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===== Welcome =====


We take advantage of the coherence of synchrotron radiation and free-electron laser to develop new experimental techniques to unveil nano-world in biology and other research areas.


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===== Topics =====
    * December 17, 2014: Ms. Mayu Sao received a Poster Award at [[http://www.es.hokudai.ac.jp/symposium/2014/|The 15th Ries-Hokudai International Symposium]]. Congratulations!
    * November 13, 2014: Three undergraduate students joined our group.
    * July 22, 2014: New secretary, Ms. Ryouko Yamazaki, Joined our group.
    * June 30, 2014: Ms. Yuki Saito, a secretary, left our group.
    * April 1, 2014: Assistant Professor [[en:member:yoshida.html|Dr. Rikiya Yoshida]] and Specially-Appointed Assistant Professor [[en:member:yu.html|Dr. Jian Yu]] joined our group.
    * April 1, 2014: Mr. Tomoya Sasaki, Mr. Yuki Takabatake, and Mr. Kohei Yamamoto joined our group as master course students.
    * March 31, 2014: Mr. Kei Soeda successfully completed the master course. Mr. Tomoya Sasaki, Mr. Yuki Takabatake, and Mr. Kohei Yamamoto have successfully graduated. Congratulations!
    * November 7, 2013: Two undergraduate students joined our group.
    * March 24, 2013: [[http://www.es.hokudai.ac.jp/news/2014-03-27-prize/|Assistant Professor Dr. Takashi Kimura received the 43th RIES Matsumoto-Hatori Prize.]] Congratulations!
    * August 16, 2013: <del>Assistant professor position open in our group. For details, please contact Prof. Nishino</del>   ({{:ja:member:yn.png?nolink&200|}}).
    * April 1, 2013: Mr. Krishna Khakurel joined our group as a doctor course student. Mr. Hitoshi Kawamura, Ms. Mayu Sao, and Mr. Yuta Fujisawa joined our group as master course students.
    * March 31, 2013: Mr. Hitoshi Kawamura, Ms. Mayu Sao, and Mr. Yuta Fujisawa have successfully graduated. Congratulations!
    * March 25, 2013: [[http://www.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/news/publication/news/contents/pn2012_017.pdf|Ms. Mayu Sao received the William Wheeler Prize in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Course of the Department of Electronics and Information Engineering.]] Congratulations!
    * January 31, 2013: Ms. Hisayo Tagashira, a secretary, left our group.
    * January 1, 2013: New secretary, Ms. Yuki Saito, Joined our group.
    * November 2, 2012: Three undergraduate students joined our group.
    * October 9, 2012: Ms. Mayumi Kuramoto joined our group as a technical assistant.
    * October 1, 2012: Mr. Krishna Khakurel joined our group as a research student.
    * September 1, 2012: [[http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/nucleus/article/21222/|Our article]] featured on the over of //Nucleus//.\\  [[http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/nucleus/toc/volume/3/issue/5/|{{http://www.landesbioscience.com/generated_images/images/journals/nucleus/150_NUCL3-5-cover-web.v1346164870.jpg?100}}]] 
    * May 17, 2012: Our research featured on a RIES web page.\\  [[http://www.es.hokudai.ac.jp/english/result/2012-05-07-coherent/|DNA, the blueprint of life, is stored "in a rather random fashion".]] 
    * April 1, 2012: Mr. Kei Soeda joined our group as a master course student.
    * March 31, 2012: Mr. Kei Soeda, Ms. Chie Nagase, and Mr. Arata Mori have successfully graduated. Congratulations!
    * March 31, 2012: Ms. Kiyo Sasaki, a secretary, left our group.
    * March 1, 2012: New secretary, Ms. Hisayo Tagashira, Joined our group.
    * November 25, 2011: Three undergraduate students joined our group.
    * October 30, 2012: A textbook with an invited chapter by Prof. Nishino was published by Pan Stanford Publishing.\\  [[http://www.panstanford.com/books/9789814267380.html|Synchrotron Radiation and Structural Proteomics　(Pan Stanford Series on Nanobiotechnology Vol.3), E. Pechkova & C. Riedel, Eds.]] \\  [[http://www.panstanford.com/books/9789814267380.html|{{http://www.panstanford.com/product_images/d/380/9789814267380__79566_std.jpg?100}}]] \\  Chapter 4: "Coherent X-Ray Diffraction for High-Contrast Bioimaging" (Yoshinori Nishino)
    * April 1, 2011:  [[en:member:kimura.html|Dr. Takashi Kimura]] joined our group as an Assistant Professor.
    * January 16, 2011:  Dr. Marcus Newton joined our group as an Assistant Professor.
    * November 5, 2010:  Three undergraduate students joined our group.
    * April 27, 2010: <del>Assistant professor position open in our group. For details, please contact Prof. Nishino</del>   ({{:ja:member:yn.png?nolink&200|}}).
    * April 1, 2010:  Laboratory of Coherent X-ray Optics was set up in Research Institute for Electronic Science of Hokkaido University.