Qdai-mail Tsushin #013

An e-mail magazine, "Qdai-mail Tsushin" delivers campus news
every fourth Friday.

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Friday, January 25, 2019


** Topics

*Distinguished Professor Hiroyuki Sasaki receives Uehara Prize
2018
http://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/topics/view/323
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Dr. Hiroyuki Sasaki, Distinguished Professor of the Medical
Institute of Bioregulation, Dean of the Institute for Advanced
Study, and Senior Vice President of Kyushu University, has rec
eived the Uehara Prize 2018.


** Research

*DYNAMO1 drives division of mitochondria and peroxisomes by
fuelling GTP
http://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researches/view/116
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To address how a large amount of GTP is supplied to the division
site, Professor Yukio Fujiki at the Medical Institute of Bioregu
lation, Kyushu University and JSPS research fellow Yuta Imoto, a
long with a team of researchers that include Assistant Professor
Okumoto Kanji from the faculty of Science, Kyushu University and
Visiting Professor Kuroiwa Tsuneyoshi from Japan Women's Univers
ity used as a best model system a unicellular red alga, Cyanidio
schyzon merolae, that contains a single each of mitochondrion, p
eroxisome, and plastid.

*Direct reprogramming of microglia into functional neurons by
a single transcription factor,NeuroD1
http://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researches/view/117
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The research group led by Drs. Matsuda and Nakashima from the Gra
duate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University succeeded to
convert neurons from mouse microglia by expression of a single tr
anscription factor, NeuroD1.


**Events

*2019 I2CNER Annual Symposium:Energy Transitions and the Role of
CCS toward a Carbon-Neutral Energy Society
Date: 2019.01.31[Thu] 09:30 - 18:00
http://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/events/view/121
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The International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I2
CNER), Kyushu University, will host the "2019 I2CNER Annual Sympos
ium: Energy Transitions and the Role of CCS toward a Carbon-Neutral
Energy Society" on January 31, 2019 in Fukuoka, Japan.
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