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2025/04/18 Update
- 2025/11/05 HP was updated.
- 2025/10/08 Prof. Kuroda's work (Novel Clathrate Compound of Cadmium Cyanide Host with an Adamantane-like Cavity. Cadmium Cyanide-Carbon Tetrachloride(1/1).T. Kitazawa, S. Nishikiori, R. Kuroda and T. Iwamoto. Chem. Lett., 1988, 17, 1729-1732) wad cited for a press release of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025.
- 2025/10/08 Prof. Kuroda's paper has been published in Nature Advances. "CRISPR/Cas9-germline editing of Biomphalaria glabrata: A breakthrough in genetic modification of snails that transmit schistosomiasis."
- 2025/09/16 Prof. Kuroda was awarded a JSCC Distinguished Service Awards.
- 2025/04/01 Mr. Manato Ito and Rikuto Okiyoshi joined the Kuroda Lab from Prof. Eri Ishikawa’s lab. (Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering) as fourth-year project students.
- 2025/04/01 Dr. Akiko Hatakeyama joined the Kuroda lab as a postdoctoral researcher. She obtained her Ph.D. (Science) from Graduate University for Advanced Studies. Welcome!
- 2025/03/31 Dr. Kohei Oonuma resigned the Kuroda lab.
- 2025/03/31 Ms. Fumi Tsuda resigned the Kuroda lab.
- 2025/03/22 Prof. Kuroda's paper "Fast and artifact-free circular dichroism measurement of solid-state structural changes. Chirality. 1‐11 (2023)" has been recognized as a Wiley top cited article published in 2023.
- 2024/12/31 Dr. Takayuki Uchida"s paper has been published in eLife. "DNA replication in primary hepatocytes without the six-subunit ORC."
- 2024/10/23 Dr. Kouhei Oonuma's paper has been published in Nature. "Neural crest lineage in the protovertebrate model Ciona."
- 2024/09/23 Mr. Manato Ito and Rikuto Okiyoshi joined the Kuroda lab from Prof. Eri Ishikawa’s lab (Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering) as a thrid-year student.
- 2024/08/08 Prof. Kuroda was awarded a Foreign Minister’s Commendations for FY2024.
- 2024/06/01 Ms. Fumi Tsuda joined the Kuroda lab as a researcher. She obtained her M.Sc. from Hokkaido University. Welcome!
- 2024/04 Dr. Hitoshi Tominaga resigned the Kuroda lab.
- 2024/04/01 Ms. Marina Miyauchi joined the Kuroda Lab from Prof. Eri Ishikawa’s lab. (Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering) as fourth-year project students.
- 2023/10/02 Ms. Marina Miyauchi joined the Kuroda lab from Prof. Eri Ishikawa’s lab (Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering) as a thrid-year student.
- 2023/09/08 Dr. Oonuma was awarded a Narishige Zoological Science Promotion award and presented a poster at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan held at Yamagata University in Yamagata, Japan.
- 2023/08/01-03 Prof. Kuroda gave a talk as an invited speaker at the 6th Yamada Symposium on "Diversity of Biological Patterns and Forms in Nature: toward a Comprehensive Understanding" held at Meiji University in Tokyo.
- 2023/07/24-27 Prof. Kuroda gave a talk as an invited speaker at the 4th Proteins and Peptides Conference: Structure, Function and Biotechnology at University of Geneva in Switzerland.
- 2023/06/26 Prof. Kuroda attended the G7 Gender Equality Ministers and Civil Society Dialogue held in Tokyo as the GEAC members.
- 2023/06/24-25 Prof. Kuroda attended the G7 Ministerial Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment held in Nikko, Japan.
- 2023/06/14-16 Prof. Kuroda attended the W20 Summit held in Mahabalipuram, India as the Japan delegates.
- 2023/05/17-19 Prof. Kuroda presented a keynote lecture at the AnalytiX-2023 held in Oosaka, Japan.
- 2023/05/12 Prof. Kuroda gave a lecture at the Nikkei SDGs Festival 2023 held in Tokyo as the GEAC representative.
