Jan. 22-23, 2021

Takeuchi-san gave a oral presentation at The 5th Japanese Society for the Study of Liquid Biopsy.

 

Jan. 13, 2021

A paper on a "Development of Antimicrobial Stapled Peptides Based on Magainin 2 Sequence" by Saito-san, Dr. Kawano and Demizu Lab. (National Institute of Health Sciences) is now accepted in Molecules!

 

Jan. 10, 2021

A paper on a "Single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals penaeid shrimp hemocyte subpopulations and cell differentiation process" by Dr. Koiwai is now preprinted in bioRxiv!

 

Jan. 7-8, 2021

MIzoguchi-kun and Miyagi-san gave a poster presentation at Molecular Engine Meeting.

 

Jan. 1, 2021

A Happy New Year!! The 8th year of Kawano laboratory began.

 

Dec. 23, 2020

Hatashi-kun, Fukuda-san, Mizoguchi-kun and Miyagi-san gave a oral presentation and
Liu-san, Izumi-san, Takeuchi-san, Numaguchi-san, Yamaji-san, Usami-kun, Saito-san,
Sato-kun, Takiguchi-kun gave a poster presentation at the 7th Saibounics Meeting (Online).

 

Dec. 16, 2020

A paper on "Rational Design of Helix-stabilized Antimicrobial Peptide Foldamers Containing α,α-Disubstituted Amino Acids or Side-Chain Stapling" by Saito-san, Dr. Kawano and
Demizu Lab. (National Institute of Health Sciences) is now accepted in ChemPlusChem!

 

Nov. 27, 2020

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture and Mizoguchi-kun and Miyagi-san gave a poster presentation

at Molecular Engine Meeting (Online).

 

Nov. 26, 2020

Liu-san won Excellent Student Scholarship in Doctoral program!

 

Nov. 20-21, 2020

Izumi-san, Takeuchi-san, Hayashi-kun, Fukuda-san, Mizoguchi-kun and Miyagi-san gave
a oral presentation at Meeting for the Study of Artificial Cell Membrane.

 

Nov. 9-11, 2020

Numaguchi-san, Usami-kun and Saito-san gave a oral presentation and Mizoguchi-kun gave
a poster presentation at The 57th Japanese Peptide Symposium (Online).

 

Nov. 8-9, 2020

Izumi-san and Takiguchi-kun gave a poster presentation at The 4th Annual Meeting of Molecular Robotics (Online). Takiguchi-kun won Young Scientist Award!

 

Nov. 2, 2020

A paper on "Analytical Model for Particle Capture in Nanopores Elucidates Competition
among Electrophoresis, Electroosmosis, and Dielectrophoresis" by Yamaji-san, Dr. Kawano and Dr. Mauro (Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata) is now accepted in ACS Nano!

 

Oct. 26-28, 2020

Takeuchi-san, Sato-kun and Hayashi-kun gave a poster presentation at Cheminas42 (Online). Hayashi-kun won Excellent Presentation Award!

 

Oct. 17, 2020

A paper on "Microfiber-shaped programmable materials with stimuli-responsive hydrogel" by Dr. Kawano with Onoe Lab. and Hori Lab. (Keio Univ.) is now accepted in Soft Robotics.

 

Oct. 9, 2020

Hiratani-san's paper on "DNA Logic Operation with Nanopore Decoding to Recognize MicroRNA Patterns in Small Cell Lung Cancer" is highlighted by Analytical Chemistry in
Virtual Issue "Advances in Microfluidics Research"!

 

Oct. 9-14, 2020

Dr. Kawano gave a keynote lecture at Nanopore Electrochemistry Meeting (Online).

"Nanopore decoding for DNA computing"

 

Oct. 4-9, 2020

Takiguchi-kun gave a poster presentation at µTAS 2020 (Online).Oct. 1, 2020

Dr. Kawano was appointed to a professor!

 

Sep. 16-18, 2020

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture, and Izumi-san, Yamaji-san, Takiguchi-kun, Fukuda-san and Miyagi-san gave a poster presentation at The 58th Annual meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan (Online).  Miyagi-san won Student Presentation Award!

"Analysis of transmembrane peptides using a lipid bilayer system"

 

Sep. 2, 2020

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture at 72nd SBJ Annual meeting (Online).

"Construction of the Nanopore with De Novo Designed Peptides"

 

Aug. 19, 2020

A review paper on a "Recent Advances in Liposome-Based Molecular Robots" by Dr. Shoji

 (Nagaoka University of Technology, Shoji Lab.) is now accepted in Micromachines!

 

Aug. 19, 2020

A study about recognition of single-point-mutation using a biological nanopore by Liu-san

was introduced in EurekAlert.

 

Aug. 17, 2020

A study about recognition of single-point-mutation using a biological nanopore by Liu-san

was press released from TUAT.

 

Aug. 3, 2020

A paper on an "Analysis of membrane protein de-insertion-associated currents with nanoneedle-supported bilayers to discover pore formation mechanisms" by Dr. Shoji

 (Nagaoka University of Technology, Shoji Lab.) is now accepted in Langmuir!

