NEWS

The Admissions Information Session 2025 in the Department of Computational Biology and Medical Science is now underway. We encourage you to attend if you're considering applying.

2025.5.29

YiCheng has completed her internship and returned to Sweden.

2025.4.7-9

Nakato had an invited talk at the International Conference on Quantum & AI Technologies in Biomedical Science at the National Taiwan University.

2025.4.1

• Vlad, who has been a research student in the Nakato lab, has officially joined the Ph.D. program!
• Dr. Saijou had been selected for a research fund of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C). Project title: "Discovery of new transcription factors and development of gene therapy methods to reverse liver fibrosis and prevent recurrence"

2025.3.24

• Gima-san has completed his master's program. Congratulations!
• Wilhelm has completed his internship and returned to Germany.

2025.2.26-28

• Nakato and Drs. Nagaoka and Oba participated in the EMBO Workshop "Global insights in life sciences" held in Heidelberg. Nakato gave an oral talk, Dr. Oba presented a poster and a flash talk, and Dr. Nagaoka presented a poster.
• Before the EMBO workshop, we visited Markus List's lab at the Technical University of Munich, where Nakato gave a seminar, and we enjoyed discussions.

2025 2.21

A review (non-peer-reviewed) by Dr. Oba is published in Biochemist. Title: "A beginner’s guide to ChIP-seq analysis"

2025.1.22

Yi Cheng Chng, a master student at the Karolinska Institutet, has joined our lab as a special student.

2024.11.27-29

• Nakato presided an symposium "Large-scale computational epigenomics for the elucidation of genomic regulatory mechanisms" at the MBSJ2024 Annual Conference held at Hakata. Dr. Lee gave a talk there.
• Nakato and Dr. Saijou gave talks on the symposiums "Mechanisms, dynamics, and functions of the 3D genome organization" and "Integrated understanding of disease pathogenesis based on interstitial cell diversity", respectively. Drs. Nagaoka and Oba had a poster presentation.

2024.11.14-15

We participated in the 4th Hi-C Meeting held at Chiba University. Nakato gave an oral presentation, and Dr. Nagaoka, Sakatsume-san, and Gima-san gave poster presentations.

2024.10.31

Dr. Nagai has departed for a one-year short-term study in Germany.

2024.10.22-25

Drs. Nagai, Lee and Oba had a poster presentation at the 1st Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference (APBJC2024) held at Okinawa.

2024.10.16

The presentation on HiC1Dmetrics at Bio"Pack"athon has been made available on TogoTV (in Japanese). HiC1Dmetricsを用いたゲノム立体構造解析

2024.10.15-18

Drs. Nagaoka and Oba had a poster presentation at the SMC complex international symposium held at Shizuoka.

2024.10.11

The Nakato Lab has been moved. The new location is room 303 of the IQB main building on the Yayoi Campus.

2024.10.1

• Ruicheng Li has joined our lab as a master student.
• Wilhelm Glaas, a master student at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, has joined our lab as a special student (USTEP).

2023.9.23

The Springer Nature protocol book entitled “Computational Methods for 3D Genome Analysis”, edited by Nakato, has been published. The book covers a wide range of topics related to 3D genome structure. We thank all the contributors who kindly accepted the invitation!

2024.9.4

Paper by a Dr. Saijou accepted in Heliyon. Title: "Modulation of liver cholesterol homeostasis by choline supplementation during fibrosis resolution"

2024.9.3

Mako Kimura, a second-year student at the University of Tokyo, has joined the Nakato Lab as a collaborative researcher.

2024.8.28

Sofia has completed her internship and successfully submitted her bachelor's thesis at the University of Pisa. Congratulations and best wishes to Sofia!

2024.7.14

Dr. Nagai gave an oral presentation at the ISMB2024 in Montreal, Canada.

2024.6.27

Gina has earned the Ph.D. degree. Congratulations!

2024.6.21

Sofia from the University of Pisa joined our lab as an intern.

2024.5.23-25

Nakato had an invited talk at the Asia Pacific Spatial Omics Technology 2024 (APSOT2024) at the National Taiwan University.

2024 4.11

Paper by a Ph.D. student Gina accepted in Genes to Cells. Title: "Clover: An unbiased method for prioritizing differentially expressed genes using a data-driven approach"

2024.4.1

Sakatsume-san has joined our lab as a Ph.D. student.