News & Topics
- April 1, 2024
- Dr. Tuchiya joined as an Associate Professor.
- April 1, 2024
- Dr. Watanabe (Associate Professor) has been transferred to the Faculty of Pharmacy newly established in Urayasu-Hinode Campus.
- March 5, 2024
- Takada-san, a Ph.D. student, received the best poster award at the Doctoral Poster Session of Juntendo University.（photo）
- January 23, 2024
- We hosted a seminar featuring Prof. Jin-A Lee from Hannam University.（photo）
- January 1, 2024
- Dr. Tabata joined as an Associate Professor.
- December 23, 2023
- A review article on the UFM1 system has been published in Molecular Cell. This article covers the principles of UFM1 operation, cellular functions, and pathophysiology, and is co-authored by Prof. Komatsu, Prof. Inada from the University of Tokyo, and Prof. Noda from Hokkaido University.
- December 15, 2023
- The International Leading Research grant titled "Interdisciplinary research on autophagy: From working principles to pathophysiology" has been adopted with Prof. Komatsu as the PI. We are recruiting graduate students and postdocs to participate in this grant program.
This program will offer Ph.D. students an honorarium through the Research Assistant (RA) and Teaching Assistant (TA) systems. - November 8, 2023
- A review article by Kurusu-san (a Medical Student) was published in J. Biochem 2023.
- November 8, 2023
- Takada-san (a Ph.D student) received the Excellent Presentation Award for Young Scientists at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society.
- November 1, 2023
- An auto-commentary to our article (Dev Cell 2023: 58) was published in Autophagy (as a punctum).
- November 1, 2023
- Dr. Sakamaki joined as an Associate Professor.
- October 27, 2023
- A review article by Kurusu-san (a Medical Student) was published in the "JIKKEN IGAKU (実験医学)" journal (Oct. 2023 issue).
- September 20, 2023
- Ryo Ikeda, a Ph.D. student at Niigata University, while his supervisor is Prof. Komatsu, was awarded a doctorate of medicine. Congratulations!
- August 18, 2023
- An article was published in Sci. Adv. in collaboration with Prof. Noda (Hokkaido Univ) and Prof. Inada (UTokyo) (Ishimura, et al, 2023).
- July 1, 2023
- Dr. Morishita has been promoted to a professor at Kyushu University, and Dr. Kageyama, to a lecturer at Keio University.
- June 29, 2023
- Dr. Ishimura was among the winners of the Presentation Award for Young Researchers at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Cell Biology.
- June 12, 2023
- An article was published in EMBO J. in collaboration with Prof. Noda at Hokkaido University.
- June 6, 2023
- Dr. Morishita has been selected for the 2022 Kao Science Prize in Medicine and Biology by the Kao Foundation of Arts and Science.
- May 15, 2023
- An article was published in Developmental Cell (Kurusu, Fujimoto, Morishita, et al. 2023).
- April 23, 2023
- Dr. Morishita won the Best Encouragement Award of the 31st General Assembly of the Japan Medical Congress.
- April 23, 2023
- Kurusu-san (a medical student) received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2023 Medical Scientist Training Program Retreat.
- April 3, 2023
- Our review paper “Selective Autophagy” (published in Cancer Science 2021) is among the most downloaded papers!
- January 26, 2023
- Dr. Morishita has won the 2022 Medical Research Award from Tokyo Medical Association.
- December 21, 2022
- An article was published in Nature Communications. (Ishimura, et al. 2022)
- December 19, 2022
- Dr. Morishita was selected for the Encouragement Award (Basic Medicine) of the 31st General Assembly of the Japan Medical Congress.
- November 19, 2022
- Kurusu-san (a medical student) won the 6th Student Academic Encouragement Award from the Juntendo University School of Medicine Alumni Association. Congratulations!
- November 15, 2022
- Prof. Komatsu was among the 2022 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers (4th straight year!).
- November 15, 2022
- The 10th International Symposium on Autophagy (Oct.23-27, 2022), headed by Prof. Komatsu, has come to a successful conclusion with about 270 participants from home and abroad.
- November 10, 2022
- A review article by Dr. Morishita and Prof. Komatsu was published in Current Opinion in Physiology.
- November 10, 2022
- A review article by Dr. Morishita was published in Current Opinion in Physiology.
- November 10, 2022
- A review article by Prof. Komatsu was published in IUBMB Life Special Issue celebrating the 50th Anniversary of FAOBMB.
- October 21, 2022
- Dr. Morishita received the 2022 Young Investigator Award from the Japanese Ophthalmological Society.
- September 28, 2022
- Prof. Komatsu interview article was featured on the Juntendo University official website.
- September 23, 2022
- Our 2021 LLPS-related paper is among a themed collection of Nature Communications.
- August 21, 2022
- Fujimoto-san (an MD student) won an excellent poster presentation award at the East Japan Research Physician Training Consortium (Summer Retreat 2022).
- July 13, 2022
- Our 2020 article, "NBR1-mediated p62-liquid droplets enhance the Keap1-Nrf2 system" published in EMBO Reports was among the journal’s most cited papers in recent publication history!
- June 26, 2022
- Dr. Morishita received the best presentation award at the 30th Cell Death Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Cell Death Research.
- May 17, 2022
- Kurusu-san (a medical student) received an excellent presentation award at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Microscopy.
- April 8, 2022
- Dr. Morishita received the 2022 Young Scientists' Award of the Commendation for Science and Technology from the Minister of MEXT.
