The introductory article for our lab was published in Newsletter of Division of Biofunctional Chemistry, The chemical Society of Japan.

Latest posts

• 2025.09.24

  A review on microautophagy co-authored by Dr. Masanori Izumi has been published in Autophagy.

• 2025.09.04

  Dr. Shuhei Kusano received the Lecture Award at 19th Symposium on Biorelevant Chemistry! Congratulations!

• 2025.04.01

  Dr. Nakamura got promoted to a Research Scientist!

• 2025.04.01

  Dr. Kusano got promoted to a Senior Research Scientist!

• 2024.10.10

  Dr. Jekson is featured in the ‘RIKEN People’ section of RIKEN’s website.

• 2024.09.19

  Dr. Izumi delivered an invited presenation at the International Plant Proteostasis Conference in Vienna, Austria.

• 2024.08.24

  Kuruma-kun joined the Uta lab at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, as a trainee.

• 2024.07.19

  Our team’s research, ‘Chloroplast Degradation and Microautophagy,’ is highlighted in the August issue of Experimental Medicine.

• 2024.05.27

  A research paper by Prof. Hagihara and Dr. Kusano, in collaboration with the Higashiyama Lab at the University of Tokyo, has been published in RSC Chemical Biology.

• 2024.05.07

  Ms. Vanessa from Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands has joined our team as a trainee for a four-month internship.