Researchers

OKAMURA Daiji

OKAMURA Daiji
Associate Professor
Faculty Department of Advanced Bioscience / Graduate School of Agriculture
Researchmap https://researchmap.jp/DJepi

Education and Career

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Apr. 2025 - Today , Kindai University Faculty of Agriculture Department of Advanced Bioscience Associate Professor
  • Sep. 2024 - Today , UT Southwestern Medical Center Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2025 , Kindai University Faculty of Agriculture Department of Advanced Bioscience 講師
  • Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2015 , Salk Institute for biological studies Research Associate
  • Jan. 2005 - Mar. 2012 , Tohoku University Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer 助教
  • Apr. 2004 - Dec. 2004 , Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital Research Institute 病因病態部門 常勤研究員

Research Activities

Research Areas

  • Life sciences, Cell biology
  • Life sciences, Developmental biology

Research Interests

多能性幹細胞, iPS/ ES細胞, 骨格筋細胞, がん細胞, 無血清培地

Published Papers

  1. Unraveling mitochondrial influence on mammalian pluripotency via enforced mitophagy.
    Daniel A Schmitz; Seiya Oura; Leijie Li; Yi Ding; Rashmi Dahiya; Emily Ballard; Carlos Pinzon-Arteaga; Masahiro Sakurai; Daiji Okamura; Leqian Yu; Peter Ly; Jun Wu
    Cell  5, Jun. 2025  , Refereed
  2. LARP7 is required for sex chromosome silencing during meiosis in mice.
    Yukiko Tando; Atsuto Nonomura; Yumi Ito-Matsuoka; Asuka Takehara; Daiji Okamura; Yohei Hayashi; Yasuhisa Matsui
    PLOS ONE  19  (12)  , e0314329-, 5, Dec. 2024  , Refereed
  3. p38 MAPK as a gatekeeper of reprogramming in mouse migratory primordial germ cells
    Daiji Okamura; Aoi Kohara; Yuta Chigi; Tomoka Katayama; Jafar Sharif; Jun Wu; Yumi Ito-Matsuoka; Yasuhisa Matsui
    Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology  12  6, Jun. 2024  , Refereed

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MISC

  1. 血清の切り替えによる筋芽細胞の分化機構の解明 , 片山ともか; 岡村大治; 岡村大治 , 日本分子生物学会年会プログラム・要旨集(Web) , 47th , 2024
  2. Development of cultured meat technology to solve the problems in industrial livestock production (II) , 岡村大治 , 食肉に関する助成研究調査成果報告書 , 42 , 2024
  3. ケモカイン受容体CCR7シグナルに影響を与える大気微生物の探索 , 杉本叶多; 片山ともか; 岡村大治; 岡村大治; 牧輝弥; 牧輝弥; 早坂晴子; 早坂晴子; 早坂晴子 , 日本分子生物学会年会プログラム・要旨集(Web) , 47th , 2024

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Research Grants & Projects

  1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Study on the mechanism of histone H2A.Z remodeling and development of a novel reprogramming technology , Kindai University
  2. 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, コレステロール生合成阻害によるヒトiPS細胞の腫瘍形成リスク除去技術の確立 , 近畿大学
  3. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Establishment of ES cells derived from androgenic diploid embryos produced by interspecific sperm injection and induction of gametogenesis , Kindai University

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