Takeyasu Lab. Laboratory of Plasma Membrane and Nuclear Signaling Graduate School of Biostudies Kyoto University

We had a welcome party for new members.

Haruko Inose won presentation awards at Next Frontiers in Life Science: HFSP x Nobel Prize Meeting in Kyoto.
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Inose H, Yamazaki H, Yoshimura SH. (Oct 4, 2025) "Ki-67: From Marker to Master Scaffold at the Crossroads of Genomics, Morphology, and Cancer Therapeutics", Next Frontiers in Life Science: HFSP x Nobel Prize in Kyoto, Oct 4, 2025, Kyoto University, Japan. [Presentation Award]

Prof. Michael Kozlov is staying our Lab for 3 months as a JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan.
Dr. Kristina Bayer is staying or Lab for 6 months as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan.
Aiyun Pi and Vivian Joseph joined our Lab as a Global Frontier in Life Science program student.

Master's student Hisashi Shimamura won presentation awards at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan.
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Shimamura H, Norizoe Y, Sakaue T, Yoshimura SH. (Sep 24, 2025) "核小体タンパク質Nopp140の過リン酸化は有糸分裂期移行に伴う核小体崩壊を加速させる (Hyperphosphorylation of nucleolar protein Nopp140 accelerates mitotic nucleolar disassembly.)" The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, Sep 24-26, 2025, NARA Prefectural Convention Center, Japan. [Student Presentation Award] [IUPAB Memorial Award]

Haruko Inose won a presentation award at Mechanical Self-transformation of Living Systems 2025 Team Meeting.
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Inose H, Tokunaga M, Seiki M, Yoshimura SH. (Sep 1, 2025) "Ki-67 promotes cell proliferation in a constricted space", Mechanical Self-transformation of Living Systems 2025 Team Meeting (領域会議), Sep 1-2, 2025, 北海道 [Oral/Poster presentation][Poster Presenation Award]

Master's student Hisashi Shimamura won a best presentation award at National Taiwan University summer school.
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Shimamura H, Chen J, Ting C. (Aug 22, 2025) "The Evolution of the Male-Specific-Lethal (MSL) Complex in Drosophila from a Structural Disorder Perspective." 2025 Summer+ Programs The NTU +N1 Biotechnology Program, Aug 10-23, 2025, National Taiwan University Life Science Building 3F Auditorium, Taiwan. [Oral presentation][Best Presentation Award]

AMGEN Scholarship student Anastassiya Tyazhelova is visiting our Lab. She will stay for 2 months.

Research paper in collaboration with Prof. Wombacher in Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (Department of Chemical Biology) is published in ACS Chemical Biology
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Bayer KV, Taeb M, Koch B, Yoshimura SH, and Wombacher R. (2025) “Dual SLIPT-A lipid mimic to enable spatiotemporally defined, sequential protein dimerization” ACS Chem. Biol., DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.4c00856.

Dr. Akihisa Mino joined the lab.

Assistant Professor Masahiro Kumeta published a paper in Communications Biology.

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Kumeta M, Otani M, Toyoda M, Yoshimura SH.
“Acoustic modulation of mechanosensitive genes and adipocyte differentiation”
Commun. Biol., 595(8), 2025

This reserach is featured in Kyoto University website, Yomiuri news, TBS [THE TIME], etc.
https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/research-news/2025-04-17
https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/20250416-OYT1T50132/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1080394