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11/08/2019 |
 We have had an interview from Rike-Lab for our work! |
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10/02/2019 |
 The final seminar in this Japan tour was at the Juntendo University! Thank you Dr. Masaaki Komatsu for inviting and the blast happy time after the seminar discussion science from many angles with great lab members and friends! |
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10/01/2019 |
 Seminar at the Kanazawa University! Thank you Dr. Atsushi Hirao for inviting and the big dinner after!! |
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09/28/2019 |
 Social hours after the session at the at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association! Talked, ate, and smiled & laughed a lot! |
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09/28/2019 |
 20 min lecture at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association! |
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09/27/2019 |
 60 min session for Science talk at the Tokai University School of Medicine! The discussion was the best one conversing the current approach and future translational aspects! |
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09/27/2019 |
 60 min career session at Tokai University School of Medicine! The room was filled with foods and passionated students! Thank you So-san (Dr. So Nakagawa) for coordinating and inviting! |
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09/26/2019 |
 60 min (Science) + 60 min (Career) seminar at the National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB) at Okazaki! Dr. Kazuhiro Aoki and I knew each other over a decade through our work, and now we meet and talk and drink! It was wonderful and happy time! Thank you Aoki-san and all the members for your great hospitality! |
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09/25/2019 |
 60 min (Science) + 60 min (Career) seminar at the Nagoya University! It was very hot day outside, and more in inside for highly motivated students fulled in the room. The career session was very fun and great moment conversing with attendees very frankly. Thank you Dr. Tomomi Kiyomitsu (Tomomi-san) for coordinating and inviting! The eel at the dinner was amazing! |
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09/24/2019 |
 60+α seminar at the Tokyo University of Agriculture! A big seminar room was full with motivated students over a hundred. The high level questions from the students were very impressive! Thank you Dr. Ken Iwatsuki for coordinating and the inviting! Also my mentor, Dr. Akihiko Yoshimura came to the seminar. It was very honor and memorial moment. Thank you Dr. Yoshimura-sensei! |
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The Sasaki Lab places emphasis on Happy GTP Research Life with the following philosophy:
- Keep high GTP energy and be thankful no matter what happen to self
- Respect for self and others.
- Respect for self and others.
- Responsibility for all your actions.
- Help people, cheer up people
- Be determined to set a happy mind—what you get is a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Do your best and make stretch
- Use words that make yourself and others happy and empowered: such as Love, Lucky, Happy, Exciting, Thank you, etc...
People would love you, and you will have more and happier opportunities.
- Be determined to stay away from negatively affecting words/actions:
(tired, boring, unlucky, bad-mouth, complaint, anger, etc...)
Atsuo T. Sasaki, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Project Professor
Institute of Advanced Biosciences, Keio University
Visiting Professor: Hiroshima University
Associate Professor
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Project Professor
Institute of Advanced Biosciences, Keio University
Visiting Professor: Hiroshima University
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Tel: | 513-558-2160 | |
Fax: | 513-558-6703 |
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Email: | atsuo.sasaki@uc.edu / sasaki29@ttck.keio.ac.jp | |||
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Address: | Vontz Center 1328 (office) / 1234 (lab) 3125 Eden Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45267-0508 |
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Welcome to the Sasaki Lab’s WebsiteThe Sasaki Lab represents a team of scientists dedicated to helping save lives through research on links between GTP metabolism and cancer.
In 2016, we discovered the existence of a GTP energy sensing kinase, which has the effect of propelling tumor growth, as published in Molecular Cell (related articles: 1, 2, 3, 4).
Recently, we discovered that malignant brain tumors hyjack and reprogram GTP metabolism for nucleolar transcription for their malignant, highly anabolic growth, and published in Nature Cell Biology (related articles: 1, 2, 3, 4*, 5*. *Japanese).
We continue to investigate the GTP-metabolism—its regulation and roles of GTP-energy sensor—by taking the "GTP" way!
Sasaki Lab’s "GTP" Way:
Geek: We investigate GTP, GTP and GTP!
Together: Be happy and synergistic!
Passion: Abosolute requirement for success!
Curiosity and Collaboration Are Key Drivers of Innovation Atsuo Sasaki: When I was in second-grade, I wondered if the varying root lengths of plants near the beach had anything to do with soil conditions. I walked around the neighborhood with a shovel in my hand until I had enough samples to compare. The effort earned me my first junior science award from the city of Kure, Hiroshima.
The following year, I decided to find the fastest way to ignite a piece of paper using a magnifying glass. I learned silver paper would never burn. In third grade, I experimented with materials for a tin-can telephone so I could talk with my friend from 100 yards away.
Both of these projects landed me Hiroshima’s special science awards and taught me being inquisitive and tenacious pays off.
It’s the same curiosity that drives me today as I and my research team explore the field of GTP metabolism, a new frontier in cancer research that we developed. At Sasaki Lab, we place the highest priority on discussions. Innovation happens when people share their “CRAZY” ideas, realize the significance of those ideas and begin working together to make them a reality.
I have a two-hour lab session every week in which all team members challenge each other to reach for the creativity that they have inside of them.
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