- 2023/05/08 Prof. Kuroda visited Mr. HAYASHI Yoshimasa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, as the GEAC representatives. Prof. Kuroda as the GEAC members paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and presented a summary of recommendations in order to achieve gender equality, and expressed their expectations for further promotion of gender equality by Japan and other G7 member states.
- 2023/04/25-28 Prof. Kuroda gave a keynote lecture entitled "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” at the 11th World DNA Day and Bio-pharm Industry Congress 2023 held in Dalian, China.
- 2023/04/07 Prof. Kuroda gave a lecture entitled "Mechanical manipulation and CRISPR/Cas gene editing snail embryos change righties into lefties" at Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
- 2023/04/01 Tomoya Nakamura and Yota Yachi joined the Kuroda lab as fourth-year project students. WELCOME!!
- 2023/03/19 Prof. Kuroda gave a special educational lecture at the 128th Annual meeting of the Japanese Association of Anatomists held at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.
- 2023/03/10 "Use of Conglomerate Mixed Crystals to Deracemize a Stable Racemic-Compound-Forming System" was published in Chemistry – A European Journal. This is an accomplishment of a long-term collaboration research with Dr. Gérard Coquerel at the University of Rouen Normandy in France.
- 2023/01/24-27 Prof. Kuroda gave a talk entitled “Left-right body plan of freshwater snails is determined by a single gene in very early embryogenesis” as an invited speaker at the 75th Yamada Conference "Origin of left-right asymmetry in animals" held at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Kobe, Japan.
- 2023/01/09 Prof. Kuroda delivered an opening remarks at the Cluster Meeting of Gala Technology 2023 and gave a keynote lecture entitled "Turning lefties to Righties - Development of CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing in Mollusca and Its application to Medicine" at the 12th World Gene Convention held in Sapporo, Japan .
- 2022/11/16 Dr. Kouhei Oonuma joined the Kuroda lab as a post doc. He obtained his Ph.D. (Science) from Tokyo Metropolitan University on 2014/03. Welcome!
- 2022/11/08 Prof. Kuroda gave a lecture entitled "Snail coiling: CRISPR/Cas9 editing of a single gene turns righties into lefties" at Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire in Strasbourg, hosted by Dr. Akira Tajima.
- 2022/11/07-10 Prof. Kuroda attended 3rd Franco-Japanese Developmental Biology meeting "New Frontiers in Developmental Biology" held at Strasbourg in France and gave a lecture entitled "Left-right body plan and cell-fate determination in very early embryogenesis of Freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis".
- 2022/11/04 Prof. Kuroda gave a lecture entitled "Mechanical manipulation and CRISPR/Cas gene editing of snail embryos change righties into lefties" at iBV (Institute de Biologie Valrose), Universite Cote d'Azure, CNRS, INSERM, Nice, France hosted by Prof. Stephane Noselli.
- 2022/10 Prof. Kuroda attended the Gender Equality Advisory Council 2022 held in Germany.
- 2022/08/14-16 Prof. Kuroda attended 15th International Advisory Council held at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS in Malaysia.
- 2022/07/24-27 Prof. Kuroda attended CD 2022: 18th International Conference on Chiroptical Spectroscopy held at New York University as a session chair.
- 2022/07/01 Dr. Hitoshi Tominaga joined the Kuroda lab as a post doc. He obtained his Ph.D. (Science) from Graduate University for Advanced Studies on 2019/03. Welcome!
- 2022/06 NIH R01 (PI: Dr. Si-Ming Zhang, Co-PI: Prof. Kuroda) was awarded.
- 2022/05/31 Dr. Yoshinori Takafuji resigned the Kuroda lab.
- 2022/04/01 Dr. Takayuki Uchida joined the Kuroda lab as a Designated Senior Assistant Professor from Medical College of Wisconsin. Welcome!
- 2022/03/31 Dr. Masanori Abe resigned the Kuroda lab.
- 2022/1/26 Prof. Kuroda gave a lecture on left and right asymmetry at FoPM (The Forefront Physics and Mathematics Program to Drive Transformation, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo).
- 2021/12/25 A combined vol. 35&36 of The Carrollian was published by the Lewis Carroll Society. This is to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There” by Lewis Carroll. Prof. Kuroda was invited and contributed a chapter with the title “Through the Looking-Glass: From Molecules to Crystals and Snails”.
