【2015】
Dec. 31, 2015 Study for ffects of plasmid on biofilm morphology in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 by Dr. Lee (OB) et al. was accepted in Environmental Microbiology Reports.
Dec. 18, 2015 Review article "A basic introduction to aerobic biodegradation of petroleum aromatic compounds" by Prof. Inoue et. al., (Miyazaki univ.) will be published in Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 4th ed.
Dec. 14, 2015 The GALLERY was updated.
Dec. 14 2015 Study for comparison of the transferability of plasmids pCAR1, pB10, R388, and NAH7 in Pseudomonas putida by Mr. Yanagida (OB) et al. was accepted in Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 
Nov. 14, 2015 Characterization of plasmid- and chromosomally encoded MvaT homologs by Dr. Yun (RIKEN), Dr. Takahashi (Assistant prof., Toyama Prefectural Univ.), and Dr. Shintani (Associate prof., Shizuoka Univ.) et al. was accepted in Appl Environ Microbiol. 
Nov. 14, 2015 Joint paper regarding new transcription factor DPF involved in the regulation of rice diterpenoid phytoalexin production in collaboration with Dr. Masaki Mori (NIAS.) was published in The Plant Journal. 
Nov. 10, 2015 Characterization of extradiol dioxygenase in fluorene degradation pathway by Mr. Kotake (M2 student) et al. was accepted in Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 
Sep. 29, 2015 Ms. Sun Zongping from Southwest Univ. in China is going to stay in our Lab for 1 year. 
Aug. 28, 2015 The GALLERY was updated.
Aug. 5, 2015 Ms. Kaoru Fujiwara received a Poster Award of The Bryological Society of Japan. 
Jul. 14, 2015 The GALLERY was updated.
May 5, 2015 Congratulations! Dr. Seung Uk LEE married and we had a celebration in our laboratory.
Apr. 22, 2015 Joint review paper regarding plasmid-encoded nucleoid-associated proteins by Prof. Hideaki Nojiri, Dr. Chiho Suzuki and Dr. Masaki Shintani (Associate prof., Shizuoka Univ.) was accepted in Plasmid.
Apr. 10, 2015 New lab members joined our lab. Welcome party was held at Ueno.
Apr. 1, 2015 Laboratory Home Page was renewed. New lab members were joined us.
Mar. 30, 2015 Dr. Pagakrong Wanapaisan (from Chulalongkorn Univ. in Thailand) stayed in our Lab. for 1 month.
Mar. 17, 2015 Mr. Jun Matsuzawa received Poster Award of The 3rd IMSS Science Festa Congratulations! 
Feb. 10, 2015 Study for Plasmid-encoded nucleoid-associated proteins performed mainly by Dr. Chiho Suzuki and Mr. Ryousuke Hirotani (OB) and others was accepted in Appl Environ Microbiol
Jan. 4, 2015 Joint review paper regarding jasmonates function in collaboration with Dr. Gen-ichiro Arimura (Tokyo Univ. Sci.) and Dr. Hiroshi Abe (RIKEN) was published in Appl Environ Microbiol.
【2014】
Nov. 30, 2014 Suzuki-sensei married and her family name was changed to "Minakuchi-Suzuki". Congratulations on getting married!
Sep. 23, 2014 Joint paper regarding functions of rice two ent-copalyl diphosphate synthase in collaboration with Prof. Tomonobu Toyomasu (Yamagata Univ.) was published in Journal of Experimental Botany
Sep. 12, 2014 Ms. Yuri Yoshida received Encouraging Prize of The 24th Society for Isoprenoids, Japan (SIJ) 2014 for students: the 24th SIJ PRIZE. Congratulations!
Sep. 4, 2014 Paper for OsbZIP79, a negative regulator of phytoalexin biosynthesis in rice, by Drs. Koji Miyamoto was accepted in Journal of Plant Physiology
Aug. 30, 2014 Mr. Jun Matsuzawa's paper for crystallization of terminal oxygenase and ferredoxincomponents in the Rieske nonhaem iron oxygenase, carbazole 1,9a-dioxygenase was accepted in Acta F
Aug. 4, 2014 Joint paper regarding degradation of flavonoid phytoalexin sakuranetin by blast fungus in collaboration with Prof. Morifumi Hasegawa (Ibaragi Univ.) , Ichiro Mitsuhara (NIAS) and Yuko Ohashi (NIAS) was published in Molecule
Jul. 30, 2014 Mr. Jun Matsuzawa received Poster Award of The 14th Protein Science Society of Japan 2014 : the 14th PSSJ PRIZE. Congratulations!
