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2023.04.01: Undergraduate students Risa Fukunaga, Nanaka Goya, Ryo Ikeyama, Daiki Matsunaga, Kazuma Nunogami and Yuujirou Sasamoto are joining the Sawa Laboratory. Welcome!

2023.03.31: Associate professor Masahiro Furutani, students Saki Gushino, Asuka Haraguchi, Chihiro Kanzaki, Masahiro Naoe, Naoki Wada, Yuuki Hachiya, Sena Harada, Shoto Machida and Haruka Nomura are leaving the Sawa Laboratory. Thank you very much for everything!

2024.02.15: Allen Yi-Lun Tsai, Nao Kaminoand Miku Tashiro were awarded the 2023 Well Seeds Foundtion Research Grants, congratulation!

2024.02.01: Manuscript "Dissection of the IDA promoter identifies WRKY transcription factors as abscission regulators in Arabidopsis" in collaboration with Prof. Melinka Butenko (University of Oslo) is published in J. Exp. Bot.

Photo credits: Reira Suzuki, Allen Yi-Lun Tsai

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