Metabolic Systems Research Team

Laboratories

What's New

    2025

  • Dec. 18, 2025
    At Session “Engineering Biology and Biomanufacturing for Sustainability” Pacifichem 2025.(Honolulu), Dr.Hirai, team director of our lab, gave an invited lecture.
    Masami Y. Hirai Establishment of cutting-edge plant platforms for biomanufacturing - Plants are plants (factories) that produce useful substances.
  • Sep. 22, 2025
    At 13th International Sulfur Workshop.(Heidelberg), Dr.Hirai, team director of our lab, gave an invited lecture.
    Masami Y. Hirai Metabolomics-based insights into glucosinolate metabolism and function in plant adaptation.
  • Sep. 5-7, 2025
    Dr.Hirai, team director of our lab, received Japan Society for Plant Biotechnology The JSPB Award for Distinguished Research.
  • Sep. 5-7, 2025
    At The 42st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Plant Biotechnology (Kobe), the members of our lab did oral presentations.
    Kai Uchida Elucidation of the biosynthesis of 8-O-glycosylated flavones in Tradescantia pallida
    Hiromitsu Tabeta Development of functional amino acid cocktail to promote production of useful compounds in soybean roots
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  • Aug. 11-15, 2025
    At Gordon Research Conference (Portland), the member of our lab did poster presentation.
    Mai Uzaki Cellular metabolic differentiation during seed germination in Catharanthus roseus
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  • Aug. 9-10, 2025
    At Gordon Research Seminar (Portland), the member of our lab did oral presentation.
    Mai Uzaki Cellular metabolic differentiation during seed germination in Catharanthus roseus
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  • Jun. 22-26, 2025
    At Metabolomics 2025 (Prague), the member of our lab did poster presentation.
    Hiromitsu Tabeta Multi-platformed widely-targeted metabolomics unveiled that indole-glucosinolate degradation metabolism contributes to cotyledon size regulation.
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  • Jun. 18, 2025
    At The 10th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Genome Editing(Tokyo), Dr.Hirai, team leader of our lab, gave an invited lecture.
  • Jun. 1-5, 2025
    At American Society for Mass Spectrometry 2025 (Baltimore), the members of our lab did poster presentations.
    Yushiro Fuji Imaging Mass Spectrometry Reveals Triterpenoid Localization in Soybean Secondary Aerenchyma
    Hiromitsu Tabeta Multi-platformed widely targeted metabolomics identified functional metabolites that control cotyledon size in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
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  • Mar. 14-16, 2025
    At The 66th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (Kanazawa), the members of our lab did oral and poster presentations.
  • Mar. 6, 2025
    At JSBBA(Japan Society Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry) 2025 Annual Meeting (Sapporo), Dr.Hirai, team leader of our lab, did oral presentation.
  • Jan. 30, 2025
    At The challenge of RIKEN CSRS for the establishment of Sustainable Resource Science. , Dr.Hirai, team leader of our lab, gave an invited lecture.

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      2024

    • Nov. 18-21, 2024
      At Marchantia Workshop 2024 (Hiroshima), Dr.Hirai, team leader of our lab, did oral presentation.
      Masami Y. Hirai "Functions of the phosphorylated pathway of serine biosynthesis in development of Marchantia polymorpha"
    • Sep. 12, 2024
      Hiromitsu Tabeta Poster Award at received 3rd International Conference on Plant and Human Sulfur Biology.
    • Sep. 8-12, 2024
      At 3rd International Conference on Plant and Human Sulfur Biology (France), Hiromitsu Tabeta, the member of our lab did poster presentation.
      Hiromitsu Tabeta Auxin converted from indole glucosinolate degradation product controls the amplitude of cell enlargement in cotyledon size regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
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    • Sep. 15-16, 2024
      At The 70th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy(Osaka), Yushiro Fuji,the member of our lab did oral presentation.
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    • Sep. 14-16, 2024
      At The 88th Annual Meeting of the Botanical Sciety of Japan(Utsunomiya), the members of our lab did poster presentations.
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    • Aug. 30-Sep. 1, 2024
      At The 41st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Plant Biotechnology (Sendai), the members of our lab did oral presentations.
      Kai Uchida Identification and Characterization of the Flavonoid 8-hydroxylase in Tradescantia pallida
      Ryota Akiyama Isolation and structural determination of a novel solanoeclepin
      Hiromitsu Tabeta Transient accumulation of auxin levels with leaf size control is driven by degradation of indole glucosinolates via metabolic networks
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    • Jun. 16-20, 2024
      At Metabolomics 2024(Osaka), Hiromitsu Tabeta, the member of our lab did poster presentation.
      Hiromitsu Tabeta Multi-platformed widely-targeted metabolomics unveiled core-metabolic process contributes to cotyledon size regulation.
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    • Jun. 2-6, 2024
      At American Society for Mass Spectrometry 2024(U.S.A), the members of our lab did poster presentations.
      Yushiro Fuji Legacy effects of plant–soil feedbacks under drought on drought tolerance of post-succeeding soybean plants.
      Hiromitsu Tabeta Widely targeted metabolomics and subsequent label-feeding analysis identified candidate metabolites that control hypocotyl elongation in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
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    • Mar. 17-19, 2024
      At The 65th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (Kobe), the members of our lab did oral and poster presentations.

