Murakami Lab

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FY2021

2022-2-21
Lecture / Presentation
Prof. Masaaki Murakami presented his study at Kyoto University Inamori Foundation Joint Kyoto Prize Symposium on February 13.
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2022-2-21
Information
Prof. Murakami's lecture videos will be available on the the website for highschool students, Yume Navi.
You can watch the video from here.
2022-02-14
Publications
Article about Electronic Medicine in Immunology has been published in Int. Immunol. Immunology Special Issue.
2022-01-28
Seminar
【January 13th, 2022】IGM-QST-NIPS Seminar(Chairperson:Masaaki Murakami)):Prof. Tomohiro Kurosaki(Osaka University)
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2022-01-13
Publications
A review of Gateway Reflections and mechanotransduction has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Immunology.
2022-01-11
Seminar
【January 13th, 2022】Infectious Cancers Seminar(Chairperson:Masaaki Murakami):Prof. Hiroshi Takayanagi(Tokyo University)
For more information
2022-01-11
Publications
Article about the Gateway reflex has been published in J. Mol. Sci..
2021-12-01
Information
Associate professor Rie Hasebe and Assistant Professor Takeshi Yamasaki joined NIPS Division of Molecular Neuroimmunology.
2021-11-25
Information
Our website has been renewed.
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2021-10-15
Lecture / Presentation
Prof. Masaaki Murakami will present his study at Kyoto University Inamori Foundation Joint Kyoto Prize Symposium.
The Symposium will be held on Feb 13, 2022.
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2021-07-01
Information
For students and post-docs who are interested in making a new concept with a fusion of immunology, neuroscience and inflammatology, just contact us.