 

Jul. 31, 2020

Takiguchi-kun gave an oral presentation on the online meeting of molecular robotics.

 

Jul. 16, 2020

A paper on a "Microfluidic formation of honeycomb-patterned droplets bounded by interface bilayers via bimodal molecular adsorption" by Dr. Shoji, Dr. Kawano and Yanagisawa Lab (University of Tokyo) is now accepted in Micromachines!

This article will be published in Special Issue "Recent Advances of Molecular Machines and Molecular Robots". (Dr. Takinoue (Toyko tech.) and Dr. Kawano are the editors)

 

Jul. 15, 2020

Takiguchi-kun was accepted as a poster presenter in e-microTAS 2020.

 

Jul. 13, 2020

The collaborating research with Tanaka Lab. (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)  was press released from TUAT.

 

Jul. 1, 2020

Ji Jiajue has joined us as a research student!

 

Jun. 30, 2020

A paper on a "Recessed Ag/AgCl Microelectrode-Supported Lipid Bilayer for Nanopore Sensing" by Dr. Shoji (Nagaoka University of Technology, Shoji Lab.) is now accepted in Anal. Chem.!

 

Jun. 26, 2020

A paper on a "Recognition of Single-Point-Mutation using a Biological Nanopore" by Liu-san is now accepted in Small Methods!

 

Jun. 20, 2020

A paper on a "Enhancement of direct membrane penetration of arginine-rich peptides by polyproline II helix structure" by Saito-san, Dr. Kawano and Saito Lab.
(Kyoto Pharmaceutical University) is now accepted in BBA - biomembranes!

 

Jun. 8, 2020

Takiguchi-kun gave a poster presentation on FNANO20 (Online).

 

May. 13, 2020

A paper on a "De Novo Design of a Nanopore for DNA Detection Incorporating a β-hairpin Peptide" by Shimizu-kun is now preprinted in ChemRxiv!

 

Apr. 8, 2020

A paper on a "Competing Roles of Two Kinds of Ligand during Nonclassical Crystallization of Pillared-Layer Metal-Organic Frameworks Elucidated Using Microfluidic Systems" by Hiratani-san, Dr. Shoji, Dr. Kawano and Tanaka Lab. (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.) is now accepted in Chem. Eur. J.!

 

Apr. 1, 2020

Dr. Koiwai was assumed Assistant Professor!

Zheng Kaiyi has joined us as a research student!

 

Mar. 25, 2020

Master's degree (engineering) was awarded to Shimizu-kun, Takai-san and Tada-san, and bachelor's degree (engineering) was awarded to Usami-kun, Saito-san, Sato-kun and Takiguchi-kun.

 

Mar. 24, 2020

A paper on a "Dynamic behavior of an artificial protein needle contacting a membrane

observed by high-speed atomic force microscopy" by Takai-san, Dr. Kawano with Ueno Lab. (Tokyo tech.), Furuta Lab. (Tokyo tech.), Uchihashi Lab. (Nagoya University) is now accepted in Nanoscale!

 

Mar. 6, 2020

A paper about the study of nanopore probe conducted by Matsushita-kun, Takai-san

and Dr. Shoji became the Supplementary cover feature of  J. Phys. Chem. B.!

 

Feb. 28, 2020

Usami-kun, Saitou-san, Satou-kun, Takiguchi-kun gave a presentation of Graduation thesis@TUAT.

 

Feb. 15-19, 2020

Takai-san gave an oral presentation and Shimizu-kun, Izumi-san and Yamaji-san gave a poster presentation on 64th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society@San Diego.

We visited Yamanaka Lab. @UC Riverside.

 

Feb. 8, 2020

A paper about biological nanopore probe by Matsushita-kun, Takai-san and Dr. Shoji is now accepted in J. Phys. Chem. B.!

 

Feb. 6, 2020

Shimizu-kun, Takai-san and Tada-san gave a presentation of master thesis@TUAT.

Shimizu-kun got the best presentation award!

 

Feb. 2, 2020

Park-san (Kim Lab., Sungkyunkwan University) was assigned as a visiting scholar.

 

Jan. 17-18, 2020

Takeuchi-san gave an oral presentation and Liu-san gave a poster presentation on Liquid Biopsy.

 

Jan. 9-10, 2020

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture and Usami-kun and Sato-kun gave a poster presentation on The 3rd Molecular Engine Area Meeting@Chiba.

 

Jan. 8, 2020

Usami-kun and Sato-kun gave a poster presentation on The 1st International Symposium on Molecular Engine@Chiba.

 

Jan. 6, 2020

Aileen-san (Imperial College London) was assigned as an international intern.

 

Jan. 1, 2020

A Happy New Year!! The 7th year of Kawano laboratory began.

 

Dec. 20-21, 2019

Liu-san, Usami-kun, Sato-kun, Saito-san and Takiguchi-kun gave an oral presentation and

Shimizu-kun, Takai-san, Tada-san, Izumi-san, Numaguchi-san and Yamaji-san gave a poster presentation @Saibounics.

Liu-san, Sato-kun and Takiguchi-kun won a special award, Usami-kun and Takai-san won an audience award.

