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.

• December 17, 2014: Ms. Mayu Sao received a Poster Award at 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 Dr. Rikiya Yoshida and Specially-Appointed Assistant Professor 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: Assistant Professor Dr. Takashi Kimura received the 43th RIES Matsumoto-Hatori Prize. Congratulations!
• August 16, 2013: Assistant professor position open in our group. For details, please contact Prof. Nishino ().
• 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: 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: Our article featured on the over of Nucleus.
  
• May 17, 2012: Our research featured on a RIES web page.
  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.
  Synchrotron Radiation and Structural Proteomics　(Pan Stanford Series on Nanobiotechnology Vol.3), E. Pechkova & C. Riedel, Eds.
  
  Chapter 4: “Coherent X-Ray Diffraction for High-Contrast Bioimaging” (Yoshinori Nishino)
• April 1, 2011: 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: Assistant professor position open in our group. For details, please contact Prof. Nishino ().
• April 1, 2010: Laboratory of Coherent X-ray Optics was set up in Research Institute for Electronic Science of Hokkaido University.