FY2017

2018-03-26
Lecture / Presentation
A lecture will be held at the symposium "Infection, Immunity, Cancer, and Inflammation" on Mar 26, 2018 at Akira Suzuki Hall, Hokkaido University. "Regulation of Immune and Inflammatory Responses by Gateway Reflex-specific Neuronal Circuits" (Prof. Murakami)
2018-02-14
seminar
[Feb. 14 (Wed.)] IGM seminar: Dr. Hiroshi Takayanagi (Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
2018-02-03
Lecture / Presentation
Invited Lecture at the 13th International Symposium on Geriatrics and Gerontology (ISSG) on February 3, 2018.
2018-02-01
information
Lecturer Kamimura was awarded a research grant from Oyama Health Foundation.
2018-01-25
seminar
[Thursday, January 25] IGM Seminar: Dr. Masanori Hatakeyama (Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo; Max Planck Center)
2018-01-01
publication
A joint research paper with Dr. Ochiai was accepted for publication in Glycobiology.
2018-01-01
information
Lecturer Kamimura was awarded a research grant from Hitachi Foundation.
2018-01-01
information
Lecturer Kamimura received a research grant from the Uehara Memorial Foundation.
2017-12-13
Lecture / Presentation
Invited lecture will be held at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Immunology Technical Seminar on December 13, 2017. Gateway Reflex, a Novel Concept of Neuro-Immune Cross Talk" at Kobe International Exhibition Hall (Prof. Murakami)
2017-12-07
Lecture / Presentation
On December 7, 2017, a talk will be held at ConBio2017. Gateway Reflex, a New Concept of Neuroimmunology" at Sendai International Center (Prof. Murakami)
2017-11-10
Lecture / Presentation
On November 10, 2017, a lecture will be held at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Coloproctology at Fukuoka International Congress Center. (Prof. Murakami)
2017-11-01
publication
A paper describing the molecular mechanism of Rbm10 activation of inflammatory circuits has been accepted for publication in Int. Immunol.
2017-11-01
award
Assistant Professor Arima received Poster Award at the 12th International Symposium of the Institute Network.
2017-10-20
Lecture / Presentation
A lecture will be held at Lonza Japan's 3rd Premium Agency Conference on October 20, 2017. "Relationship between Psychological State and Disease" at Hotel Monterey Sapporo (Prof. Murakami)
2017-10-14
Lecture / Presentation
On October 14, 2017, a special lecture will be held at the 97th Hokkaido Medical Congress Sectional Meeting on Pathology (50th Hokkaido Pathology Conference). (Prof. Murakami)
2017-10-02
Lecture / Presentation
The lecture will be held at Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, New Research Field Creation Project Joint Symposium on October 2, 2017. Control of Neuroinflammation by Gateway Reflex" at Hankyu Sanwa Hall, Icho-Kaikan, Osaka University (Prof. Murakami)
2017-10-01
information
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Atsumi and Mr. Ohki of MD/PhD course won the Best Presentation Award and the Best Presentation Award at the 4th Basic Research Conference of the Japan College of Rheumatology, respectively.
2017-10-01
publication
A review of Gateway Reflections has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Immunology.
2017-09-29
seminar
[Friday, September 29, 2017] IGM Seminar: Dr. Yuki Sugiura (Lecturer, Department of Biochemistry & Integrative Medical Biology, School of Medicine, Keio University)
2017-09-25
Lecture / Presentation
The lecture will be held on September 25, 2017 at at Ono Pharmaceutical Minase Research Institute by Prof. Murakami .
2017-09-14
Lecture / Presentation
A seminar will be held at Takeda Pharmaceutical Shonan Research Laboratories on Sep 14, 2017. Gateway Reflections, a New Nervous System-Immune System Crosstalk" (Prof. Murakami)
2017-09-08
Lecture / Presentation
Invited talk at the international workshop The German-Japan joint workshop on Neuroimmnology (Klosterhotel Ludwig der Bayer) organized by AMED-Leibniz Society will be held on Sep 8-11, 2017 in Munich, Germany.
2017-09-01
information
Our paper on stress gateway reflexes has been featured in various countries.(USA1) (USA2) (USA3) (USA4) (USA5) (UAE) (UK1) (UK2) (India) (Germany)
2017-09-01
information
Prof. Murakami appeared on "J-WAVE TOKYO MORNING RADIO (Tetsuya Bessho)".
2017-08-26
Lecture / Presentation
A special lecture will be held at TEN TOPICS IN RHEUMATOLOGY on August 26, 2017. New Neuro-Immune Crosstalk: Suppression of Disease by Gateway Reflex" at Sapporo Park Hotel (Prof. Murakami)
2017-08-04
Lecture / Presentation
On August 4, 2017, a special lecture will be held at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Muscle Society. "Regulation of Inflammatory Diseases by Gateway Reflexes - New Developments in Muscle Research: From Medical Research to the Elucidation of Health -" National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (Prof. Murakami)
2017-08-02
seminar
[Wednesday, August 2, 2017] IGM Seminar: Dr. Tsuneyasu Amendment (Professor, Department of Immunology, Institute of Advanced Medicine, Wakayama Medical University)
2017-08-01
information
Our paper on stress gateway reflex won the first place in the press release access ranking.
2017-08-01
publication
Our paper on stress gateway reflex, which elucidates the molecular mechanism of stress-induced sudden death, has been accepted by eLife. This research was featured in newspapers and on the "Shinichi Hatori Morning Show".
(eLife) (Yahooニュース) (朝日新聞デジタル)(読売新聞)(朝日新聞)(北海道新聞) (日刊工業新聞) (時事ドットコム) (日経新聞オンライン) (時事通信)
2017-07-11
Lecture / Presentation
Our talk at GI-CoRE GSQ, GSB, & IGM JOINT SYMPOSIUM: Quantum, Informatics, Biology, & Medicine will be held on July 11, 2017. Gateway reflexes, a new paradigm of neuro-immune crosstalk" Akira Suzuki Memorial Hall, School of Engineering (Prof. Murakami)
2017-06-30
Lecture / Presentation
A special lecture at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Host Defence Research will be held on June 30, 2017. "What is the new concept of neuro-immune system linkage, the 'gateway reflex'?" Sagami Women's University Green Hall (Sagamihara Cultural Hall) (Prof. Murakami)
2017-06-23
Lecture / Presentation
The lecture of Osaka University's Program for Leading Graduate Schools "Interdisciplinary Program for Biomedical Sciences" will be held on June 23, 2017 . (Prof. Murakami)
2017-06-09
Lecture / Presentation
Our Talk at the 11th grant-in-aid research report meeting of Institute for Fermentation Research on June 9, 2017. (Prof. Murakami)
2017-06-08
Seminar
[Thursday, June 8] IGM seminar: Dr. Kazutaka Tainaka (Specially Appointed Professor, Systems Brain Pathology, Niigata University Brain Research Institute)
2017-06-01
publication
A review article co-authored with Prof. L. Steinman, Stanford University, has been accepted for publication in Clinical Experimental Neuroimmunology.
2017-06-01
publication
The protocol for transfer EAE has been accepted by Bio-protocol.
2017-04-15
information
Prof. Murakami's article has been published in MMJ April issue, page 94.
2017-04-01
publication
A joint research paper with Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine has been accepted for publication in J. Exp. Med. (JEM)
2017-04-01
information
Prof. Murakami has been appointed as the Chairman of the Council of Joint Usage/Research Centers in National Universities. This was reported in Hokkaido Medical News.
2017-04-01
information
Prof. Murakami has been appointed as an Associate Editor of Frontiers Community (Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology).