 

Nov. 19-21, 2019

Takai-san and Sato-kun gave a poster presentation on CHEMINAS40@Shizuoka.

Takai-san won excellent presentation award!

 

Nov. 18, 2019

Takeuchi-san came back from short-term studying at the University of Helsinki.

 

Nov. 14-15, 2019

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture on Microfluidics & Organ-on-a Chip Asia 2019@Tokyo.

 

Nov. 4-5, 2019

Dr. Kawano, Liu-san, Takeuchi-san and Numaguchi-san gave a lecture on Workshop on Microfluidic Lipid Bilayer System and Organ-on-a-chips@Univ. of Helsinki.

Ryuji Kawano “Artificial Cell-membrane System Constructed by Microfluidic Technologies”

Yuri Numaguchi “Electrophysiological Analysis of Aβ42 in Planar Lipid Bilayer Imitating Nervous Cell-Membrane”

Nanami Takeuchi “Nanopore decoding for microRNA pattern of cancer with DNA computation”

Ping Liu “Specific Detection of Point-Mutation-Position Using Biological Nanopore”

 

Nov. 1-2, 2019

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture on Imperial Seminer@Imperial College London.

"De Novo Design of Transmembrane Peptides Constructed in Artificial Cell Membrane System"

 

Oct. 29-31, 2019

Tada-san and Takiguchi-kun gave a poster presentation on ISNAC@Tokyo.

 

Oct. 27-31, 2019

Takeuchi-san and Numaguchi-san gave an oral presentation and Liu-san gave a poster presentation on MicroTAS2019@Basel.

 

Oct. 24-25, 2019

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture on DNA Nanotechnology Workshop@LJP, Paris.

"Nanopore decoding for DNA computation"

 

Oct. 23-25, 2019

Shimizu-kun, Izumi-san, Numaguchi-san, Usami-kun and Saito-san gave a poster presentation on The 56th Japanese Peptide Symposium@Tokyo. Shimizu-kun won Award for Excellence at Poster Presentation!

 

Oct. 17-18, 2019

Izumi-san and Takeuchi-san gave a poster presentation on Japanese Society for Cell Synthesis Research@Ehime.

 

Oct. 5, 2019

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture at 26th Peptide Forum@Tottori.

 

Sep. 24-26, 2019

Liu-san, Shimizu-kun, Tada-san, Yamaji-san and Usami-kun gave a poster presentation on  The 57th Annual Meeting of The Biophysical Society of Japan＠Miyazaki. Liu-san, Yamaji-san and Usami-kun won Travel Grant, and Shimizu-kun and Tada-san won Student Presentation Award!

 

Sep. 20, 2019

Dr. Kawano gave a seminar, and Shimizu-kun and Saito-san gave  a poster presentation on the 3rd Science live ticket@Konan Univ. Saito-san won excellent presentation award!

 

Sep. 2, 2019

A paper about Osmotic-Engine-Driven Liposomes by Dr. Shoji

is now accepted in Lab on a Chip!

 

Aug. 24, 2019

A review about the study of artificial cell membrane by Takeuchi-san, Izumi-san, Dr. Shoji and Dr. Kawano is now accepted in Membrane.

 

Aug. 10, 2019

Liu-san were accepted as a  poster presenter in MicroTAS2019@Basel.

 

Jul. 26, 2019

A study about DNA origami nanoplate-based emulsion by  Dr. Takinoue (Tokyo Institute of Technology) and Dr. Kawano is now accepted in Angew. Chem.!

 

Jul. 24, 2019

A paper about  Antimicrobial Peptides by Saigo-kun and Izumi-san is now

accepted in ACS Omega!

 

Jul. 18, 2019

Takeuchi-san gave a poster presentation on The RNA Meeting 2019.

 

Jul. 9, 2019

Liu-san is selected as a scholarship student of TAKAYAMA INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

 

Jul. 4, 2019

Kamimura-san joined us as a GIYSE program student.

 

Jul. 2, 2019

Takeuchi-san and Numaguchi-san were accepted as oral presenters (acceptance rate: 8.7%) in MicroTAS2019@Basel.

 

Jun. 14, 2019

A study about diagnostics of cancer with DNA computing was published in NIKKEI.

 

Jun. 12, 2019

We joined softball tournament of life science and biotechnology department with Nakazawa lab and Mori lab.!May 27-28, 2019

Takeuchi-san, Numaguchi-san, Usami-kun, Saito-san, Sato-kun and Takiguchi-kun gave

a poster presentation on Cheminas39＠Kanazawa.

 

May 24-25, 2019

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture and Shimizu-kun, Izumi-san and Yamaji-san gave a poster presentation on Molecular Engine.

 

May 9-10, 2019

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture at The 41st Annual Meeting of The Membrane Society of Japan.

 

May 2, 2019

The "MoLecular Robotics" shared written by Takai-san, Tada-san, Takeuchi-san and Dr. Kawano was published from Amazon.

 

Apr. 24, 2019

A study about Bombinin was released from EurekAlert!

 

Apr. 16, 2019

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture at School and Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology

TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TEC HNOLOGY.

 

Apr. 16, 2019

A study about Bombinin was press released form TUAT and Yokohama National University.

