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7/1/2024, Dr. Enaam Alghamdi joined Kono lab

A new postdoc, Enaam, joined our team. Welcome Enaam, we are so excited to work with you!

3/21/2024. Our paper is featured on the Cover of Nature Aging

Our paper appeared on the cover of the Nature Aging March issue!

Cover Image  Image: Amy Cao. Cover design: Lauren Heslop.

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold and urushi. Although the pottery is repaired, it does not return to its original state. This explains our finding: plasma membrane damaged cells change their cell fate to senescence after the membrane resealing. 
 

3/13/2024, Our new paper is out!

The paper led by our former postdoc Shinju is out!

Exocytic plasma membrane flows remodel endoplasmic reticulum–plasma membrane tethering for septin collar assembly

Science Advances

Vol 10, Issue 11
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj1512

 

2/17/2024, Former intern Ms. Hiyori Mori won a poster prize

Our former intern, Ms. Hiyori Mori at Keio U, won a poster presentation prize! In addition to the prize selected by the professors, she also won the third prize of students' choice. Congrats Hiyori, we are all proud of your achievement!

1/26/2024, Two papers have been accepted

A paper led by the former postdoc Shinju, and the other paper led by three equally-contributed first authors, Ph.D. student Kou, STA Yohsuke, and postdoc Hana, have been accepted two days in a row. The best moment in our lab's history.

Congrats & big thank you to all contributors!

1/15/2024, Sara successfully defended her thesis

Ph.D. student Ms. Sara Abdelaal, supervised by Prof. Marco Terenzio and co-supervised by Kono, successfully defended her thesis. Congrats, Dr. Abdelaal!!

Her beautiful work is here.

1/12/2024, Kou won the best poster award

Ph.D. student Mr. Kojiro Suda won the best poster award at the kick-off meeting of "A3 FORESIGHT PROGRAM Cellular Senescence: From Pathophysiology to Treatment" in Osaka. Congrats Kou. We truly appreciate the organizers, Prof. Naoko Ohtani @ Osaka Metropolitan U and Dr. Akiko Takahashi @ Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research.