Laboratory of Gene Expression

Welcome to Lab Gene Expression!
We have recently developed a fluorescence reporter system to visualize alternative pre-mRNA splicing events in vivo and are studying the regulation mechanisms, or so called "splicing codes".

What's New!

December 3, 2018. Our Research Article on a tropomyosin gene in C. elegans was features as a cover of the issue in Cytoskeleton.
November 28, 2018. Our Review Article on a mammalian splicing regulator RBM20 has been published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences.
August 29, 2018. Eichi WATABE's Research Article on C. elegans lev-11 has been published in Cytoskeleton.
June 28, 2018. Our Research Article in Scientific Reports has been reported in Technology Networks and MedicalXpress.
June 27, 2018. Our Research Article in Scientific Reports has been reported in Science Daily.
June 26, 2018. Our Research Article in Scientific Reports has been reported in EurekAlert!.
June 21, 2018. Our Research Article in collaboration with Dr. IWASA Hiroaki and Prof. HATA Yutaka of TMDU has been published in Cancer Science.
June 12, 2018. Our Research Article on a mammalian splicing regulator RBM20 has been published in Scientific Reports (Press Release).
March 10, 2018. IWASAKI Rina has joined the lab.
March 1, 2018. Our Research Article on tropomyosin in C. elegans has been published in Molecular Biology of the Cell.
July 28, 2017. Our Review Article has been featured in Advanced Science News.
July 14, 2017. Our Review Article on pre-mRNA processing in C. elegans has been published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA.
March 23, 2017. WATABE Eichi has received the Master's degree.
March 1, 2017. Associate Professor KUROYANAGI Hidehito has become a Visiting Associate Professor of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in USA.
February 24, 2017. SAITO Masumi has joined the lab.
January 9, 2017. WATANABE Takeshi has joined the lab.
August 23, 2016. Our lab has moved to the M&D Tower.
June 23, 2016. Our research in collaboration with Dr. TOMIOKA Masahiro of the University of Tokyo has been presented in UTokyo Research.
May 20, 2016. Our research paper in collaboration with Dr. TOMIOKA Masahiro of the University of Tokyo has been published in Nature Communications online.
April 1, 2016. Project Assistant Professor WANI Shotaro has joined the lab.
March 10, 2016. Our research paper has been published in Nucleic Acids Research online.
November 16, 2015. Project Assistant Professor HASAN Sharmin has joined the lab.
August 6, 2015. SAITO Masumi, a summer student, has rejoined the lab.
April 7, 2015. WATABE Eichi has entered the Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences.
August 18, 2014. Our research paper has been published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Online.
July 28, 2014. SAITO Masumi, a summer student, has joined the lab.
June 16, 2014. Project Assistant Professor YAMASAKI-KATO Yumiko has joined the lab.
April 1, 2014. Our research paper has been published in Worm Online.
April 1, 2014. OHNO Marina has rejoined the lab.
March 26, 2014. TAKEI Satomi, HOSHINA Motoki and MURAYAMA Rie have received the Master's degree.
March 11, 2014. WATABE Eichi has joined the lab.
Sep 19, 2013. Nguyen Bao NGOC has received a PhD degree.
Aug 1, 2013. NAGAMORI Chizuko and HAMA Minami have joined tha lab.
Mar 1, 2013. Our research paper has been published in PLoS Genetics Online.
Feb 26, 2013. Our commentary has been published in Worm Online.
Feb 15, 2013. Our research paper has been published in Nucleic Acids Research Online.
Feb 8, 2013. IWASA's research paper has been published in Experimental Cell Research Online.
Feb 4, 2013. IIZUKA Mai has joined the lab.

As of December 3, 2018.

We welcome anybody interested in our research!

Useful vectors we reported in Nature Methods (2006) and in Nature Protocols (2010)!