Department of Molecular Microbiology

Staff:

Professor

Eiji Hara, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Sugiko Watanabe, M.D., Ph.D.

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

Masaki Takasugi, Ph.D.

Subjects:

1. Regulation of tumorigenesis by cellular senescence.
2. Understanding the roles and mechanisms of SASP.
3. Understanding the roles of cellular senescence in vivo.
4. Understanding the roles and mechanisms of gut microbiota in cancer.

Papers published in 2015

1. Ablation of the p16(INK4a) tumour suppressor reverses ageing phenotypes of klotho mice.

   Seidai Sato, Yuka Kawamata, Akiko Takahashi, Yoshinori Imai, Aki Hanyu, Atsushi Okuma, Masaki Takasugi, Kimi Yamakoshi, Hiroyuki Sorimachi, Hiroaki Kanda, Yuichi Ishikawa, Saburo Sone, Yasuhiko Nishioka, Naoko Ohtani and Eiji Hara

   Nat Commun, 6, 7035, 2015.

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Department of Molecular Microbiology

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University