Activities
2023
| 2023.12.15 | : | Kyoto University Innovation Capital Co.,Ltd. has made a new investment in RestoreVision Co., Ltd., a bio-venture company (developing gene therapy drugs for incurable diseases in the ophthalmology field), in which Lecturer Yamashita is conducting joint research. (Press release) |
| 2023.11.14-16 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita organized a symposium and gave a lecture at The 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan. Fujiyabu (Ph.D 2nd year) gave an oral presentation, and Dr. Sakai and Asamoto (Master 2nd year) and Horiuchi (Master 1st year) gave poster presentations. Fujiyabu was awarded the Student Presentation Award. |
| 2023.10.10-11 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita gave an invited lecture at the joint meeting held by IEICE Technical Committee and OSJ Vision Research Group and JSKE Visual Kansei Research Group(Visual Perception Research Group). |
| 2023.9.7-9 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita planned a symposium at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Zoology Society of Japan, and Fujiyabu (Ph.D 2nd year) gave a presentation there. Senior Lecturer Yamashita also gave a presentation at another meeting. |
| 2023.8.29-30 | : | Fujiyabu (PhD 2nd year) made a poster presentation at the 23rd Annual Meeting of Photobiology Association of Japan, and was awarded the Student Presentation Award. |
| 2023.7.19 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita had a seminar at Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hokkaido Univ. |
| 2023.6.25-29 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita, Dr. Sakai, and Fujiyabu (PhD 2nd year) gave presentations at FASEB Meeting (Biology and Chemistry of Vision). |
| 2023.4.6 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita gave a lecture at the evening seminar at the 127th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society. |
| 2023.3.25 | : | We held an alumni reunion and Fujiyabu (PhD 1st year) gave a lecture at the symposium "Light and Life". |
| 2023.1.22 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita's study was report on the "探求人" (the researcher), published by Kyoto Shimbun Newspaper. |
2022
| 2022.10.30-11.4 | : | Assoc. Prof. Imamoto and Senior Lecturer Yamashita gave invited lectures, and Dr. Sakai and Fujiyabu (PhD 1st year) made poster presentations at the 19th International Conference on Retinal Proteins. |
| 2022.9.28-30 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita and Dr. Sakai made poster presentations at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan. |
| 2022.9.8-10 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita, Fujiyabu (PhD 1st year), and Aoki (Master 2nd year) made oral presentations at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Zoology Society of Japan. |
| 2022.8.9-10 | : | Assoc. Prof. Imamoto made an oral presentation and Fujiyabu (PhD 1st year) made a poster presentation at the 22nd Annual Meeting of Photobiology Association of Japan. |
| 2022.6.1 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita's research was reported on "someone" vol.59, the science journal for junior and senior high school students published by Leave a Nest. |
| 2022.5.20 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita gave a lecture at the Center for Systems Visual Science, Ritsumeikan Univ. |
| 2022.5.14 | : | Fujiyabu (PhD 1st year) made an oral presentation at the Presentation of the Kinki Branch of the Zoological Society of Japan. |
| 2022.4.3 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita's study was reported by MBS (Mainichi Broadcast System).