FY2016

2017-03-01
Information
Mr Higuchi won a scholarship for Doctoral Student in Immunology in the "Kibou" Project.
2017-03-01
Information
Dr Arima won a research grant from the Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences.
2017-02-18
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar in Chiba University, Shool of Medicine (Prof. Murakami)
2017-02-15
Seminar
Prof. Hiroshi Takayanagi (Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
2017-01-20
Seminar
Prof. Masanori Hatakeyama (Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
2017-01-01
Publication
Review article about Gateway reflex has been accepted in Clin Exp Neuroimmunol.
2016-12-05
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar in the 45th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Immunology (Prof. Murakami)
2016-12-01
Information
Dr Arima won a research grant from the Japanese Brain foundation.
2016-12-01
Information
Dr Arima won a research grant for the Uehara Memorial Foundation.
2016-12-01
Information
Dr Tanaka won a reesarch grant from the Takeshi Nagao Nambyo Fundation
2016-11-30
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar in Saitama Medical University (Prof. Murakami)
2016-11-25
Lecture / Presentation
Special seminar in the Kyoto Cornea Club (Prof. Murakami)
2016-11-24
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar in Wakayama Medical University (Prof. Murakami)
2016-11-16
Seminar
Prof. Yosuke Takahama (Experimental Immunology, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokushima University)
2016-11-01
Information
Prof Murakami was appointed as an Associate Editor of the International Immunology.
2016-11-01
Information
Lecturer Kamimura won a research grant for eye disease from Novartis.
2016-10-26
Seminar
Dr. Norifumi Iijima(National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition)
2016-10-15
Lecture / Presentation
Research presentation in the 49th Pathology meeting (Dr Arima, et al.)
2016-10-14
Lecture / Presentation
Educational lecture in the Japan College of Rheumatology, Basic Research Conference (Prof. Murakami)
2016-10-01
Information
Dr Arima won a research grant from the Kanae Foundation.
2016-10-01
Information
Lecturer Kamimura won a research grant for the Yasuda Memorial Medical Foundation.
2016-10-01
Information
Review article about gateway reflexes is in press in the Nutrition and Lifestyle in Neurological Autoimmune Diseases.
2016-10-01
Information
Lecturer Kamimura won a research grant for the Suhara Memorial Foundation.
2016-09-26
Lecture / Presentation
Presentation in the 13th International Congress of neuroimmunology (Lecturer Kamimura)
2016-09-25
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar in the 89th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society (Prof. Murakami)
2016-08-21
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar in the International Congress of Immunology 2016 (Prof. Murakami)
2016-08-07
Lecture / Presentation
Lecture in the “Immunity, Mystery and Future 2016”(Prof. Murakami)
2016-08-01
Information
Information about Kdelr1 KO mice was registered in the Mouse Genome Informatics.
2016-08-01
Publication
Research paper about new role of BCR in the inflammation amplifier activation is accepted in J. Immunol.
2016-08-01
Information
Prof Murakami gave a public lecture at “Immunity, Mystery and Future 2016” sponsored by Japanese Society of Immunology.
2016-07-17
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar in the 1st Japanese School of Neuroimmunology Symposium (Prof. Murakami)
2016-06-20
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar in the Sanofi Lecture Meeting (Prof. Murakami)
2016-06-16
Lecture / Presentation
Lecture in the Chugai Pharma Opinion Exchange Seminar (Prof. Murakami)
2016-06-07
Lecture / Presentation
Lecture in the 1st Gastroenterology Seminar (Prof. Murakami)
2016-06-01
Information
Review article about the gateway reflexes is published in the Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience E-book ”Glial Cells: Managers of Neuro-immunity”.
2016-05-31
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar in the Senri Life science seminar (Prof. Murakami)
2016-05-01
Information
Review article about the gateway reflexes is published in the Medical Science Digest.
2016-04-22
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar in the 39th Meeting of Peripheral Nerves (Prof. Murakami)
2016-04-01
Information
Prof. Murakami was appointed as the director of the Institute for Genetic Medicine.

