FY2025
○ 2025 August 22
Naoki Kato (D1) gave an oral presentation at the Tau Research Meeting 2025 (Nihon University).
○ 2025 July 28
The Spring Semester 2025 Laboratory Social (official laboratory event) was held in the TWIns Lounge.
○ 2025 July 24-27
Yuka Ikai (M1) and Dr Shigeo Sakuragi presented at the 48th JNSS meeting at Niigata.
FY2024
○ 2025 March29
We held a farewell party for the 2024 graduates in the lounge on the third floor of TWIns. The cherry blossoms were in full bloom.
○ 2025 March 27
Six B4 and five M2 students were awarded their degrees. Congratulations!
○ 2025 March 12
After 1 month of the joint program, M2 Tomoya Uchida presented his research activity at the Waseda University-Bonn University Joint Symposium.
○ 2025 March 4, 5
At the 14th Kanto Branch Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, Naoki Kato, Hisanao Matsui, Yuka Ikai, Takumi Takano, SungHyun Kim, and Miku Nabeshima presented their research results.
○ 2025 March 4
At the 11th Tokyo Women's Medical University Waseda University Research Exchange Seminar, M1 student Yuka Ikai presented the results of her research in a poster presentation.
よろし
○ 2025 February 4, 13
The FY 2024 master's thesis review and graduation thesis presentation were held.
○ 2024 November 27-29
Miyu ENOMOTO, Rie KATO, Dr Toshiki TAKAHASHI, and BANNAI presented in the 47th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan.
○ 2024. Oct 29
Our paper on OptTau has been published in Biophysics and Physicobiology. This article was selected as the cover picture.
よろしい
○ 2024 September 24
From September 24th, for two weeks, Lukas Roßnagel from the University of Bonn conducted research at our laboratory.
○ 2024 September 15
Congratulations! Today, Yuka Ikai received her Bacelor's degree from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University!
○ 2024 August 23, 24
Naoki Kato and Tomoya Uchida presented their research in the Tau Meeting 2024 at Shiga Medical University.
○ 2024 August 3
Miku Nabeshima and lab members are in the official video of Waseda TWIns.
○ 2024 July 29
Summer party at the TWIns 3F lounge.
○ 2024 July 24-27
Naoki Kato (Oral Presentation), Tomoya Uchida and Shigeo Sakuragi (Poster Presentation), Hiroko Bannai (Educational lecture) in the Neuro2024.
○ 2024 Jun3 28
Tomoya Uchida and Naoki Kato has received IUPAB2024 Student and Early Career Researcher Poster Award . Cograts!
よろ
○ 2024 June 24-28
Tomoya Uchida and Naoki Kato, research assistant, Boxiao Zhao, and Shigeo Sakuragi gave poster presentations at the international conference IUPAB 2024,
○ 2024 April 1
Dr Toshiki Takahashi joined our lab as an assistant professor.
FY2023
March 7, 2024
Tomoya Uchida (M2) presented his research results at the 13th meeting of the Kanto Branch of the Japanese Society for Biophysics.
February 29, 2024
At the 10th TWMU Waseda University Research Exchange Seminar, Tomoya Uchida, M1, presented a poster of his research results.
February 26, 2023
Dr. Katsuhiko Mikoshiba of Shanghai University of Science and Technology visited us and gave us advice on our students' research.
February 3 and 13, 2024
Presentations of master's theses and graduation theses were held.
Seven master's theses and nine undergraduate theses were presented. There was a lively Q&A session.
February 1, 2024
Bannai's course "Neurophysiology and Pathology" received the Teaching Award for the fall semester of 2022.
December 6~8, 2023
M2 students Ayano Chikuma and Yoshihiro Sakata presented their research results in a poster presentation at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Kobe, Japan.
November 14~16, 2023
At the 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan (Nagoya, Japan), M2 Iona Katayama, Boxiao Zhao, and Shigeo Sakuragi, lecturer, presented their research.
October 3, 2023
Sseven third-year students have been newly assigned to our laboratory for the academic year 2023.
September 22, 2023
At East Asian Single-Molecule Biophysics Symposium 2023 (EASMB2023), Dr. Bannai presented the results of single-molecule imaging in neurons.
