WHAT'S NEW (archive)
MEETING
2023.9.28
IRCMS symposium: Rise of Diversity in Science was held for two days at IRCMS, Kumamoto University. The theme of the symposium was diversity, and we had invited lectures and poster sessions by researchers with diverse topics, as well as a panel discussion during the power hour "Diversity for Discovery: Unlocking the Power of Different Perspectives”. Sada lab members actively participated and enjoyed the symposium. I think it was a good, stimulating meeting. Thank you to all the speakers and participants.
MEETING
2023.9.3
Aiko was invited to speak at the 2023 Inaugural meeting of ISRB: International Society for Regenerative Biology in Vienna. Enjoyed wonderful talks and the beautiful city of Vienna.
LAB NEWS
2023.9.1
As of September 1, Dr. Mizuho Ishikawa has been appointed to the Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations!
LAB NEWS
2023.8.31
Second-year PhD students Wency, Thisakorn, and Thomson completed their interim presentations. Well done. We received a lot of feedback and we will do our best to further develop the research.
LAB NEWS
2023.7.1
As of July 1, Aiko has been appointed to the Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University as a full professor. We will continue to do our best to advance our research in this new environment.
LAB NEWS
2023.1.4
Happy New Year! We welcome Ahmed, a visiting researcher from Egypt, who joined our lab in January. Looking forward to another wonderful year with all of you.
MEETING
2022.11.12
“New Frontiers in Developmental Biology – Celebrating the Diversity of Life”, 3rd Franco-Japanese Developmental Biology Meeting, was held in Strasbourg, Nov 7-10. Aiko gave a talk and chaired a Session2: Regeneration & stem cells, aging, senescence. We have much to learn from France's culture of respect for the history of science, high-quality talks and active discussions, and outreach activities. The video mapping on the theme of embryology was truly a wonderful and creative fusion of science and art.
PUBLICATION
2022.10.24
We are pleased to share that our paper has finally been published. We characterized the aging process of epidermal stem cell populations and the role of the extracellular matrix fibulin-7.
Thank you Erna, Gopu, and Lal for their hard work, and Hiromi for her continued support!
Raja E, Changarathil G, Oinam L, Tsunezumi J, Ngo YX, Ishii R, Sasaki T, Imanaka-Yoshida K, Yanagisawa H*, Sada A*: The extracellular matrix fibulin 7 maintains epidermal stem cell heterogeneity during skin aging. EMBO Rep. e55478, 2022.
LAB NEWS
2022.10.3
MEXT students Manh and Trisha joined our lab in October. Welcome to Kumamoto!
LAB NEWS
2022.7.26
Farewell to Yen, who worked in the lab for a long time as a PhD student and postdoc. It is my great pleasure to see how much she has grown since she first came to our lab. From August, she will be working on a tissue engineering project as a postdoc at RIKEN. Thank you very much Yen for all your hard work over the years. We look forward to seeing your future endeavors. We will miss you.
LAB NEWS
2022.7.14
Dr. Katja Schenke Layland from NMI, University of Tubingen, Germany visited Kumamoto and gave a talk for Joint Invited Speaker Seminar Series for Future Medicine. It was a very exciting talk and an active discussion. Thank you Katija for your wonderful work and thank you to everyone who participated online and at the venue.
During her stay, Katja and our lab members had good discussions and went on a lab trip to Suizenji Garden with Yukata as an excursion. Dr. Kaori Sugiyama from Waseda University visited Kumamoto and enjoyed discussions together.
RECRUITMENT
2022.6.1
Open call: fully-funded PhD scholarship in healthy longevity supported by the Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT), Kumamoto University, Japan. The application guidelines are now available.
http://www.medphas.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/en/medgrad/admissions_top/
Application deadline: January 2023
Interview: February 2023
Enrollment: October 2023
If you are interested in tissue stem cells, skin aging and regeneration, please do not hesitate to contact me.
LAB NEWS
2022.6.1
Erna, a postdoctoral fellow, has been appointed as an assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba. Congratulations!
