Research group of cytoskeletal logistics directed by Masamitsu Sato PhD. Department of Life Science and Medical Bio-science, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University.

  We have moved from University of Tokyo and launched our new laboratory in 2013. Our laboratory is located at The Tokyo Women's Medical University - Waseda University Joint Institution for Advanced Biomedical Sciences / TWIns.

  Professor Sato was awarded the title of “Yeast Consortium Fellow of the Ohsumi Frontier Science Foundation” by Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2016 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine)

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 February 29, 2024 【Conference Presentation】Kobayashi (student) gave a presentation in the 10th  Research Exchange Seminar between Tokyo Women's Medical University and Waseda University.
 December 6, 2023 【Conference Presentation】Lab members (Kakui [Associate Professor], Aikawa [D2], Kobayashi [M2] and Tsuzuki [M1]) gave presentations in the 46th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ2023).
 November 30, 2023  Professor Sato received the Waseda University Teaching Award for Fall Semester 2022 (Lecture "Physiology B").
 November 17, 2023 【Conference Presentation】 Professor Sato and Associate Professor Kakui gave presentations in The 24th Joint Yeast Symposium.
 October 12, 2023 【Conference Presentation】 Professor Sato gave a presentation in Cold Spring Harbor Asia meeting: Yeast and Life Sciences 2023.
 August 31, 2023 【Conference Presentation】Lab members (Kakui [Associate Professor] and Hasegawa [M2]) gave presentations in The 56th Annual Meeting of the Yeast Genetics Society of Japan (in Niigata).
 July 27, 2023 【Conference Presentation】Hasegawa (student) gave a presentation in The Society for Cell Division Research.
 July 26, 2023 【Lecture】Professor Sato gave a lecture on the mechanism of dormancy breaking of cells in The Fermentation and Metabolism Research Group of Japan Bioindustry Association.
 June 29, 2023 【Conference Presentation】Lab members (Aikawa and Arai [students]) gave presentations in The 75th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Cell Biology (JSCB)
 June 17, 2023 【Conference Presentation】Lab members (Professor Sato and Shogaki [D2]) gave presentations in The 2nd research exchange meeting between Waseda university and Open Innovation Laboratory (OIL).
 June 14, 2023 【Conference Presentation】Shogaki (student) gave a presentation in The 20th AIST/industrial and Technical Federation LS-BT Joint Research Presentaion.
 June 9, 2023 【Lecture】Professor Sato gave a lecture on dormancy breaking of fission yeast spores in The 17th meeting of Institute for Fermentation.
 June 2, 2023  【Conference Presentation】Lab members (Sato [Professor], Toya [Associate Professor], Kakui [Associate Professor], Minagawa and Wu [students]) attended The 11th International Fission Yeast Meeting (Pombe 2023).
 December 16, 2022  The paper on Communications Biology by Murase et al regarding discovery of a microtubule destabiliser has been introduced in EurekAlert! news release by AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and the Waseda University News (English news page) as well as in the webpage of Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience (top and article pages).
 December 9, 2022 【Conference Presentation】Professor Sato gave a lecture on mechanisms for dormancy breaking of spore cells in the 202nd regular meeting of the Society of Yeast Sciences.
 December 7, 2022 【Paper Publication】A research paper by Assistant Professor Kakui et al has been published in Cell Reports, discovering chromosomal arm length is the main determinant of mitotic chromosome width. 
The content of this research paper is also introduced on Waseda University Research Topics website.
 December 2, 2022   A research paper on Communications Biology by Murase et al. was introduced on Nikkei Shimbun, Iyaku Tsushin-sha, Nikkei BioTech ONLINE and Waseda University Research topics websites.
 December 1, 2022 【Conference Presentation】Nishizawa and Murase [students] gave presentations in the 45th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ2022).
 November 27, 2022 【Paper Publication】A research paper by the collaborative group of Murase (PhD student), Dr. Takahiro Hamada (Okayama University of Science) and members of the Junichiro Yajima lab (The University of Tokyo) has been published in Communications Biology, identifying a factor that shortens microtubules for chromosome segregation.
 November 7, 2022   A research paper on Nucleic Acids Research by Ono, Katayama et al. was introduced on the printed version of Nikkei Business Daily (Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun) on 7 November 2022.
 October 24, 2022   A research paper on Nucleic Acids Research by Ono, Katayama, Onuma et al. was introduced on Nikkei Shimbun, Jomo Shimbun and Waseda University Research topics websites.