FY2015

2016-03-07
Lecture / Presentation
The inter-department symposium at Hokkaido University (Prof. Murakami)
2016-03-06
Lecture / Presentation
Lifelong education lecture in the Japanese Society of Neurology, Hokkaido Branch (Prof. Murakami)
2016-03-01
Information
Japanese review article about possibility of disease treatment and prevention by inflammation amplifier and gateway reflex has been published in the BIO Ex-press journal.
2016-03-01
Information
Japanese review article about blood vessel gateway formation by neural signals was published in the special issue of neural immune crosstalk in the Saishin-Igaku.
2016-03-01
Information
Research about link between TCR-mediated signal and cellular stress has been selected as Featured article in the-03 issue of Int Immunol.
2016-02-25
Lecture / Presentation
The India-Japan SICP Symposium (Prof. Murakami, Postdoc AK Singh)
2016-02-22
Lecture / Presentation
Special seminar at Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University (Prof. Murakami)
2016-02-06
Lecture / Presentation
The 2nd Pathogenesis Meeting Beppu Symposium (Lecturer Kamimura)
2016-02-01
Information
Prof. Murakami was introduced in the special topic "Face" of the Hokkaido Medical Newspaper.
2016-02-01
Information
Assistant Prof. Atsumi won the Best Presentation Award in the Cytokine and chemokine category at 44th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Immunology.
2016-02-01
Information
Review article about a role for growth factors in inflammation amplifier has been published in Crit Rev Immunol.
2016-01-01
Information
Prof Murakami's comment about inflammation and stresses appeared in newspaper by the Hokkaido Shimbun Press.
2015-12-18
Lecture / Presentation
Symposium about "Infectiona, Immunity, Inflammation, Tumorigenesis" at Hokkaido University (Prof. Murakami)
2015-12-12
Lecture / Presentation
Lecture at the Advans Meeting (Prof. Murakami)
2015-12-04
Lecture / Presentation
Special lecture about new topics about immunological research at Toho University, Graduate School of Medicine (Prof. Murakami)
2015-12-01
Information
Our research proposal using the Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” in International Space Station was accepted by JAXA.
2015-12-01
Information
Prof. Murakami won a grant from the Uehara Memorial Foundation.
2015-12-01
Publication
Review article about a link between TCR-mediated signal and cellular stress has been accepted in Frontiers in Immunology.
2015-11-25
Lecture / Presentation
Symposium at the BMB2015 (Prof. Murakami)
2015-11-25
Lecture / Presentation
Special lecture at the retreat of Tokushima University (Prof. Murakami)
2015-11-20
Seminar
Dr. Eric S. Huseby(Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)
2015-11-19
Lecture / Presentation
Symposium at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Immunology (Prof. Murakami)
2015-11-06
Lecture / Presentation
Life science in the brain (Prof. Murakami)
2015-11-01
Information
Lecturer Kamimura won a grant from the Suzuken Memorial Foundation.
2015-10-29
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar at Tohoku University, Graduate School of Medicine (Prof. Murakami)
2015-10-23
Seminar
Prof. Masanori Hatakeyama (Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
2015-10-19
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar at Osaka University (Prof. Murakami)
2015-10-03
Lecture / Presentation
Symposium at the 34th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Dementia Research (Prof. Murakami)
2015-10-01
Information
Assistant Prof. Arima won a grant from the Japan Multiple Sclerosis Society.
2015-10-01
Publication
Research about link between TCR-mediated signal and cellular stress has been accepted in International Immunology.
2015-09-25
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar at the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company (Prof. Murakami)
2015-09-18
Lecture / Presentation
Seminar at the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo (Prof. Murakami)
2015-09-14
Lecture / Presentation
Bridging clinical and basic aspects of IL-6 (Prof. Murakami)
2015-09-05
Lecture / Presentation
Walk Again 2015 in Sapporo Symposium (Prof. Murakami)
2015-09-01
Information
Graduate student Kotaro Higuchi (M2) received the Otowa Hiroji Scholarship Fund from Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine.
2015-09-01
Information
Collaborative research with Osaka University Health care center has been published in Scientific Reports.
2015-09-01
Publication
Review article about the mechanism of pain-induced relapse of multiple sclerosis model has been accepted in Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology.
2015-09-01
Information
Review article about the pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis will be published from Elsevier.
2015-08-26
Seminar
Dr. Naoyuki Sato (Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University)
2015-08-25
Lecture / Presentation
The 3rd Kagoshima Immune-mediated Neurological Disease Symposium (Prof. Murakami)
2015-08-19
Seminar
Prof. Satoshi Yamada (Department of Inteligent Mechanical Engineering, Ukayama University of Science)
2015-07-30
Lecture / Presentation
Lecture in the Program for Leading Graduate School in Osaka University (Prof. Murakami)
2015-07-23
Lecture / Presentation
International Symposium of the Institute Network (Prof. Murakami)
2015-07-09
Lecture / Presentation
The 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japan Atherosclerosis Society (Prof. Murakami)
2015-07-06
Lecture / Presentation
Strategic Project Symposium 2015 (Prof. Murakami)
2015-07-01
Publication
Research about a mechanism by which pain induces relapse of a CNS disease has been accepted in eLife.
2015-07-01
Publication
Review article about T cell-glia interaction in CNS disease has been accepted in FrFrontiers in Cellular Neuroiscience.
2015-06-17
Information
Research about a mechanism by which T cells can avoid stresses has been published in Nature Communications.
2015-06-10
Lecture / Presentation
NCNP Neuroimmunology international symposium (Prof. Murakami)
2015-06-05
Seminar
Prof. Shizuo Akira (Director, WPI Immunology Frontier Reasearch Center, Osaka University)
2015-06-05
Seminar
Prof. Shimon Sakaguchi (Experimental Immunology, WPI Immunology Frontier Reasearch Center, Osaka University)
2015-06-01
Information
Prof. Murakami won a research grant from the Mitsubishi Foundation.
2015-05-22
Seminar
Prof. Toru Nakano (Dean ,Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences Osaka University)
2015-05-13
Seminar
Prof. Tamotsu Yoshimori (Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University )
2015-05-01
Information
Collaborative research with Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine has been published in PNAS.
2015-04-01
Information
Review article about neural reflex signaling, supervised by Prof Murakami, has been published in Scientific American (Japanese version).
2015-04-01
Information
Acquisition of KAKENHI grant FY2015
2015-04-01
Lecture / Presentation
Special lecture in Department of Dermatology, Hokkaido University (Prof. Murakami)

