Molecular Genetics

Laboratory of Molecular Genetics

Department of Biological Sciences

Graduate School of Science

The University of Osaka

Both genetic and epigenetic information are important for all living things. However, they are not strictly maintained and sometimes change. We are interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms by which genetic and epigenetic information are maintained.

Takuro Nakagawa

PhD, Professor
Center for Education in Liberal Arts and Sciences (CELAS)
Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science
The University of Osaka
1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
TEL +81-6-6850-5432;
Email: nakagawa.takuro.sci[@]osaka-u.ac.jp

What's New

2024.11.23
Ran XU received the Excellent Poster Award from the 12th 3R+3C International Symposium.
2023.12.24
Our review paper "Gross chromosomal rearrangement at centromeres" has been published by Biomolecules.
2023.12.6-8
Ran Xu and Ziyi Pan presented their work at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ2023) Kobe
2023.10.16-17
Nakagawa presented the work at the Symposium 'Celebrating 32 Years of Ludwig San Diego' (San Diego, CA, USA)
2023.10.9-13
Nakagawa presented the work at Cold Spring Harbor Asia 'Yeast and Life Science' (Matsue, Shimane)
2023.8.20
Atsushi Onaka, an alumnus, visited the lab.
2023.8.20
Su Jie, an alumnus, visited the lab from China.
2023.7.20
Nakagawa published a short report in the Medical Science Digest.
2023.6.5-7
Nakagawa presented the work at the 27th DNA Replication, Recombination, and Repair (3R) Workshop in Hakata.
2023.5.28-6.2
Pan Ziyi and Nakagawa presented their work at the 11th International Pombe meeting in Hiroshima. Novel Prize winners Paul Nurse and Yoshinori Ohsumi gave us wonderful and encouraging talks.
2023.5.26
The paper showing that Srr1 and Skb1 cause chromosome rearrangements has been published in Communications Biology.
2023.4.3
Yoshida-san, Tomita-kun, and Yamazaki-kun joined our lab.
2023.3.2-5
Nakagawa presented the work at the Ataxia-Telangiectasie Workshop 2023 (Kyoto)
2023.2.17
Kinoshita presented the graduation research.
2023.2.17
Nakagawa presented the work at the annual meeting of the Platform for Advanced Genome Science (Kanagawa)
2022.12.20-21
Nakagawa presented the work at the annual meeting of Chromosome Workshop (Online)
2022.11.30-12.2
Xu and Nakagawa presented the work at the annual meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (Chiba)
2022.11.9-11
Nakagawa presented the work at the annual meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society (Nagoya)
2022.9.20
Nakagawa presented the work at the annual meeting of the Genetics Society of Japan (Hokkaido)
2022.8.18
Piyusha gave a nice presentation in her Mater defense
2022.4.1
Pan and Kinoshita joined our laboratory
2022.2.16
XU Ran gave a nice Mater presentation in her defense
2022.1.19
We have the 2022 NTHU-OU Virtual Symposium on Biological and Medical Sciences
2021.12.1-3
Xu and Piyusha presented their research at the annual meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ) at Yokohama
2021.8.2
Takuro Nakagawa was honored with the Incentive Award from the Genetics Society of Japan (GSJ)
2021.7.23
Jie Su's paper has been published in PLoS Genetics
2021.7.21
Jie Su presented his study in the online meeting, Pombe Talks.
2021.5.17
Jie Su did his Ph.D. defense.
2021.5.11
Faria Zafar (Research Scientist) joined our team.
2021.1.6
The preprint of Su Jie's paper is now available at bioRxiv.
2020.10.1
Piyusha joined our Lab.
2020.4.30
Onaka, Su et al. published the paper showing that Rad52 causes gross chromosomal rearrangements (GCRs) and that DNA replication machinery prevents Rad52-dependent GCRs at centromeres in Communications Biology
2020.4.14
Prof. Nakagawa has been highlighted as Reviewer of the Month in Communications Biology.
2020.4.1
Ran Xu joined our lab。
2020.2.21
Zaima-kun finally graduated from Osaka University School of Science.
2020.2.15
Okita et al. (2019), showing that heterochromatin suppresses chromosomal rearrangements by suppressing Tfs1/TFIIS-dependent transcription in fission yeast, has been selected in Communications Biology 2nd Year Anniversary Collection.
2019.4.18
Our review paper has been published in Current Genetics.