15 August 2022

Summer Camp 2023

A group of medical students from Keio University visited OIST for a week. It was a great pleasure to have Kotone in our lab for several days. We performed live imaging experiments together to visualize the complex rearrangement of microtubules, centrosomes and DNA during cell division.

Student from Keio University with lab members in white coat

Kotone is setting up the next experiment — Kotone is setting up the next experiment.

Picture of Anna, Kotone, Franz in white coat — Anna, Kotone, Franz

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Cell Proliferation and Gene Editing Unit

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