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• 2025.04.24　　The paper of Dr. Yasushi Tanimoto "Supported lipid bilayer arrays formed from inkjet-printed lipid spots" was accepted by Langmuir!
• 2025.04.01　　Ms. Katia Woinska from UCLouvain, Belgium visited our lab for the Erasmus+ Internship. Welcome! She will work with us until July 2025.
• 2025.04.01　　New secretary Ms. Mariko Mano joined our group. Welcome!
• 2025.04.01　　The new academic year started. Every student became one grade senior!
• 2025.03.25　　Masako Fujii and Masato Koezuka have finished their Master's thesis. Congratulations! Good luck with your career and Ph.D work! Taisei Higashihara, Keigo Kitayama, and Aika Komatsu have graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture. Congratulations!
• 2025.03.11　　Research Grant from Tokyo Ohka Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology was awarded.
• 2025.03.07　　A collaborative work with Dr. Kaoru Nomura (Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences), "Membrane tubulation induced by a bacterial glycolipid" was accepted by Scientific Reports!
• 2024.10.01　　Third year undergraduate students (Haruka Ishikawa, Shouki Kato, Nanami Kiritani) joined the group for the bachelor projects. Welcome!
• 2024.07.15　　A collaborative work with Dr. Peter G. Adams (University of Leeds, UK), "Evidence for a transfer-to-trap mechanism of fluorophore concentration quenching in lipid bilayers" was accepted by the Biophysical Journal!
• 2024.07.01　　Funding for KAKENHI Grant in Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering) (#24K21341, 2024-2026) was awarded.
• 2024.06.28　　Masako Fujii has won the IUPAB 2024 Student and Early Career Researcher Poster Award in IUPAB 2024 (Kyoto). Congratulations!
• 2024.04.01　　The new academic year started. Every student became one grade senior!
• 2024.03.26　　Yuuri Miyata and Yu Yoshimura have finished their Master's thesis. Congratulations and good luck with your career! Nanami Nagatsuka and Kohki Takaghi have graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture. Congratulations!
• 2024.03.04　　A review article "Integrated model membrane for biophysical studies and biomedical applications" was accepted to Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (Special Issue: Microprocesses and Nanotechnology 2023 (MNC2023))!
• 2024.03.02　　Funding for KAKENHI Grant (B) (#24K01992, 2024-2026) was awarded.
• 2024.02.26　　Funding for Hyogo Science and Technology Academic Research Grants 2024 was awarded.
• 2024.02.14　　Funding for JSPS Core-to-Core project "International Core-to-Core Project on Biomembrane Molecular Machinery" was awarded. This project aims at establishing international collaboration networks with partners in the US (UCSD), Germany (University of Siegen), and UK (University of Leeds).
• 2023.12.30　　A collaborative work with Dr. Shohei Maekawa (Kobe University), "Oligomerization and aggregation of NAP-22 with several metal ions" was accepted by Neuroscience Letters!
• 2023.12.26　　A collaborative work with Dr. Makito Miyazaki (RIKEN), "Controlling physical and biochemical parameters of actin nucleation using a patterned model lipid membrane" was accepted by Nano Letters!
• 2022.11.21　　Masako Fujii has won the Best Poster Award in the 16th International Symposium on Nanomedicine (ISNM2023) (Osaka). Congratulations!
• 2023.11.16　　Nanami Nagatsuka has won the Student Presentation Award in the 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan (Nagoya). Congratulations!
• 2023.11.06　　Mr. Joshua Schmacher and Mr. Andreas Jagic from University of Siegen, Germany visited our lab for the JSPS International Collaboration. Joshua and Andy stay for one month to fabricate patterned polymeric membranes.
• 2022.10.17　　Three high school students from Kobe University Secondary School visited our lab for the internship.
• 2023.10.02　　Dr. Mareike Müller and Ms. Diana Hebel from University of Siegen, Germany visited our lab for the JSPS International Collaboration. Diana stayed for one month to learn the fabrication of patterned membranes.
• 2023.10.01　　Third year undergraduate students (Taisei Higashihara, Keigo Kitayama, and Aika Komatsu) joined the group for the bachelor projects. Welcome!
• 2023.04.01　　The new academic year started. Every student became one grade senior!
• 2023.03.24　　Yuka Kusunoki and Ayane Sugimachi have finished their Master's thesis. Congratulations and good luck with your career! Masako Fujii and Masato Koezuka have graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture. Congratulations!
