Past NEWS

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2023

July 26

🔥🔥🔥New Mega Hot Plate (MHP) has just arrived🔥🔥🔥

MHP might be regarded as a perfect machine for heating a whole bunch of TLC plates, beakers, and Erlenmeyer flasks at the same time in the synthetic laboratory😁

July 24

Dr. Sasaki's research in NIMS was highlighted in Chem-Station.

His research was inspired by the double-layered structure of Kyoto Baum🎂 

Please look at his picture wearing the lab coat of "the man of ability"🤭 

June 7

Are you interested in oligosaccharides and/or polysaccharides?

Please register the joint symposium of JSCC🦀 & JSCR🐫 in Tottori, right now.

The 42nd annual meeting of JSCR is co-sponsored by Tottori University.

May 13

Dr. Sasaki delivered his award lecture in Okayama, his hometown🍑

He is a recipient of the incentive award of The Society of Materials Science, Japan of this year. The award ceremony will be held on 29th May in Tsukuba where he spent his PhD course and postdoc🚀

May 1

Registration of the 42th Annual Meeting of Japanese Societry of Carbohydrate Research organized by Prof. Jun-ichi Tamura (Tottori Univ.) has been started🐫🐪🐫

Please register from the meeting website by 31st July.

April 17

Mr. Sun and Mr. Takinami received the dean award of the faculty of engineering in AY 2022🏅🏅

We are so proud that you guys are in our group. Congratulations🤗

April 3

Here we start the new academic year 2023👍

The group has 20 members including 17 students and 1 postdoc and 2 faculties.

March 31

Dr. Shuichi Hayase served about 30 years in Tottori Unversity.

We wish you good health and happy life on your retirement💕

Dr. Titli Ghosh will move to Gifu Unversity.

Thank you for your contribution to the CREST project😉

March 30

Although his age is just a number, we celebrate the birthday.

Thank you guys, I love you all💗 Happy birthday, Yui san🎉

March 29

The thrid paper of Mirai with Stefan has been accepted.

This is a collaborative work between Germany and Japan🍻

March 22

The special symposium of "Future of Sustainable and Functional Redox Chemistry" in the 103rd CSJ annual meeting was held succssfully🧪🧪 

We deeply acknowledge invited speakers and a large audience😉

Japan advances, but the world of redox chemistry won this morning🥇

March 18

Today, 1 doctral course, 2 master course, and 7 bachelor students graduated🌸 

A half of them will stay this group for further research🧪 and education📚

March 10

Dr. Munenori Inoue (Sagami Chemical Research Inst.) and Toshiki will organize the special symposium "Future of Sustainable and Functional Redox Chemistry" in the 103rd CSJ annual meeting on March 22🧪

Invited speakers: Prof. Shinsuke Inagi (TIT), Prof. Hisashi Shimakoshi (Kyushu Univ.), Prof. Mio Kondo (Osaka Univ.), Prof. Hirohisa Ohmiya (Kyoto Univ.), Prof. Yoshiko Miura (Kyushu Univ.), Prof. Manabu Abe (Hiroshima Univ.)

March 3

We welcome the 3rd year students 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄 from the bottom of our hearts💗

March 2

Norihiko will receive an award🏆 

He did a truly amazing job during PhD and postdoc under supervision of Prof. Kazunori Sugiyasu.

March 2

Ben (Prof. Benjamin Swarts, Central Michigan Univ.) gave a great talk👏

30 people inculding 12 faculties joined the lecture. 

February 21

Masaki and Ziyi won the department chair award for the presentation of their bachelor thesis. 

We are proud of you. Congratulations🏆🏆 

January 25

Azad successfully completed his dissertation defense😃

We appreciate both onsite and online participation in the snow⛄

January 18

Now you can access the website of the 42nd annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Carbohydrate Research🐫 

January 11

Prof. Kazuhiko Matsumoto delivered the lecture on plastic crystals and their applications🔋

Over 50 students and faculties joined the online GSC seminar.

January 4

Dr. Shinya Hanashima joined our department as a full professor😃

Shinya successfully synthesized Sialyl Lewis X in the Seeberger group at ETH Zurich. Toshiki involved in the project but came to a dead end🙈

2022

December 24

Masaki's presentation in the research meeting was awesome🎄

Masaki is supervised by Dr. Norihiko Sasaki.