 October 19, 2022 【Paper Publication】A research paper by the collaborative group of Ono (PhD student), Katayama, Onuma (alumni) and members of the Michiaki Hamada lab (Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience) has been published in Nucleic Acids Research, regarding a structure-based bioinformatic and genetic screen to identify novel functional non-coding RNAs.
 September 9, 2022 【Conference Presentation】Lab members (Sato [Professor], Kakui [Assistant Professor], Ono, Murase, Minagawa, and Wu [students]) attended The 55th Annual Meeting of the Yeast Genetics Society of Japan (in Okinawa). 
Murase received the Student Presentation Award (Poster Presentation Category).
 August 15, 2022 【Paper Publication】A research paper by Hirai (PhD, ex-lab member) and Shogaki about mechanisms for maintenance of centromeric chromatin has been published in Communications Biology.
 August 9, 2022 【Lecture】Professor Sato gave a lecture on dormancy breaking of fission yeast spores in the 91st regular meeting of Yeast Research Society of Japan (at Osaka Metropolitan University).
 June 30, 2022 【Conference Presentation】Lab members (Sato [Professor], Toya [Associate Professor], Nishizawa, Minagawa, and Hoshiko [students]) gave presentations in The 74th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Cell Biology (JSCB).
 June 29, 2022 【Conference Presentation】 Shogaki (student) gave a presentation in The 20th AIST/industrial and Technical Federation LS-BT Joint Research Presentation.
 January 19, 2022  【Conference Presentation】 Lab member Shogaki attended The 30th Hot Spring Harbor International Symposium Chromatin Potential in Development & Differentiation The 6th Symposium of the Inter-University Research Network for Trans-Omics Medicine. 
 January 9, 2022 【Conference Presentation】 Professor Sato presented about the gametogenesis and the causes that give rise to chromosomal trisomy in The 27th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Clinical Embryologist.  
 December 3, 2021 【Conference Presentation】 Assistant Professor Kakui and lab member Minagawa attended The 44th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan.
 October 25, 2021 【Homepage Update】 The “Research” page introducing our research topics was updated.  
  Under the “Read more →” of Project 2 and Project 4, Project 2-3 “Mechanism of the formation of cystic kidneys (role of epithelial microtubules in the kidneys)” and Project 4-3 “Investigation of the molecular mechanism of how cells wake up” was added.  
 September 2, 2021 【Conference Presentation】 Lab member Shogaki attended The 54th Annual Meeting of the Yeast Genetics Society of Japan, and received the Student Presentation Award (Oral Presentation Category).  
 July 28, 2021 【Paper Publication】 A research paper in which Associate Professor Toya, Assistant Professor Kakui, and lab member Soba participated in was published in Molecular Biology of the Cell.
 July 15, 2021   A video introducing our lab was released following the open campus held online. 
 April 30, 2021 【Paper Publication】 A research paper by lab member Minagawa et al about drug-resistant tubulin mutant was published in cells.
 April 9, 2021 【Paper Publication】 A review article by Professor Sato, Assistant Professor Kakui, and Associate Professor Toya about the difference between mitosis and meiosis outlined with our findings using fission yeast was published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
 March 30, 2021 【Paper Publication】 A review article by lab members Tsuyuzaki, Ujiie et al about cellular wake-up using fission yeast was published in Current Genetics
 March 26, 2021 【Paper Publication】 A research paper by lab member Li et al about the application of CRISPR/Cas9 methods in fission yeast was published in Gene. 
 March 25, 2021   An interview article of lab member Tsuyuzaki was published in Waseda Weekly【FY2020 Graduation Anniversary Issue】.
 March 12, 2021 【Paper Publication】 A research paper by lab member Mitsuhata (earned master’s degree in 2020) and Associate Professor Toya et al was published in Scientific Reports.  
 
  The content of this research paper is also introduced in the following university websites.  
Website of the Department of Life science and Medical Bioscience,
 School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University
 
Waseda University Research Topic 
 March 12, 2021   Professor Sato was awarded the title of “Yeast Research Consortium Fellow of the Ohsumi Frontier Science Foundation” by Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2016 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine).
 March 5, 2021   An article introducing Professor Sato and Associate Professor Toya was published in 早稲田理工 by AERA 2021 (Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.)
 January 25, 2021 【Paper Publication】 A research paper in which Assistant Professor Kakui participated in was published in Nucleic Acids Research