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2021
| 2021.11.25-27 | : | Assoc. Prof. Imamoto, Senior Lecturer Yamashita, and Dr. Sakai made general presentations at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan. |
| 2021.11.17 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita gave a lecture at the online research society Scienc-ome. |
| 2021.10.16 | : | Senior Lecturer Yamashita gave an invited lecture at the 5th symposium of the frontier sensivity studies (seminar by Institution for Protein Research of Osaka Univ.) |
| 2021.9.2-4 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita, Ikeuchi (Master 2nd year), and Fujiyabu (Master 2nd year) made a poster presentations at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Zoology Society of Japan. |
| 2021.8 | : | Prof. Toshiyuki Okano from Waseda Univ. visited us and gave a lecture. |
2020
| 2020.9.16-18 | : | Assoc. Prof. Imamoto, Asst. Prof. Yamashita, and Dr. Sakai made a poster presentations at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan. |
| 2020.9.6-9 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita gave a symposium lecture at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan. |
| 2020.9.4-5 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita and Fujiyabu (Master 1st year) made online poster presentations at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Zoology Society of Japan. |
2019
| 2019.11.7-8 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita and Dr. Sakai gave invited lectures and made poster presentations at the Conference "Next Generation Biophysics by the Integration of Different fields" 54th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan. |
| 2019.9.24-26 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita gave a symposium lecture, and Assoc. Prof. Imamoto, Dr. Sakai, and Hisagou(Master 1st year) made a poster presentations at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan. |
| 2019.9.10-12 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita gave a symposium lecture, and Fujii(Master 1st year) and Fujiyabu (undergrad 4th year) made general oral presentations at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Zoology Society of Japan. |
| 2019.9.5-6 | : | Assoc. Prof. Imamoto gave an invited lecture at the ISSP work shop "Physics and Chemistry of the Expression of the Photofunction of Retinal Proteins". |
| 2019.8.5-9 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita gave an invited lecture at the 10th International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry. |
| 2019.6.5 | : | Dr. Sato's (Okayama Univ., Lab alumnus) review article was published in Biophysics 343. |
| 2019.2.5 | : | Noguchi (Master 2nd year) made an oral presentation at the master's thesis presentation. |
| 2019.1.15 | : | Chen (PhD 3rd year) made an oral presentation at the public hearing for doctoral dissertation. |
2018
| 2018.9.24-29 | : | Assoc. Prof. Imamoto, Asst. Prof. Yamashita and Dr. Sakai made oral presentations at the 18th International Conference on Retinal Proteins. |
| 2018.9.15-17 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita planned the symposium and Assoc. Prof. Imamoto made an oral presentation. Chen (PhD 3rd year), Noguchi (Master 2nd year) made poster presentations at the 55th Annual Meeting of The Biophysics Society of Japan. Dr. Sato (Lab alumnus) was awarded the Young Scientist Award. |
| 2018.9.13-15 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita was scheduled to give a symposium lecture at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Zoology Society of Japan, but the event was canceled due to the earthquake in the east of Iburi, Hokkaido. |
| 2018.8.9 | : | Assoc. Prof. Imamoto made an oral presentation at the 20th Annual Meeting of Photobiology Association of Japan. |
| 2018.3.15 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita had a seminar at Grad. Sch. of Sci., Osaka City Univ. |
2017
