LAB NEWS
March 2021
Diana Buzas attended Science Ongoing
Presentation: "Determinism to chaos: two decades of science ongoing"
March 2021
Our paper entitled “ The Flowering Season-Meter at FLOWERING LOCUS C Across Life Histories in Crucifers” was accepted for publication in Frontiers in Plant Science
November 2020
Diana Buzas attended SIETAR Japan 2020 35th Annual Conference;
Presentation: Exploring Contrasting Attitudes Toward Working Online (Contrast Culture Method SIG)
MAY 2020
Our paper "Repressive chromatin modification underpins the long-term expression trend of a perennial flowering gene in nature" was accepted for publication in Nature Communications
December 2019
Our lab hosted the first cohort of Meikei High School graduates of the International Baccalaureate.
August 2019
Diana Buzas and Taisuke Nishimura co-organized the meeting "The third meeting of the plant epigenetics consortium in Japan” at the National Institute of Genetics, Mishima. Host: Prof. Tetsuji Kakutani
Presentation title: "Epigenetics and culture: are there emerging links?" Diana Buzas
July 2019
end of 01AB007 "Intercultural Communication I" class
January - February 2019
Diana Buzas visited The Plant Resilience Institute, Michigan State University
October 2018
Diana Buzas took the course "Crossing cultures with competence" / Anne Coupland, The Interchange Institute, Boston
September 2018
Diana Buzas organized workshop "Bridging cultures in an academic environment: Soujourners meet interculturalists" Tsukuba Global Science Week September 20th
1-11.pptxAugust 2018
Diana Buzas attended SIETAR 2018 world congress. https://sjwc2018.wordpress.com/
June 2018
End of 01AB007 (2018) class
April 2018
The manuscript entitled "Mutants in the Fe-S biogenesis component AtDRE2 develop twin embryos and are defective in DNA demethylation in the vegetative phase" was accepted for publication in Molecular Life.
September 2017
GGS Best Paper award for the paper Nishio, H, Buzas DM, Nagano, AJ, Suzuki Y, Sugano S, Ito M, Morinaga SI, Kudoh H. From the laboratory to the field: assaying histone methylation at FLOWERING LOCUS C in naturally growing Arabidopsis halleri. Genes and Genetics Systems, 2016 Jul 20;91(1):15-26
July 2017
Diana Buzas and Ryo Fujimoto co-organized the meeting “A consortium of plant epigenetisists in Japan–Second Meeting” at the National Institute of Genetics, Mishima. Host: Prof. Tetsuji Kakutani
Presentation title: Vernalization upstream and downstream of FLC: from annuals to perennials and from lab to field
June 2017
The manuscript entitled “Capturing environmental plant memories in DNA, with a little help from chromatin” by Diana M Buzas was accepted in Plant and Cell Physiology
June 2017
End of "Communication Techniques (2017)" class party
February 2017
Diana Buzas attended the International Symposium on Environmental Stress Adaptation & Memory in Plants, Riken Yokohama Campus. Presentation title: “Quantitative and priming memory of cold at Vernalization Insensitive locus 3”
November 2016
Diana Buzas attended the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Research conference on Latest Advances in Plant Development and Environmental Response, Awaji November 29- December 2nd.
Presentation title and authors: “Uncovering biological roles of AtDRE2 as a cytosolic iron-sulfur biogenesis component and beyond” Buzas Diana Mihaela and Tetsu Kinoshita
August, 2016
Diana Buzas wrote a “Letter as a foreign PI in Japan” for the JSPP Newsletter
August, 2016
Clarrissa Francesca joined the lab
June 2016
The field project on wasabi at the University of Tsukuba Experimental Forest in Ikawa, Shizuoka site started.
Professor Hiroshi Kudoh from Kyoto University joined the trip.
June 2016
Makiko Yamamoto and Lumi Matsuda joined the lab
May 2016
The lab advertised for a technician position http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/update/jobs/pdf/201508251356.pdf
April 2016
The lab joined the Scientific Research on Innovative Areas MEXT Grant-in Aid Project FY2015-2019 entitled “Integrative system of autonomous environmental signal recognition and memorization for plant plasticity” Project Leader: Prof Toshinori Kinoshita, Nagoya University.
http://www.rs.tus.ac.jp/plantmemory/en/message/
The project is on “The DNA elements of vernalization insensitive 3 gene for quantitative and priming epigenetic memory of cold”
http://www.rs.tus.ac.jp/plantmemory/en/associated-research-group/#Buzas
March 2016
An interview with Diana Buzas appeared in Tsukuba Future news
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/people-list/tsukuba-future-054
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/notes/054/
March 2016
Diana Buzas visited the University of Tsukuba Experimental Forest in Ikawa, Shizuoka, to establish a field project on a natural population of wasabi
December 2015
The manuscript entitled “From the laboratory to the field: assaying histone methylation at FLOWERING LOCUS C in naturally growing Arabidopsis halleri “ by Haruki Nishio, Diana Mihaela Buzas, Atsushi J. Nagano, Yutaka Suzuki, Sumio Sugano, Motomi Ito, Shin-Ichi Morinaga and Hiroshi Kudoh was accepted for publication in Genes and Genetic Systems.
August 2015
Diana Buzas attended the Gordon Research Conference on Epigenetic Dynamics: Roles in Development, Inheritance, and Responses to the Environment, Bentley University, August 2-7.
Presentation title and authors: The epigenetic role for the conserved Fe-S cluster biogenesis protein AtDRE2 in Arabidopsis thaliana; Buzas Diana Mihaela; Miyuki Nakamura; Tetsu Kinoshita
July 2015
Diana Buzas and Ryo Fujimoto co-organized the meeting “A consortium of plant epigenetisists in Japan–First Meeting” at the National Institute of Genetics, Mishima. Host: Prof. Tetsuji Kakutani.
Presentation title: Requirement for Iron-Sulfur cofactors in DNA demethylation
April 2015
Diana Buzas was appointed as Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba