and More

2025/10/03

Kita-san received the Oral Presentation Award and Asano-san received the Poster Award at the 17th Autophagy Research Meeting and the 2nd International Leading Research Retreat.

2025/06/20

Kita-san won an Poster Award at the BIO UT 2025

2025/02/19

Kobatake-san received the Excellent Poster Award at the 2024 ‘Medical Scientist Training Program’ Retreat

2025/02/06

Recruitment of graduate students

2024/11/20

Prof. Mizushima has been recognized as Web of Science, Highly Cited Researchers in 2024 (11th consecutive year).

2024/10/18

Dr. Hayashi won an Excellent Poster Award at the 16th Autophagy Research Meeting for Young Scientists

2024/07/19

Jing Zhang-san won the Best Student Poster Presentation Award at The 76th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Cell Biology

2024/07/06

Cantona-san won the Best Poster Award at WINGS LST general meeting

2024/02/16

Yamaguchi-san received the Best Poster Abstract Award at the 2023 ‘Medical Scientist Training Program’ Retreat

2023/12/24

Kanda-san won the MBSJ2023 Best Science Pitch Award at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan

2023/12/01

Dr. Eguchi won the Best Presentation Award at the 15th Autophagy Research Meeting for Young Scientists

2023/11/20

Prof. Mizushima have been recognized as Web of Science, Highly Cited Researchers in 2023 (10th straight year).

2023/11/20

Kanda-san, Okawa-san and Nagashima-san won Young Scientists Presentation Award of Excellence at the 96rd Annual Meeting of Japanese Biochemical Society

2023/11/20

Dr. Eguchi won the EMBO reports poster prize at the EMBO COB Workshop on Membrane shaping and remodeling by proteins in Kunming

2023/06/23

Prof. Mizushima awarded inaugural Beth Levine, M.D. Prize in Autophagy Research

and More

2025/09/17

Evolutionary diversification of the autophagy initiation complex: reduced Atg101 dependency and changes in Atg9 binding to Atg13

2025/03/18

Optogenetic tools for inducing organelle membrane rupture (Nagashima et al. J Biol Chem.)

2024/10/25

Autophagy adaptors mediate Parkin-dependent mitophagy by forming sheet-like liquid condensates (Yang et al. EMBO J)

2024/09/17

Organelle landscape analysis using a multi-parametric particle-based method (Kurikawa, Honda et al. PLoS Biol.)

2024/06/05

Syntaxin 17 recruitment to mature autophagosomes is temporally regulated by PI4P accumulation (Shinoda et al. eLife)

2024/01/04

Experimental determination and mathematical modeling of standard shapes of forming autophagosomes (Sakai et al., Nat. Commun.)

2023/08/18

TAX1BP1 recruits ATG9 vesicles through SCAMP3 binding (Hama et al. bioRxiv)

2023/07/06

Comprehensive analysis of autophagic functions of WIPI family proteins and their implications for the pathogenesis of β-propeller associated neurodegeneration (Shimizu et al., Hum Mol Genet.)

2023/06/28

Unique amphipathic α helix drives membrane insertion and enzymatic activity of ATG3 (Nishimura et al., Sci Adv.)

2023/03/03

The pH-sensing Rim101 pathway regulates cell size in budding yeast

2022/12/22

Quantitative 3D correlative light and electron microscopy of organelle association during autophagy (Takahashi et al., Cell Struct Funct.)

2022/09/06

Ubiquitination of phosphatidylethanolamine in organellar membranes (Sakamaki et al., Mol. Cell)

2022/08/31

NCOA4 drives ferritin phase separation to facilitate macroferritinophagy and microferritinophagy（大島 et al., J. Cell Biol.）

2022/08/16

A pulse-chasable reporter processing assay for mammalian autophagic flux with HaloTag (Yim et al., eLife)

2022/04/20

Evolutionary diversification of the autophagy-related ubiquitin-like conjugation systems (Zhang et al., Autophagy)

and More

2025/01/29

Autophagic flux measurement: cargo degradation versus generation of degradation products (Mizushima, Curr Opin Cell Biol.)

2023/04/28

Ubiquitination of non-protein substrates (Sakamaki and Mizushima, Trends Cell Biol.)

2023/01/13

Autophagy genes in biology and disease (Yamamoto, Zhang et al., Nat Rev Genet.)

2022/05/25

Transient visit of STX17 (syntaxin 17) to autophagosomes (Koyama-Honda and Mizushima, Autophagy)

2022/02/03

Regulation of ER-derived membrane dynamics by the DedA domain-containing proteins VMP1 and TMEM41B (Hama, Morishita et al., EMBO Rep.)

2021/07/11

Breakthroughs and bottlenecks in autophagy research (Mizushima, et al., Trends Mol Med)

2021/07/01

The evolution of autophagy proteins – diversification in eukaryotes and potential ancestors in prokaryotes (Zhang, et al., J Cell Sci)

2020/10/15

Autophagy in human diseases (*Mizushima, N., Levine, B. , N. Engl. J. Med, 2020)

2020/08/22

Beth Levine 1960-2020 (Simon et al. Nat Cell Biol. 2020)

2020/08/21

Autophagy assays for biological discovery and therapeutic development (Mizushima et al. Trends Biochem Sci. 2020)

2020/03/02

ER-phagy: Quality control and turnover of endoplasmic reticulum (Chino et al., Trends Cell Biol)

2020/02/11

Lysosome biology in autophagy (Yim et al., Cell Discov)

2019/12/31

The ATG conjugation systems in autophagy (Mizushima, Curr Opin Cell Biol)

2019/10/06

Diverse cellular roles of autophagy (Morishita et al., Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol)

2019/09/15

The ubiquitin E2 enzyme UBE2QL1 mediates lysophagy (Mizushima, EMBO Rep)