December 21

Hirofumi will join the Scripps Research Institute as a visiting student🌵

Hirofumi will be supervised by Prof. Phil S. Baran

December 9

Mirai, who completed his master course in this group, has just started his PhD program in the University of Rostock, Germany🚢

Supervisor: Dr. Stefan Jopp

December 5

The Symposium of the 10th anniversary of the Center for Research on Green Sustainable Chemistry was held successfully. We deeply acknowledge guests, invited speakers and exective members especially faculties and students of the Katada group🙇

Organizer: Prof. Naonobu Katada (Tottori University)

A summary of the sympsium was published in the newspaper (Nihonkai Shimbun) on 16th December, 2022 together with a picture of Emeritus Professor Toshiyuki Itoh during his lecture.

December 2

Toshiki delivered his keynote lecture in Frontiers in Chemical Sciences - 2022 (FICS-2022) held in Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG).

Co-convenors: Drs A. Kumar, A. Das, and P. Kanchalra (IITG)

IITG has a beautiful campus at the riverside of the Brahmaputra🦏

November 25

Organizer: Prof. Takeshi Shiono (Hiroshima University) 

November 10

We are going to become the elite chemists🧪🧪🧪

Dr. Sasaki and five students of the junior high school attached to the university enjoyed the synthesis of organic luminescent molecules. The Suzuki-Miyaura coupling is useful to make carbon-carbon bonds and famous as a Norbel Prize reaction.

November 8

Press Release (Japanese web-site of the University)🔋

This is a collabolative work of a solid-state battery with Kyoto University, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd, and Tottori University (Sakaguchi Group and us). We thank collabolators and co-workers for their dedication and tireless efforts.

November 2

10 years: Time flies quickly⏱💨

Toshiki joined the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology 10 years ago (November 1st, 2012). He deeply acknowledges continuous supports from Professor Emeritus Toshiyuki Itoh, colleagues, staffs, and students of the University during that time. Together with Dr. Norihiko Sasaki and co-workers, he will contribute to excellence of the University through chemical research and education at the boundaries of organic chemistry and others research areas.

September 27

Hirofumi and Mirai completed their master program🎉

They will start their PhD courses in Tottori and Rostock, respectively😏😲

September 6

We have developed a practical method to prepare precursors of chitin oligosaccharides based on electrochemical polyglycosylation⚡

This work is a collabolative work with KOGANEI Corp. (Koganei city, Tokyo)😏

August 25

Hirofumi received the poster award at the 36th annual meeting of The Japanese Society for 

Chitin and Chitosan🦀🦀🦀

Organizer: Prof. Fumitaka Oyama (Kogakuin University) 

August 24

Chem-Station also spotlighted “Cyclokasaodorin”☔

August 18

Chemistry Today(現代化学2022年9月号)introduced our research😏

The synthesis of cyclic oligosaccharide "Cyclokasaodorin" was highlighted in the latest issue.

June 24

We contributed a chapter to the book titled "Sustainable and Fuctional Redox Chemistry" from RSC.

Professor Shinsuke Inagi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) edited the book📚

June 18

Thank you for your contributions to EOC46.

The symposium was successfully organized via "touche".

Hirofumi received the excellent poster award of the symposium🎉

June 17

EOC46 has started online😉

Executive Commitee: Prof. Emer. Naoki Kise, Toshiki Nokami, and Norihiko Sasaki

June 7

Mr. Hirofumi Endo has synthesized a novel cyclic oligosaccharide 'Cyclokasaodorin' which consists of N-acetylglucosamine with α-1,4-glycosidic linkages and the paper has been accepted.

The chemical synthesis of this molecule has been published in Chemical Communications👑

June 1

Dr. Norihiko Sasaki was promoted to the Assistant Professor of the group😃

The group has 21 members including 17 students and 1 postdoc and 3 faculties.

May 12

Student registration fee of EOC46 is free; however, you have to register by the end of this month through the symposium website😉

April 1

Here we start the new academic year 2022👍

The group has 21 members including 17 students and 2 postdocs and 2 faculties.

March 4

We welcome new 4th year students😄😄🤩😳🥺😏😆

Our group becomes more international🏳‍🌈

Japan is the least populated among these four countries😲

February 22

Masaharu won the award of outstanding presentation of his bachelor thesis from the department. 