 

Apr. 3, 2019

We held cherry blossom viewing and tea party!

 

Mar. 28, 2019

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture on SPIRITS Int. Symp.@Kyoto.

The title was "Artificial Cell Membrane System Integrated by Microfluidic Technologies".

 

Mar. 26, 2019

A graduation ceremony and degree ceremony was held and master's degree (engineering) was awarded to Saigo-kun, Tamoysu-kun and Matsushita-kun, and bachelor's degree (engineering) was awarded to Izumi-san, Takeuchi-san, Numaguchi-san and Yamaji-san.

 

Mar. 20-23, 2019

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture on The 139th Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan@Chiba. The title was "Construction of membrane molecule evaluation system using　Artificial Cell Membrane System".

 

Mar. 14-15, 2019

Dr. Shoji gave an oral presentation and Saigo-kun, Tamotsu-kun, Matsushita-kun,

Izumi-san, Takeuchi-san, Numaguchi-san and Yamaji-san gave a poster presentation on Molecular Robotics @ Tokyo Tech. Dr. Shoji, Takeuchi-san, Numaguchi-san won the Young Scientist  Award.

 

Mar. 13, 2019

A study about Nanoneedle-Probe conducted by Dr. Shoji was published in Nikkei Sangyo Shinbun.

 

Mar. 5, 2019

Dr. Iiro (University of Helsinki) were assigned as a visiting scholar.

Welcome to Kawano Lab.!

 

Mar. 1, 2019

Izumi-san, Takeuti-san, Numaguchi-san, Yamaji-san  gave a presentation of Graduation thesis@TUAT.

 

Feb. 28, 2019

A paper about the study of Bombinin conducted by Sekiya-kun became the Supplementary cover feature of ACS Applied Bio Materials.

 

Feb. 22, 2019

A study about Nananeedle-Probe conducted by Dr. Shoji was press released from TUAT.

 

Feb. 20, 2019

A paper on the "Electrophysiological Analysis of Membrane Disruption by Bombinin and its Isomer using Lipid Bilayer System" by Sekiya-kun, Shimizu-kun and Dr. Kawamura (Yokohama National University) is now accepted in ACS Applied Bio Materials!

 

Feb. 7, 2019

Saigo-kun, Tamotsu-kun and Matsushita-kun gave a presentation of master thesis@TUAT.

 

Feb. 7, 2019

A paper on the "Spatially Resolved Chemical Detection with a Nanoneedle-Probe-Supported Biological Nanopore" by Dr. Shoji and Dr. White is now accepted in ACS Nano!

 

Jan. 27-31, 2019

Dr. Shoji gave an oral presentation on MEMS2019@Korea.

 

Jan. 18-19, 2019

Takeuchi-san gave a poster presentation on The 3rd Liquid Biopsy@Tokyo.

 

Jan. 12-16, 2019

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture on Nanopore Research Retreat@Boston and Ludlow. The title was "Stable Lipid Bilayer Formation using Microfabrication and Its Applications."

 

Jan. 1, 2019

A Happy New Year!! The 6th year of Kawano laboratory began.

 

Dec. 19, 2018

Izumi-san, Takeuchi-san, Numaguchi-san and Yamaji-san gave an oral presentation and Saigo-kun, Shimizu-kun and Liu-san gave a poster presentation on  5th Cyborgnics@Keio univ. Numaguchi-san won a special award and Takeuchi-san won an audience award.

 

Dec. 13, 2018

Dr. Kawano gave a presentation and Tamotsu-kun, Matsushita-kun, Takai-san, Tada-san and Takeuchi-san gave a poster presentation on Nanopore Symposium@TUAT.

 

Dec. 3-7, 2018

Saigo-kun, Shimizu-kun, Numaguchi-san gave a poster presentation on 10th International Peptide Symposium@Kyoto.

 

Nov. 19-20, 2018

Professor White@Univ. of Cincinnati visited Kawano Lab. He  gave a lecture on Institute of Global Innovation Research Symposium 2018@TUAT.

 

Nov. 17, 2018

Tamotsu-kun gave an oral presentation on The 5th Molecular Robotics conference for younger@Tokyo Tech.

 

Nov. 11-15, 2018

Shimizu-kun gave an oral presentation and Takai-san and Izumi-san gave a poster presentation on Micro TAS@Taiwan.

 

Nov. 7-9, 2018

Tada-san and Takeuchi-san gave a poster presentation on ISNAC2018@Kyoto Univ.

 

Nov. 5, 2018

A  paper on the "Electrophysiological measurement of ion channels on plasma/organelle membranes using an on-chip lipid bilayer system" by Takeuchi lab. (KISTEC, Tokyo Univ.)  and Dr. Kawano is now accepted in Scientific Reports!

 

Oct. 31, 2018

We joined autumn softball tournament of life science and biotechnology department with Nakazawa lab. and Mori lab.!

 

Oct. 30, 2018

Dr. Shoji was accepted as an oral presenter in MEMS2019@Korea!

 

Oct. 18-19, 2018

Shimizu-kun and Izumi-san gave a poster presentation on The 11th symposium for Cell Synthesis Research@Tohoku univ.

