News
2025
March 19, Chiba:
Ms. Dong Mingyi received a presentation award at the joint annual meeting of the Japanese Physiological, Pharmacological Societies and Association of Anatomist
March 4 to 8, Sapporo:
Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry :
New publications:
Mizutani K, Toyoda M, Ojima-Kato T, Maturana AD, Niimi T.FEBS Lett. 2025 Glu592 of the axon guidance receptor ROBO3 mediates a pH-dependent interaction with NELL2 ligand. FEBS Letters 59:571-580, 2025
Dong M. Maturana A.D. Effects of Aging on Calcium Channels in Skeletal Muscle. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 112:1558456 (2025).
Niimi T. pH依存的な結合性を示す軸索ガイダンス分子群の探索解析 ニューサイエンス社/Medical Science Digest 5
2024
December 27, Tokoname
Annual Sake brewing at Morita Brewery with students
September 9
Visit of Dr. Anamika Barghava, Associate Professor from Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
July 21 to 27
Research and Seminar at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad with the support of JICA.
June 9-23
Visiting researcher at UMRI-02 SEBIO Lab, Reims-Champagne-Ardenne University, Reims, France.
April 15-17
Dr. Debora Esposito, assistant professor at North Carolina State University, visited our lab and gave us a seminar on plant molecules for health.
2023
June 8, New publication:
Mensali N, Köksal H, Joaquina S, Wernhoff P, Casey NP, Romecin P, Panisello C, Rodriguez R, Vimeux L, Juzeniene A, Myhre MR, Fåne A, Ramírez CC, Maggadottir SM, Duru AD, Georgoudaki AM, Grad I, Maturana AD, Gaudernack G, Kvalheim G, Carcaboso AM, de Alava E, Donnadieu E, Bruland ØS, Menendez P, Inderberg EM, Wälchli S.LPL-1 is a target for chimeric antigen receptor therapy in osteosarcoma. Nature Communication 14:3375 (2023).
November 8
Ms. Dong Mingyi received a poster travel award at the 10th Federation of the Asian and Oceanian Physiological Societies Congress!
2019
Morinaga A., Ito J., Niimi T., Maturana A.D. RBM20 Regulates CaV1.2 Surface Expression by Promoting Exon 9* Inclusion of CACNA1C in Neonatal Rat Cardiomyocytes. Int J Mol Sci. 20 (22). pii: E5591 (2019).
September 26, New publication:
Therapeutic potential for miR-133a/b to prevent Zinc Finger Homeobox 3 loss of function-dependent Atrial Fibrillation. Maturana A.D. Acta Physiol (Oxf). 227(3):e13372 (2019). doi: 10.1111/apha.13372
May 11
Mr. Okamura received poster award at the 92nd Japan Endocrine Society Meeting!
March 10 to 31 Experiments at the Cellular Therapy lab of Oslo University Hospital, Norway
March 30 Poster presentation at Sakura-Bio meeting 2019, Nagoya.
"Coupling soluble TCR to Bionanocapsule to target cancer cells" Nanahara M. Somiya M., Even Walking, Kuroda S., Walchli S., Maturana A.D.
Yamamoto N., Kashiwagi M., Ishihara M.,Kojima T., Maturana A.D., Kuroda S., Niimi T.Robo2 contains a cryptic binding site for neural EGF-like (Nell) protein 1/2. J. Biol. Chem. 294:4693-4703 (2019)
Jan. 28 Distribution of Sakekasu (酒粕）
2018
Dec. 27 Brewing Sake at Morita Brewery
Dec 1-4 Oral Presentation at International Congress of Endocrinology, Cape Town South Africa
MicroRNA-204 is necessary for the aldosterone-stimulated T-type calcium channel expression and its chronotropic action in cardiomyocytes
Rossier M.F., Koyama R., Mannic T., Ito J., Amar L., Zennaro M.-C., Maturana A.D.
Nov. 16 New publication:
Structural Basis of H+-dependent conformational change in a bacterial MATE transporter
Kusakizako T., Claxton D.P., Tanaka Y. , Maturana A.M., Kuroda T., Ishitani R.,
Mchaourab H.S. and Nureki O.
Structure, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2018.10.004
Nov. 13 Presentation at Kasetsart University, Bangkok Thailand.
AC21 Joint Mini-symposium.