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      Information

      • Sep.11, 2012
        The analysis system that Dr.Sawada developed was published on the Riken web site.
        If you interested in it, please contact to Riken collaborations division.

        New algorithm to manage wide-targeting analysis We've developed innovative management algorithm to enable the wide-targeting analysis for a large-scale detection object. It makes us able to examine the experimental conditions instantly.
        Inventers  : Sawada Y. Hirai M.Y. 
        Title of invention  : "Scheduling device, scheduling method, scheduling program, storage medium, and mass spectrometry system " 
        Applicant  : RIKEN 
        Patent application no.  : Japan( No.2010-104563) , USA (in proceduer) 

      News

        2020

      • Sep.19-21, 2020
        At the 84th Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of Japan (on line), the members of our lab did oral and poster presentations.
        [Oral Presentations]
        Ratklao Siriwach "Genome-scale mathematical modeling for understanding of plant metabolism"
        Rui Li "Metabolome genome wide association study of soybean core collection"
        Kensuke Kawade (Japanese title)
        [Poster Presentations]
        Mai Uzaki (Japanese title)
        Yimeng Li "Developmental effects of aliphatic glucosinolates in Arabidopsis thaliana"

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        2019

      • Dec. 2, 2019
        Dr.Hirai, team leader of our lab, attended "Symposium celebrates first anniversary of the RIKEN Europe Office".
      • Sep. 18-20,2019
        At The 92nd annual meeting of the japanese biochemical society (Yokohama), Dr.Hirai, team leader of our lab, gave an invited lecture.
        Masami Y. Hirai "Trans-omics analysis of plant responses to drought stress"
      • Sep.7-8, 2019
        At The 37th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology (Kyoto), the members of our lab did oral presentations.
        Masami Y. Hirai "Physiological roles of the serine biosynthetic enzyme
        3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase in Marchantia polymorpha"
        Yuji Sawada "Metabolome genome wide association study of soybean core collection"
        Kai Uchida "Metabolic engineering of isoflavonoid biosynthesis by improved genome editing technology in soybean"
        Ratklao Siriwach "Context-specific genome-scale metabolic models of Arabidopsis thaliana responses to drought stress"
      • Mar.13-15, 2019
        At The 60th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (Nagoya), the members of our lab did oral and posterpresentations.
        [Oral Presentations]
        Masami Y. Hirai
        		 "Function of the serine biosynthetic enzyme 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase in Marchantia polymorpha"
        Yuji Sawada "Establishment and metabolic profiling of light-emitting plants using luciferin-luciferase system"
        Ryosuke Sugiyama "Mechanism of glucosinolate breakdown under sulfur deficiency"
        Kai Uchida "Metabolomic genome-wide association study using soybean core collections under drought stress"
        Ratklao Siriwach "Anthesis rate prediction of greenhouse tomatoes through metabolomics using Lasso regularized linear regression model"
        [Poster Presentation]
        Yimeng Li "Novel insights into mechanisms underlying growth defects associated with trinucleotide repeat expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana"
      • Jan. 13-17, 2019
        At The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (San Diego), Dr.Sawada ,team member of our lab, did oral presentation.