 

Oct. 16, 2018

Dr. Kawano was commended by the Dean of TUAT!

 

Oct. 12, 2018

The 3rd graders were assigned as new member. Welcome to Kawano Lab.!

 

Sep. 15-17, 2018

Matsushita-kun gave a oral presentation and liu-san and Yamaji-san gave a poster presentation on The 56th Annual Meeting of The Biophysical Society of Japan＠Okayama.

 

Sep. 14-15, 2018

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture on The 28th Annual Meeting of The Japanese Society of Oral Medicine & The 31st Annual Meeting of The Japanese Society of Oral Diagnosis / Oral Medicine＠Yokohama and received a commendation.

 

Aug. 31-Sep.1, 2018

Laboratory camp took place at Yamanashi. We enjoyed caving and hiking!

 

Aug. 19-23, 2018

Dr. Shoji gave a presentation on 256th ACS National Meeting & Exposition@Boston.

 

Aug. 7, 2018

Dr. Kawano gave a presentation on NCNP-TUAT joint symposium@TUAT.

 

Aug. 2, 2018

Dr. Kawano gave a lecture on The 2nd ExCELLS seminar@Okazaki. He visited Sato Lab. and Iino Lab.

 

Aug. 1, 2018

Dr. Kawano gave a seminar and Shimizu-kun, Izumi-san and Numaguchi-san gave a poster presentation on the 2nd Science live ticket@Konan Univ. Shimizu-kun and Izumi-san won encouragement award. Numaguchi-san won excellent presentation award.

 

Jul. 26, 2018

A paper about the study of penetrating peptide conducted by Sekiya-kun and Shimizu-kun became the inside front cover of Analyst! The news is posted by web page of Molecular robotics.

 

Jul. 22, 2018

A  paper on the "Nanopore Decoding of Oligonucleotides in DNA Computing" by Dr. Kawano is now accepted in Biotechnology Journal! (invited review)

 

Jul. 12, 2018

A study about diagnostics of small cell lung cancer with DNA computing by Hiratani-san was press released from TUAT.

 

Jul. 12, 2018

Shoji-san is selected as one of the Excellent Young Researchers candidates!

 

Jul. 3, 2018

Takai-san and Izumi-san were accepted as poster presenters, and Shimizu-kun was accepted as an oral presenter in MicroTAS2018@Taiwan.

 

Jun. 6, 2018

We joined spring softball tournament of life science and biotechnology department with Nakazawa lab. and Mori lab.!

 

May 30, 2018

A  paper on the "Spring-shaped stimuli-responsive hydrogel actuator with large deformation" by Onoe lab. and Dr. Kawano is now accepted in Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical!

 

May 30, 2018

Shimizu-kun and Tada-san gave a poster presentation on 4th TUAT-NCNP Joint Symposium @Tokyo.

 

May 26, 2018

Tada-san gave an oral presentation on Meeting of Molecular Robotics@Tokyo.

 

May 21-22, 2018

Takai-san, Liu-san, Izumi-san, Takeuchi-san, Numaguchi-san and Yamaji-san gave a poster presentation on 37th CHEMINAS

@Tsukuba.

 

May 18, 2018

A paper on the "Microfluidic Formation of Double-stacked Lipid Bilayers by Controlling the Water-Oil Interface" by Dr. Shoji is now accepted in Micromachines!

 

Apr. 28, 2018

A  paper on the "Channel Current Analysis Estimates the Pore-formation and the Penetration of Transmembrane Peptides" by Sekiya-kun, Shimizu-kun and Dr. Usui (Konan Univ.) is now accepted in Analyst!

 

Apr. 27, 2018

A paper on the "DNA logic operation with nanopore decoding recognizes microRNA patterns in small cell lung cancer" by Hiratani-san is now accepted in Analytical Chemistry!

 

Apr. 3, 2018

We held cherry blossom viewing with Yanagisawa lab.

 

Mar. 27, 2018

A graduation ceremony and degree ceremony was held and master's degree (engineering) was awarded to Sekiya-kun and Hiratani-san, and bachelor's degree (engineering) was awarded to Shimizu-kun, Takai-san and Tada-san.

 

Mar. 5-6, 2018

Dr. Kawano gave an oral presentation and Shimizu-kun and Takai-san gave a poster presentation on Molecular Robotics@Sendai. Shimizu-kun got the Young Researcher Poster Award.

 

Mar. 1-2, 2018

Dr. Kawano gave a seminar on Symposium on institute for Protein Research@Osaka Univ.

 

Feb  21, 2018

Shimizu-kun, Takai-san and Tada-san gave a presentation of Graduation thesis@TUAT.

Tada-san got the best presentation award.

 

Feb 16, 2018

A review paper about the study of molecular robotics conducted by Dr. Kawano became the cover feature of ChemPhysChem.

 

Feb. 06, 2018

Sekiya-kun and Hiratani-san gave a presentation of master thesis@TUAT.

Hiratani-san got the best presentation award.

 

Feb. 01, 2018

Kick-off of Kawano-lab. Studies of 3rd grades started!

