Please check out my essay on the amazing life of Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa and her retrospective exhibition at MOMA, released at RockEDU Science Outreach blog site. rockedu.rockefeller.edu/blog/how-i-d...

Are you a grad student pursuing the life sciences or biomedical research outside the U.S.? Applications now open for the Angelika Amon Young Scientist Award until June 13. Enter to win $1,000 USD & a chance to present your work & network w/ MIT faculty. buff.ly/F7s94vW

The peer-reviewed VOR for the MagIC-cryo-EM paper by @yarimura.bsky.social‬ and @1001hak.bsky.social‬ is finally published! Congrats Yasu!

A great curiosity-driven research!

In preparation for the lecture tomorrow, I opened "The Cell in Development and Heredity" by E.B. Wilson (Columbia Univ), and realized that this 3rd edition was published in 100 years ago. So many things happened since then, including the fact that I, a Japanese Prof in NY, own and read the book.

Even "useless" objects can be appreciated - arts are indispensable for human society. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperar... Biologists know that redundant or non-essential parts often play important roles. Still, human society must decide on priorities, and this requires justifications.

I must note that the Japanese scientist Akira Endo isolated statin (compactin) from the mold in 1972, after coming back to Japan from his 2 years of biochemistry study in Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, where he recognized the major heart health issues among people in the US. 1/

Please check out our preprint where we find that mitotic transcription helps ensure ecDNA inheritance through chromosomal tethering: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

　A cool innovation to make live-immunofluorescence microscopy!

There is a 0.0% chance that this was written or approved by anyone at NIH with any experience. 2/n

this is a very interesting slide deck from Ropes & Gray, one of the most prestigious & high-caliber law firms in the US tl;dr we have very good litigators on this issue

Alarming news...

Useful and great guidance and a script on how to contact your congressional representatives to advocate for federal scientific funding. Thank you @ascbiology.bsky.social! If this is your battle, start here!

Enjoying a great okonomiyaki in Bushwick, Brooklyn, after being inspired by "Solitary Gourmet"

So sad to hear of the passing of Scott Hawley. In 2008, Michael Ashburner, Scott Hawley, and Casey Bergman held a Drosophila genetics and genomics course in China. This course was instrumental in shaping me as a junior researcher, and I am forever grateful about this eye-opening experience.

Part of a letter I sent today to my Congressional Representative and Senators.

I just contacted my representatives about the nomination of RFK, Jr and the recent executive orders. Here is what I wrote in my email or said to the staffer on the phone: Hello- I am writing/calling on several topics:

Check out a fantastic @elife.bsky.social article highlighting @yarimura.bsky.social’s MagIC #cryoEM technique - a method using specialized magnetic beads that makes it possible to study the structure of proteins from dilute samples. elifesciences.org/articles/105...

Pleased to share my thoughts on the new eLife publication model. elifesciences.org/inside-elife...

Happy New Year!

今晩の会食で、谷崎潤一郎が話題に。思春期に祖父の書棚で見つけた『鍵』を密かに手にした体験が、40年以上の時を経て、初めて伏線として回収される。

A thought on stupidity and creativity Last week, I visited a floor where I spent 6 years as a PhD student in Kyoto Univ. The room used to be my lab was converted into a women's restroom. I feel a bit sad, but it was an important improvement for female researchers. 1/

We are seeking a motivated postdoc to join our lab!  Our research focuses on live-cell imaging/analysis to reveal how chromatin behaves in living cells and how its behavior contributes to cellular functions. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Interested? Please DM me!

Well, here is the new start... (Yoshida shrine, Kyoto)