Prof. Tesuya HIGASHIYAMA (Nagoya University, Institute of Transformative Bio-molecules) received the ASAHI Prize* 2019.

The ceremony will be held at Tokyo on 29th Jan 2020.

　

See details (Japanease Only)
https://www.asahi.com/corporate/info/12987791

　

https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASMDT62SKMDTULPI003.html

　

*The Asahi Prize was established in 1929 to honor individuals and groups that have made outstanding accomplishments in the fields of academics and arts, and have greatly contributed to the development and progress of Japanese culture and society at large.

I attended 17th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics (ISRFG) on November 4th〜6th in Taipei. This trip was supported by International Activity Support Group of Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "The Birth of New Plant Species".

　

International Symposium was the first experience for me, so everything was very exciting. In the poster session, people from some contries came and gave me advice. I was glad to share my research with people from many countries and get them interested.

This was a very valuable experience that inspired my research. I appreciate everyone who supported.

　

MEGUMI NISHINO (Kinoshita Group)

Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University

　

Seijiro Ono, a postdoc in Nonomura-group, has joined into the Prof. Arp Schnittger's laboratory in University of Hamburg, Germany, from June 1st in 2019.

Here in Hamburg, we try to elucidate the regulatory mechanism of meiotic recombination in plants, as the collaborative project.

　

The trip was supported by the "International Activity Support Group" of Scientific Research in Innovative Areas "the Birth of New Plant Species".

I would like to express the deepest gratitude for this support.

I also hope that our work here will make a great contribution to related research fields.

　

Seijiro Ono, PhD

　Previous: Plant Cytogenetics Lab. (Nonomura-group), National Institute of Genetics

　Current: Prof. Dr. Arp Schnittger's group, Departments of Developmental Biology, University of Hamburg

　

Photos

"Loki Schmidt Botanischer Garten", the botanical garden belonging to the institute. Over ten-thousands of plant species are maintained in a 25 ha of garden. It's open for the people and we can freely look around.

　

With Prof. Arp Schnittger and lab members.

EMBO Practical Course "Functional live imaging of plants" was held at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya university on May 21-30, 2019. This course was great opportunity to familiarize with the advanced experimental technologies in plant functional live imaging.

　

Through oral and poster sessions and practicals, we actively interacted and discussed with all members, participants, speakers, instructors and organizers, and the networks of the EMBO members were created. The valuable experiences in this course will be used for further development of our own research, collaborations and future research careers.

　

Erika Toda (Okamoto Group)

Tokyo Metropolitan University

　

EMBO Workshop "Functional Live Imaging of Plants" was held at ITbM, Nagoya Univerisy on 21-30/May/2019.

http://meetings.embo.org/event/19-plant-live-imaging

　

This workshop was supoorted by our research project, KAKENHI "The Birth of New Plant Species" as well as by KAKENHI "Resonance Bio" and EMBO Practical Course "Functional live imaging of plants".

Our project leader, Prof. Tetsuya Higashiyama (Nagoya University) had organized as one of main organaizers.

　

Please see the detailed reports of participants.

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Erika Toda, Tokyo Metropolitan University (Okamoto Group)