 

Jan. 20, 2018

Hiratani-san and Tada-san gave a poster presentation on Liquid Biopsy@Tokyo.

 

Jan. 17, 2018

A paper about the study of molecular recognizing microfluidics with Prof. Miyata (Kansai Univ.) was accepted in Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.

 

Jan. 09, 2018

Okabe-san joined us as a technical staff.

 

Jan. 03, 2018

A paper about the study of cell arrays with Kamiya-san (KISTEC) and Prof. Takeuchi (KISTEC, Tokyo Univ.) was accepted in Advanced Healthcare Materials.

 

Jan. 01, 2018

The 5th year of Kawano laboratory began.

 

Dec. 01, 2017

Shimizu-kun, Takai-san and Tada-san gave an oral presentation and Saigo-kun, Tamotsu-kun and Matsushita-kun gave a poster presentation on the 4th Cyborgnics@TUAT. Saigo-kun and Tada-san won excellent dawn research award. Shimizu-kun won excellent research presentation award.

 

Nov. 20-22, 2017

Sekiya-kun, Saigo-kun and Shimizu-kun gave a poster presentation on Peptide symposium@ Osaka  Prefecture Univ.

Dr. Kawano gave a seminar on Kiriya lab. @Osaka Prefecture Univ.

 

Nov. 20, 2017

Dr. Shoji has gone to study abroad at University of Cincinnati. Good luck!

 

Nov. 17, 2017

The tenure-track symposium which Mr. Kawano served as the executive committee was held at TUAT.

 

Nov. 9, 2017

A review paper about the study of molecular robotics conducted by Dr. Kawano was accepted in ChemPhysChem. It is the first single-author paper of my life (by Dr. Kawano).

 

Nov. 1, 2017

We joined autumn softball tournament of life science and biotechnology department with Nakazawa lab. And, we finally won the first victory!!!

 

Oct. 22-26, 2017

In MicroTAS 2017@Georgia, U.S., Hiratani-san gave an oral presentation. Dr. Shoji, Tamotsu-kun, Matsushita-kun, Shimizu-kun and Tada-san gave a poster presentation.

 

Oct. 13, 2017

A study about detection method for ultra low concentration microRNA conducted by Hiratani-san and Zhang-san was press released from TUAT.

 

Oct. 5, 2017

A paper about protein detection nanopore conducted by Watanabe-kun, Takai-san and Dr. Mauro (Univ. of Rome) was accepted in Analytical Chemistry.

 

Sep. 25, 2017

A paper about the detection of fM miRNAs conducted by Hiratani-san, Zhang-san(Veterinary Medicine, TUAT) and Dr. Nagaoka(Veterinary Medicine, TUAT) was accepted in RSC Nanoscale.

 

Sep. 25, 2017

The 35th Summer School of Electrochemical Society organized by our laboratory was held. Shimizu-kun and Shoji-san had nice work! And finally, Hiratani-san won a poster award as usual!

 

Sep. 22, 2017

2nd Japan-Korea International Symposium on Cyborgnics: Integration between cell and electronics was held in Beppu. Hiratani-san won "BEST POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD". Thank you very much for all the participants!

 

Sep. 10, 2017

Dr. Kawano organized a special event "State of the art of Medical Diagnostic Technology Using Biological Functions" and gave a talk on there@Nagasaki Univ. The title was "Development of Artificial Cell Membrane System to Medical Diagnosis Technology".

 

Sep. 9, 2017

Dr. Kawano gave an invited talk on special symposium "State of the art of Nano-micro Chemical Analysis" at the 66th Japan Analytical Chemistry@Katsushika campus of Tokyo univ. of science. The title was "Nano-micro Chemical Analysis Using Artificial Cell Membrane System".

 

Sep. 1, 2017

Laboratory camp was held in Minakami, Gunma prefecture. In this year, we exercised downhill and canyoning.

 

Aug. 31, 2017

The "Liquid Biopsy" shared written by Tamotsu-kun, Hiratani-san and Dr. Kawano was published from CMC.

 

Aug. 28, 2017

A paper about the study of identification for new insect derived membrane protein channels with Prof. Ya (Mahidol Univ.) and Prof. Tanaka (Tohoku Univ.) was accepted in BBA- Biomembranes.

 

Jul. 24, 2017

Dr. Kawano was introduced in ACS Synthetic Biology the page of Introducing Our Authors.

 

Jul. 15, 2017

Hiratani-san, Tamotsu-kun, Shimizu-kun, Takai-san and Tada-san gave a poster presentation on Molecular robotics final symposium@ Tokyo.

 

Jul. 09, 2017

Shoji-san, Tamotsu-kun, Matsushita-kun and Tada-san were accepted as poster presenter (acceptance rate: 72%), and Hiratani-san was accepted as oral presenter (acceptance rate: 9.3%) in MicroTAS2017@Savannah.

 

Jun. 29, 2017

A paper about droplets DNA logic gate conducted by Yasuga-kun and Inoue-kun (Keio Univ.) was accepted in PLOS ONE. It was an achievement of the collaborative study with KISTEC, Keio Univ., Tokyo Tech.

 

Jun. 13, 2017

A study about artificial ionic channel was posted in Chem-Station that is a chemical portal site.