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        2018

      • Sep. 16-20, 2018
        At The 11th International Plant Sulfur Workshop (Conegliano), Dr.Sugiyama, team member of our lab, did a poster presentation.
        Ryosuke Sugiyama "Glucosinolate breakdown in Arabidopsis thaliana without tissue disruption. "
      • Aug. 26-28, 2018
        At The 36th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology (Kanazawa), two members of our lab did oral presentations.
        Yuji Sawada "Metabolic Marker Development of Soybean under Environmental Stress Condition"
        Kai Uchida "Co-expression-based identification and functional elucidation of novel isoflavone methyltransferase"
      • Jun. 3-7, 2018
        At 66th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry (San Diego), two members of our lab did poster presentations.
        Yuji Sawada "A LC-QqQ-MS-Based Method for Evaluation of Plant Disease Resistance Inducers"
        Mami Okamoto "A LC-QqQ-MS-Based Method for Metabolic Marker Development of Soybean under Environmental Stress Condition"
      • May. 15, 2018
        Dr.Hirai, team leader of our lab, attended the MOU signing ceremony between RIKEN CSRS and Michigan State University Plant Resilience Institute.
      • Mar.28-30, 2018
        At The 59th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (Sapporo), the members of our lab did oral presentations.(No English title)
      • Jan. 13-17, 2018
        At The Plant and Animal Genome XXVI Conference (San Diego), two members of our lab did oral presentations.
        Yuji Sawada "Omics-Based Evaluation of Disease Resistance Inducers in Plant"
        Kai Uchida "Omics-Based Analysis of Soybean Seedlings Under the Controlled Environment"

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        2017

      • Sep. 17-20, 2017
        At Glucosinolate Conference　2017(Berlin), two members of our lab did poster presentations.
        Ryosuke Sugiyama "Side chain-dependent functional differentiation of glucosinolates and their roles in Arabidopsis"
        Yimeng Li "Expression changes of two genes encoding flavin-monooxygenases involved in aliphatic glucosinolate biosynthesis in response to glucose"
      • Sep. 10-14, 2017
        At Conference on Plant & Human Sulfur Biology(Balatonfüred), the members of our lab did oral and poster presentations.
        [ Oral Presentation ]
        Masami Y. Hirai "Serine biosynthesis is controlled in response to other amino acid levels"
        [ Poster Presentation ]
        Yimeng Li "High accumulation of proanthocyanidins and germination defects in seeds of a myb28myb29 double knockout mutant"
      • Aug. 29-31, 2017
        At The 35th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology (Saitama), four members of our lab did oral presentations.
        Yuji Sawada "Metabolomics-based evaluation of inducers for disease resistance in plant"
        Eiji Okamura "Novel regulatory mechanism of 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase in serine biosynthesis in plants II"
        Kai Uchida "Study of metabolic enzymes responding to environmental stress in soybean"
        Hiromichi Akashi "Study of a serine biosynthetic enzyme 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase in Marchantia polymorpha"
      • July. 13, 2017
        At Eco-Engineering Symposium 2017: Application of Technology for Sustainability of Natural Resources(Bangkok), Dr. Kansuporn Sriyudthsak did an oral presentation.
        K. Sriyudthsak "Understanding of entire plant metabolism in response to environmental stresses via genome-scale mathematical model"
      • July. 10, 2017
        At Global Biotechnology Congress 2017(Boston), Dr.Hirai, team leader of our lab, did an oral presentation.
        Masami Y. Hirai "Metabolomics-based Studies for Understanding of Plant Metabolism."
      • June. 20, 2017
        At XII International Controlled and Modified Atmosphere Research Conference - CaMa2017(Poland), Surina Boerzhijin did an oral presentation.
        Surina Boerzhijin "Effect of atmospheres in a high-barrier pouch on sulforaphane concentration in a broccoli floret"
      • Mar.16-18, 2017
        At The 58th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (Kagoshima), the members of our lab did oral presentations.(No English title)

