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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 the Azusa Inoue's Lab at RIKEN at Yokohama, Japan. We are studying oocyte-mediated maternal epigenetic inheritance in mammals.
As of September 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
Sep 18-21, 2026
We hold joint lab activities with the Falong Lu Lab (CAS at Beijing) and the Wei Xie Lab (Tsinghua Univ). Very much fun!!
Sep 1, 2026
Hailiang Mei moved to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science & Technology as a young PI. Congratulations! We miss you...
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!
Upcoming events
Oct 21-22, 2026
Fukushima gives an invited talk at NGS EXPO 2026 in Nara
Oct 6-10, 2026
Inoue gives an invited talk at Cold Spring Harbor Meeting -Germ Cell- at Yew York.
Sep 18-21, 2026
Mei, Matsuwaka, and Inoue give talks in joint lab activity with the Falong Lu Lab (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and the Wei Xie Lab (Tsinghua Univ) in Beijing.
July 16-17, 2026
Inoue give a talk at the Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research (Loke CTR) conference at Univ Cambridge in UK.
July 15, 2026
Inoue give a seminar at the Francis Crick Institute in UK.
July 14, 2026
Inoue give a talk at the Imperial College London in UK.
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.
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