01/04/2025
Congratulations to former PhD student Dr. Taishi Onodera on being promoted to Laboratory Chief in National Institute of Infectious Disease
01/02/2025
Our research was presented at the Nihon University Web Workshop under the title “Mechanisms for Preventing Autoimmune Diseases.” A 5-minute YouTube video (linked here) provides a clear and accessible synopsis of our findings.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrvJ-mxP1g4
01/01/2025
Congratulations to former PhD student and postdoc Dr. Chisato Wakabayashi on being appointed as Professor at Ohu University School of Pharmacy
01/09/2024
A paper by Chizuru Akatsu and colleagues on the regulation of CD22 by glycan cis-ligands was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Link to the paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaut.2024.103245
02/12/2023
Congratulations to former graduate student Dr. Xuexin Li on being appointed to Director at Biomedical Center and Vice Director Department of General Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital in China Medical University
10/08/2023
Tsubata's invited review, "The ligand interactions of B cell Siglecs are involved in the prevention of autoimmunity to sialylated self-antigens and in the quality control of signaling-competent B cells," has been published in International Immunology. It can be found here.
10/06/2023
Tsubata and Akatsu have been featured in "Japanese Scientists in Science Signaling 2022". Please see here.
01/06/2023
Tsubata's review article "Siglec cis-ligands and their roles in the immune system" was published in Glycobiology, a leading international journal in glycobiology. It can be found
here.
10/06/2022
Graduate student Huang Yuming won the Excellent Presentation Award at the Kanto Branch Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society.
Photos can be found here.