August 22, 2023
Dr. Bannai gave a lecture on single molecule imaging at Shanghai Tech Life Science Seminar.
August 18, 19, 2023
Oral presentations were given by Dr. Naoki Kato (M1) and Dr. Bannai at Tau Research Meeting 2023 (Nagoya City University).
August 2, 2023
At the 46th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, Chisato Oyama, M2, was selected to give an oral presentation in the "Dementia 1:" session. Dr. Sakuragi (poster) and Dr. Bannai (symposium) also made presentations.
July 24, 2023
Laboratory social event for the spring semester was held.
July 7, 8, 2023
At the 64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Neuropathological Society and the 66th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Neurochemistry, Chisato Oyama (M2) gave a poster presentation and Bannai gave a symposium presentation.
April 4, 2023
Bannai-Nozaki Lab has started
FY2022
2023.3.26 The bachelor's and master's students had their graduation ceremony.
2023.3.10 Tomoya Uchida and Naoki Kato of B4 gave poster presentations and Bannai gave an oral presentation at the Symposium on New Academic Singularity Biology. The entire lab worked hard to organize the symposium at the Ono Memorial Auditorium of Waseda University.
2023.3.6,7 Rie Kato, Mimu Enomoto, and Haryono Sebastian NATHANIEL (B4) presented their research results at the Kanto Branch Meeting of the Japanese Society of Biophysics (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology) on March 6 and 7, 2023.
2023.2.27 Shigeo Sakuragi, Lecturer, and Bannai received the Waseda University Teaching Award for the spring semester of 2022 in the class of Neurophysiology and Pathology of the Brain.
2023.2.6 and 13 master's thesis and graduation thesis presentations were held in person for the first time in a while.
2022.11.30~12. 2, Ayano Machida (M2), Yoshihiro Sakata (M1), Iona Katayama (M1), Ayano Chikuma (M1), and Shigeo Sakuragi (Lecturer) presented their research results in the poster session at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan.
2022.9.5, Students assigned to our lab (B3) for FY2022 were selected!
2022.8.19~20, Chisato Oyama (M1), Shigeo Sakuragi (Lecturer), and Bannai gave presentations at the Tau Research Meeting, held in Amami-Oshima Island. This meeting was introduced in the Amami Shinbun (August 20, 2022).
2022.7.1, Ayano Machida (M2) made a poster presentation of her research results at the Neuro2022 in Okinawa.
FY2021
2022.3.26 Graduation ceremony for B4 students
2022.3.2 Shigeo Sakuragi, Taro Katagiri (B4), Ming-Te Lee (M1), and Bannai presented their research on membrane lipid dynamics analyzed by DNA-mediated quantum dot single molecule imaging at the 11th meeting of the Kanto Branch of the Japanese Biophysical Society.
2022.3.1 Ms. Chisato Oyama (B4) gave an oral presentation of her research results at the Tokyo Women's Medical University-Waseda University Research Exchange Seminar.
2022.2.4 B4 students presented their graduation research online.
2021.11.25 Bannai received the 2020 Fall Semester Teaching Award for his "Life Science B (1)" class, which he conducts in collaboration with Dr. YuTahara.
2021.12.19 Presentation at Pacifichem 2021 conference Symposium "Trans-scale Biochemical Analysis of Rare Events in Living Systems: Singularity Biology".
2021.11.25 Bannai received the 2020 Fall Semester Teaching Award for his "Life Science B (1)" class, which he conducts in collaboration with Dr. YuTahara.
2021.11.18 Presentation at SNM2021:14th International Symposium on Nanomedicine.
2021.8.24 Presentation at Canadian Neuroscience 2021 conference (CAN-ACN2021) Plenary Symposium – Japanese Neuroscience Society joint symposium
FY2020
FY2019
2019.9.25
Presentation at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan Symposium on "Singularity Biology".
2019.9.21
Six B3 students have been assigned to the Biophysics Lab. These are the first students.
2019.9.21
Started a new Lab (Laboratory for Biophysics) in Waseda University, Faculty of Science and Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, as a Professor