Fun visit to Rockefeller after the CSHL transcription meeting. It was great to catch up with Bob Roeder since his visit to Japan for the Kyoto Prize!

Delighted to share a new review paper from the lab. We summarized/discussed recent key findings in enhancer biology. Thanks Dan Larson and @tinekelenstra.bsky.social for this opportunity!!

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

Thanks Luca @lucagiorgetti.bsky.social for hosting me at FMI. It was absolutely a fun visit and I got many nice feedback!

Giving a seminar at FMI Basel tomorrow! Looking forward to it!!

Look forward to visiting University of Lausanne next week!

Pachypodium gracilius has finally bloomed with yellow flowers after seven years of growing it from seed.

パキポディウム グラキリス、種から育てて7年、黄色い花が咲きました。

Delighted to share a new preprint from the lab!

We identified zinc-finger associated domain (ZAD)-containing C2H2 zinc-finger proteins (ZAD-ZnFs) as insulator-binding proteins in Drosophila.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nice to catch up with Luca @lucagiorgetti.bsky.social in Tokyo!

It was great to see my long-time friend from graduate school, Takashi Akera
@takashiakeralab.bsky.social

Looking forward to it!! Abstract submission deadline: 17 March 2025.

Are you interested in studying enhancer biology/3D genome organization in my lab at the University of Tokyo? This Biohub Network program would be a great opportunity for you! Feel free to reach out if you're interested!!
www.czbiohub.org/program-ssfc...

Beautiful autumn leaves in the campus.