This news has appeared on Juntendo University's homepage. - March 23, 2022
- Article commentary on our 2021 paper (Faruk, et al., J Biol Chem) appeared in the inaugural edition of Autophagy Reports.
- March 23, 2022
- Mohammad Omar Faruk and Shunsuke Sakai, both of whom are Ph.D. students at Niigata University while their supervisor is Prof. Komatsu, have been conferred the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Congratulations!
- January 21, 2022
- Kurusu-san (a medical student) won the excellent presentation award at the 8th Niigata University Collaborative Seminar.
- January 21, 2022
- Our Article on ATG2B and GSKIP (Sakai, et al) was selected as one of the two articles of significant interest from the issue (Jan.2022 Vol.42) by the editors.
- November 26, 2021
- Dr. Morishita was among the PIs for the "Proteostasis R&D Area" Solo-type Projects (AMED-PRIME).
- November 17, 2021
- Prof. Komatsu was selected as a 2021 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics.
- November 10, 2021
- A paper by Faruk et al. was published in Journal of Biological Chemistry.
- November 8, 2021
- A paper by Sakai et al. was published in Molecular and Cell Biology. This study was conducted in collaboration with the "Ritsuko Shimizu Group" at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine.
- October 30, 2021
- "Multimode Autophagy" Group Meeting was held in person from 10/25 to 10/27 in Yugawara for the first time in two years (Photo).
- September 24, 2021
- Going back to Bangladesh after the 5-year-study at Komatsu Lab.
Good luck with your future endeavors, Omar-san! - September 22, 2021
- Dr. Morishita has been awarded the 2021 Medical Research Encouragement Prize of the Japan Medical Association
- September 8, 2021
- Dr. Morishita received Ken-ichi Arai Award.
- September 7, 2021
- Kurusu-san (a medical student) won the best presentation award at the 2021 East Japan Basic Medical Training Program Consortium (the 11th Summer Retreat).
- August 26, 2021
- A review article by Faruk, et al. was published in Cancer Science.
- July 20, 2021
- The August 2021 issue of “JIKKEN IGAKU“ journal (whose planner is Prof. Komatsu) has been published.
- July 16, 2021
- Dr. Morishita received the Encouragement Award of the Japanese Biochemical Society.
- July 16, 2021
- In celebrating the 20th anniversary of Nature Cell Biology, our article (Komatsu, et al) was selected among the articles highlighting the glorious history of the Journal.
- June 2, 2021
- Dr. Morishita's interview article was featured on the Juntendo University's homepage.
- May 14, 2021
- Dr. Morishita received the 33rd Academic Award of the Japanese Society for Cataract Research.
- April 15, 2021
- Our review article (Sánchez-Martín, et al. 2018) was among the 2018-2019 most cited papers published in the FEBS Journal.
- April 2, 2021
- In the special virtual issue of the JBC celebrating 50 years of the Protein Data Bank, our Article (Ichimura, et al. 2008) was among the papers highlighting seminal structures.
- March 25, 2021
- Our recent article by Kageyama, et al. was among the three Featured Articles in Nature Communications.
- March 9, 2021
- We contributed our research results published in Nature Communications to Molecular & Cellular Oncology as Author's Views.
- January 4, 2021
- An article was published in Nature Communications. (Kageyama, et al. 2021)
- November 19, 2020
- Prof. Komatsu was selected as a 2020 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics.
- September 24, 2020
- As part of the Cabinet Office Evidence System Project (e-CSTI), Dr. Komatsu’s study was featured on "Young Researcher’s Study will change the World”
- May 28, 2020
- The Komatsu Lab was introduced in the “SEIKAGAKU” Journal (Vol.92, No.2) of the Japanese Biochemical Society.
- March 4, 2020
- Our article by Sanchez-Martin, et al. was featured in the design image of the front cover of EMBO Reports Vol.12, No.3.
- January 31, 2020
- A seminar by Dr. Hitoshi Nakatogawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology) was held.
- January 9, 2020
- An article by Sánchez-Martín, et. al was published in EMBO Reports.
- December 26, 2019
- An article by Takahashi, et.al. was published in Life Science Alliance.
- December 12, 2019
- A seminar by Dr. Nobuo N. Noda (Institute of Microbial Chemistry) was held.
- December 4, 2019
- Prof. Komatsu was selected as a 2019 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics.
- November 8, 2019
- A seminar by Dr. Masashi Narita (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) was held.
- October 11, 2019
- We invited Dr. Jin-A Lee (Hannam University), who has been promoting the development of the Autophagy probe, to give a seminar.
- October 1, 2019
- We invited Dr. Atsuo Sasaki (University of Cincinnati), who has been actively working on GTP sensor research, to give a seminar.
- September 9, 2019
- We invited Dr. Antonio Cuadrado (Autonomous University of Madrid) to give a seminar on Autophagy regulations by Nrf2.
- August 20, 2019
- A seminar by Dr. Andrei Budanov (The University of Dublin) was held.
- June 30, 2019
- “Multimode Autophagy: Diverse pathways and selectivity” was adopted as a 5-year Project for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas of KAKENHI. (Head Investigator: Dr. Komatsu)
- June 18, 2019
- A review article by Dr. Sanchez-Martin and Prof. Komatsu was published in Journal of Molecular Biology.
- June 17, 2019
- An article by Horigome, et al. was published in Autophagy.
- April 5, 2019
- An article by Saito, et al. was published in Nature Communications.
- April 1, 2019
- The Komatsu Lab moved to Juntendo University.
