Research Groups

Research Projects

Deciphering the epicode of sex differentiation through nutritional metabolism

Makoto Tachibana
Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University

Deciphering the epicode governing animal growth and reproduction in response to the nutritional environment

Yukako Hattori
The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research/Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University

Deciphering the epicode that controls long-term memory in neurons

Yukiko Gotoh
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Deciphering the epicode that governs aging in skeletal muscle

Yasuyuki Ohkawa
Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University

Tatsuya Takemoto
Institute of Advanced Medical Sciences , Tokushima University

Deciphering the epicode of gametes that transmits cell memory to the next generation

Junichi Nakayama
Division of Chromatin Regulation, National Institute for Basic Biology

Deciphering the epicode in fertilization and genome activation

Hiroshi Kimura
Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Kazuo Yamagata
Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kindai University

Deciphering the epicode that controls cell plasticity during early mammalian development

Hiroshi Ochiai  
Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University

Deciphering the dynamic transcriptional epicode that governs early developmental fate

Takashi Fukaya
Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo

Elucidating the fundamental structures and operational principles of chromatin that define the epicode

Hitoshi Kurumizaka
Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo

Tatsuro S Takahashi
Graduate School of Science, Kyushu Univeristy

Naoki Horikoshi
Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo

Public research group

Dormancy or awakening: fate determination, epicode and nucleosome states

Masamitsu Sato
Waseda University

Development of chemical catalysts to manipulate epicodes

Shigehiro Kawashima
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Epigenetic codes underlying high cellular plasticity in plants

Momoko Ikeuchi
Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Mechanisms underlying the establishment of early embryonic epicode by non-chromatin proteins

Kei Miyamoto
Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University

Deciphering the epicode that regulates intestinal epithelial cell plasticity in response to nutritional environmental changes

Yuichiro Nakajima
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Understanding of Epicode in Xenopus early embryo

Tomoko Nishiyama
Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

Elucidating the Function of Transgenerational Epigenetic Codes Imprinted on Parental Alleles

Shinpei Yamaguchi
Toho University

A higher-order chromatin structure analysis by methylation footprinting

Fumihito Miura
The University of Tokyo

Epicode for germ cell priming

Shinichi Tomizawa
Yokohama City University School of Medicine

Deciphering the epicode of sexual differentiation that is environmentally changed and long-term memorized in the crustacean Daphnia

Yasuhiko Kato
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Univeristy

Decoding the Epicode and Regulatory Networks Underlying Primate-Specific Pluripotency

Tomonori Nakamura
The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research/ WPI-ASHBi, Kyoto-University

Functional Decoding of Epigenetic Regulation Underlying Organ Regeneration-Specific Transcription in newt

Ken-ichi T Suzuki
National Institute for Basic Biology

Elucidation of molecular mechanisms involved in deciphering of transposon-specific repressive epicode

Akihisa OSAKABE
Chiba University

Deciphering the epicode of human brain diversity by nucleic acid structurome

Norifumi Shioda
Kumamoto University

Deciphering the epi-code underlying cell fate regulation during regeneration

Akane Kawaguchi
Laboratory for Molecular Life History National Institute of Genetics

Advisors