LAB NEWS
2022.5.10
We have new members in our lab. Hegazy from Egypt, Wency from China, and Thisakorn from Thailand arrived in Kumamoto. Two basic course students from the Faculty of Medicine are also here. Welcome to Sada Lab, enjoy science!
LAB NEWS
2022.4.1
Sada lab welcomed new postdoc Mizuho and master's student Ikuto. Yen received her degree and became a postdoc in April.
LAB NEWS
2022.1.20
PhD student Yen has successfully completed her doctoral thesis defense today and passed the final review for her degree. Big congratulations, Dr. Yen!!! Thanks for your great thesis work.
LAB NEWS
2021.12.14
MEXT student Tomson has arrived safely in Kumamoto. Welcome to Japan!!
MEETING
2021.12.1
The 44th annual meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ) in Yokohama, Japan. Aiko gave a talk in the session on extracellular matrix and Erna presented her poster. Nguyen and Yen also attended the conference. Thank you all for the great talks and discussion!
LAB NEWS
2021.11.12
PhD student Wency has received a fellowship of Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation (SPRING) Program at Kumamoto University. Congratulations!!
LAB NEWS
2021.10.1
Three new doctoral students have joined the Sada Lab today. Welcome! I am looking forward to working together in Kumamoto soon.
RECRUITMENT
2021.9.30
The MEXT program information became available. Stipend, travel expenses, fees for enrollment and tuition will be supported for 4 years of doctor course. If you are interested in applying, please do not hesitate to contact me.
The application deadline: December 28, 2021
The interview date: January 31, 2022
The enrollment: October 1, 2022
Educational program for the extension of healthy life expectancy (on the bottom of this page).
PUBLICATION
2021.9.25
Check out our protocol article from JoVE. This paper describes a method for isolating and culturing mouse oral keratinocytes. Congratulations, Yen! We will be shooting a protocol video soon.
RECRUITMENT
2021.9.2
The International Research Center for Medical Sciences (IRCMS) at Kumamoto University has launched its YouTube channel! The first one is a digest version of PI interview videos, including a short introduction of labs, life in Kumamoto, and more. There is also an interview video with an international student and postdoc. Please subscribe to our channel!
RECRUITMENT
2021.8.25
A fully-funded PhD scholarship in healthy longevity supported by the Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT) is available at Kumamoto University, Japan. If you are interested in stem cell biolog, skin aging and regeneration, please do not hesitate to contact me.
RECRUITMENT
2021.7.21
Applications for IRCMS internships are now open. Those who are thinking of entering graduate school at Kumamoto University can stay at IRCMS for 2-8 weeks before entering the university to experience the research environment and life in Kumamoto. We are looking forward to receiving worldwide applications. If you are interested, please email or DM me!
MEETING
2021.6.26
PhD student Yen presented her poster at ISSCR. Postdoc Erna gave a talk at the annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Matrix Biology and Medicine. Thank you for the discussion!
RECRUITMENT
2021.5.26
[ Open entries for IRCMS Fellowship ] Application is now open for the fellowship for 2021 Fall enrollment. For the details, please refer to the following URL. We are looking forward to receiving world-wide entries. Deadline is June 30, 2021.
MEETING
2021.5.21-22
Yen presented her poster at the 18th stem cell research symposium, entitled "Defining diversity and similarity of epithelial stem cell populations and its anatomical environment in murine skin and oral mucosa". Aiko gave a talk about the story on the ocular surface epithelium.
MEDIA
2021.5.17
Aiko and other new PI’s stories on setting up new laboratories under the pandemic are featured in the Nature career article.
How new principal investigators tackled a tumultuous year
PUBLICATION
2021.4.22
A collaborative work has been published in Scientific Reports. Congratulations!
Kimura K, Ramirez K, Nguyen TAV, Yamashiro Y, Sada A and Yanagisawa H: Contribution of PDGFRα-positive cells in maintenance and injury responses in mouse large vessels. Sci Rep, 11(1):8683, 2021.