FY2014

2015-03-28
Lecture / Presentation
Meeting for nerve and immunity (Prof. Murakami)
2015-03-27
Lecture / Presentation
The 39th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Lymphology (Prof. Murakami)
2015-03-23
Information
Website has been redesigned.
2015-03-22
Lecture / Presentation
The 120th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Anotomists, and the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan (Prof. Murakami)
2015-03-01
Information
Prof. Murakami has been appointed as an editorial member of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group).
2015-03-01
Publication
Collaboration with Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine has been accepted in Arthritis & Rheumatology.
2015-02-23
Lecture / Presentation
Keio University Clinical Science Club<br>Center for Integrated Medical Research, Keio University, Tokyo Shin-Tekijuku &ldquo;Challenges for incurable diseases” (Prof. Murakami)
2015-02-17
Lecture / Presentation
Diabetes Therapeutic Strategy Seminar for Researchers (Prof. Murakami)
2015-02-04
Lecture / Presentation
Super-global symposium on Sjogren's syndrome and autoimmunity (Prof. Murakami)
2015-02-01
Publication
Review article about the Gateway reflex has been accepted in Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology.
2015-01-31
Lecture / Presentation
Pathogenesis Meeting Beppu Symposium (Prof. Murakami)
2015-01-10
Lecture / Presentation
Hokkaido Urology Week Point Forum (Prof. Murakami)
2014-11-01
Publication
Study about growth factors and their involvement in the inflammation amplifier has been accepted in Journal of Immunology.
2014-10-09
Seminar
Prof. Naoto Ishii (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine)
2014-10-01
Publication
Review article about the Gateway reflex has been accepted in Journal of Biochemistry.
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