SATO Yuta
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
Investigation of Epigenetic Eraser
Department of Chemistry, Organic and Biological Chemistry
| Theme | Mechanism of heterochromatin formation by epigenetic erasers and its universality |
| Field | Cell biology, Molecular biology, Epigenetics, Bioimaging |
| Keyword | Heterochromatin, Epigenetics, Cell morphology, Cell motility |
Introduction of Research
Transcriptional gene switching is regulated by chemical modifications on histone proteins and/or DNA, that is, epigenetic marks. Not only gene-coding regions, higher chromatin structures such as pericentric heterochromatin are also regulated by the modifications. We now focus on Epigenetic erasers. So far, we have been studying epigenetics/chromatin using S. pombe; we started to use mammalian cells to investigate the importance of epigenetic erasers in broader life science.
Representative Achievements
| Academic degree | Ph. D |
| Self Introduction | I was born and grown in Sapporo. I was a student of Hokkaido University (2008-2019). After working at Niigata university for 1 year, I came back here. The main project was cytoskeleton-associated cell biology; now, I am challenging epigenetics. Cats. |
| Academic background | 2012 B.S., School of Science, Hokkaido University 2014 M.S., Graduate school of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University 2019 Ph.D., Graduate school of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University 2019 Project-assistant professor, Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Cell biology, Niigata University 2020- Project-assistant professor, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University |
| Affiliated academic society | Japan Society for Cell Biology, The Japanese Biochemical Society |
| Room address | Science Building 7 7-206 |
