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2021/04/30

Prof. Mizushima was awarded the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon

2021/04/19

The ERATO International Symposium will be held on Thursday, June 17, 2021

2021/02/13

Shimasawa-san and Suzuki-san received an Excellent Poster Abstract Award and the Best Poster Abstract Award respectively at the 2020 ‘Medical Scientist Training Program’ Retreat

2020/12/25

Oshima-san received the Dean’s Award from ‘Medical Scientist Training Program’ Thesis Review Committee, and Mimura-san received the 2020 SATOSHI ARIMA Memorial Fellowship

2020/12/24

Prof. Mizushima received “Minister of MEXT Award” at the 4th Award Ceremony for the Japan Medical Research and Development Grand Prize

2020/11/19

Prof. Mizushima was selected as a 2020 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (7th straight year)

2020/11/01

Prof. Mizushima received the Medical Award of the Japan Medical Association

2020/09/16

Yamamoto-san won Young Scientists Presentation Award of Excellence at the 93rd Annual Meeting of Japanese Biochemical Society

2020/08/06

Prof. Mizushima won the 61st Fujihara Award

2020/07/08

Prof. Mizushima has been elected as an EMBO Associate Member

2020/06/10

Dr. Morishita received a Young Scientist Presentation Award of Excellence at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Cell Biology

2020/02/16

Mimura-san won an Excellent Poster Abstract Award at the 2019 ‘Medical Scientist Training Program’ Retreat

2019/12/02

Prof. Mizushima was selected as a 2019 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (6th straight year)

2019/11/08

Both Dr. Morishita and Oshima-san received a ‘Best Poster Award’ at the 9th International Symposium on Autophagy.

2019/09/20

Dr.Chino won Young Scientists Presentation Award of Excellence at at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society

and More

2021/04/15

Organelle degradation in the lens by PLAAT phospholipases (Morishita, et al., Nature)

2021/04/01

Evolution and insights into the structure and function of the DedA superfamily containing TMEM41B and VMP1 (Okawa, Hama, Zhang et al., J Cell Sci)

2020/12/08

Autophagy is required for maturation of surfactant-containing lamellar bodies in the lung and swim bladder (Morishita, et al., Cell Rep.)

2020/09/04

Modeling Membrane Morphological Change during Autophagosome Formation (Sakai, et al., iScience)

2019/09/17

A critical role of VMP1 in lipoprotein secretion (Morishita, et al., eLife)

2019/04/19

Intrinsically disordered protein TEX264 mediates ER-phagy (Chino et al., Mol Cell)

2019/03/25

Evolution from covalent conjugation to non-covalent interaction in the ubiquitin-like ATG12 system (Yamamoto et al., Nat Struct Mol Biol)

2018/08/09

Genome-wide CRISPR screen identifies TMEM41B as a gene required for autophagosome formation (Morita et al., J Cell Biol)

2018/05/22

Autophagosomal YKT6 is required for fusion with lysosomes independently of syntaxin 17 (Matsui et al., J Cell Biol)

2017/11/20

Differential requirement for ATG2A domains for localization to autophagic membranes and lipid droplets (Tamura et al., FEBS Lett)

2017/07/27

Accumulation of undegraded autophagosomes by expression of dominant-negative syntaxin 17 mutants (Uematsu et al., Autophagy)

2017/05/11

Autophagosome formation is initiated at phosphatidylinositol synthase-enriched ER subdomains (Nishimura et al., EMBO J)

2016/11/25

The ATG conjugation systems are important for degradation of the inner autophagosomal membrane (Tsuboyama, Honda et al., Science)

2016/11/17

An autophagic flux probe that releases an internal control (Kaizuka, Morishita et al., Mol Cell)

2016/10/10

Systemic Analysis of Atg5-Null Mice Rescued from Neonatal Lethality by Transgenic ATG5 Expression in Neurons (Yoshii, Kuma et al.)

and More

2020/10/15

Autophagy in human diseases (*Mizushima, N., Levine, B. , N. Engl. J. Med, 2020)

2020/08/22

Beth Levine 1960-2020 (Simon et al. Nat Cell Biol. 2020)

2020/08/21

Autophagy assays for biological discovery and therapeutic development (Mizushima et al. Trends Biochem Sci. 2020)

2020/03/02

ER-phagy: Quality control and turnover of endoplasmic reticulum (Chino et al., Trends Cell Biol)

2020/02/11

Lysosome biology in autophagy (Yim et al., Cell Discov)

2019/12/31

The ATG conjugation systems in autophagy (Mizushima, Curr Opin Cell Biol)

2019/10/06

Diverse cellular roles of autophagy (Morishita et al., Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol)

2019/09/15

The ubiquitin E2 enzyme UBE2QL1 mediates lysophagy (Mizushima, EMBO Rep)

2019/02/26

TMEM41B functions with VMP1 in autophagosome formation (Morita et al., Autophagy)

2018/10/13

YKT6 as a second SNARE protein of mammalian autophagosomes (Mizushima et al., Autophagy)

2018/09/23

A brief history of autophagy from cell biology to physiology and disease (Mizushima, Nat Cell Biol)

2018/08/15

Autophagy, Inflammation, and Metabolism (AIM) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence: supporting the next generation of autophagy researchers and fostering international collaborations (Deretic et al., Autophagy)

2018/01/22

A dual binding receptor for ER-phagy (Mizushima, Dev Cell)