in an oceanic green picoplankton"
  

• 2021/03

  Farewell for Ms.Haruka Shimohira.
  

• 2020/10

  A Special Issue edited by Researcher Yukio Kurihara has been published."Plant Systems and Application"

• 2020/10

  We started registering for the 11th Sorghum workshop. Register here

• 2020/03

  Farewell Party for Ms.Hiroko Tsuchida,Ms.Manami Hirata,Ms.Tomoko Yamaguchi and Mr.Takachika Munesada.
  

• 2020/02

  Start recruiting Special Postdoctoral Researcher (SPDR).

  RIKEN FY 2021 Special Postdoctoral Researcher (SPDR) program

• 2020/02

  Mr. Minami Matsui joined 2020 AAAS(American association for The Advancement of Science) Annual Meeting.
  

• 2019/12

  The 42nd Annual Meeting of The Molecular Biology Society of Japan in Fukuoka.
  

• 2019/09

  Farewell Party for Mrs.Amemiya Mieko.
  

• 2019/09

  We did "Let's look, take a photo and measure sugar content of sorghum!".
  

• 2019/08

  Mr.Matsui Minami and Ms.makita Yuko was attended at CATAS/IRRDB WORKSHOP ON RUBBER GENOMICS 2019.
  

• 2019/07

  The 2nd Natural Rubber Workshop was held at RIKEN Yokohama Campus.
  

• 2019/04

  Mr.Yukio Kurihara received CSRS award(2019).
  

• 2019/03

  Prof. Albrecht von Arnim visited us.
  

• 2019/03

  Farewell Party for Mr.Yuya Araki. Prof. Hsu-Liang Hsieh visited us.
  

• 2019/02

  Start recruiting Special Postdoctoral Researcher (SPDR).

  RIKEN FY 2020 Special Postdoctoral Researcher (SPDR) program

• 2018/09

  Ms.Kageyama(Student) and Ms.Osada(Student) joined our lab.

• 2018/06

  Press Release：Blue gene regulation helps plants respond properly to light
  

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• 2018/04

  Ms.Manami Hirata(Student) joined our lab.

• 2018/03

  Death notice
  I would like to inform you that Ms.Mika KAWASHIMA passed away March 15th 2018 by trafic accident. Ms.KAWASHIMA was a longtime member of the Synthetic Genomics Research Group.
  Sincerely,
  

• 2018/03

  Farwell Party for Ms.Aya Suehisa.

• 2017/09

  Ms.Haruka Shimohira(student) joined our lab.

• 2017/09

  "Construction of Para rubber tree genome and multi-transcriptome database accelerates rubber researches.(Y.Makita et al.)" was awarded the prize for InCoB 2017 BMC Best Paper Awards.

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• 2017/05

  Farwell Party for Mr.Youtaro Saito.
  

• 2017/04

  RIKEN Research:"Helping plants avoid the blues (Wen-Dee Ong)"
  

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