What's new (Laboratory of Genome and Epigenome Dynamics, Nagoya University)
2025/09/12
Ishikawa (D2) presented a talk in the 11th Insect Workshop.
Title:Chromosome-level genome assembling and idetification of candidate genes involved in histone modifications that underly the male-specific heterochromatinization in Planococcus kraunhiae.
Title:Chromosome-level genome assembling and idetification of candidate genes involved in histone modifications that underly the male-specific heterochromatinization in Planococcus kraunhiae.
2025/09/12
Kitao (post-doc) presnted an invited talk in the 97th Annual meeting of Japanease Society of Genetics for his Young Scientist Award.
Title:Studies on diversity and evolution of transposable element-derived genes.
Title:Studies on diversity and evolution of transposable element-derived genes.
2025/09/12
Ishikawa (D2) received Best Paper Award in the 97th Annual meeting of Japanease Society of Genetics.
2025/09/10
Ishikawa (D2) organized a workshop for young researchers entitled "Mosaic dialogues in Genetics" in the 97th Annual meeting of Japanese Society of Genetics.
2025/09/10
Ichiyanagi organized a workshop entitled "Crossroad of metabolism and epigenetics" in the 97th Annual meeting of Japanese Society of Genetics.
2025/09/10
Ichiyanagi, Kitao (post-doc), Suzuk (D2), Ishikawa (D2), and Yamanaka (M1) presented talks in the 97th Annual meeting of Japanese Society of Genetics.
Ichiyanagi:DNA methylation dictates histone modifications in developing male germ cells in the mouse.
Kitao:Exaptation of endogenous retrovirus-derived genes in birds.
Suzuki:Comparison of epigenome dynamics during neural stem cell differentiation between humans and chimpanzees.
Ishikawa:Chromosome-level genome assembling and idetification of candidate genes involved in histone modifications that underly the male-specific heterochromatinization in Planococcus kraunhiae.
Yamanaka:Regulation of the initiation of meiotic recombination by DNA methylation.
Ichiyanagi:DNA methylation dictates histone modifications in developing male germ cells in the mouse.
Kitao:Exaptation of endogenous retrovirus-derived genes in birds.
Suzuki:Comparison of epigenome dynamics during neural stem cell differentiation between humans and chimpanzees.
Ishikawa:Chromosome-level genome assembling and idetification of candidate genes involved in histone modifications that underly the male-specific heterochromatinization in Planococcus kraunhiae.
Yamanaka:Regulation of the initiation of meiotic recombination by DNA methylation.
2025/09/05
Ishikawa (D2) presented a talk in the 96th annual meeting of Jepanese Society of Zoolology.
Title:A Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Japanese Mealybug and Comparative Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses Across Pseudococcidae Species.
Title:A Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Japanese Mealybug and Comparative Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses Across Pseudococcidae Species.
2025/09/01
Ishikawa (D2) presented an invited talk in the 7th Japanese meeting on Transposable elemenets.
Title:Diversity of transposons in non-model insects, mealybugs.
Title:Diversity of transposons in non-model insects, mealybugs.
2025/09/01
Ichiyanagi organized the 7th Japanease meeting on Transposable elemenets.
2025/08/21
Kitao (post-doc) presented a talk in the 27th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Evolutionary Studies.
Title:Evolution of retrovirus-derived Env genes in primates and its exaptation as a membrane-fusonic protin in tarsier.
2025/08/20
Ichiyanagi organized a workshop entitled "Transposon-driven evolution of genome and epigenome"in the 27th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Evolutionary Studies, and presented a talk there.
Title:Retrotransposition of retrotransposons drives epigenome evolution in mammals.
Title:Retrotransposition of retrotransposons drives epigenome evolution in mammals.
2025/07/19
Ishikawa (D2) presented a poster in the symposium for sex determination.
Title:Expolaration of genes involved in a phenomenon of male-specific chromosome inactivation in the Japanease mealybug Planococcus kraunhiae.
Title:Expolaration of genes involved in a phenomenon of male-specific chromosome inactivation in the Japanease mealybug Planococcus kraunhiae.
2025/07/16
Suzuki (D2) presented a poster in the joint anual meeting of Japanease Society of Developmental Biologists and Japanease Society foe Cell Biology.