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        2016

      • Sep. 14-17, 2016
        At The 5th Sulphyton Workshop: “Sulfur Nutrition and Metabolism in Plants”(Taipei), two members of our lab did oral presentations.
        Eiji Okamura "A novel regulatory mechanism of the phosphorylated pathway of serine biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana"
        Yimeng Li "Changes in aliphatic glucosinolate profiles in response to abiotic stresses"
      • Sep. 1-3, 2016
        At The 34th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology (Ueda), five members of our lab did oral presentations.
        Yuji Sawada "Seed-grain-based metabolomics of Arabidopsis thaliana"
        K. Sriyudthsak "Genome-scale mathematical model to systematically understand an entire response of plant metabolism to environmental stresses"
        Eiji Okamura "A novel regulation mechanism of phosphorylation pathway for serine biosynthesis in plant"
        Yimeng Li "Changes of gene expression involved in aliphatic glucosinolate secondary modification in response to abiotic stresses"
        Hiromichi Akashi "Studies on a serine biosynthetic enzyme 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase in liverwort Marchantia polymorpha"
      • Sep. 3, 2016
        At The 34th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology (Ueda), Dr.Hirai, team leader of our lab, gave an invited lecture.(No English title)
      • Mar.19-20, 2016
        At The 57th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (Iwate), six members of our lab did oral presentations. (No English title)
      • Feb. 17, 2016
        Dr. Hirai, team leader of our lab, have been selected to the list of Highly Cited Researchers 2015 published by Thomson Reuters.
        RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science

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        2015

        Oct. 1, 2015
        At The 9th Metabolome Symposium (Mishima), Dr. Kansuporn Sriyudthsak did an oral presentation. (No English title)
      • Sep. 17-18, 2015
        At International Symposium on Synthetic Systems Biology Joint 14th Symposium of Biochemical Systems Theory (BST2015) (Fukuoka), Dr. Kansuporn Sriyudthsak did an oral presentation and a poster presentation.
        [ Oral Presentation ]
        K. Sriyudthsak "A combined approach for constructing a large-scale in vivo kinetic model using limiting number of metabolite concentrations"
        [ Poster Presentation ]
        K. Sriyudthsak "PENDISC:A method for reducing a number of parameters in the process of model construction"
      • Aug.10-12, 2015
        At The 33th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology (Tokyo), the members of our lab did oral and poster presentations.
        [ Oral Presentation ]
        Masami Y. Hirai "Metabolome analysis for breeding of chrysanthemum"
        Yuji Sawada "Omics for soy seed development"
        K. Sriyudthsak "Prediction of metabolic pathway and regulation through omics time-series data"
        [ Poster Presentation ]
        Yimeng Li "Germination and growth defects in myb28myb29 double knockout mutant"
      • Aug. 4, 2015
        At The 14th International Congress on Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins (Vienna), Dr.Okamura did an oral presentation.
        Eiji Okamura "An unprecedented regulatory mechanism of the phosphorylated pathway of serine biosynthesis in plant"
      • Mar. 20,2015
        At Front Lines of Plant Cell Wall Research (Nara), Dr.Hirai, team leader of our lab, gave an invited lecture.
        Masami Y. Hirai "Integrated metabolome and transcriptome analysis revealed the genes involved in secondary metabolism"

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        2014

        Dec. 15,2014
        At "GIW/ISCB-Asia 2014" (Tokyo), Dr.Hirai, team leader of our lab, gave a keynote lecture.
        Masami Y. Hirai "Understanding of plant metabolism via metabolomics-based mathematical modeling"
      • Jun. 18, 2014
        Dr. Hirai, team leader of our lab, have been selected to the list of Highly Cited Researchers 2014 published by Thomson Reuters.
        RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
      • Jun. 9, 2014
        Dr. Takashi Osanai received RIKEN Research Award.
        RIKEN： RIKEN Research and Technology Incentive Awards
      • May. 22, 2014
        At 2014 UF Metabolomics Workshop & Symposium (University of Florida), two members of our lab gave invited lectures.
        Hirai M.Y. "Development of Metabolomics Technology for Further Understanding of Plant Metabolism"
        Sawada Y. "Integrated LC-MS/MS platforms for Plant Metabolomics"
      • Jan. 28, 2014
        Dr. Kensuke Kawade was awarded at FY2013 Special Postdoctoral & Foreign Postdoctoral Researchers’ Poster Presentation of Research Results.
        "Homeostasis of organ functions modulated by amino acid metabolism"

