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Recent Lab News
- 2024/12/9-13
Dr. Sawazaki gave a lecture at the 12th Singapore International Chemistry Conference (SICC-12, Symposium 23: Catalysis for Chemistry). - 2024/12/13
Mao Tenda (B4) gave a poster presentation at the 39th Kansai Peptide Seminar. - 2024/11/29
Professor Sohma gave a lecture at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan. - 2024/11/21
Drs. Sasaki and Sawazaki gave poster presentations at the 41st Medicinal Chemistry Symposium. - 2024/10/29-31
Dr. Sasaki made an oral presentation titled "Semi-synthesis of TDP-43 modified in N-terminal domain revealed effects of post-translational phosphorylation on self-association" at the 61st Japanese Peptide Symposium. - 2024/10/27-28
Dr. Sawazaki made an oral presentation titled "Selective chemical transformations utilizing amyloids" at the 50th Symposium on Progress in Organic Reactions and Syntheses. - 2024/10/24
At the 74th General Meeting of the Kansai Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan held on October 5th, Kai Yamamoto (B4) and Mao Tenda (B4) won the Student Outstanding Oral Presentation Award. Congratulations! - 2024/10/5
Kai Yamamoto (B4), Fuma Murai (B4), and Mao Tenda (B4) gave oral presentations at the 74th General Meeting of the Kansai Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan. - 2024/9/12-14
Dr. Sawazaki gave an oral presentation titled "Functional Amyloids that Control Selectivity on Chemical Transformations" at the 18th Biology-Related Chemistry Symposium. - 2024/8/8
Kai Yamamoto (B4) gave a poster presentation at the 56th Young Peptide Summer Workshop. - 2024/5/1
Research on "Catalysis driven by an amyloid-substrate complex” has been published in PNAS! - 2024/4/30
The research that Dr. Sohma participated has been published in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules! - 2024/4/30
Research on "Leuco Ethyl Violet as Self‐Activating Prodrug Photocatalyst for In Vivo Amyloid‐Selective Oxygenation” has been published in Advanced Science! - 2024/4/11
Prof. Sohma gave a lecture at UNIST's Chemistry Seminar Series, Spring 2024. - 2024/3/31
Prof. Sohma gives a lecture at the International Exchange Symposium (Asia Symposium on Pharmaceutical Sciences for the Next Generation: Chemical Biology) of the 144th Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan. - 2023/12/19
Prof. Sohma gave a lecture at ISBOC-13 (IUPAC’s International Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry). - 2023/12/1
Prof. Sohma gave a lecture at the 95th Organic Chemistry Group Seminar (Shirasagi Seminar) of Osaka Metropolitan University. - 2023/11/6-15
Assistant Prof. Sawazaki made a presentation at 49th Symposium on Progress in Organic Reactions and Syntheses, 60th Japanese Peptide Symposium, and 40th Medicinal Chemistry Symposium. - 2023/11/14
Research on "Photo-oxygenation of histidine residue inhibits α-synuclein aggregation” has been published in FASEB Journal! - 2023/11/8-10
The 60th Japanese Peptide Symposium was held! - 2023/9/14
Research on "Rose bengal promoted catalytic amyloid-β oxygenation via sono-activation” has been published in Synlett (Special Issue dedicated to Keith Fagnou)! - 2023/9/14
Research on "Modular synthetic strategy for N/C-terminal protected amyloidogenic peptides" has been published in special issue (PeptideTalents) of J. Peptide Sci.! - 2023/4/18
Research on "Quantitative Assays for Catalytic Photo-Oxygenation of Alzheimer Disease-Related Tau Proteins" has been published in ACS Chemical Neuroscience! This is a collaborative research with the Kanai Lab and the Tomita Lab at the University of Tokyo. - 2023/5/31
Assistant Prof. Sawazaki made a presentation atThe 17rd Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Chemical Biology - 2023/4/18
Research on "Attenuation of α-synuclein aggregation by catalytic photo-oxygenation" has been published in Chem. Commun.! This is a collaborative research with the Kanai Lab and the Tomita Lab at the University of Tokyo. - 2023/3/25-28
Drs. Sawazaki, Sasaki and Sohma made a presentation atThe 143rd Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan - 2023/3/2
Prof. Sohma gives a lecture at Osaka University Institute for Protein Research Seminar "Chemistry for Challenges on Protein”. - 2023/2/21
Assistant Prof. Sawazaki made a presentation atFuture Drug Discovery Empowered by Chemical Biology - 2022/11/26
Assistant Prof. Sawazaki made a presentation at The 48th Symposium on Progress in Organic Reactions and Syntheses, titled "Development of chemical catalysts for photooxygenation of intracellular tau amyloid”. - 2022/11/26
Prof. Sohma gave a lecture titled "Peptide Chemistry Focusing on Amyloid" at the Kansai Area Peptide Seminar. - 2022/8/10
The research that Drs. Sawazaki and Sohma participated has been published in Sensors and Actuators: B. Chemical! - 2022/7/27
The research that Dr. Sasaki participated has been published in PNAS - 2022/7/26
Professor Sohma gave a lecture at the Organic Synthesis Seminar of the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Tokai Branch). - 2022/3/24
Professor Sohma Received the special prize of the Advanced Technology Awards ! (with Dr. Hori, Prof. Tomita, and Prof. Kanai at the University of Tokyo, and Dr. Torii at Vermilion Therapeutics Inc.). - 2022/3/24
Sawazaki received Ph.D degrees. - 2021/11/26-28
Professor Sohma gave a lecture at the online symposium "Development of new chemical biology methods and application for neurodegenerative diseases" at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Dementia Research. - 2021/11/18
The Review Article "Chemical catalyst-promoted photooxygenation of amyloid proteins” by Sohma and Sawazaki et al. has been published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. - 2021/08/10
Professor Sohma gives a lecture at the 53rd Young Peptide Summer School. - 2021/07/17
New website created! - 2021/04/01
The Sohma Lab in Wakayama Started. - Archive
Latest Update. September 17, 2024
The Sohma Group
Wakayama Medical University.
25-1, Shichiban-cho, Wakayama 640-8156
Phone: 073-498-8543
E-mail: ysohma@wakayama-med.ac.jp
Youhei Sohma