Jul. 29, 2014 Reveiw paper describing the regulation of phytoalexin biosynthesis in rice compiled by Drs. Koji Miyamoto and Takafumi Shimizu was accepted in Plant Biotechnology
Jul. 28, 2014 Study for oligomerization mechanisms of an H-NS family protein, Pmr, performed mainly by Dr. Chiho Suzuki and Mr. Kohei Kawazuma (M2) was accepted in PLOS ONE
Jul. 24, 2014 Study for OsTGAP1 performed by Dr. Koji Miyamoto (PD, Teikyo Univ.) was accepted in PLOS ONE
Jul. 02, 2014 Joint paper regarding OsWRKY45 function in collaboration with Dr. Hiroshi Takatsuji (NIAS) was published in Plant Molecular Biology
May. 8, 2014 Long-lasting study for phosphomimic OsWRKY53 performed by Drs. Tetsuya Chujo (PD, Massey Univ.), Koji Miyamoto (PD, Teikyo Univ.), Takafumi Shimizu (PD, REKEN CSRS) and Mr. Satoshi Ogawa (D2), and Ms. Yuka Masuda (Former lab member) was accepted in PLOS ONE
Apr. 21, 2014 The study performed by Drs. Yurika Takahashi (Assistant prof., Toyama Prefectural Univ.) and Masaki Shintani (Associate prof., Shizuoka Univ.) "Modulation of primary cell function of host Pseudomonas bacteria by the conjugative plasmid pCAR1" was accepted in Environmental Microbiology
Apr. 4, 2014 Ms.Natalja Beying (Master course student from KIT, Germany) stays our Lab. for 6 months.
Apr. 1, 2014 Dr. Chiho Suzuki-Minakuchi joined our lab. as an assistant professor. Now we have full stuffs, and new lab members were also joined us. Our Kampo_lab. enters into a new age
Mar. 7, 2014 Mr. Kouhei Kawazuma received 8th Poster Award of Society of Genome Microbiology 2013 : the 8th SGMJ PRIZE. Congratulations!
Mar. 1, 2014 Associate Prof. Masaki Shintani's work was published in Appl Environ Microbiol
Mar. 1, 2014 Associate Prof. Kengo Inoue's work was published in Appl Environ Microbiol
Jan. 10, 2014 Joint review paper in collaboration with Drs. Eric Schmelz (USDA ARS, US), Reuben Peters (Iowa Univ., US) and others was accepted in Plant J
Jan. 1, 2014 A happy new year!
【2013】
Dec. 20, 2013 Ms.Wanwasan Wongwongsee (PhD student from Chulalongkorn Univ.) from Thailand stays our Lab. for 3 months
Nov. 7, 2013 Prof. Nojiri's Book:Biodegradative Bacteria was published
Nov. 1, 2013 Assistant Prof. Okada was promoted to Associate professor in our laboratory.
Oct. 7, 2013 A new lab member, Mr. Zhongfeng Ye from China joined us.
Oct. 1, 2013 Dr. Elsharmey (Rice research & training center) from Egypt stays our Lab. for 6 months.
Aug. 25, 2013 Ms. Isolde Konrad (Trainee in KIT) from Germany stays our Lab. for 2 months.
Aug. 9, 2013 Joint paper in collaboration with Dr. Yoko Nishizawa (NIAS) was published in J. Exp. Botany
Jun. 18, 2013 Mr. Justin Acheson (Dr course student of Univ. of Wisconsin) stays our lab. for 2 months. The man with nice beard, guess who?
Jun. 7, 2013 Prof. Hisakazu Yamane's Award review was published in BBB
Jun. 6, 2013 Joint paper in collaboration with Mr.Wenqi Li (Nanjing Agricultural University, China) was published in Plant Science
May. 27, 2013 Drs. Koji Miyamoto and Kazunori Okada's review entitled "Operon-like Gene Cluster in Plant: The Regulatory Mechanism of the Phytoalexin Production in Rice was published in KAGAKU TO SEIBUTSU Vol. 51, No.5 (2013) p310-317
May. 1, 2013 Collaborative work with Dr. Tetsuya Chujo, Dr. Koji Miyamoto, Mr. Takeo Shimogawa, and Dr.Takafumi Shimizu was publised in Plant Molecular Biology
Apr. 26, 2013 Joint paper in collaboration with Prof. Tomonobu Toyomasu (Yamagata Univ.) was published in Physiologia Plantarum
Apr. 12, 2013 Dr. Takafumi Shimizu's work for the osjar1 mutant was published in BBB
Apr. 4, 2013 New lab members joined us and welcome party was held at Ueno.
