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NIG Postdoc Fellow
This is about annual calls of NIG Postdoctoral Fellow . It is a 3-year, NIG-funded program, and the deadline is normally set in early...
Shigehiro Kuraku
May 15


Upcoming events
Here are planned presentations at international conferences about the main projects of our lab. Oral presentation 'Unraveling shark and...
Shigehiro Kuraku
May 15


Data release
Writing just in case. We're releasing several elasmobranch genome assemblies alongside manuscript preparation. While we expect these...
Shigehiro Kuraku
Feb 26


JSPS Fellowship
The national funding agency for academic research of Japan, JSPS, has announced the call for the 'short-term' category of its fellowship...
Shigehiro Kuraku
Sep 2, 2024


NIG-GS, etc.
Here are some opportunities to work with us at NIG. Please feel free to contact Shigehiro Kuraku for any aplication ideas. NIG Global...
Shigehiro Kuraku
Jul 5, 2024


Genome size or assembly size?
I cannot warn of the confusion about the difference between genome size and assembly size too much. Sequencing just gives you the total...
Shigehiro Kuraku
Jun 17, 2024


For medaka fish
Our lab is a part of the Japan's domestic circle for supporting medaka biology, called National Bioresource Project (NBRP). For this...
Shigehiro Kuraku
May 21, 2024


Elephant 'shark'?
The species Callorhinchus milii is often referred to as 'elephant shark', but it does not belong to the bona fide taxonomic group of...
Shigehiro Kuraku
May 6, 2024


Conference talks 2024
Below you find opportunities of presentation at international conferences and workshops from our lab August 17-21, 2024 18th...
Shigehiro Kuraku
May 1, 2024


BUSCO or Compleasm?
I think many researchers overtrust completeness assessment scores given by BUSCO. To investigate this matter, we previously analyzed the...
Shigehiro Kuraku
Apr 30, 2024


Our aquarium tanks
Believe it or not, we, Kuraku Lab at National Institute of Genetics, maintain aquarium tanks hosting three shark species. Cloudy catshark...
Shigehiro Kuraku
Apr 30, 2024


Hidden paralogy
A review paper about very plastic repertories of the regulatory genes in vertebrate genomes (Nodal and Lefty) has been published in the...
Shigehiro Kuraku
Apr 29, 2024


Our accounts on X
Now posting after a long, long interval. Shamefully, there was no rountine to provide lab's news in this English version. Announcements...
Shigehiro Kuraku
Apr 26, 2024
Upcoming presentations
Here are some presentations about our activity, regarding shark genome analysis. October 3-7. Biodiversity Genomics 2022 Squalomix: shark...
Shigehiro Kuraku
Sep 2, 2022


Accepting NIGINTERN
Our lab is accepting students for NIGINTERN about which the application detail has been announced just today.
Shigehiro Kuraku
Nov 10, 2021


Troubles with Hi-C?
Our technical article on improving and controlling de novo genome sequencing has been published online in Molecular Ecology. In this...
Shigehiro Kuraku
Sep 11, 2021


Seminar at NIG
Our lab is hosting an online seminar by Dr. Yoichiro Nakatani (Osaka University) on September 22nd. Please find the detail at the...
Shigehiro Kuraku
Sep 6, 2021


Hiring an Assist. Prof.
An assistant professor position in our research group has been advertised . I emphasize that the organism (or the group of organisms)...
Shigehiro Kuraku
Jun 15, 2021


Euro-EvoDevo Conf
I read that the whole nation of Italy is turning into 'white' - I am writing about the level of COVID19 infection risk which was formerly...
Shigehiro Kuraku
May 26, 2021


Postdocs?
Our research group can host postdoctoral researchers funded by the institutional program NIG Postdoctoral Fellow 2022. The deadline for...
Shigehiro Kuraku
May 19, 2021
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