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2026.07.10
I was invited to the 50th Anniversary International Symposium of the Radiation Biology Center at Kyoto University and gave a talk, entitled "Mechanisms underlying the maintenance of cancer-associated ecDNA".
2026.06.04
We invited Dr. John Maciejowski from MSKCC (US) to give a talk at the NIG Biological Symposium, entitled "Mechanisms of extrachromosomal DNA inheritance and chromosomal reintegration."
2026.05.29
We invited Dr. Angela Taddei from Institut Curie (France) to give a talk at the NIG Biological Symposium, entitled "Structure and Dynamics of the Rad51 Filament during Homology Search in Living Cells."
2025.12.04
I was invited to give a talk at the symposium "Exploring Chromosomal Diversity: Impact and Significance", organized by Tomonori Matsumoto (Osaka Univ.) and Minji Jo (JFCR).
2025.11.04
2025.11.2 I gave a talk on "Transcription-replication collision triggers extrachromosomal rDNA circles" at FUSION CONFERENCES on Extrachromosomal Circular DNA.
2025.10.27
Our paper was published in FEBS Letters, showing that reveals the function of a structure-specific nuclease Rad27 on rDNA stability.
2025.07.19
I gave a talk on "Collision between transcription and replication machineries triggers chromosomal and extrachromosomal rDNA copy number changes" at International Summer School on Genome Stability (Montpellier, France).
2025.06.19
I participated in the Cancer Grand Challenges Conference: Extrachromosomal DNA in London and gave a poster presentation.
2024.11.28
At the 47th Annual Meeting of the MBSJ, Sasaki gave a talk at the workshop, "The dynamic interplay between three-dimensional chromosome structure and gene regulation", organized by Kristian Jeppson and Takashi Fukaya at iQB at the Univ. of Tokyo.
2024.11.18
Sasaki gave a talk at the 12th 3R+3C International Symposium held in Fukuoka, Japan.
2024.09.04
Sasaki organized the Workshop "Large-scale chromosomal changes: how they occur and how cells respond to them" and gave an oral presentation at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Japan in Kochi.
2024.03.11
Sasaki was selected for research grant from Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research.
2023.10.11
Sasaki was selected for the Sumitomo Foundation's Grant for Basic Science Research Project.
2023.10.10
Sasaki gave a talk at the 2023 Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference on YEAST AND LIFE SCIENCES. I talked about the relationship between transcription, DNA replication fork arrest and DNA double-strand break repair.
2023.09.21
At the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association, Sasaki gave a talk about mechanisms underlying extrachromosomal circular DNA formation in budding yeast in the session on 'Control of the M phase and Chromosomal Instability'.
2023.09.07
Sasaki gave an oral presentation at the 95th Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Japan in Kumamoto.