Title:Comparative study oftranscriptome and chromatin accsessbility in human and chimapzneeneural stem cells.
Title:Comparative study oftranscriptome and chromatin accsessbility in human and chimapzneeneural stem cells.
2025/07/10
Kitao（post-doc）received a Young Scientist Award from Japanese Society of Genetics.
"Studies on diversity and evolution of transposable element-derived genes"
"Studies on diversity and evolution of transposable element-derived genes"
2025/06/18
Suzuki (D2) and Ichiyanagi presented posters at the 18th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Epigenetics.
Suzuki "FOXA2 generates open chromatin at human LINE-1 retrotransposon loci during endodermal developement."
Ichiyanagi "Insertion of short L1 sequences generates inter-strain histone acetylation differences in the mouse."
Suzuki "FOXA2 generates open chromatin at human LINE-1 retrotransposon loci during endodermal developement."
Ichiyanagi "Insertion of short L1 sequences generates inter-strain histone acetylation differences in the mouse."
2025/06/02
MS. Shen joined the lab.
2025/05/22
Ichiyanagi presented a talk in the kick-off meeting for Boidiversity Driven by Mobile DNA Elements and Hosts.
Title: The function od mobile DNA elements in stress resposnse.
2025/05/17
Riley Kae (undergraduate in North Carolina State University) joind the lab as a short-tem student.
2025/04/12
Our paper on the generation of new genes by L1 retrotransposons has been accepted by Genome Res.
Kitao et al. "Birth of protein-coding exons by ancient domestication of LINE-1 retrotransposon."
Kitao et al. "Birth of protein-coding exons by ancient domestication of LINE-1 retrotransposon."
2025/01/30
Our paper on COVID-19 has been puiblished in Genes to Cells.
Yoshida & Ohtani "Activation of Evolutionarily Young Endogenous Retroviruses Is Implicated in COVID-19 Immunopathology."
link to the paper
Yoshida & Ohtani "Activation of Evolutionarily Young Endogenous Retroviruses Is Implicated in COVID-19 Immunopathology."
link to the paper
2024/11/29
Kitao (post-doc) presented an invited talk in a symposium entitled “Retroelemenets: Enemy or Friend?" in the 47th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Molecular Biology.
Title: Diversity of retroelement-derived genes.
Title: Diversity of retroelement-derived genes.
2024/11/27
Ichiyanagi presented an invited talk in a symposyum entitled “Metabolic reproductive biology: regulation of the reproductive cycle by nutrition and metabolism” in the 47th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Molecular Biology.
Title: Diabetes-induced abnormalities in the sperm epigenome and their heredity
Title: Diabetes-induced abnormalities in the sperm epigenome and their heredity
2024/11/27
Ichiyanagi organized a symposium entitled "Higher order genome regulation and function mediated by the transposable element code (TEC)” in the 47th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Molecular Biology.
2024/11/27
Otani, Boyboy (post-doc), and Morita (M2) presented a poster in the 47th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Molecular Biology.
Otani: Comprehensive analysis of gene-TE chimeric RNAs produced in COVID-19 patients
Boyboy: Paternal transgenerational epigenetic Inheritance of diabetes in mice
Morita: Elucidation of molecular mechanisms underlying the anti-cancer activity of the DNA demethylating drug, 5-azacytidine」
Otani: Comprehensive analysis of gene-TE chimeric RNAs produced in COVID-19 patients
Boyboy: Paternal transgenerational epigenetic Inheritance of diabetes in mice
Morita: Elucidation of molecular mechanisms underlying the anti-cancer activity of the DNA demethylating drug, 5-azacytidine」
2024/11/23
Ichiyanagi presented an invited talk in the 39th International Kumamoto Medical Bioscience Symposium.
Title: Epigenetic regulation of retrotransposons during germ cell development in the mouse
2024/11/15
Kitao (post-doc) presented an invited talk in the 4th Japan-Korea International Symposium for Transposable Elements.
Title: Impacts of retroviral envelope proteins on mammalian evolution
Title: Impacts of retroviral envelope proteins on mammalian evolution
2024/11/15
Ichiyanagi presented a seminar in Center for Genome and Gene resource, Kagawa University.
Title: Intersection of epigenetics and transposable elements
Title: Intersection of epigenetics and transposable elements
