Writing just in case. We're releasing several elasmobranch genome assemblies alongside manuscript preparation. While we expect these...

The national funding agency for academic research of Japan, JSPS, has announced the call for the 'short-term' category of its fellowship...

Here are some opportunities to work with us at NIG. Please feel free to contact Shigehiro Kuraku for any aplication ideas. NIG Global...

I cannot warn of the confusion about the difference between genome size and assembly size too much. Sequencing just gives you the total...

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

The species Callorhinchus milii is often referred to as 'elephant shark', but it does not belong to the bona fide taxonomic group of...

Below you find opportunities of presentation at international conferences and workshops from our lab August 17-21, 2024 18th...

I think many researchers overtrust completeness assessment scores given by BUSCO. To investigate this matter, we previously analyzed the...

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

A review paper about very plastic repertories of the regulatory genes in vertebrate genomes (Nodal and Lefty) has been published in the...

Now posting after a long, long interval. Shamefully, there was no rountine to provide lab's news in this English version. Announcements...

Here are some presentations about our activity, regarding shark genome analysis. October 3-7. Biodiversity Genomics 2022 Squalomix: shark...

Our lab is accepting students for NIGINTERN about which the application detail has been announced just today.

Our technical article on improving and controlling de novo genome sequencing has been published online in Molecular Ecology. In this...

Our lab is hosting an online seminar by Dr. Yoichiro Nakatani (Osaka University) on September 22nd. Please find the detail at the...

An assistant professor position in our research group has been advertised . I emphasize that the organism (or the group of organisms)...

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...

Our research group can host postdoctoral researchers funded by the institutional program NIG Postdoctoral Fellow 2022. The deadline for...

The home of the new lab is now opened to the public. Some parts are not tidy, but will be amended in due course.