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      2013

      Dec. 3, 2013
      At The 36th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Dr.Hirai, team leader of our lab, did presentation.
      Workshop "Quantitative biology toward trans-omic research"
      Hirai, M.Y. "Mathematical Modeling of Plant Metabolism Based on Metabolome Data"
    • Nov. 15, 2013
      On RIKEN Research web site, the studies of our lab was published.
      "Modifying one cell factor alters many others"
      Osanai, T., Kuwahara, A., Iijima, H., Toyooka, K., Sato, M., Tanaka, K., Ikeuchi, M., Saito, K. & Hirai, M. Y.
      RIKEN Resaerch Highlights( Biology) : Modifying one cell factor alters many others
    • Jun.24-28, 2013
      At 24th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research（ICAR2013） (Sydney), two members of our lab did poster presentations.
      Hirai M.Y "A Novel approach for understanding metabolic system: Metabolomics-based mathematical modeling"
      Kawade K. "Promotion of chloroplast proliferation upon enhanced post-mitotic cell expansion in leaves"
    • May. 31, 2013
      The paper of Dr. Kensuke Kawade was selected as being of special significance in the field of plant biology by Faculty of 1000.
      "ANGUSTIFOLIA3 signaling coordinates proliferation between clonally distinct cells in leaves"
      Facluty 1000
    • Apr. 19, 2013
      On RIKEN Research April 2013 (vol.8 no.4), the studies of our lab was published.
      Understanding metabolism through computer predictions:
      "Combining computer-based statistical analysis with mathematical modeling can improve our understanding of metabolic pathways"
      Sriyudthsak, K., Shiraishi, F. & Hirai, M.Y.
      RIKEN Resaerch Highlights: Biology
    • Apr. 1, 2013
      Our research center has changed its name to RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science.
      Link
    • Mar. 24-28, 2013
      At The 2013 Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry(Sendai), Two members of our lab did oral presentations.
      Hirai M.Y. "Mathematical modeling for understanding of plant metabolism"
      Okamura E. "Molecular basis of regulatory mechanism of serine biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana"
    • Mar. 20-24, 2013
      At Frontiers in Systems and Synthetic Biology ’13 (FSSB’13) (Atlanta), Dr. Kansuporn Sriyudthsak did an oral presentation as an invited speeker.
      K. Sriyudthsak "A new algorithm for the prediction of metabolic reaction networks using time-series data"
    • Mar. 20-23, 2013
      At The 54th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (Okayama), the members of our lab did presentations.(No English title)
      Hirai M.Y. 「シロイヌナズナのナチュラルバリエーションを利用した代謝解析」
      Sawada Y. 「シロイヌナズナのメタボロームゲノムワイド関連解析」
      Okamura E. 「シロイヌナズナにおけるセリン生合成の制御とその分子基盤」
      Sriyudthsak K.
      （Alternate speaker Dr.Hirai）      		 「代謝産物の時系列データに基づいて代謝の数式モデルを構築する方法論の開発」
      Kawade K. 「細胞層をまたぐANGUSTIFOLIA3の移動様式」
      Kiyota H. 「シアノバクテリウムによるイソプレノイド連続生産と改良」
    • Mar. 17,2013
      At Plant and Animal Genome Asia 2013 (PAG ASIA 2013)(Singapore), Dr. Sawada did an oral presentation.
      Sawada Y. "Edible Alliaceae Metabolomics: LC-MS-Based Untargeted Detection and Annotation"
    • Mar. 8-10, 2013
      At the 7th annual meeting of Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan (Nagahama),
      Dr. Osanai did a poster presentation      .(in Japanese)
      Osanai T. 「転写制御因子を用いたラン藻の代謝と光合成の改変」
    • Jan. 13,2013　
      At International Plant & Animal Genome (PAG) XXI（San Diego CA.), Dr.Hirai, our team leader, gave an invited lecture.
      Masami Y. Hirai "A pathway-based technique for analysis of metabolic reaction networks."
    • Jan. 11,2013　
      At the School of Plant Sciences in The University of Arizona, Dr.Hirai and Dr. Sawada gave lectures.
      Hirai M.Y. "Mathematical Modeling of Plant Metabolism Based on Metabolome Data"
      Sawada Y. "Plant Metabolomics and Integrated Approaches"
      Seminers:The School of Plant Sciences in The University of Arizona

