Germ Cell Group

Staff:

Associate Professor

Masami Nozaki, Ph. D.

Graduate Student

Masahiro Watanabe

Hiroki Yasui

Subjects:

1. Epigenetical regulation of sex determination.
2. Analysis of epigenetical regulation in male germ cells.
3. Induction of cranal neural crest stem cells from ES cells.
4. Molecular characteristics in cancer stem cell.

Paper published in 2013

1. Epigenetic regulation of mouse sex determination by the histone demethylase Jmjd1a.

   Shunsuke Kuroki, Shogo Matoba, Mika Akiyoshi, Yasuko Matsumura, Hitoshi Miyachi, Nathan Mise, Kuniya Abe, Atsuo Ogura, Dagmar Wilhelm, Peter Koopman, Masami Nozaki, Yoshiakira Kanai, Yoichi Shinkai and Makoto Tachibana

   Science, 341 (6150), 1106-1109, 2013.

Link

http://www.biken.osaka-u.ac.jp/