Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine and School of Medicine / Department of Biochemistry and Genome Biology

We welcome graduate students and postdocs to our lab.
Please contact Hodaka Fujii ( ) if you are interested in our research.

April 16, 2024
We published a paper about identification of epigenetic regulators of expression of a tumor suppressor gene using iChIP-SILAC.
FEBS Lett.
March 15, 2024
We developed the real-time MBDi-RPA method using the MeCP2 protein.
Anal. Chim. Acta
May 17, 2023
Takeshi Shimizu (visiting scientist, former assistant professor of the department) received the Intelligent Cosmos Encouragement prize from Intelligent Cosmos Academic Foundation.
Intelligent Cosmos Academic Foundation
April 1, 2023
Takeshi Shimizu moved to Hirosaki University Institute for the Promotion of Research and Innovation. Takayuki Hata was promoted to assistant professor.
February 4, 2023
We developed ORNi-PCR methods using Taq polymerases.
Anal. Chem.
October 17, 2022
We published a paper about an enChIP system for the analysis of budding yeast.
Biol. Methods Protoc.
October 11, 2022
The enChIP patent was granted and registered in the US (US 11,466,306 B2).
September 24, 2022
We published a paper about circular RNAs as potential diagnostic markers of hepatocellular carcinoma.
Int. J. Exp. Pathol.
May 13, 2022
We published a review about ORNi-PCR.
Biol. Methods Protoc.
May 1, 2022
Takayuki Hata, Ph.D., joined the department as specially-appointed assistant professor.
April 25, 2022
We published a paper about a novel mechanism of signal transduction from cytokine receptors.
Cells