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      2012

      Dec. 11-14, 2012
      At The 35th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan(Fukuoka), three members of our lab did oral presentations. (in Japanese)
      Sawada Yuji 「ReSpect:植物代謝産物の構造推定データベースの構築」
      Okamura Eiji 「シロイヌナズナのセリン代謝における新規制御機構」
      Sriyudthsak K.
      （Altarnate speaker Dr.Hirai）      		 「大規模な代謝反応ネットワークを解析するための新たな手法の検討:
      シロイヌナズナを例として」
    • Nov. 21-22, 2012
      At the 5th Annual meeting of Japanese Society for Cell Synthesis Research (Tokyo),
      Dr. Osanai did a poster presentation      .(in Japanese)
      Osanai T. 「シグマ因子SigEによるラン藻の糖代謝制御とバイオプラスチック生産」
    • Oct. 23-26, 2012
      At Society for Biotechnology, Japan 2012(Kobe), Dr. Osanai did an oral presentation.
      (in Japanese)
      Osanai T. 「シグマ因子SigE過剰発現によるシアノバクテリアバイオプラスチックの増産」
    • Oct. 15-17, 2012
      At Joint Conference on Informatics in Biology, Medicine and Pharmacology(Tokyo), Dr. Kansuporn Sriyudthsak did a poster presentation.
      K. Sriyudthsak "A new algorithm for metabolic reaction network determination using time-series data"
    • Oct. 10-12, 2012
      At 7th Metabolome Symposium(Tsuruoka, Yamagata), three members of our lab did oral presentations. (in Japanese)
      Sawada Yuji 「ReSpect: 植物代謝産物のMS/MSデータベースの構築と応用利用」
      Osanani Takashi 「糖異化グローバルレギュレーターを利用したラン藻バイオプラスチックの増産」
      Sriyudthsak K. 「代謝反応ネットワークのコンピューター解析」
    • Sep. 27-28, 2012
      Dr.Hirai, our team leader, gave an invated lecture at New Frontiers of Metabolism Research in Biomedical Sciences(Tokyo).
      Hirai Masami Y. "Omics Approach to Elucidation of Plant Metabolism."
    • Sep. 13-17, 2012
      At 76th Annual Meeting of The Botanical Society of Japan (Himeji-city), Dr.Kawade did oral presentations.
      The encouragement award for young researcher "Leaf-size control through cell-to-cell communication"
      Presentation "Phenome screening using enzyme mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana"
    • Sep. 14, 2012
      At 24th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Plant Morphology (Himeji-city),
      Dr.Kawade did a poster presentation.
       Kawade, K., Sawada, Y., Sakata, A., Sato, M. and Hirai, M.Y.: Morphological changes in enzyme mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana
    • Aug. 5-10, 2012
      At 14th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes(Porto,Portugal), Dr.Osanai did a poster presentation.
      Osanai, T., Numata, K., Oikawa, A., Toyooka,K., Sato,M., Kuwahara, A., Iijima,H., Doi,Y., Tanaka,K., Saito,K. and Hirai,M.Y. : Overexpression of an RNA polymerase sigma factor SigE increases bioplastic production in cyanobacteria.
    • Aug. 3-5, 2012
      At 30th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology(Nara), three members of our lab did oral presentations.
      Sawada Y. "Metabolite QTL analysis in Soybean"
      Li Y. "Elucidation of individual functions of 3 Arabidosis R2R3 MYB transcription factors regulating aliphatic glucosinolate biosynthesis"
      Sriyudthsak K. "Analysis of metabolic behaviours in metabolic reaction reactions of Arabidopsis thaliana"
    • Jul. 3-7, 2012
      At 23th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (Vienna, Austria）, Dr.Kawade did a poster presentation.
      Kawade K., Tanimoto H., Horiguchi G., Hirai M.Y.and Tsukaya H.: Expression gradient of ANGUSTIFOLIA3 and proliferation dynamics of leaf cells.
    • Jun. 25-28, 2012
      At 2012 International Conference of the Metabolomics Society (Metabolomics 2012)(Washington,DC) , Dr.Sawada did a poster presentation.
      Sawada Y. "ReSpect: A Plant-specific MS/MS-based Data Resource and Database."
    • May. 20-24, 2012
      At The 6th International Symposium on Edible Alliaceae(in Fukuoka）, Dr.Sawada did an oral presentation.
      Sawada Y. "Toward Metabolome Evaluation in Allium Plants.－Widely-targeted analysis using LC-QQQ-MS for (un)targeted metabolites."
    • Mar. 22-26, 2012
      At Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry 2012 (Kyoto), three members of our lab did oral presentations.
      Okamura E. "Regulatory mechanisms of 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase from Arabidopsis thaliana"
      Sriyudthsak K. "Prediction of glycolysis pathway of Lactococcus lactis using time-series data"
      Kiyota H. "Creation of isoprenoid productive cyanobacteria"
    • Mar. 16-18, 2012
      At 53th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Plant Physiologists (Kyoto),
      five members of our lab did oral presentations.
      Sawada Y. ”RIKEN tandem mass spectral database (ReSpect) for phytochemicals”
      Sriyudthsak K. "Construction of methodology for clarification of characteristics of plant metabolic systems"
      Osanai T. "Switching of the electron transport chain of unicellular cyanobacteria during nitrogen starvation."
      Kawade K. "Expression dynamics of AN3, a mobile transcriptional co-activator for cell proliferation,during leaf development"
      Kiyota H. "Creation of isoprenoid productive cyanobacteria"