 

May 31, 2017

We joined softball tournament of life science and biotechnology department with Nakazawa lab.

 

May 22-23, 2017

Shoji-san, Saigou-kun, Tamotsu-kun, Matsushita-kun, Takai-san and Tada-san gave poster presentation on CHEMINAS 35@Tokyo tech.

 

May 15, 2017

The achievement of the study about nanopore DNA logic operation was press released from TUAT.

 

Apr. 17, 2017

The study about nanopore DNA logic operation conducted by Ohara-kun was accepted by ACS Synthetic Biology. It was the joint achievement with Takinoue laboratory of Tokyo Tech.

 

Apr. 10, 2017

The study about stimuli-responsive gel fiber with Onoe lab. was accepted by the Soft Matter.

 

Apr. 7, 2017

We held cherry blossom viewing with Yanagisawa lab.

 

Apr. 1, 2017

Liu Ping has joined us as a research student.

 

Mar. 31, 2017

We participated to a ski trip with Okumura lab. of Ochanomizu University.

 

Mar. 24, 2017

A graduation ceremony and degree ceremony was held and master's degree (engineering) was awarded to Ohara-kun and Watanabe-kun, and bachelor's degree (engineering) was awarded to Saigou-kun, Tamotsu-kun and Matsushita-kun.

 

Mar. 18, 2017

Kawano gave a talk on "Asian International Symposium" at special event of the 97th annual meeting of Chemical Society of Japan@Keio Univ.

 

Mar. 16, 2017

Kawano gave a talk on "the chemistry challenging for analysis of the innovative cell system" at special event of the 97th annual meeting of Chemical Society of Japan@Keio Univ.

 

Mar. 13, 2017

Watanabe-kun returned from the Univ. of Maryland.

 

Mar. 12, 2017

Shoji-san, Matsushita-kun and Tamotsu-kun gave a poster presentation at final area meeting of Molecular Robotics@Tokyo Univ.

 

Mar. 10, 2017

The collaborative research about artificial ion channel with Prof. Furukawa (Kyoto Univ.), Prof. Kitagawa (Kyoto Univ.) and Prof. Takeuchi (KAST, Tokyo Univ.) were published in "Chem" which is a new chemical journal of Cell Press, and were made press release by TUAT!

 

Feb. 23, 2017

The results of research about theranostics which give diagnosis and treatment for cancer at the same time were got coverage in Nikkei industry newspaper.

 

Feb. 13, 2017

Molecular Robotics Initiative was accepted to master plan of Science Council of Japan.

 

Feb. 11, 2017

Press release of the study about theranostics conducted by Hiratani-san was placed in Nikkei web!

 

Feb. 10, 2017

Hiratani-san's study about theranostics was press released from university!

 

Jan. 30, 2017

Kick-off of Kawano-lab. Studies of 3rd grades started!

 

Jan. 27, 2017

Hiratani-san's paper about theranostic system for small cell lung cancer by detecting miRNA from cancer cell and releasing medicine was accepted in Analytical Chemistry.

 

Jan. 25, 2017

Prof. M. Hamada (Waseda University)gave a seminar about "Analysis for the function of long non-coding RNA by RNA bioinformatics" for us.

 

Jan. 4, 2017

A happy new year!

The 4th year of Kawano lab. is now starting!

 

Dec. 20, 2016

Saigou-kun, Tamotsu-kun and Matsushita-kun gave oral presentation and Hiratani-san and Sekiya-kun gave poster presentation on The 3rd Research Conference of Saibounics@Suzukake Campus of Tokyo Tech. Matsushita-kun won award.

 

Nov. 30, 2016

Kawano gave a talk on TAMA Association's Medical Innovation Forum @Hachiohji.

 

Nov. 25-27, 2016

The 54th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan ＠Tsukuba International Congress Center. All M1 and B4 member gave poster presentation. Hiratani-san won Student Presentation Award!

 

Nov. 16, 2016

A paper about the study of translocon with Yohda laboratory was accepted in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (BBRC).

 

Nov. 14, 2016

Hiratani-san gave a poster presentation on The 6th CSJ Chemistry Festa@Tower Hall Funabori.

 

Nov. 9, 2016

We participated in the Biotechnology and Life Science softball tournament with Nakazawa laboratory.

 

Nov. 8, 2016

Dr. Kawano gave a talk on MNC2016 (29th International Microprocesses and Nanotechnology Conference)@Kyoto.

 

Nov. 7, 2016

Dr. Kawano gave a talk at Kyoto University Institute for Chemical Research.

 

Oct. 26-28, 2016

Watanabe-kun, Sekiya-kun and Saigo-kun gave a poster presentation on The 53rd Japanese Peptide Symposium@Kyoto Terrsa.

 

Oct. 25-27, 2016

Shoji-san gave a poster presentation on Chem-Bio Informatics Society Annual Meeting 2016@Tower Hall Funabori.

 

Oct. 24, 2016

Shoji-san won the 2016th research grant from The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications.

 

Oct. 21, 2016

The 3rd graders were assigned as new member, and their laboratory experiment started.

