Evolutionary Brain Pathology Lab (Yoshida lab)

Aug 17-Aug 23. 2025 Yoshida gave an invited talk at ESEB 2025. It was a great honor to present our research at a conference attended by 2000 people.

Jun 30-July 1. 2025 Yoshida attended to the workshop of JST CREST "Cell Control" at Hiroshima and talked the recent progress. It was intensive to learn advanced tech for genome editing.

Jun 28-July 2. 2025 Ishita attended to the 25th International Worm Meeting and presented her study in poster session. There were many interesting researches including those with non-C. elegans nematodes, further motivating us to our research.

Jun 21. 2025 Yoshida published a new paper in Journal of Nematology as a co-author [Link]. This is a result from the international collaborative work with Max Planck Institute, Germany.

Jun 19-20. 2025 Yoshida visited DANDRITE [Link], Aarhus University, Denmark and introduced our research in the symposium. It was impressive to see beautifully designed equipments for neouropathology in DANDRITE. BRI has agreements with DANDRITE  to promote our collaborative researches in the future.

May 26. 2025 Yoshida published a column in the web magazine, Evergreen, from Niigata University. "The secret of genome evolution revealed in the small animal" in Japanese [Link]

May 15–16, 2025 We held the regular meeting of the JST CREST "Cell Control" Sugimoto Team at the BRI. In addition to progress reports from the PIs, 15 participants, including students and staff, gave poster presentations, which made very active discussion. We hope this will accelerate collaborative research!

Apr 17. 2025 Yoshida talked in the Niigata Medical Society and introduced advanced fields in evolutionary biology and our strategy to tackle evolutionary brain pathology.

April 16, 2025 An interview with Dr. Naoko Fujito was published on the Brain Research Institute's website. If you are interested in the work of researchers, please take a look. [Link]

Apr 1, 2025 Ms. Kozue Ishizuka has newly joined our lab as a technical assistant. We look forward to the further acceleration of our research.

Mar 26, 2025 We held a lab tour during the public event "Let’s Take a Look at the Human Brain and Mind." We presented an overview of evolutionary genomics and how it connects to research on brain diseases. It was a very enjoyable to talk with highly motivated students (from high school to university level).

Feb 5–6, 2025 We participated in the 14th Joint Symposium of the BRI, NIPS, and EHUB, held in Okazaki, Aichi. It was a valuable opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research all in one place.