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• 24/04/2023
  Work
  Research Grant
  A research proposal based on the joint research with Kyoto Univ Hospital was accepted by Kyoto University Open Innovation Institute.
• 18/03/2023
  Event
  Graduation Ceremony
  Congratulation on your graduations. Good luck to Rumina, Ryo, and Rin!
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• 08/02/2023
  Event
  Graduation Thesis Presentation
  Tsukasa Ohashi, Haruka KURITA, and Rin ONAGA made a poster presentation. Well done! Their long effort for preparing their presentation should be appreciated.
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• 01/12/2022
  Work
  Meeting Presentation
  Ryo KAWAKAMI (M2) and Shiori SHIBUKAWA (M1) made poster presentations at the 45 th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan.
  "Neovasculature-Targeted Lipoprotein Mutant Eye Drops for the Treatment of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Mice" (Ryo)
  "Corneal Epithelial Cell Affinity and Posterior Eye Drug Delivery Ability of Lipoprotein Variants" (Shiori)
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• 26/10/2022
  Event
  New Lab Members and Welcome Party
  Hayato TAKAGIi (B3), Yumemi TAJIMA (B3), and Reina NAKANISHI (B3) have joined and started their graduation research, and a lunch party was held for them in a park near the campus.
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• 19/10/2022
  Work
  Meeting Presentation
  Tsukasa (B4) made an oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Hokuriku Branch of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan .
  "Development of intraretinal DDS for treatment of early-stage age-related macular degeneration"
• 12/06/2022
  Work
  Review Article
  The review article entitled "High-density lipoprotein as a therapeutic target of age-related macular degeneration" was published in BIO Clinica (Japanese). This article summarizes how high-density lipoprotein's biological activities counteract the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration in human and experimental animals.
• 01/06/2022
  Work
  Meeting Presentation
  Prof. Murakami gave an invited talk at the 241th ECS meeting (digital).
  "Donor-Acceptor-Linked Molecules for Controlling the Membrane Potential of Living Cells"
• 19/03/2022
  Event
  Graduation Ceremony
  Congratulation on your graduations. Good luck to Yui!
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• 09/02/2022
  Event
  Graduation Thesis Presentation
  Shiori SHIBUKAWA, Yui TSUKIO, and Yuu Mizukami made an oral presentation online. Well done! Their long effort for preparing their presentation should be appreciated.
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• 13/12/2021
  Work
  Meeting Presentation
  Rumina SHIMA made a poster presentation at the Materials Research Meeting 2021 (MRM2021) in Yokohama.
  "Blood Circulation Property of High-Density Lipoprotein in Zebrafish"
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• 14/10/2021
  Event
  Welcome Party
  A tea party was held for the new lab members after a photo session. The party was organized by the fourth-year students. Thanks!
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• 01/10/2021
  Event
  New Lab Members
  Tsukasa OHASHI (B3), Rin ONAGA (B3), and Haruka KURITA (B3) have joined and started their graduation research.
• 01/10/2021
  Work
  Meeting Presentation
  Prof. Murakami gave an invited talk at ICFPE2021 (online).
  "Photo-Control of the Membrane Potential of Living Cells with Donor-Acceptor-Linked Molecule"
• 15/09/2021
  Work
  Meeting Presentation
  Ryosuke FUKUDA and Rumina SHIMA made an online poster presentation at the Toyama Basel Meeting 2021.
  "Potential of Engineered Lipoprotein Eye Drops for the Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (Fukuda)"
  "Comparative Analysis of the Pharmacokinetic Properties of High-Density Lipoprotein between Zebrafish embyos and mice (Shima)"
• 14/09/2021
  Work
  Meeting Presentation
  Prof. Murakami gave an invited talk at the Annual Meeting on Photochemistry 2021 (online).
• 01/08/2021
  Event
  New Lab Member
  Ryosuke FUKUDA has joined as a KAKENHI "Dynamic Excition" postdoc.
• 30/07/2021
  Work
  Meeting Presentation
  Rumina SHIMA and Ryo KAWAKAMI made an online poster presentation at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Drug Delivery System.
• 04/06/2021
  Work
  Meeting Presentation
  Prof. Murakami gave an invited talk at the 239th ECS meeting (online).
  "Optical Control of the Membrane Potential of Living Cells with Donor-Acceptor-Linked Molecules"
• 01/04/2021
  News
  Research Position
  Tomohiro NOBEYAMA and Ryosuke FUKUDA were selected as JSPS postdoc (DC2).
• 05/01/2021
  Work
  Patent
  Our application regarding lipoprotein mutant eye drops for the treatment of posterior eye diseases has filed in Japan (P6818264).
• 01/12/2020
  News
  Research Grant
  The application for Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas, “Dynamic Exciton” (Project leader, Prof. Hiroshi Imahori of Kyoto Univ.) was accepted. Prof.Murakami joins as one of the PIs in this project. His research title is “Optical control of the plasma membrane functions by using dynamic exciton.
• 16/11/2020
  Work
  Book Chapter
  The book that Tomohiro and Prof.Murakami were involved in was released. What they write was Chapter 24, "Phase Separation of Lipid Membranes and Their Future." It was Tomohiro's first time writing a book.
• 07/10/2020
  Event
  Luncheon Party
  While maintaining social distance and protecting alcohol disinfection and mask, we held a welcome lunch party for Nargis(Postdoc) and Yui(B3) and Yu(B3) and Shiori(B3).
• 29/09/2020
  Event
  PhD Conferment Ceremony
  The ceremony of Ph.D. degree conferment for Ryosuke and Tomohiro was held in the campus. Ryosuke and Tomohiro, congrats!
• 19/08/2020
  Work
  Original Article
  The original article regarding the optical control of membrane potential with a donor-acceptor-linked molecule was accepted for the publication in Cell. Physiol. Biochem. This work is based on the joint research with Dr. Tomohiro NUMATA (Fukuoka Univ.).
• 05/06/2020
  Work
  Original Article
  The original article of Tomohiro was accepted for the publication in Langmuir, which is already published on line. Congrats, Tomohiro!