- 2021/12/12 Prof. Kuroda gave a lecture at a symposium for high-school students entitled “What is an asymmetric catalyst” which was organized by the Tokai branch of the Chemical Society of Japan.
- 2021/12/12, 19, 26, 2022/1/2 Prof. Kuroda made a guest appearance on CBC radio, Chutoradio, on 12, 19, 26th December 2021 and 2nd January 2022.
- 2021/10/01 Dr. Yoshinori Takafuji joined the Kuroda lab as a post doc. He obtained his Ph.D. (Agriculture) from Nagoya University on 2021/9/27. Welcome!
- 2021/07/09 JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering) was awarded.
- 2021/07/01 Members, PHOTO page was updated.
- 2021/05 Prof. Kuroda was appointed as one of 12 steering committee members of INGSA-Asia. INGSA (International Network for Government Science Advice) operates as an affiliated body of the International Science Council and is a collaborative platform for policy exchange, capacity building and research across diverse global science advisory organizations and national systems.
- 2021/04/01 Ms. Mai Shimizu and Mr. Kaito Tsuzuki joined the Kuroda Lab from Prof. Eri Ishikawa’s lab. (Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering) as fourth-year project students.
- 2021/03/08 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson convened the GEAC (Gender Equality Advisory Council), an independent group of experts under the UK’s G7 Presidency. The GEAC is responsible for championing the core principles of freedom, opportunity, individual humanity and dignity for women and girls around the world. Prof. Kuroda was among 19 members appointed and she focused on Women in STE(A)M careers and digital inclusion. This was covered by the Chunichi newspaper p.3 of the 2021/5/19 issue, and Asahi Newspaper p.19 of the 2021/5/31 issue.
- 2021/02/02 Prof. Kuroda gave a keynote speech at the Education Forum for Sustainable Development Goals - Girls’ Education and Innovation, organized by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hiroshima University and University of Tsukuba.
- 2020/10/24 Prof. Kuroda gave a talk at the Munakata Rotary Club on the occasion of the 7th Munakata Eco International Symposium with the title “SDGs and ourselves; Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”.
- 2020/10/14 The 80th Anniversary Symposium of Chubu University co-sponsored by The Club of Rome was held at Chubu University, and discussed “How Can Asian Culture, Science and Technology Create a Life-Centered World in the Post COVID-19 Era?” Speakers, panelists and commentators included Chubu University Chancellor Atsuo IIyoshi, Vice President Masashi Tsujimoto, and Head of Frontier Research Center Hisashi Yamamoto, and from The Club of Rome, 6 full- and 2 honorary- members, including Ernst Ulrich v. Weizsäcker as keynote speaker, Tomoyo Nonaka as Coordinator, co-chair Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, Chandran Neil, Hiroshi Komiyama, Yoshitsugu Hayashi and Reiko Kuroda as panelist, and Honorary members, Koichiro Matsuura (ex-Sec Gen, UNESCO) and Yoichi Kaya as panelist or commentator.
- 2020/04/01 Institute of Science and Technology Research was reorganized and renamed as The Frontier Research Institute.
- 2020/03/31 MEMBERS, RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS, PHOTO pages were renewed.
- 2020/12/25 Renewed MEMBERS, RESEARCH pages of this HP.
- 2020/03/31 Research, Members, Publications and Photo gallery pages were updated.
- 2019/11/19-22 Invited to visit the Argentine Republic, Prof. Kuroda exchanged opinions on science policy at Buenos Aires City Hall and Biology Institutes. She also gave a special lecture at San Martin University on “Science in Society, Science for Society and Society for Science” and at Laprata University entitled "Women in STEM and Women in decision making – Keys to vitalize our communities”.
- 2019 Prof. Kuroda was awarded a Jubilee professor 2019, Chalmers Technology University, Sweden.
- 2019/08/10 Opened Kuroda lab. HP at Chubu University.
- 2019/05/14 Our new paper has been published in Development. It also was featured as the cover illustration of that issue. Cover Image
- 2019/04/01 Kuroda lab moved to the Institute of Science and Technology Research, Chubu University (Kasugai, Japan).