• 2023.02.04　　A collaborative work with Dr. Peter G. Adams (University of Leeds, UK), "Self-quenching behavior of a fluorescent probe incorporated within lipid membranes explored using electrophoresis and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy" was accepted by the Journal of Physical Chemistry B!
• 2022.12.27　　Funding for JSPS International Collaboration was awarded to the collaboration with Prof. Dr. Anant K. Menon (Weill Cornell Medicine).
• 2022.12.13　　The paper of Dr. Yasushi Tanimoto "Retarded diffusion and confinement of membrane-bound molecules in a patterned hybrid membrane of phospholipid bilayers and monolayers" was accepted by the Journal of Physical Chemistry B!
• 2022.11.14　　Prof. Dr. Peter Adams and Dr. Ashley M. Hancock from University of Leeds, UK visited our lab for one week for experiments discussion on the artificial photosynthetic system.
• 2022.11.01　　A Ph.D. student from University of Siegen, Germany (Joshua Schumacher) visited our lab for one month to conduct experiments for the JSPS International Collaboration.
• 2022.10.11　　A collaborative work with Dr. Peter G. Adams (University of Leeds, UK), "Enhancing the spectral range of plant and bacterial Light-Harvesting pigment-protein complexes with various synthetic chromophores incorporated into lipid vesicles" was accepted by Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, B: Biology!
• 2022.10.04　　Two high school students from Kobe University Secondary School visited our lab for the internship.
• 2022.10.01　　Third year undergraduate students (Nanami Nagatsuka and Koki Takagi) joined the group for the bachelor projects. Welcome!
• 2022.08.17　　Two master students from University of Siegen, Germany (Andreas Jagic and Daniela Nordhoff) visited our lab for one month to conduct experiments for the JSPS International Collaboration.
• 2022.07.04　　Funding for KAKENHI for Challenging Exploratory Research (#22K18948, 2022-2023) was awarded.
• 2022.05.17　　The paper of Ryota Komatsu "Nanofluidic model membrane for the single molecule observation of membrane proteins" was accepted by Langmuir!
• 2022.04.01　　The new academic year started. Every student became one grade senior!
• 2022.03.25　　Fuko Kueda has finished her Master's thesis. Congratulations and good luck with your career! Yuri Miyata and Yu Yoshimura have graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture. Congratulations!
• 2022.03.01　　Funding for KAKENHI Grant (B) (2022-2024) was awarded to Dr. Fumio Hayashi. Congratulations!
• 2022.01.07　　Funding for JSPS International Collaboration was awarded to the collaboration with Prof. Dr. Holger Schonherr (University of Siegen, Germany).
• 2021.10.25　　A collaborative work with Dr. Rinshi Kasai (Gifu University), "Functional reconstitution of dopamine D2 receptor into a supported model membrane in a nanometric confinement" was accepted by Advanced Biology!
• 2021.10.08　　Funding for KAKENHI International Grant (B) (#21KK0088, 2021-2024) was awarded to the collaboration with Dr. Peter G. Adams and Dr. Stephen D. Evans (University of Leeds, UK).
• 2021.10.01　　Third year undergraduate students (Masako Fujii and Masato Koezuka) joined the group for the bachelor projects. Welcome!
• 2021.04.01　　The new academic year started. Every student became one grade senior!
• 2021.03.25　　Yuka Kusunoki and Ayane Sugimachi have graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture. Congratulations!
• 2021.02.03　　A collaborative work with Dr. Peter G. Adams (University of Leeds, UK), "Model lipid membranes assembled from natural plant thylakoids into 2-D microarray patterns as a platform to assess the organization and photophysics of light-harvesting proteins" was accepted by Small!
• 2021.01.29　　Rurika Nagai was awarded IEEJ Young Researcher's Award for her work on "Reconstitution of membrane proteins from cell membrane into a model biological membrane". Congratulations!
• 2020.10.01　　Third year undergraduate students (Yuri Miyata and Yu Yoshimura) joined the group for the bachelor projects. Welcome!
• 2020.07.30　　A collaborative work with Dr. Shohei Maekawa "The effects of phospholipids and fatty acids on the oligomer formation of NAP-22" was accepted by Neuroscience Letters.
• 2020.05.09　　The paper of Takuro Yoneda "Photosynthetic model membranes of natural plant thylakoid embedded in a patterned polymeric lipid bilayer" was accepted by Langmuir!
• 2020.04.01　　Funding for KAKENHI Grant (B) (#20H03225, 2020-2022) was awarded.
• 2020.03.31　　Rurika Nagai and Takuro Yoneda finish their Master's thesis. Congratulations and good luck with your careers!
• 2020.03.16　　The home page of the group is renewed!