MEDIA
2021.4.15
Aiko's interview about her research and career is posted here!
AWARD
2021.4.6
Aiko received The Young Scientists' Award by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) .
RECRUITMENT
2021.3.31
The school year will begin tomorrow in Japan! Sada lab seeks motivated students (master and PhD level) who are interested in skin regeneration, aging and stem cell biology! I would be happy to support fellowship and scholarship applications, such as MEXT, JSPS or HFSP. If you're interested in pursuing research with us, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sada lab tour!
RECRUITMENT
2021.3.25
Applications for the 2022 HFSP postdoc fellowships will start soon. This year, it will follow a new two-step application: (1) submission of a letter of Intent on May 2021, and (2) submission a full application on September 2021 for successful applicants.
If you are interested in applying for HFSP fellowship and pursuing research with us, please do not hesitate to contact me. I would be happy to support. I was also supported by HFSP postdoc fellowship 2011. It is amazing that the HFSP supports basic sciences and it facilitates challenging, innovative and interdisciplinary research.
Please check the following site for more information.
https://www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp-funding/postdoctoral-fellowships
MEETING
2021.3.18
Aiko wins the First Prize 2020 NIKON JOICO AWARD!
https://ircms.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/news/2021/03/awarded-nikon-joico.html
MEETING
2021.3.18
A postdoc Nguyen presented her work at weekly IRCMS meeting (WIM). Well done!
MEETING
2021.2.24-26
Aiko gave a talk at Singapore international skin conference 2021. Thank you for all the wonderful talks and active discussion!
MEETING
2021.2.22
We had a 4th KAIST-KU Workshop and Joint Symposium -Facilitating Collaboration in Biomedical Engineering Research-
http://iroast.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/symposiumsseminars/4th-kaist-ku-workshop-and-joint-symposium/
MEETING
2021.2.20
Aiko organized Scienc-ome XR Innovation hub (SXR), a hackathon event focusing on anti-disciplinary science on VR platform.
MEETING
2021.2.7-9
Aiko attended Interstellar Initiative: February workshop.
https://www.nyas.org/events/2021/interstellar-initiative-february-2021/
PUBLICATION
2020.12.16
Our paper on stem cell dynamics of the ocular surface epithelium is out in Development! Congratulations, Ryutaro! I am proud of you and your hard work. Thank you Dr. Hiromi for your continued support.
Defining compartmentalized stem cell populations with distinct cell division dynamics in the ocular surface epithelium
Ryutaro Ishii, Hiromi Yanagisawa, Aiko Sada
Development, 2020
https://dev.biologists.org/content/147/24/dev197590
The paper was submitted through Journal-independent peer review platform, Review Commons. We had a great experience.
MEETING
2020.12.16
We are thrilled to announce that our Japan - Singapore Skin Webinar Series will start on January 12, 2021. These seminars are free for members of JSID and Skin Soc Singapore. For more information, and to register, please visit our website below.
FUNDING
2020.12.16
Aiko received a research grant from Uehara Memorial Foundation. Thank you for the support of our research.
MEETING
2020.12.3
Aiko gave a talk at MBSJ2020. Thank you for the discussion and nice talks!
MEETING
2020.11.19
A PhD student Yen presented her work at weekly IRCMS meeting (WIM). Very good presentation! Thank you for the discussion and feedback.
Recruitment
2020.11.5
Graduate school applications will be open soon for 2021 April enrollment. If you're interested in pursuing research with us as a master or doctor student, please do not hesitate to contact me!
Kumamoto University, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Admissions.
http://www.medphas.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/en/medgrad/admissions_top/
LAB NEWS
2020.11.2
A new postdoc Nguyen has joined our lab! Welcome to Kumamoto :)
MEETING
2020.10.29
Erna presented her work at weekly IRCMS meeting (WIM). Well done! We got very good questions and feedback.
FUNDING
2020.10.26
Aiko received a research grant from Astellas Foundation for Research on Metabolic Disorders.
