RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research Laboratory for Animal Resources and Genetic Engineering
Team Leader: Hiroshi Kiyonari (Ph.D.)
Research Summary
Our major mission is to support a wide variety of needs in laboratory animal experiments at RIKEN Kobe Campus by providing animal housing services, technical assistance and technology development in genetics and reproductive biology. Additionally, we provide education and training of personnel to ensure proper conduct of animal experiments. In recent years, we are developing new laboratory animal models, such as Gekko, Suncus and Opossum. With the expertise in advanced developmental engineering and reproductive technology, our unit closely collaborates with Genetic Engineering Team to generate and distribute genetically engineered mice for research labs in RIKEN institutes and centers, as well as those in a larger domestic and international biomedical research communities.
Main Research Fields
- Molecular Biology & Genetics
Related Research Fields
- Biology & Biochemistry
- Neuroscience & Behavior
Research Subjects
- Advancement of technologies in reproductive biology
- In vitro development of early mouse embryos
Selected Publications
- 1.Nakao, H., Harada, T., Nakao, K., Kiyonari, H., Inoue, K., Furuta, Y., and Aiba, A.:
"A possible aid in targeted insertion of large DNA elements by CRISPR/Cas in mouse zygotes."
Genesis, 54(2):65-77, 2016. - 2.Yoshida, M., Kajikawa, E., Kurokawa, D., Tokunaga, T., Onishi, A., Yonemura, S., Kobayashi, K., Kiyonari, H., and Aizawa, S.:
"Conserved and divergent expression patterns of markers of axial development in eutherian mammals."
Dev. Dyn., 245(1): 67-86, 2016. - 3.Hara, Y., Tatsumi, K., Yoshida, M., Kajikawa, E., Kiyonari, H., and Kuraku, S.:
"Optimizing and benchmarking de novo transcriptome sequencing: from library preparation to assembly evaluation."
BMC Genomics, 16(1):977, 2015. - 4.Popov, L.M., Marceau, C.D., Starkl, P.M., Lumb, J.H., Shah, J., Guerrera, D. Cooper, R.L., Merakou. C., Bouley. D.M., Meng, W., Kiyonari, H., Takeichi, M., Galli, S.J., Bagnoli, F., Citi, S., Carette, J.E., and Amieva, M.R.:
"The adherens junctions control susceptibility to Staphylococcus aureus α-toxin."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 112(46): 14337-14342, 2015. - 5.Hirate, Y., Hirahara, S., Inoue, K., Kiyonari, H., Niwa, H., and Sasaki, H.:
"Par-aPKC-dependent and -independent mechanisms cooperatively control cell polarity, Hippo signaling, and cell positioning in 16-cell stage mouse embryos."
Dev. Growth Differ., 57(8): 544-556, 2015. - 6.Katayama, A., Nakatsuka, A., Eguchi, J., Murakami, K., Teshigawara, S., Kanzaki, M., Nunoue, T., Hida, K., Wada, N., Yasunaka, T., Ikeda, F., Takaki, A., Yamamoto, K., Kiyonari, H., Makino, H., and Wada, J.:
"Beneficial impact of Gpnmb and its significance as a biomarker in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis."
Sci. Rep., 5:16920, 2015. - 7.Imai, Y., Kobayashi, Y., Inoshita, T., Meng, H., Arano, T., Uemura, K., Asano, T., Yoshimi, K., Zhang, CL., Matsumoto, G., Ohtsuka, T., Kageyama, R., Kiyonari, H., Shioi, G., Nukina, N., Hattori, N., and Takahashi, R.:
"The Parkinson's Disease-Associated Protein Kinase LRRK2 Modulates Notch Signaling through the Endosomal Pathway."
PLoS Genet., 11(9): e1005503, 2015. - 8.Nakatsu, Y., Iwashita, M., Sakoda, H., Ono, H., Nagata, K., Matsunaga, Y., Fukushima, T., Fujishiro, M., Kushiyama, A., Kamata, H., Takahashi, S., Katagiri, H., Honda, H., Kiyonari, H., Uchida, T., and Asano, T.:
"Prolyl isomerase Pin1 negatively regulates AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) by associating with the CBS domain in the γ subunit."
J. Biol. Chem., 290(40): 24255-24266, 2015. - 9.Kurimoto, K., Yabuta, Y., Hayashi, K., Ohta, H., Kiyonari, H., Mitani, T., Moritoki, Y., Kohri, K., Kimura, H., Yamamoto, T., Katou, Y., Shirahige, K., and Saitou, M.:
"Quantitative Dynamics of Chromatin Remodeling during Germ Cell Specification from Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells."
Cell Stem Cell. 16(5): 517-532, 2015. - 10.Lee, M.S., Hwang, K.S., Oh, H.W., Ji-Ae, K., Kim, H.T., Cho, H.S., Lee, J.J., Yeong Ko, J., Choi, J.H., Jeong, Y.M., You, K.H., Kim, J., Park, D.S., Nam, K.H., Aizawa, S., Kiyonari, H., Shioi, G., Park, J.H., Zhou, W., Kim, N.S., and Kim, C.H.:
"IFT46 plays an essential role in cilia development."
Dev. Biol. 400(2): 248-257, 2015.
Recent Research Results
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Jul. 22, 2021
Genome editing meets marsupials
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Hiroshi Kiyonari
- Team Leader
Core members
- Takaya Abe
- Technical Scientist
- Kenichi Inoue
- Expert Technician
- Mayo Shigeta
- Expert Technician
- Mari Kaneko
- Technical Staff
- Miho Sato
- Technical Staff
- Aki Shiraishi
- Technical Staff
- Tomoko Tokunaga
- Technical Staff
- Tomoko Tokuhara
- Technical Staff
- Arisa Tobe
- Technical Staff
- Kohei Nakano
- Technical Staff
- Miwako Nomura
- Technical Staff
- Kana Bando
- Technical Staff
- Michiko Higashikawa
- Technical Staff
- Daisuke Yamamoto
- Technical Staff
- Riko Yoshimi
- Technical Staff
- Megumi Watase
- Technical Staff
- Masayo Okugawa
- Assistant
Contact Information
2-2-3 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku
Kobe, Hyogo
650-0047 Japan
Email: hkiyo [at] cdb.riken.jp