News 2014

Dec. 18, 2014: Mr. Akira Yamaguchi, Junior Research Associate of the Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team, received the "Best Presentation Award of the 33rd Solid & Surface Photochemistry Conference"
Dec. 09, 2014: Dr. Yoichi Yamada, Deputy Team Leader of the Green Nanocatalysis Research Team, received the "Asian Core Program Lectureship Award"
Dec. 02, 2014: Mr. Yoshihide Mizukoshi, Part-time Worker, and Mr. Daisuke Kurauchi, Part-time Worker, of the Advanced Elements Chemistry Research Team, received the "CSJ Poster Presentation Award 2014 for Excellent Research"
Dec. 02, 2014: Mr. Hiroki Minami, Part-time Worker of the Advanced Elements Chemistry Research Team, received the "Poster Awards at the 61st Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry"
Dec. 02, 2014: Mr. Yuuta Sakai, Part-time Worker of the Advanced Elements Chemistry Research Team, received the "Best Poster Awards at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Iodine Science"
Nov. 28, 2014: Dr. Mikiko Sodeoka, Group Director of the Catalysis and Integrated Research Group, was selected as "AAAS Fellow"
Nov. 21, 2014: RIKEN Research Highlights published "Cutting cholesterol for safer potatoes"; an overview of recently published research by Metabolomics Research Group
Nov. 21, 2014: RIKEN Research Highlights published "Evolving the best body clock"; an overview of recently published research by Metabolome Informatics Research Team
Nov. 20, 2014: Dr. Ryuhei Nakamura, Team Leader, and Mr. Shogo Mori, Student Trainee of the Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team, received the "CSJ Poster Presentation Award 2014 for Excellent Research"
Nov. 10, 2014: Dr. Go Hirai, Senior Research Scientist of the Catalysis and Integrated Research Group, received "GlycoTOKYO2014 Incentive Award"
Oct. 24, 2014: RIKEN Research Feature Highlight published "Breaking bonds in benzene"; an overview of recently published research by Advanced Catalysis Research Group
Oct. 23, 2014: Dr. Zhaomin Hou, Group Dorector of the Advanced Catalysis Research Group, received "Negishi-Brown Lectures"
Oct. 22, 2014: Dr. Mitsunori Seo, Unit Leader of the Dormancy and Adaptation Research Unit, received "Japanese Society for Chemical Regulation of Plants (JSCRP) Young Investigator Award"
Oct. 22, 2014: Dr. Shinya Miyakawa, Student Trainee of the Dormancy and Adaptation Research Unit, received "Japanese Society for Chemical Regulation of Plants (JSCRP) Poster Award"
Oct. 17, 2014: Dr. Yuta Tabata, Junior Research Associate of the Bioplastic Research Team, received "SPSJ Symposium on Macromolecules Poster Award"
Oct. 10, 2014: Dr. Minami Matsui, Team Leader of the Synthetic Genomics Research Team, received "Technology Award Japanese Society of Plant Cell and Molecular Biology"
Oct. 06, 2014: Dr. Shaowei Hu, Postdoctor Researcher of the Advanced Catalysis Research Group, received "2014 Reaxys PhD Prize Finalists, Reed Elsevier Properties SA."
Oct. 01, 2014: Dr. Kazuo Shinozaki, Group Dorector, Miki Fujita, Research Scientist, Yasunari Fujita and Kazuko Shinozaki, Visiting Scientist of the Gene Discovery Research Group, received "Journal of Plant Research 2014 Most-cited Paper Award"
Oct. 01, 2014: The new laboratory; Plant Symbiosis Research Team has been launched.
Sep. 22, 2014: Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director of the Metabolomics Research Group, received "The PSJ Award"
Sep. 05, 2014: Dr. Munenori Kitagawa, Special Postdoctoral Researcher of the Plant Productivity Systems Research Group, received "EMBO Workshop Best Poster Award"
Sep. 05, 2014: RIKEN Research Highlights published "Paving the way for life on land"; an overview of recently published research by Cellulose Production Research Team
Sep. 04, 2014: Dr. Zhaomin Hou, Group Director of the Advanced Catalysis Research Group, received "Chinese Chemical Society Yao-Zeng Huang Award in Organometallic Chemistry"
Aug. 22, 2014: RIKEN Research Highlights published "Peering into plant cells"; an overview of recently published research by Gene Discovery Research Group
Aug. 08, 2014: RIKEN Research Highlights published "Bioinspired catalyst splits water"; an overview of recently published research by Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team
Aug. 01, 2014: RIKEN Research Highlights published "Boron takes both sides"; an overview of recently published research by Advanced Elements Chemistry Research Team
Jul. 25, 2014: RIKEN Research Online has published a RIKEN Perspectives overview of the background and activities of the CSRS
Jul. 02, 2014: Dr. Yoichi Yamada, Deputy Team Leader of the Green Nanocatalysis Research Team received "JST ACT-C the 3rd Meeting Best Presentation Award"
Jun. 17, 2014: CSRS researchers have been selected for Highly Cited Researchers 2014
Jun. 04, 2014: Dr. Endo Yoshinori, Postdoctoral Researcher of the Advanced Catalysis Research Group received "The 3rd Award for Encouragement of Research for Chemical Innovation"
Jun. 02, 2014: Dr. Keiji Numata, Team Leader of the Enzyme Research Team received "Award for Encouragement of Research in Polymer Science, the Society of Polymer Science, Japan" and "SPSJ Award for the Outstanding Paper in Polymer Journal sponsored by ZEON"
Apr. 15, 2014: Dr. Yasuhiro Uozumi, Team Leader of the Green Nanocatalysis Research Team received "The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Research Category)"
Apr. 09, 2014: Dr. Minoru Yoshida, Group Director of the Chemical Genomics Research Group received "The 3rd Takashi Tsuruo Award of the Japanese Association for Molecular Target Therapy of Cancer"
Apr. 09, 2014: Dr. Shunji Takahashi, Unit Leader of the Natural Product Biosynthesis Research Unit, received the "11th JSBBA Innovative Research Program Award of the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry"
Apr. 08, 2014: Dr. Kazuki Saito, Group Director and Dr. Shigehiko Kanaya, Senior Visiting Scientist of the Metabolomics Research Group, received the "JSPP Plant and Cell Physiology Award for the Paper of Excellence"
Mar.31, 2014: Dr. Kei Hashimoto, Technical Staff of the Gene Discovery Research Group, received the "PosterAward of the 38th Kanto Division Meeting of the Japanese Society of Microscopy"
Mar.19, 2014: Dr. Yoshihiro Sohtome, Research Scientist of the Catalysis and Integrated Research Group, received the "Eisai Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan"
Feb. 28, 2014: Celebrating three decades of partnership
Feb. 20, 2014: Dr. Masanobu Uchiyama, Team Leader of the Advanced Elements Chemistry Research Team, received the "SSOCJ Nissan Chemical hemical Industries Award for Novel Reaction & Method 2013"
Feb. 20, 2014: Dr. Go Hirai, Senior Research Scientist of the Catalysis and Integrated Research Group, received the " Incentive Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan"
Feb. 13, 2014: A Photo taken by Dr. Kiminori Toyooka, Senior Research Scientist of the Gene Discovery Research Group, was published in the EMBO Journal cover contest 2014 Gallery.
Jan. 08, 2014: Dr. Ryoung Shin, Unit Leader of the Regulatory Network Research Unit, received the "Young Principal Investigator (Scientist) Award"