 

Oct. 19, 2016

The study about miRNA nanopore detection of Hiratani-san was appeared in the Nikkei Business Daily!

 

Oct. 14, 2016

A paper about the study of channel complex synthesis with Prof. Furukawa (Kyoto Univ.) and Prof. Kitagawa (Kyoto Univ.) was accepted in the journal Inorganic Chemistry.

 

Oct. 9-13, 2016

All lab members gave presentation on MicroTAS 2016@Dublin, Ireland. Ohara-kun was oral and the other members were poster.

Watanabe-kun, Sekiya-kun, Hiratani-san and Tamotsu-kun were selected to the candidate of poster award. Hiratani-san and Tamotsu-kun advanced to second stage of screening. Finally, Hiratani-san won the CHEMINAS Young Researcher Poster Award! In four of 721 people, it was the only splendid achievement in Asians!

 

Oct. 2-7, 2016

Dr. Kawano gave an invited lecture, Shoji-san and Watanabe-kun gave oral presentation on PRiME 2016@Hawaii.

 

Sep. 28. 2016

A joint study exchange meeting and BBQ party of the laboratory of tenure track by the department of agriculture and engineering were held.

 

Sep. 28. 2016

About the presentation of MicroTAS 2016, Ohara-kun, Watanabe-kun, Tamotsu-kun, Hiratani-san and Shoji-san won travel grant award from Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS) (Ohara-kun), Yoshida Foundation for Science and Technology (watanabe-kun) and the Society for Chemistry, Micro Nano System (CHEMINAS) (Tamotsu-kun), Nakatani Foundation for advancement of measuring technologies in biomedical engineering (Hiratani-san) and Suzuki Foundation (Shoji-san).

About the presentation of PRiME 2016, Shoji-san won travel grant award from the Electrochemical Society of Japan.

 

Sep. 20. 2016

Dr. Kawano gave a talk on the cooperation symposium with National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry @TUAT

 

Sep. 8-9, 2016

All lab members gave a presentation on the summer seminar of Electrochemical Society of Japan. Watanabe-kun and Hiratani-san won a prize.

 

Sep. 1-2, 2016

We went to Ｃhichibu for camp. We enjoyed caving for three hours.

 

Aug. 25-28, 2016

Saigo-kun gave a poster presentation on the 18th Meeting of the Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan@Tokyo Tech.

 

Aug. 12, 2016

We held a summer party.

 

Aug. 7-10, 2016

Shoji-san gave an oral presentation on The IEEE ICMA 2016@Harbin and awarded Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics.

 

Jul. 24-25, 2016

Shoji-san gave a talk presentation on the July Meeting of Molecular Robotics @Nagasaki

 

Jun. 28, 2016

The paper about "micro-needles" collaborated with Prof. Heo (TUAT) and Prof. Shimoyama (U of Tokyo) is accepted in Microsystems & Nanoengineering (Nature Publishing Group)!

 

Jun. 25, 2016

All lab members are accepted in MicroTAS2016. Ohara-kun will give a oral presentation (acceptance ratio=9%) in there!

 

Jun. 14, 2016

The paper about "asymmetric vesicles" collaborated with Prof. Takeuchi group (KAST) is accepted in Nature Chemistry!

 

Jun. 1, 2016

Ms. Miyazawa joined us as a technical stuff.

 

Apr. 25-26, 2016

Four students gave a poster presentation on the 33rd CHEMINAS@U of Tokyo.

 

Apr. 1, 2016

Dr. Shoji-san joined us as a post doctorial fellow.

 

Mar. 14-16, 2016

Dr. Kawano gave an oral presentation, and Ohara-kun, Watanabe-kun, Sekiya-kun and Hiratani-san gave a poster presentation on the 7th Meeting of Molecular Robotics @Gamagori.

 

Mar. 6-10, 2016

Dr. Kawano gave a talk on PITTCON 2016 @Atlanta, USA.

 

Feb. 5, 2016

The paper about DNA unzipping by Ohara and Sekiya was accepted in Electrochemistry!

 

Feb. 4, 2016

The paper about DNA logic gate (NAND) by Yasuga (KAST), Prof. Takeuchi (UT), and Prof. Takinoue (Tokyo Tech.) was accepted in PLOS ONE!

 

Jan. 18 2016

Dr. Kawano's application for "Highest altitude biological cell experiment" has been accepted at the Guinness World Records!

He is now the Guinness World Records Title Holder!

 

Jan. 4, 2016

A happy new year!

The 3rd year of Kawano lab. is now starting!

 

Dec. 25, 2015

We gave a year‐end party.

 

Dec. 15-20, 2015

Dr. Kawano gave an oral presentation on PACIFICHEM 2015 @Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

 

Dec. 8, 2015

Ohara-san, Sekiya-kun, Hiratani-san gave an oral presentation and Watanabe-san gave a poster presentation at the 2nd society for saibounics @ Tokyo

 

Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2015

Hiratani-san gave a poster presentation on the 1st Annual Meeting of the Nucleic Acids Therapeutics Society of Japan @Kyoto.

 

Nov. 16, 2015

Watanabe-kun got a poster presentation award on the 5th CSJ chemical festa @Tokyo.