Farewell party for Fumiki and Yuko was held in a restaurant on the University campus. Fumiki starts a new job in the Osaka Prefecture University. Yuko starts her new job in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

21 February 2007

A paper by Yusuke Maeda has been accepted for publication in Mol. Biol. Cell.

14 February 2007

We had a farewell party for Yeonchul. He took a position in the Department of Parasitology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University. GOOD LUCK!!

4 January 2007

Happy New Year!

28 December 2006

We had the annual PIGS lab bowling competition and the end-of-year party.

20 December 2006

The recent Nature Medicine article by Yoshiko Murakami was featured in THE HEMATOLOGIST published by the American Society of Hematology.

14 November 2006

A review article by Yusuke Maeda, Hisashi Ashida, and Taroh Kinoshita just appeared in the volume 416 of Methods in Enzymology. The article is entitled CHO Glycosylation Mutants: GPI Anchor.

28 October 2006

There was an annual RIMD bowling competition, and two teams from the PIGS lab took part in.

13 October 2006

We had a welcome party for Kana Miyanagi in a Italian restaurant in Yamada. We also celebrated the 16th anniversary of the PIGS lab, which was on 16 October. Please click here for photos.

2 September 2006

A paper by Tomohisa Sarumaru is accepted for pubication in Blood.

1 September 2006

Kana Miyanagi has just joined the PIGS lab today. Welcome!

31 July 2006

Ben has finished his term, and went back to Melbourne. See you again!

15 July 2006

The Annual RIMD Softball Championship was held, and we took second place! Click here to see photos.

7 July 2006

Ben McMillan, a graduate student in the University of Melbourne, Australia, is visiting our laboratory to participate in our research and learn techniques. He will be with us for three weeks.

27 June 2006

A paper by Yasu Morita was accepted for publication in J. Biol. Chem.

12 June 2006

A paper by Yoshiko Murakami was accepted for publication in Nature Medicine. She is one of the lead authors with equal contributions.

15 April 2006

A paper by Yuko Tashima recently published in Mol. Biol. Cell was featured in the March issue of ASCB News Letter.

8 April 2006

A BBQ party was held under the full-bloomed cherry blossom. It also served as a welcome party for Yetao Wang. Current and past members of the lab have joined to celebrate the occasion, and many of their families joined as well. Click here for photos.

5 April 2006

Chubert Sena has officially started his graduate course today. Congratulations and welcome (again)!

3 April 2006

The new school year has started. Yuko Tashima and Yeonchul Hong have become post-doctoral fellows. Akinari Sakatani and Yusuke Sakai, third year medical students, has joined our lab and will be staying for the next 4 months to learn the principles and techniques of basic research. Welcome!