Medical Sciences Innovation Hub Program Health Data Deep Learning Team
Team Leader: Jun Seita (M.D., Ph.D.)
Research Summary

Main Research Fields
- Complex Systems
Related Research Fields
- Informatics
- Biological Sciences
- Biology
- Medicine, Dentistry & Pharmacy
Selected Publications
Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.
- 1.
Koga T, Ema R, Hirose K, Seita J.:
"Human and GAN collaboration to create haute couture dress."
Machine Learning for Creativity and Design Workshop at NeurIPS 2019. - 2.
Nonaka H, Seita J.:
"Demographic Information Initialized Stacked Gated Recurrent Unit for an Early Prediction of Sepsis."
PhysioNet Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2019 - 3.
Koga T, Nonaka N, Sakuma J, Seita J.:
"General-to-Detailed GAN for Infrequent Class Medical Images."
Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) Workshop at NeurIPS 2018. - 4.
Rosental B, Kowarsky M, Seita J, Corey DM, Ishizuka KJ, Palmeri KJ, Chen SY, Sinha R, Okamoto J, Mantalas G, Manni L, Raveh T, Clarke DN, Tsai JM, Newman AM, Neff NF, Nolan GP, Quake SR, Weissman IL, Voskoboynik A.:
"Complex mammalian-like haematopoietic system found in a colonial chordate."
Nature. 2018 Dec 5. - 5.
Tsai JM, Sinha R, Seita J, Fernhoff N, Christ S, Koopmans T, Krampitz GW, McKenna KM, Xing L, Sandholzer M, Sales JH, Shoham M, McCracken M, Joubert LM, Gordon SR, Poux N, Wernig G, Norton JA, Weissman IL, Rinkevich Y.:
"Surgical adhesions in mice are derived from mesothelial cells and can be targeted by antibodies against mesothelial markers."
Sci Transl Med. 2018 Nov 28;10(469) - 6.
Chan C, Gulati G, Sinha R, Tompkins J, Lopez M, Carter A, Ransom R, Reinisch A, Wearda T, Murphy M, Brewer R, Koepke L, Marecic O, Manjunath A, Seo EY, Leavitt T, Lu WJ, Nguyen A, Conley S, Salhotra A, Ambrosi T, Borrelli M, Siebel T, Chan K, Schallmoser K, Seita J, Sahoo D, Goodnough H, Bishop J, Gardner M, Majeti R, Wan D, Goodman S, Weissman IL, Chang H, Longaker M.:
"Identification of the Human Skeletal Stem Cell."
Cell 2018 Sep 20; 175(1): 43-56. - 7.
*Seita J*, Beerman I*, Inlay M, Weissman IL, Rossi DJ.:
"Quiescent hematopoietic stem cells accumulate DNA damage during aging that is repaired upon entry into cell cycle."
Cell Stem Cell 2014 Jul 3;15(1) - 8.
*Seita J, Sahoo D, Rossi DJ, Battacharya D, Serwold T, Inlay MA, Ehrlich LIR, Fathman JW, Dill DL, Weissman IL.:
"Gene Expression Commons: an open platform for absolute gene expression profiling."
PLoS ONE 2012;7(7) - 9.
*Seita J* , Ji H*, Ehrlich LI* (equal contribution), Murakami P, Doi A, Lindau P, Lee H, Aryee MJ, Irizarry RA, Kim K, Rossi DJ, Inlay MA, Serwold T, Karsunky H, Ho L, Daley GQ, Weissman IL, Feinberg AP.:
"Comprehensive methylome map of lineage commitment from haematopoietic progenitors."
Nature. 2010 Sep 16;467(7313) - 10.
*Kim K, Doi A, Wen B, Ng K, Zhao R, Cahan P, Kim J, Aryee MJ, Ji H, Ehrlich LI, Yabuuchi A, Takeuchi A, Cunniff KC, Hongguang H, McKinney-Freeman S, Naveiras O, Yoon TJ, Irizarry RA, Jung N, Seita J, Hanna J, Murakami P, Jaenisch R, Weissleder R, Orkin SH, Weissman IL, Feinberg AP, Daley GQ.:
"Epigenetic memory in induced pluripotent stem cells."
Nature. 2010 Sep 16:467 (7313)
Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Jun Seita
- Team Leader
Core members
- Nami Saito
- Senior Scientist
- Naoki Nonaka
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Munetomo Takahashi
- Research Part-time Worker II
- Arisa Kono
- Research Part-time Worker II
- Takashi Yamanashi
- Research Part-time Worker II
- Kiyoyasu Fukuchi
- Research Part-time Worker II
- Kanta Suga
- Research Part-time Worker II
- Monami Nishio
- Research Part-time Worker II
- Ai Miyasaka
- Student Trainee
- Kosuke Kato
- Student Trainee
- Atsushi Senda
- Student Trainee
Contact Information
Email: jun.seita [at] riken.jp