| 2017.9.19-21 | : | Assoc. Prof. Imamoto, Asst. Prof. Yamashita, Dr. Sakai, Nishio (Master 2nd year) and Noguchi (Master 1st year) made poster presentations at the 55th Annual Meeting of The Biophysics Society of Japan. Dr. Kojima (Lab alumnus) was awarded the Young Scientist Award. |
| 2017.5.11-12 | : | We held a symposium "International Symposium on Biophysics of Rhodopsins" as a commemoration of retirement of Prof. Shichida. Assoc. Prof. Imamoto and Asst. Prof. Yamashita gave lectures. Dr. Sakai and Mabuchi (Master 2nd year) made poster presentations. |
| 2017.3.3 | : | Prof. Shichida gave a last lecture and we held a farewell party for him. |
| 2017.2.27 | : | Farewell party for Dr. Kojima, Haruki (Master 2nd year), Matsutani (Master 2nd year), and Adachi (Bachelor 4th year) |
2016
| 2016.11.25-27 | : | Prof. Shichida, Assoc. Prof. Imamoto, Asst. Prof. Yamashita, and Dr. Kojima made poster presentations at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan. |
| 2016.11.17-19 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita, Dr. Kojima, Matsutani (Master 2nd year), and Mabuchi (Master 1st year) made poster presentations at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Zoology Society of Japan. |
| 2016.10.2-7 | : | Prof. Shichida and Asst. Prof. Yamashita gave invited lectures. Assoc. Prof. Imamoto and Dr. Kojima made poster presentations at the 2016 ICRP conference in Potsdam. |
| 2016.6.7 | : | Laboratory Alumni Association. Ahead of that we held a symposium Asst. Prof. Yamashita gave a lecture. |
| 2016.2.29 | : | Farewell party for Sasaki (Bachelor 4th year). |
| 2016.1.24-29 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita and Dr. Sato gave invited lectures and made poster presentations at Gordon Research Cobference; Photosensory Receptors & Signal Transduction. Dr. Sato was awarded the poster award. |
2015
| 2015.11.25 | : | In the Japanese Journal "Biophysics" from Biophysics Society of Japan, Asst. Prof. Yamashita and Assoc. Prof. Imamoto planned a International Year of Light a special issue to commemorate the International Year of Light. |
| 2015.11.15-18 | : | Prof. Shichida and Assoc. Prof. Imamoto made invited lectures at the 7th Asia and Oceanina Conference on Photobiology. |
| 2015.9.17 - 19 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita, Dr. Sato, Kojima (PhD 3rd year), Haruki (Master 1st year) and Matsutani (Master 1st year) made oral presentations at the 86th Annual Meeting of Zoology Society of Japan. |
| 2015.9.13 - 15 | : | Assoc. Prof. Imamoto, Dr. Sakai, Dr. Sato, and Kojima (PhD 3rd year) made poster presentations at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan. Assoc. Prof. Imamoto's article (Yamazaki et al., 2014 BIOPHYSICS) was awarded the Biophysics and Physicobiology Editors' Choice Award. Prof. Shichida received a commendation as an Honorary Member of the Biophysical Society of Japan. |
| 2015.6.14 - 19 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita, Asst. Prof. Yamashita, Dr. Sato and Kojima (PhD 3rd year)がFASEB Meeting (Biology and Chemistry of Vision) made poster presentations. Dr. Sato was awarded the poster award. |
| 2015.4.13 | : | Welcome party for Sasaki and Mabuchi (Bachelor 4th year) |
| 2015.3.25-26 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita gave an invited lecture and Dr. Sato gave a short talk at Awaji-Symposium on RNA&CLOCK. |
| 2015.3.16 | : | Farewell party for Sawada (Master 2nd year) |
| 2015.2.23 | : | Farewell party for Dr. Matsuyama and Katsuno (Bachelor 4th year) |
| 2015.2.3 | : | Sawada (Master 2nd year) made a oral presentation at the master's thesis presentation. |
2014
| 2014.10.14 | : | Prof. Michael Tri Do from Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard medical school visited us. We had a seminar and a welcome party for him. |
| 2014.10.10 | : | Prof. Klaus-Peter Hofmann from Charite University in Germany visited us. We had a seminar and a welcome party for him. |
| 2014.10.5-10 | : | We held the International Conference on Retinal Proteins 2014 in NagahamaAssoc. Prof. Imamoto and Asst. Prof. Yamashita gave invited lectures. Dr. Matsuyama gave an oral presentation. Dr. Matsuyama, Dr. Sato, and Kojima (PhD 2nd year) made poster presentations. |