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      2010

      Jun. 9, 2010
      We hold Metabolism and Systems Biology session supported by The Metabolomics Project of CREST-JST in The 21st International Conference on Arabidopsis Research(ICAR2010)
      Date: 6/9/2010
      Place: Pacifico Yokohama
      Organizer: Masami Yokota Hirai, Tetsuro Mimura and Shuichi Yanagisawa
      Program：
      Tetsuro Mimura - Kobe University, Japan
      Metabolome researches in plant metabolic regulation
      Stanislav Kopriva - John Innes Centre, UK
      The importance of having sulfur
      Robert L. Last - Michigan State University, USA
      Forward and Reverse Genetics Meet: The Chloroplast 2010 Project
      Wolf B Frommer - Carnegie Institution for Science, USA High throughput analysis of membrane/signaling protein interactions in Arabidopsis
      Fumiaki Katagiri - University of Minnesota, USA
      Network modeling reveals prevalent negative regulatory relationships between signaling sectors in Arabidopsis immune signaling

      2009

      Jan., 2009
      We have established a high-throughput simultaneous analysis system of plant metabolites.
      details →DROP Met / Widely targeted metabolomics

      Sawada Y et al (2009) Plant Cell Physiol. [PDF]
      （Supported by Japan Science and Technology Agency, CREST)

      2008

      Jun., 2008
      A paper from our Team was selected as a FAST BREAKING PAPER - 2008
    • Jul. 17, 2008
      JST・CREST Workshop 'Plant Metabolism and Its Regulation'
      The workshop supported by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) was held as a concurrent workshop in 5th International Conference of Plant Metabolomics.
      Workshop　・　Conference
      Date: 2008/7/17
      Venue: Pacifico Yokohama, Annex Hall
      Organizers: Shuichi Yanagisawa, Tetsuro Mimura, Masami Yokota Hirai
      Program：
      Masami Yokota Hirai - RIKEN PSC/JST・CREST
      Omics-based approach to primary and secondary metabolism in Arabidopsis
      Tetsuro Mimura et al. - Kobe Univ./JST・CREST
      Post genome analysis of vacuolar function and control of plant metabolism
      Shuichi Yanagisawa - Univ. Tokyo/JST・CREST
      Transcriptome, proteome and metabolome analyses for coordination mechanisms of essential element assimilations

      Sang-Dong Yoo et al. (Harvard Medical School, USA) (Invited)
      Glucose & energy signaling networks in plants
      Daniel J. Kliebenstein - UC Davis, USA (Invited)
      Quantitative systems biology illuminates regulatory cross-communication between the transcriptome and metabolome
      Enrico Martinoia - Univ. Zurich, Switzerland (Invited)
      The role of the vacuole in solute accumulation and its impact in metabolite distribution

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