Welcome to Azusa Inoue Lab at RIKEN at Yokohama, Japan. We are studying egg-mediated epigenetic inheritance in mammals. Please contact me if you are interested in joining us. *There is NO open position for short-term internship students.

*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

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...

Nov 26, 2024
Dr. Oliver Rando at UMass visited us and discuss something exciting!

Nov 13, 2024
Dr. Nicola Iovino at Max Planck Institute visited us and hold a mini-symposium with Drs. Bing Zhu and Danny Leung!

Nov 5, 2024
Publication & Research sections were updated. A PhD student, Masahiro Matsuwaka, published his debut paper in Nat Cell Biol. Big congratulations! Photo with figure-painted mugs!

Upcoming events

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 a 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 a talk at the 2nd Webinar of the Japanese Society for Epigenetics.

Sep 4, 2025
Inoue gives a talk at the University of Osaka Graduate School of Medicine Faculty of Medicine.

Aug 6, 2025
Inoue gives a talk at the RIKEN Cross-Center Seminar Series at RIKEN BDR.

July 16-18, 2025
Fukushima gives two talks at the Japanese Developmental Biology and Cell Biology joint symposium at Nagoya.

July 8-11, 2025
Inoue gives a talk at the 53rd Naito Conference 'Germ Cell Biology" at Sapporo.

June 25-26, 2025
Inoue, Matsuwaka, Fukushima give talks at the next-generation developmental engineering consortium at Kyoto.

June 19-20, 2025
Fukushima gives a talk at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Epigenetics at Fukui.

June 5-6, 2025
Inoue give a talk at the 2nd annual meeting of FOREST at Kyoto.

Apr 27-May 2, 2025
Inoue gives a talk and Matsuwaka and Fukushima give posters at the Gordon Research Conference on Germinal Stem Cell Biology at Barcelona, Spain.

Apr 24, 2025
Inoue gives a talk at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics at Freiburg, Germany.

Mar 8, 2025
Kozuka gives a talk at the 28th Adiposcience symposium at Osaka.

Mar 6-8, 2025
Inoue gives a talk and Matsuwaka presents a poster at the Totipotency & 5th Germ Cell research joint symposium at Mishima.

Jan 16-17, 2025
Inoue give talks at annual meeting of AMED Early Life at Fukuoka

Dec 17, 2024
Inoue give talks at the 1st annual meeting of FOREST at Tokyo

Nov 27-29, 2024
Matsuwaka, Fukushima, and Inoue give talks and Inoue organizes a workshop at the 47th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Molecular Biology

Nov 20-22, 2024
Inoue gives a talk at the 5th KEY Forum & The 39 International Kumamoto Medical Bioscience Symposium at Kumamoto

Nov 13, 2024
Inoue organizes RIKEN IMS Chromatin & Transcription symposium 2024 and Mei gives a talk at RIKEN IMS

Nov 11-12, 2024
Inoue gives a talk and Matsuwaka presents a poster at International Symposium: The 3D genome at RIKEN BDR

Sep 8, 2024
Inoue gives a talk at the 8th ART Japan Reproductive Medicine Workshop at Tokyo.

June 13-14, 2024
Matsuwaka gives a talk and poster and Fukushima presents a poster at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Epigenetics at Osaka

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