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Epigenetic Inheritance
Parental chromosomes in zygote
The beginning of life
Epigenetic Inheritance
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Laboratory for
Epigenome Inheritance
RIKEN IMS, Yokohama, Japan
Welcome to Azusa Inoue Lab at RIKEN at Yokohama, Japan. We are studying oocyte-mediated maternal epigenetic inheritance in mammals.
As of June 2026, we are hiring a postdoc researcher who has high self-motivation and strong research background in oocytes and/or epigenetics. Please contact me if you are interested in joining us.
*Click here to see the caption of the top slider illustration of two blue birds and a placental moon.
*A mouse is playing with a fertilized egg. This image represents our research goal that try to connect between environment and germline epigenome.
What's new
May 8, 2026
Publication was updated. Hailiang Mei's article was published in Mol Cell. Congratulations!
Apr 1, 2026
Hiroo Kawasaki joined our lab as a master's student.
Dec 26, 2025
Publication was updated. Chisayo Kozuka's review article was published in J Biochem. Congratulations!
Nov 6, 2025
RIKEN IMS Chromatin & Transcription symposium 2025 with Dr. Wei Xie at Tsinghua University. Thank you for coming and for the exciting discussion!
June 16, 2025
Publication was updated.
Hailiang Mei's H2A.Z study was published in Nat Struct Mol Biol. Hiroto Fukushima's fish ZGA study was published in Nat Commun. Congratulations!
Apr 24, 2025
Mini-symposium of Epigenetics in Early Development at Max Planck Institute, Freiburg, Germany. Thank you for this invitation!
Jan 14-15, 2025
Joint activity with Wei Xie's lab members! It was lots of fun! We can't wait for the next...
Upcoming events
Oct 21-22, 2026
Fukushima gives an invited talk at NGS EXPO 2026 in Nara
Jun 25-26, 2026
Fukushima and Inoue give invited talks and Matsuwaka gives a poster at The 16th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Epigenetics in Chiba.
June 18, 2026
Inoue give a talk at the 4th annual meeting of FOREST at Kurashiki.
June 18, 2026
Inoue give an invited lecture at IRCMS, Kumamoto Univ.
June 15-17, 2026
Sekioka, Matsukawa, Fukushima, and Kozuka give talks at the Young Researcher Meeting of Next-Generation Dev Biology at Beppu, Ooita.
Jun 4, 2026
We hold a kickoff meeting of RIKEN pioneering project "Transgenerational Biology" in IMS.
Jun 2-6, 2026
Kozuka gives an invited talk at The 22nd International Congress of Endocrinology in Kyoto.
May 18-22, 2026
Inoue gives a talk at Cold Spring Harbor Asia Epigenetics at Suzhou, China.
May 8, 2026
Inoue gives an invited lecture at Hamamatsu Med Univ.
Mar 10, 2026
Inoue gives a talk at The 103rd Annual Meeting of The Physiological Society of Japan in Tokyo.
Dec 8-9, 2025
Inoue gives a talk and Kozuka, Fukushima, Maemura, Matsuwaka and Sekioka give posters at Long-timescale Molecular Chronobiology Symposium 2025 at RIKEN Yokohama.
Dec 3-5, 2025
Maemura and Sekioka give posters at the 48th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Molecular Biology at Yokohama.
Nov 25-26, 2025
Inoue gives a talk and Matsuwaka presents a poster at International Symposium "Genome Architecture and Function" at RIKEN IMS.
Nov 21, 2025
Kozuka gives a poster at the 29th Interdisciplinary Exchange Evening at RIKEN Yokohama.
Nov 10-11, 2025
Inoue gives an invited talk at NIG Meetings at the National Institute of Genetics in Shizuoka.
Nov 6, 2025
Inoue organizes RIKEN IMS Chromatin & Transcription symposium 2025 and invited Dr. Wei Xie from Tsinghua University.
Matsuwaka, Mei and Fukushima give talks at RIKEN IMS.
Nov 3-5, 2025
Inoue and Kozuka give talks at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society at Kyoto.
Oct 20, 2025
Inoue gives an invited talk at the 2nd Webinar of the Japanese Society for Epigenetics.
Sep 4, 2025
Inoue gives an invited seminar at the University of Osaka Graduate School of Medicine Faculty of Medicine.
Aug 6, 2025
Inoue gives an invited seminar at the RIKEN Cross-Center Seminar Series at RIKEN BDR.
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