| 2014.9.25-27 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita gave a symposium lecture at the 52nd Biophysical Society of Japan held in Sapporo. And Assoc. Prof. Imamoto and Kojima (PhD 2nd year) made poster presentations. |
| 2014.9.11-13 | : | Prof. Shichida and Dr. Sato gave oral presentations at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Zoology Society of Japan held in Sendai. |
| 2014.8.22-23 | : | Prof. Shichida and Asst. Prof. Yamashita were awarded the Assocation Prize and the Assocation Encouragement Prize in the 18th Annual Meeting of the Photobiology Association of Japan, respectively. |
| 2014.5.9-10 | : | Asst. Prof Yamashita gave an invited lecture in the 10th GPCR Research Society. |
2013
| 2013.9.26-28 | : | Asst. Prof. Yamashita, Dr. Matuyama, Dr. Sato, and Sawada (Master 1st year) gave oral presentations at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Zoology Society of Japan held in Okayama. |
| 2013.6.9-14 | : | Prof. Shichida gave an invited lecture at FASEB Conference held in Colorado, America. The lecture title was “Functional diversity of opsins”. |
| 2013.6.1 | : | Dr. Matsuyama made gave an invited lecture at Mukogawa Women's Senior High School in Hyogo as a part of Science Dialogue Project. |
| 2013.5.26-29 | : | Prof. Shichida gave an invited lecture at 8th Asian Biophysics Association (ABA) Symposium held in Korea. The lecture title was “Molecular properties and functional diversity of rod and cone visual pigments”. |
| 2013.2.19 | : | Dr. Matsuyama made gave an invited lecture at Fukui Pref. Wakasa High Sch. as a part of Science Dialogue Project. |
| 2013.1.22-24 | : | Dr. Matsuyama, Dr. Sato and Maeda (Master 2nd year) made poster presentations at the conference held in Nagoya Symposium Frontiers in Structural Physiology. |
2012
| 2012.9.30-10.5 | ： | Prof. Shichida gives a talk as an invited speaker at 15th International Conference on Retinal Proteins in Zurich. |
| 2012.7.23 | ： | Kimata (PhD 4th year) graduated |
| 2012.7.10 | ： | Dr. Matsuyama's work was published inBiochemistry |
| 2012.5.29 | ： | Dr. Sato's work was published inBiochemistry |
| 2012.5.23 | ： | Sakai (PhD 4th year) graduated |
| 2012.5.15 | ： | Prof. Wouter D. Hoff from Oklahoma State University visited us. We had a seminar and a welcome party for him. |
| 2012.4.3 | ： | Kimata(PhD 4th year)'s work was published inBiochemistry |
| 2012.4.2 | ： | New undergrad students Sawada were assigned to the lab |
| 2012.3.26 | ： | Sato (PhD 3rd year) and Arase (Master 2nd year) graduated |
| 2012.3.5 | ： | Prof. Oliver P. Ernst from University of Toronto visited us. We had a seminar and a welcome party for him. |
| 2012.1.27 | ： | Sakai(PhD 3rd year)'s work was published inBiochemistry |
2011
| 2011.12.6 | ： | Sato(PhD 3rd year)'s work was published inBiochemistry |
| 2011.8.5 | ： | Prof. M. Carter Cornwall from Boston University School of Medicine visited us. We had a seminar and a welcome party for him. |
| 2011.7.28 | ： | Prof. Trevor Lamb from The Australian National University visited us. We had a seminar and a welcome party for him. |
| 2011.5.16 | ： | Dr. Yanagawa's work was published inJ Biol Chem |
| 2011.3.23 | ： | Matsuyama (PhD 3rd year), Yanagawa (PhD 3rd year) and Yano (Master 2nd year) graduated |
2010
| 2010.4.1 | ： | New undergrad students Kojima, Sawanobori and Yumoto were assigned to the lab |
| 2010.3.23 | ： | Tsutsui (PhD 3rd year) and Seki (Master 2nd year) graduated |
| 2010.3.23～24 | ： | Prof. Shichida gives a talk as an invited speaker at conference held in National Institute of Natural Sciences Institute for Molecular Science. Sato and Kimata made poster presentations |
| 2010.3.16 | ： | Prof. Akio Yamazaki from Wayne State University visited us. We had a seminar and a welcome party for him. |
| 2010.3.11 | ： | Prof. Motoyuki Tsuda from Tokushima Bunri University visited us. We had a seminar and a welcome party for him. |
| 2010.3.1 | ： | Farewell party for Tsutsui and Seki |
| 2010.1.6 | ： | Dr. Tsukamoto's work was published inJ Biol Chem |