Archive of 2008 News&Events

IAB is a partner in a project entitled "Project of Early Clinical Development for Anti Cancer Medicine and Device" led by Hiroyasu Esumi, Director of National Cancer Center Hospital East, that was selected as "Super Special Consortia for supporting the development of cutting-edge medical care" by the Cabinet Office of the Japanese government.

Transporter Workshop in Tsuruoka was held on Nov 15-16, 2008 at IAB. About 70 participants from all over Japan gathered to Tsuruoka Japan. This event was sponsored by Japan Transporter Research Association, co-sponsored by IAB, supported by The Japanese Pharmacological Society and The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.

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The 3rd Metabolome Symposium was held on Oct 30-Nov 1, 2008 at IAB. About 200 participants from all over Japan gathered to Tsuruoka Japan. This event was co-sponsored by Keio University Global COE Program "Center for Human Metabolomic Systems Biology", RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) and Institute for Bioinformatics Research and Development (BIRD), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

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RIBONUCLEASE H 2008 was held on Sep 22-25, 2008 at IAB. 17 participants from USA, Europe, Asia and Japan gathered to Tsuruoka Japan. This event was sponsored by IAB, supported by Merck & Co., Inc., Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho Co., Ltd.,.

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Dr. Yasushi Ishihama's research group (Mr. Koshi Imami, a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Media and Governance,) under the direction of Dr. Masaru Tomita developed a fast and automated phosphoproteome analysis system for cultured cancer cells that facilitates the elucidation of the disease's mechanisms.

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IAB launches on June 10 a "The Metabolome Consortium"which aims to promote the use of IAB's own metabolome analysis methods based on capillary electrophoresis time-of-flight mass spectrometry (CE-TOFMS) and the related metabolomic database by other groups such as pharmaceutical industries. The CE-TOFMS methods were developed by Dr.Tomoyoshi Soga's research group under the direction of Dr. Masaru Tomita.

Large-scale phosphorylation mapping reveals the extent of tyrosine phosphorylation in Arabidopsis.

A team of IAB and RIKEN researchers published this week that they identified on a large-scale, phosphorylation sites of Arabidopsis proteins. Most cellular processes in Arabidopsis, a widely-used plant model, are likely to be regulated at least in part by various phosphorylation events which appear strikingly similar to the human phosphoproteome profile. The results are published in Molecular Systems Biology (6 May 2008. 4: 193 doi:10.1038/msb.2008.32). The research group consists of the following researchers; Dr. Yasushi Ishihama of IAB, Dr. Naoyuki Sugiyama, Leader of Biomedical Group at Human Metabolome Technologies,Inc., Dr. Ken Shirasu, Group Director and Dr. Hiroshi Nakagami, Research Scientist of Plant Immunity Research Group at RIKEN Plant Science Center.

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IAB and DENSO Corporation announced that they launch a joint research program to elucidate the metabolism of green algea that can synthesize and accumulate oil.

IAB metabolome analysis technique was selected by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) as one of the "World top level technologies of Japan" in the field of Life-Science, in the "Global Comparison of Research and Technology FY2008" report .

IAB researchers announce that they will start metabolome analysis to develop diagnosis methods for Alzheimer's disease , in collaboration with the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology.

Dr. Kenji Tsuge and Dr. Mitsuhiro Itaya's research group, directed by Dr. Masaru Tomita, published their results about the development of methods to iteratively construct DNA sequences on the scale of small genomes in collaboration with Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences in Nature Methods (Dec 2007; doi:10.1038/nmeth1143).

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