HItoshi Sawa

Poster prize too🎉‼️😊

Congratulation for the grand prize! #worm25 Art Show

As it’s my first time joining Worm Meeting, I was excited to participate in Worm Art show as well.
This year’s topic is resilience. In times of scarcity, worms gather holding one another to reach new grounds. Alone - they are fragile, together - they rise. Even the sky yields in unity. #worm25

My wormy watch😍

Totoro?

You have to hold your breath while we cross the bridge.

#SpiritedAway

Snowcap refreshed!

Since the mountain is isolated, we can go around it to see it in various angles.

Colorful Mt Fuji

咲耶姫

御帝𠮷野

兼六園熊谷

半兵衛白紅桜

Our Institute preserve >200 cherry species. We have open house today.

Shidare-Zakura + MIshima Sakura ＠Sano museum

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

March 3rd is Hina-Matsuri (Doll's Festival?) day.

Kawazu cherry 🌸

Making intrabodies from antibodies just got easier! Learn how we made 𝟭𝟵 intrabodies to bind and light up peptides and histone modifications in live cells. And thanks to Academia, all sequences are freely available. (video credit: Yuko Sato @YukoSatoT2) (1/15)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here’s a story about actual Nazis, the Original Gastruloid, and the lengths scientists will go for other scientists and for science itself. Welcome to Episode Two of the #LongBibliography
#DevBiol #SciHist 🧵. 1/13

This has been a big controversial issue in Japan🥺

Parasitoid wasp venoms degrade Drosophila imaginal discs for successful parasitism Two parasitoid wasp venom proteins induce imaginal disc degradation of its host fly Drosophila larva, ensuring parasitism success.

I am thrilled that our paper, which is packed with our 10 years of data on the venom proteins of the parasitoid wasp Asobara japonica, has just been published!

Parasitoid wasp venoms degrade Drosophila imaginal discs for successful parasitism | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

First 🌅 of the year

It is custom in Japan to have soba-noodle at the final day of the year. It is called toshi-koshi-soba (over-the-year soba).

Enjoy!

Are you in Japan now?

✋ microPublication Biology has joined Bluesky.

Dr. Shigeru Kondo who has been working on Turing pattern in Biology is a new director of our institute. English version of his messages that are very encouraging is here.
www.nig.ac.jp/nig/2024/12/...

12月1日から、国立遺伝学研究所の所長として赴任しました近藤滋です。
日本の基礎科学を盛り上げるために、精一杯働く所存です。皆さん、ご協力をお願いいたします。
所長挨拶：
www.nig.ac.jp/nig/ja/about...
学生へのメッセージ：
www.nig.ac.jp/nig/ja/phd-p...

どちらも、楽しく読んでいただけるように書きました。特に、学生へのメッセージの方ができが良いので、まずそちらからお読みいただけますと幸いです。

Dr. Shigeru Kondo who has been working on Turing pattern in Biology is a new director of our institute. English version of his messages that are very encouraging is here.
www.nig.ac.jp/nig/2024/12/...

Polarized cells Three Wnt signaling proteins help to organize cells in the gonads of a nematode worm.

Three Wnt signalling proteins help to organise cells in the gonads of a nematode worm.
https://buff.ly/3OIeu6o

ドンマイ！

牛はどこ？ww

Polarized cells Three Wnt signaling proteins help to organize cells in the gonads of a nematode worm.

Here is the direct link to eLife digest. You can see the difference of DTC migration in wild (left) and triple mutant (right)
elifesciences.org/digests/1030...