The Urushi Genome Project
Urushi
is a Japanese traditional lacquer for finishing products such as tableware. Although over 90% of urushi in Japan is currently imported from China, returning to Japanese urushi is an upward trend. We sequence the genome and transcriptome of urushi tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum), elucidating the nature of urushi synthesis.
Updates
- Feb 19, 2023: Bioarchaeology meetings x2
- Dec 9, 2023: Bioarchaeology workshop
- Oct 4, 2023: Book published
- Aug 31, 2023: Talk on Evolution Meeting
- Jul 16, 2023: Urushi sampling deep at Kyoto
- Feb 18, 2023: Meeting at Okinawa
- Dec 9, 2022: Urushi Summit meeting
- Sep 24, 2022: Collaboration with Dr. Watanabe at Kyushu Univ
- Jun 11, 2022: Yaponesia meeting
- May 9, 2022: Talk by Dr. Watanabe
- Feb 12, 2022: PI gave a talk in Yaponesia Project meeting
- Nov 26, 2021: Young trees planted on site
- Sep 13, 2021: 2nd prize awarded in the Juten project report
- Aug 19, 2021: Talk at Evolution Society meeting 2021
- Apr 1, 2021: Grant proposal to Yaponesia project accepted
- Dec 28, 2020: Strain Awa and Tamba sequenced by ONT
- Sep 8, 2020: Talk at Evolution Society meeting 2020
- Dec 27, 2019: ONT Minion equipped in the lab!
- Nov 13, 2019: Seminar in Hiroshima Bioforum
- Oct 17, 2019: Technical instruction by Yoko Ishizaki from KPU
- Aug 6, 2019: The Yamamoto Grant from Kyoto-city awarded again
- Jul 28, 2019: The 2019 project carried out smoothly
- Jun 9, 2019: Started the 2019's project!
- May 17, 2019: Sampling at Kyoto Botanical Garden
- May 8, 2019: Sampling at Miyoshi for a new project
- Feb 7, 2019: Received PacBio & additional RNAseq data
- Sep 29, 2018: Project presented in symposium
- Aug 16, 2018: Sampling at Kyoto
- Aug 15, 2018: Celebration of Pola Award to NPO Tanba Urushi
- Aug 8, 2018: The prestigious Pola Award to NPO Tanba Urushi!
- Jul 17, 2018: The Bunjiro Yamamoto Grant from Kyoto-city awarded
- Mar 31, 2018: Paper on the historical geography of Japanese urushi
- Mar 30, 2018: Obtaining an excellent genomic preassembly
- Mar 7, 2018: We are having promising RNAseq data!
- Jan 12, 2018: Samples are in the process of sequencing
- Sep 4, 2017: Measured the genome size by flow cytometry
- Aug 23, 2017: #2 sampling at Kyoto
- Jun 7, 2017: The project was reported by Ryotan Daily News
- Jun 6, 2017: #1 Sampling at Kyoto
- Mar 31, 2017:Launch meeting