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!
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.
2023.12.19 Congratulations to Dr. Kusano for winning the Poster Award at the 13th International Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry!
2023.11.01 Mr. Altaf and Mr. Rafli, students from Universitas Indonesia in Indonesia, have joined our team as trainees until January.
2023.10.14 A Reviewed Preprint on the chloroplast degradation mechanism by Dr. Izumi, Dr. Nakamura, and Prof. Hagihara, has been published in eLife.
2023.07.27 A research paper by graduates Ms. Kato, Dr. Kusano, Prof. Hagihara, and researchers from Nagoya University, Kyoto Sangyo University, and the University of Texas has been published in Plant and Cell Physiology.
2023.03.08 A research paper by graduates Ms. Kato, Prof. Hagihara, and researchers from Nagoya University, RIKEN, Kyoto Sangyo University, and the University of Texas has been published in Frontiers in Plant Science.
2023.02.02 A research paper by Mr. Kuruma, Prof. Hagihara, and researchers from Meiji University has been published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.