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Discovery by ITbM's Designated Associate Professor Yoshikatsu Sato's research group receives Nikon JOICO Award 2021.
The research group, led by Designated Associate Professor Sato alongside Nagisa Sugimoto of the ITbM Live Imaging Center and Dr. Kakishi Uno, an alumnus of the Itami Group, won the Nikon JOICO Award Special Prize for their discovery of Kakshine, a fluorescent DNA probe which allows for easy identification of three different genomes within cells - the nucleus, mitochondria and chloroplasts.
Official site (in Japanese) here
Read more about Kakshine here
The Nikon JOICO Award showcases the achievements of researchers working with microscopy at the highest level of Japanese science, celebrating microscopy not only as a science but as an art all of its own.
Related publication:
N-aryl pyrido cyanine derivatives are nuclear and organelle DNA markers for two-photon and super-resolution imaging.
Nature Communications 12: 2650 (2021)
Kakishi Uno, Nagisa Sugimoto and Yoshikatsu Sato
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23019-w
Press release:
https://www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en_backup/research/2021/05/post-33.php
2022-03-08