LAB NEWS
2020.10.24
We opened for entries of IRCMS fellowship to support master and doctor course students at Kumamoto University (April 2021 enrollment)
<Duration>
The period of Fellowship will be from after applicant’s enrollment to March, 2022 (max 10 months).
<Application Deadline>
November 30, 2020
<Application Procedure>
see IRCMS website for detail
AWARD
2020.10.17
We are honored to receive Healthy Longevity Award at interstellar initiative. Thank you team members, Martina and Ahmet for great collaboration and discussion. Excited to start our new project!
FUNDING
2020.9.24-25
Aiko presented our work at online meeting of JSDB (Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists).
FUNDING
2020.9.11
Erna received a grant, JSPS KAKENHI, for research activity start-up. Congratulations!
FUNDING
2020.9.11
Aiko is selected for the interstellar initiative 2020.
https://www.nyas.org/events/2020/the-interstellar-initiative-2020-2021-workshop-1/
FUNDING
2020.7.30
Aiko received a new grant, JSPS KEKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) on glycan and skin stem cell aging project. We will keep going!
LAB NEWS
2020.7.23
We opened for entries of FY2020 IRCMS research internship program. If you are interested in, please contact me!
<Duration>
2 to 8 weeks between late October 2020 and early March 2021
<Application Period>
July 20th (Mon) to August 31st (Mon), 2020 (Japan Standard Time)
<Application Procedure>
see IRCMS website for detail
PUBLICATION
2020.7.23
Our paper is published! Congrats, Lal for your nice work.
Oinam L, Changarathil G, Raja E, Yen Ngo YX, Tateno H*, Sada A*, Yanagisawa H: Glycome profiling by lectin microarray reveals dynamic glycan alterations during epidermal stem cell aging.
Aging Cell, e13190, 2020. *corresponding authors.
doi: 10.1111/acel.13190
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.13190
EurekAlert! AAAS
Skin Stem Cells Shuffle Sugars as They Age
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uot-ssc072120.php
Please check our news as well.
https://www.aikosada.com/post/glycan-profiling-of-epidermal-stem-cells-during-aging
FUNDING
2020.4.1
Aiko received JSPS KEKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B).
LAB NEWS
LAB NEWS
2019.2.21
We opened for entries of FY2020 IRCMS research internship program.
<Duration>
2 to 8 weeks between June 2020 and early March 2021
<Application Period>
February 21 (Fri) to March 22 (Sun), 2020
<Application Procedure>
see IRCMS website for detail
http://ircms.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/internship/
LAB NEWS
2019.2.17
Aiko Sada received the Woman Scientist Award at Kumamoto University. Still so few women in science in Japan, but I hope we can change this for future generations.
MEETING
2019.12.3-6
Aiko gave a talk at the annual meeting of the MBSJ (Molecular Biology Society of Japan) on December 3 in the session of Morphostasis: the crossroads between developmental and disease biology. Thank you all for great talks and discussion!
MEETING
2019.11.13-14
After KU-KAIST joint symposium, Aiko moved from Daejeon to Busan and attended ACGG (Asian Community of Glycoscience and Glycotechnology) conference. A PhD student Lalhaba Oinam (University of Tsukuba) received a poster award on the project of glycan profiling of aged epidermal stem cells. Congratulations, Lal!
MEETING
2019.11.11-12
Aiko and other PIs in IRCMS attended and gave a talk at Kumamoto Univ-KAIST joint symposium in Daejeon, Korea. High level of research, stimulating talks and discussion - we really enjoyed the symposium. We thank people in KAIST for their warm and kind hospitality!
IRCMS NEWS
2019.11.01
The application for IRCMS fellowship is now open. This fellowship provides financial support for graduate students. For more details, check this page or contact me.
FUNDING
2019.10.17
Aiko received research grants from the Mitsubishi foundation, the Ichiro Kanehara foundation and the Sumitomo foundation.
LAB NEWS
2019.10.01
Sada lab started! Find us on Facebook and Twitter too.