2023
- 2024.03.26Award
Yukimasa Taniguchi received "Excellent Presentation Award" at 23rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine.
- 2024.03.21-22News
Yukimasa Taniguchi and Kohei Minobe presented their results at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine to be held in Niigata from March 21-23, 2024.
- 2024.03.16News
Shaoliang Li, an alumnus of our lab, has returned and takes part in our project on fabrication of chemically defined basement membrane-like gels. Welcome Shaoliang!
- 2024.03.15News
Ko Tsutsui, an alumnus of our laboratory and currently at University of Manchester, presented the results of our collaboration at the 7th International Workshop on Alport Syndrome to be held in Cyprus from March 14-16, 2024.
- 2023.12.26News
A farewell party was held for Ryoko Sato-Nishiuchi.
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- 2023.12.25Press Release
A collaborative work with Masato Nakagawa of CiRA, Kyoto University, has been published in Regenerative Therapy. This paper addresses the dual binding specificity of bFGF towards bFGFR and integrin alpha6beta1 in pluripotency of iPS cells.
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- 2023.12.15News
Sekiguchi Laboratory's year-end party was held for the first time in five years.
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- 2023.11.25News
- Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi gave a Keynote Plenary Lecture at the 7th Annual Symposium of the Consortium for Advancement of Stem Cell Manipulation on November 25, 2023.
- 2023.11.22News
Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi was awarded a plaque of the certificate of Distinguished Professorship from the President of Osaka University.
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- 2023.11.21News
- Yukimasa Taniguchi presented our recent progress on the development of the fibrin gel functionalized with the laminin-511 E8 fragment at IPR Retreat 2023.
- 2023.11.18Press Release
A collaborative work on live imaging of human eccrine sweat glands with Kie Nakashima, Hiroko Kato, Fumitaka Fujita, and other members of Laboratory of Advanced Cosmetic Science, Graduate School of pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Fumihiro Okada of Mandom Corporation, Hiroyuki Murota (currently Nagasaki University), Yukinobu Nakagawa, Atsushi Tanemura, and Ichiro Katayama of Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University was published in Communications Biology. This is the first paper that reports the dynamic contractile motions of isolated eccrine sweat glands that propel peristaltic transport of sweat.
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- 2023.10.06News
Group photos of Sekiguchi Lab for the past quarter century are uploaded as a YouTube movie.
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- 2023.09.09News
A celebration party for Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi’s Medal with Purple Ribbon was held at Centra Grand Hotel Osaka.
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- 2023.09.04Press Release
A paper coauthored with Yoriko Sugiyama-Nakagiri of Kao Corporation was published online in Scientific Reports. This paper reports that perlecan-conjugated laminin E8 fragments promote the differentiation of human iPS cells into skin-derived precursor cells that have the ability to differentiate into adipocytes, osteocytes, and Schwann cells.
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- 2023.09.04Press Release
Ryoko Sato-Nishiuchi’s paper reporting the interaction of Polydom/SVEP1 with Tie1 was published in J Cell Biol.
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- 2023.04.29Award
Osaka University awarded the title of "Osaka University Distinguished Professor" to Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi.
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- 2023.04.28Award
Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon in the spring of 2023.
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- 2023.04.21Press Release
- Sugiko Futaki's paper reporting in vivo imaging of basement membranes using a nidogen-EGFP reporter mouse was published online in Matrix Biology Plus.
- 2023.03.23News
- Kohei Minobe presented his work at the annual meeting of Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine held in Kyoto.
- 2023.03.15News
- Our website has been renewed.
2022
- 2022.08.11Press Release
- Sugiko Futaki's paper reporting the live imaging of the basement membrane of mouse salivary glands was published in Microscopy.
This work was conducted in collaboration with Yuichi Kadoya of Kitasato University.
- 2022.08.01News
- Publications page has been updated.
- 2022.07.22Press Release
- First paper reporting the perlecan-conjugated laminin E8 fragments was published in Stem Cells Translational Medicine.
Our collaborative work with Jun Takahashi at CiRA, Kyoto University demonstrates that the perlecan-conjugated laminin-511/521 E8 fragments enhance maturation of hiPSC-derived dopaminergic progenitors grafted to Parkinson's disease model.
- 2022.01.07Press Release
- A paper reporting immortalized myoepithelial cells of human eccrine sweat glands was published in Scientific Reports.
This work was conducted in collaboration with Mandom, Inc.
2021
- 2021.10.15Press Release
- A paper reporting LAMA5 gene biallelic variants in steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome patients was published in Kidney360.
This work was conducted in collaboration with Kandai Nozu of Kobe University.
- 2021.06.29Press Release
- A paper reporting the structure of a complex between laminin511E8 and integrin alpha6beta1 as revealed by cryo-electron microscopy was published in Nature Communications.
The work was conducted in collaboration with Junichi Takagi and Takao Arimori of our Institute.