What's new (Laboratory of Genome and Epigenome Dynamics, Nagoya University)
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
2024/11/08
Mr. Konno joined the lab.
2024/09/06
Ichiyanagi organized a workshop entitled “Revisiting transposons: in association with host environments” at the 96th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Genetics.
2024/09/05
Kitamura (M. Sc. student) presented a poster at the 96th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Genetics.
Title: Epigenetic systems for regulation of transcription of mouse SINE retrotransposons.
Title: Epigenetic systems for regulation of transcription of mouse SINE retrotransposons.
2024/09/04
Ishikawa (Ph.D. student) organized a workshop for young scientists at the 96th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Genetics.
2024/09/04
Kitao (post-doc) presented an invited talk in the workshop entitled “Exploring the primordial life: implications for birth of life and the gene system” at the 96th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Genetics.
Title: Co-option of transposable elements: diversity and evolution of vertebrates.
Title: Co-option of transposable elements: diversity and evolution of vertebrates.
2024/09/04
Ishikawa (Ph.D. student) and Ichiyanagi gave oral presentations at the 96th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Genetics.
Ishikawa: Elucidating the mechanisms for male-specific chromosome silencing and sex determination system in mealybug.
Ichiyanagi: Insertion of short L1 sequences generates inter-strain histone acetylation differences in the mouse.
Ishikawa: Elucidating the mechanisms for male-specific chromosome silencing and sex determination system in mealybug.
Ichiyanagi: Insertion of short L1 sequences generates inter-strain histone acetylation differences in the mouse.
2024/09/04
Ichiyanagi organized a gender-equality forum at the 96th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Genetics.
2024/08/22
Kitao (post-doc) organized the workshop entitled “Evolution of the host and wandering genes: a virus-transposon perspective” and gave a talk at the 26th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Evolution.
Talk title: Dynamic evolution of endogenous retrotransposons in the monotreme genomes.
Talk title: Dynamic evolution of endogenous retrotransposons in the monotreme genomes.
2024/05/24
Sophia Nunez and Jacob Baker (3rd year undergraduates in North Carolina State University) joind the lab as short-tem students
2024/04/17
Our paper on the effect of insertions of mouse L1 retrotransposons on histone acetylation has been accepted by Mobile DNA.
Boyboy and Ichiyanagi "Insertion of short L1 sequences generates inter-strain histone acetylation differences in the mouse."
Boyboy and Ichiyanagi "Insertion of short L1 sequences generates inter-strain histone acetylation differences in the mouse."