Jan. 15, 2013 Amazing marks!! Prof.Nojiri was awareded the Japan Academy Prize
Jan. 1, 2013 Prof. Nojiri was awarded the Ninth JSPS PRIZE. Congratulations!
Jan. 1, 2013 Associate Prof. Nojiri was promoted to full-professor in our laboratory.
Jan. 1, 2013 A happy new year! A new lab member, Ms. Zhai Yu from China joined us. Laboratory Home Page was updated.
【2012】
Oct. 20, 2012 Several papers were published when skipped out on the updating. Sorry.. See publication list.
Jul. 19, 2012 Dr. Takafumi Shimizu's addendum paper of OsNOMT work was accepted in Bioengineered Bugs
Jun. 28, 2012 Dr. Kengo Inoue (Miyazaki Univ., a former lab. member) received Encouraging Award of JSEB 2012. Congratulations!
Jun. 28, 2012
Mr. Suguru Noto (M1) received Poster Award of JSEB 2012. Congratulations!
Collaboration with Drs. Hamdy Aly Hassan and Nasser Abbas from Minufiya Univ. Egypt has been done as the JSPS Joint Research Project with Egypt for 3 weeks from 21st May. The main focus on the subject was Genetically-Engineered Plant for Better Environment; expression of enzymes modifying compounds with an aromatic ring structure.
Jun. 4, 2012 Dr. Takafumi Shimizu's work "Potential key to enhanced disease resistance" went out to the public via press release.
Jun. 1, 2012 Three young members joined us for a research asistance.
Apr. 20, 2012 Collaboration with Prof. Kazuyuki Kuchitsu for the involvement of a Putative Voltage-gated Cation Channel, OsTPC1, on the production of phytoakexins in Cultured Rice Cells went out to the public via press release.
Apr. 9, 2012 Dr. Takafumi Shimizu's paper was publised in Journal of Biological Chemistry
Apr. 1, 2012 New lab members joined us and welcome party was held in Okachimachi after cherry-blossom viewing at Ueno park.
Mar. 29, 2012 Dr. Koji Miyamoto's paper was published in Protoplasma
Feb. 27, 2012 Prof. Hisakazu Yamane received Achievement Award of JSBBA 2012
Feb. 5, 2012 Dr. Masaki Shintani received Topic Award of JSBBA 2012
Jan. 30, 2012 Dr. Kwang-Wook KO's paper was selected as a Paper Award of J.Pesticide Science
Jan. 23, 2012 Joint paper in collaboration with Prof. Kazuyuki Kuchitsu (Tokyo Univ. of Science) was published in Journal of Biological Chemistry
Jan. 20, 2012 Mr. Koji Miyamoto's paper was published in Journal of Plant Physiology
Jan. 7, 2012 Prof. Hideaki Nojiri's Award review was published in BBB
Jan. 3, 2012 Mr. Kohei Yamazaki's works was published in Journal of Biological Chemistryin collaboration with Prof. Reuben Peters (Iowa State Univ.).
Jan. 1, 2012 A happy new year! Laboratory Home Page was updated
【2011】
Nov. 21, 2011 The other paper written by Dr. Masaki Shintani was published in Microbiology (Coming soon)
Nov. 21, 2011 Dr. Masaki Shintani's paper was published in Plasmid
Nov. 21, 2011 Dr. Tadafumi Hotrisaki's paper was published in Microbiology
Nov. 15, 2011 International Symposium BRC "Future Prospects of Plant Biotechnology" was successfully held at Yayoi Auditorium, The University of Tokyo
Oct. 1, 2011 Mr. Noriyuki Takase recieved Encouraging Award of JSBBA-kanto 2011
Oct. 1, 2011 Mr. Takashi Umeda recieved Poster Award of JSE 2011
Jul. 22, 2011 Joint paper in collaboration with Prof. Arata Yajima (Tokyo Univ. Agri.) was published inTetrahedron Letters
【2010】
Jul. 20, 2010 Joint paper in collaboration with Prof. Naoto Shibuya (Meiji Univ.) was published in Plant Journal
Jun. 1, 2010 Mr. Kazuhiro Matsui recieved Poster Award of JSEB 2011
Jun. 1, 2010 Mr. Takashi Umeda's paper was published in Acta F
Apr. 1, 2010 Joint paper in collaboration with Dr. Mitsuko Kaboshi (NIAS) was published in Plant Journal
Apr. 10, 2010 Joint paper in collaboration with Dr. Yuko Ohashi (NIAS) was published in MPMI
Apr. 7, 2010 Dr. Kwang-Wook KO's paper was published in J.Pesticide Science
Apr. 1, 2010 We got cherry-blossom viewing party at Ueno park with new lab. members.
