Dr. Masahito Tanaka, from the Laboratory of Physics and Cell Biology (the Shimamoto Lab) at the National Institute of Genetics, gave an invited talk at the 63rd annual meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan and won the Early Career Presentation Award. Dr. Tanaka has been supported by a JSPS postdoctoral fellowship since 2023 and will start his new research under JST ACT-X this October.

▶ Awarded presentation title: Changes in the physical properties of early embryonic nuclei promote a transcriptional burst

▶  The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan

▶ Shimamoto Group • Physics and Cell Biology Laboratory