Cohesin prevents local mixing of condensed euchromatic domains in living human cells
Shiori Iida*, Masa A Shimazoe*, Katsuhiko Minami, Sachiko Tamura, SS Ashwin, Koichi Higashi, Tomoko Nishiyama, Masato Kanemaki, Masaki Sasai, Lothar Schermelleh, Atsushi Toyoda, Ken Kurokawa, Kazuhiro Maeshima (*: equal contribution)
bioRxiv (2025) DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.27.672592
Liquid-like transcription condensates locally constrain chromatin in living human cells
Adilgazy Semeigazin; Katsuhiko Minami; Masa A. Shimazoe; Saadi Khochbin; Daniel Panne; Satoru Ide; Kazuhiro Maeshima
bioRxiv (2025) DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.05.663270
Linker histone H1 functions as a liquid-like glue to organize chromatin in living human cells
Masa A. Shimazoe; Charles Phillips; Jan Huertas; Satoru Ide; Sachiko Tamura; Stephen Farr; S. S. Ashwin; Masaki Sasai; Rosana Collepardo-Guevara; Kazuhiro Maeshima
bioRxiv (2025) DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.05.641622
Single-nucleosome imaging unveils that condensins and nucleosome–nucleosome interactions differentially constrain chromatin to organize mitotic chromosomes
Kayo Hibino; Yuji Sakai; Sachiko Tamura; Masatoshi Takagi; Katsuhiko Minami; Toyoaki Natsume; Masa A. Shimazoe; Masato T. Kanemaki; Naoko Imamoto; Kazuhiro Maeshima
Nature Communications (2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51454-y
Is euchromatin really open in the cell?
Kazuhiro Maeshima; Shiori Iida; Masa A. Shimazoe; Sachiko Tamura; Satoru Ide
Trends in Cell Biology (2024) DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2023.05.007
Condensed but liquid-like domain organization of active chromatin regions in living human cells
Tadasu Nozaki; Soya Shinkai; Satoru Ide; Koichi Higashi; Sachiko Tamura; Masa A. Shimazoe; Masaki Nakagawa; Yutaka Suzuki; Yasushi Okada; Masaki Sasai; Shuichi Onami; Ken Kurokawa; Shiori Iida; Kazuhiro Maeshima
Science Advances (2023) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf1488
Phosphoregulation of DSB-1 mediates control of meiotic double-strand break activity
Heyun Guo; Ericca L Stamper; Aya Sato-Carlton; Masa A Shimazoe; Xuan Li; Liangyu Zhang; Lewis Stevens; KC Jacky Tam; Abby F Dernburg; Peter M Carlton
eLife (2022) DOI: 10.7554/eLife.77956
Poster Prize 1st place, EMBL Advanced Training Centre Corporate Partnership Programme fellowship,
EMBL Conference: Gene regulation: one molecule at a time (Jul, 2025)
Poster award, Life Science Retreat 2024 (Jan, 2025)
Excellent Poster Award, 12th 3R+3C International Symposium, Poster presentation (Nov, 2024)
Poster award, Life Science Retreat 2023 (Nov, 2023)
Student presentation award, 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, Oral presentation (Nov, 2023)
Best presentation award, Society of young scientists in biophysics, Summer school, Poster presentation (Sep, 2023)
Nominee of Best Environment Project and Best Part Collection, iGEM 2019, iGEM Kyoto 2019 (Nov, 2019)