Mar. 31, 2010 Joint paper in collaboration with Prof. Kazuyuki Kuchitsu (Tokyo Univ. of Science) was published in Plant Physiology
Mar. 30, 2010 JSBBA 2010 was held at Komaba campus, The University of Tokyo
Mar. 27, 2010 Dr. Kazunori Okada recieved Encouraging Award of JSBBA2010
Jan. 25, 2010 A happy new year! Laboratory Home Page was updated.
【2009】
Oct. 31, 2009 Mr. Hiroki Tokumaru recieved Poster Award of JSBBA-kanto 2008
Oct. 29, 2009 Dr. Hideaki Nojiri recieved Encouraging Award of JSE 2009
Oct. 26, 2009 [infomation] Scientific event " Science Cafe ~Kei-sou cafe" will be held on Nov 23. Ms. Hiromi Minoda, formar lab. member(Shiseidou), is moderator of the event.
Jul. 25, 2009 Dr. Atsushi Okada's study for OsTGAP1, master-regulator of diterpenoid phytoalexins biosynthesis in rice went out to the public via press release.
Aug. 7, 2009 Dr. Tetsuya Chujo's paper was published in BBB
Aug. 6, 2009 Joint paper in collaboration with Dr. Tomoaki Kato (NIAS) was published in PMB
Jul. 27, 2009 Dr. Atsushi Okada's paper (Nihon Nouyaku) was published in JBC
Jul. 1, 2009 Ms. Yurika Takahashi's paper was published inAppl Environ Microbiol
Apr. 1, 2009 We got cherry-blossom viewing party at Ueno park with new lab. members.
Mar. 23, 2009 Ms. Yurika Takahashi's paper was published inBBB
Mar. 20, 2009 Hideaki Nojiri, Yurika Takahashi, and Masaki Shintani's review entitled "Significance of horizontal gene transfer via plasmid conjugation to use bacteria in the natural environment" Bioscience & industry 67(2) pp.59`64 2009/2
Mar. 7, 2009 Joint paper in collaboration with Dr. Tomonobu Toyomasu (Yamagata Univ.) was published in BBB
Feb. 2, 2009 Ms. Yurika Takahashi (M2) got the JSPS fellowship DC1.
Jan. 20, 2009 Dr. Kazunori Okada's review entitled "Biosynthetic Gene Clusters for Phytoalexins in Rice" was published in KAGAKU TO SEIBUTSU Vol. 47, No.1 (2009) p43-50.
Jan. 9, 2009 Dr. Masatoshi Miyakoshi (Tohoku Univ.) got an acceptance on his paper in BMC Genomics.
Jan. 1, 2009 A happy new year! Laboratory Home Page was updated.
【2008】
Dec. 25, 2008 Mr. Tamafumi Shimizu (D1) got the JSPS fellowship DC2.
Dec. 25, 2008 Mr. Koji Miyamoto (M2) got the JSPS fellowship DC1.
Dec. 15, 2008 Mr. Ko's paper was published in BBB
Dec. 15, 2008 Dr. Uchimura's paper was published in BBB
Nov. 4, 2008 Mr. Kunihiko Nitoh recieved Poster Award at 9th Kyokugen Biseibutu Gakkai
Oct. 30, 2008 Dr. Atsushi Okada recieved Poster Award at 43th JSCRP
Oct. 11, 2008 Dr. Masaki Shintani recieved Young Scientist Award of JSBBA-kanto 2008
Sep. 4, 2008 Dr. Masaki Shintani recieved The Brian Wilkins Memorial Fund Prize at International Plasmid Biology Conference 2008
Sep. 4, 2008 Ms. Yurika Takahashi recieved The Best Poster Award at International Plasmid Biology Conference 2008
Jul. 1, 2008 Mr. Takashi Umeda's paper was published in Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun
Jul. 1, 2008 Laboratory Home Page was renewed.
Jun. 25, 2008 Ms. Yurika Takahashi recieved Poster Award at Japan Society for Environmental Biotechnoligy 2008
【2007】
Nov. 28, 2007 Mr. Kazuhiro Shimura's study for momilactone biosynthetic gene cluster in rice went out to the public via press release.