Takashi Akera
@TakashiAkeraLab
Tenure-Track PI @nih_nhlbi. Interested in non-Mendelian chromosome segregation (meiotic drive) in 🐭 / marathon 2:43’36 🏃/ space👨🚀
Our first research paper is now published at nature! 🎉🐭🔬We found that F1 hybrid female mice can have defective chromosome condensation in oocytes, creating a reproductive isolating barrier. Congrats again to our postdoc, Warif El Yakoubi🎊 nature.com/articles/s4158…
Huge Congratulations to our postdoc, Takaya Totsuka🎉 Free link -> authors.elsevier.com/c/1lUqk3QW8SA3…
Our paper is now published @CurrentBiology! With our unique method to live image fertilized mouse eggs, we highlighted the importance of Ca2+ oscillations in maintaining the spindle position to ensure asymmetric cell division. Thanks to all the authors! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
In this work, we show that the two divergent a-tubulin isoforms, Tub1 and Tub3 in budding yeast, which copolymerize into spindle microtubules, collaborate to balance opposing outward and inward forces necessary to achieve optimal spindle elongation and length control. They do so…
.@nsamba_emmanuel et al. reveal that tubulin isotypes, which copolymerize into spindle #microtubules, calibrate the opposing outward- & inward-directed forces generated by #kinesin-5 & kinesin-14 motors to ensure proper anaphase spindle morphogenesis hubs.la/Q03yVrY10
So proud of my old lab team, congratulations! Amazing job, Zaak!
🚨Our latest work on selfish centromeres published at @CurrentBiology 🐭🧬We found that the spindle checkpoint contributes to non-Mendelian segregation! Huge congrats to my lab manager, Zaak Walton, who led the project🎉 Free link authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQzN3QW8SA3…
🚨Our latest work on selfish centromeres published at @CurrentBiology 🐭🧬We found that the spindle checkpoint contributes to non-Mendelian segregation! Huge congrats to my lab manager, Zaak Walton, who led the project🎉 Free link authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQzN3QW8SA3…
Spindle morphology changes rapidly & dramatically at the meiosis to mitosis transition in early embryogenesis. Cantwell et al @berkeleyMCB reveal differential CK2 regulation of the RanGTP pathway of spindle assembly in meiosis & mitosis driving this change hubs.la/Q03vrHGt0
7/24-25遺伝研にて研究会が開催されました。畠星治先生（東大）、島本先生（物理細胞生物学研究室）がオーガナイザーを務め、「第4回細胞分裂研究会」と題し、議論が交わされました。 ■遺伝研の研究会について nig.ac.jp/nig/ja/researc…
Our latest! We reveal an atlas of ERECTA receptor kinase interactome/proximitome and identify new regulators of ERECTA dynamics. Excellent collaboration w/ @edward_marcotte Lab @ut_mbs @TexasScience & Takashi Ueda Lab @NIBB_Public 🌱🔬🧪 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
REMINDER: The registration deadline for ARGONAUTES 2025 is 31/7. It won't be extended. So, if you want to join us in Prague for the most important 🫣 Argonaute & RNA silencing meeting of the year, you have one week left! #miRNA #piRNA
ARGONAUTES 2025 - argonautes.img.cas.cz The meeting of Argonaute afficionados lives on! The registration for #Argonautes2025 is open. Join us in Prague 27-30/8/2025. #miRNA, #siRNA, #piRNA & #PIWI Please, spread the word @Argonautes_conf, @RNASociety, @RNA_ISR, @TorontoRNA
新作です！気孔の発生など植物の形態形成を制御する受容体キナーゼERECTAの比較プロテオミクスから、受容体の細胞内ダイナミクスを制御する因子を同定。弊学のエドワード•マーコット教授、基生研の上田貴志教授とのコラボ🌱🔬🧪 おめでとう〜 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Happy Sunday egg-ficionados! Don't miss today's golden issue of #cebooc, the manually curated list of #papers on #oocyte cell biology! biomed.news/bims-cebooc/20… Highlight: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40664214/ by @TakashiAkeraLab Thanks @Bims_BiomedNews for preselecting!
【公募】令和7年度科研費「帰国発展研究」の公募を開始しました。海外研究機関で研究実績のある独立した日本人研究者が帰国後すぐに研究を開始できるよう支援します。一部の海外特別研究員に応募資格を拡大しました。 🕞受付締切：9月17日16:30 JST 🔗jsps.go.jp/j-grantsinaid/… #科研費 #海外特別研究員
🚨 Hot off the press!!! Wanted to share this to celebrate the momentous achievement from the @GiuntaLab and for the human centromere / genomics communities as a whole... more posts to come next week but for now, happy Fourth & happy reading ❤️🧬💻 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the Evolution of Chromosomes and Genomes (ECG) Lab at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.Our lab website is now live—come check it out! sites.google.com/view/ecg-lab/h…
Our new work @biorxivpreprint 🔗biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… BRD4-NUT forms liquid-like condensates that locally constrain nucleosomes via bromodomain-mediated crosslinking: physical control of #chromatin by #LLPS transcription condensates. @semeigazin @katsu_s_minami @MasaAShimazoe
Leonard Rome’s lab discovered an odd, abundant component of cells in the 1980s—and he’s still trying to figure out what it does. Learn more: scim.ag/4gOvrbG #ScienceMagArchives
伊川班による成果がNature Communicationsに掲載されました！🎊⭐️ An ex vivo uterine system captures implantation, embryogenesis, and trophoblast invasion via maternal-embryonic signaling nature.com/articles/s4146…
The academic job market is competitive—Faculty EDGE helps our postdocs rise to the challenge. This week’s workshop gave them the chance to refine #research talks, practice chalk talks, and get real feedback from experienced faculty. Learn more: bit.ly/4efKcDX
A Royal Society funded PhD Studentship is available in our group to study meiotic recombination in plants: tinyurl.com/mt8cmw3d Eligible international students can also apply for JIC Scholarships to cover fee differences (e.g. tinyurl.com/4evzdc3r). Deadline: 21.07.25
Online now: Generation of germinal-vesicle oocytes from mouse embryonic stem cells under an ovarian soma-free condition dlvr.it/TLf6wf
📢We are #hiring! 📢Please RT! @mpipz_cologne has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity. Apply now! 👉bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantscience