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NIG collaboration Grants FY2026: NIG-JOINT Now Accepting Applications
Postdoctoral PositionLaboratory of Gene Quantity Biology (PI: Mariko Sasaki)
Additional application for NIG Collaboration Grants FY2025: NIG-JOINT
2025/10/07
Selective breeding makes mice playful towards humans and other mice Tame mice show human- and mouse-directed playfulness
2025/10/01
Wild animal populations carrying mutations similar to those that cause human diseases
2025/09/26
Press release
Convergent losses of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in carnivorous plants
2025/09/17
Under what conditions does speciation occur?
2025/08/25
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TRsv: simultaneous detection of tandem repeat variations, structural variations, and short indels using long read sequencing data
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2025/10/14
Award
Dr. Katsuhiro Yoneoka won the JPR Best Paper Award at the Botanical Society of Japan
2025/10/07
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Dr. Masahito Tanaka wins the Early Career Presentation Award at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan
2025/10/06
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“Dean’s Award” awarded to Genetics Program student Islam, Moutushi
2025/09/30
Award
Katsuhiko Minami wins the “Early Career Award in Biophysics” and “IUPAB Award” at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan
2025/09/25
Collaborations
Guideline for Application for 2026 NIG-JOINT(Joint Research and Research Meeting) (Application deadline:noon(12:00pm)on Monday,Dec 1st,2025)
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2024/10/15
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NIG International Symposium 2024 ”SMC complexes: orchestrating diverse genome functions” (Oct, 15th-18th)
2023/11/09
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NIG International Symposium 2023 “Toward understanding the mechanism of human diseases: challenges with model organisms”
2023/05/31
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Towards the Wise Use of Bioresources
-From Basic Science to Industrial Application-
2022/11/16
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ABS Seminar “ABS for culture collections of microorganisms”
2022/11/11
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NIG International Symposium 2022「Chromosome Replication in the New Era; Old and New Questions in Life Science」
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