Congratulations, Macha🎉 and thank you, Hirofu💙

January 19

The symposium will be organized using the "touche" system by courtesy of Prof. Bunsho Ohtani🦝

2021

December 22

All the lab members gave presentation of their research.

Hirofumi's presentation was awesome👍

November 19

Kentaro received the best poster presentation award at the 11th Symposium of the Ionic Liquid Research Association

Organizer: Prof. Yukio Ouchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) 

Congratulations, Kamaken🎉

October 6

Intermediate report of 3rd year of PhD, 2nd year of masters, and bachelors was held in the group.

Haruki's presentation was awesome👍

October 22

The GSC Seminar (Dr. Titli Ghosh) had 77 participants from agriculture and engineering departments. Thank you very much🙇

October 7

The 42th Annual Meeting (2023) of the Japanese Society of Carbohydrate Research will be held in Tottori🐫

Professor Jun-ichi Tamura (Tottori University) will organize the meeting.

October 6

Intermediate report of 3rd year of PhD, 2nd year of masters, and bachelors was held in the group.

Haruki's presentation was awesome👍

September 27

Toshiki unexpectedly met Professor Emeritus Jitsuo Kiji for the first time.

Dr. Kiji was the first Professor of this laboratory and led the group for a quarter of the century (1976-2001)😲

September 21

Dr. Titli Ghosh joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow.

She will give a lecture (GSC seminar) in the department on October 22😉

September 6

The group SpatialChat has started.

Now students can show up to the morning assembly from their flats😆

September 4

Dr. Titli Ghosh arrived at Tokyo international airport (HND).

We can wait another 2 weeks easily, because we were waiting for you more than a year😅

August 27

Mirai received the award of outstanding poster presentation at the 35th annual meeting of Japanese Society for Chitin and Chitosan. 

Organizer: Prof. Jun-ichi Kadokawa (Kagoshima University) 

Congratulations, Koma-chan🎉

July 14

Middle Molecular Strategy (Fukase, K.; Doi, T. Eds.) and Comprehensive Glycoscience 2nd Edition (Barchi, J. J. Ed.) have been published online. 

We contributed a chapter to both books😏

July 9

The last one of the three consecutive papers with Mr. Sato, Prof. Kinoshita (Tokyo University of Science), Dr. Shima, Dr. Akinaga (AIST), Emeritus Prof. Itoh, and co-workers has been accepted for publication.

June 14

September 8-10, 2021 (Online)

Organizer: Prof. Kazunori Matsuura (Tottori University)

June 8

Review article (Open access) with Akito has been published online. 

This paper is dedicated to late Professor Jun-ichi Yoshida (Kyoto University).

April 1

The new academic year 2021 has started. 

All members showed up in the morning assembly👍

Mar. 23: The new fume hood has arrived at the laboratory!

Mar. 17: Graduation day: 3 master students (Kunpei, Mariko, Naoto) and 2 bachelor students (Ikuyoshi, Yuki) left the group.

Mar. 5: Online GSC Seminar, Prof. Hiroki Mandai (Gifu University of Medical Science) 

     Hiroki, thank you for your great talk!

Mar. 4: New undergraduate students joined the group. Welcome to the group!

Feb. 24: Hirofumi won the award of outstanding presentation of his bachelor thesis from the department of chemistry and biotechnology. 

Congratulations, Hirofu!

Jan. 20: Mirai (B4) has published another paper with Dr. Jopp. Wow! 

Jan. 8: Online GSC Seminar, Dr. Cheng-Chung Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

56 participants from Taiwan, India, and Japan enjoyed his great talk.

2020

Dec. 23: New publication, Hazuki with Prof. Nishikata (Yamaguchi University)

Dec. 11: Online GSC Seminar, Prof. Koichi Ohe (Kyoto University)

95 participants including Prof. Kawata, director of the University joined the lecture.

Dec. 8: Miari's paper has been selected as a cover picture.

Nov. 19: Dr. Cheng-Chung Wang (Academia Sinica) and his students joined our group seminar. 

Nov. 12: New Publication, Shuji and Yuta with Prof. Ohmuna (Kindai University)

Oct. 27: GSC Seminar, Dr. Tatsuya Morofuji "MOROPY" (Gakushuin University)

75 participants including 6 faculties joined the online seminar.

Oct. 21: New Publication, Mirai with Dr. Jopp (University of Rostock, Germany)

Oct. 16: Website Renewal

Oct. 13: Emi left the group as planned.