... of the time because of relationships. It’s much harder to build relationships when you are more desperate...Here we are seven months past a worldwide shift to work-from-home and just now realizing that we can’...throughout our careers. An easy way to access great mentorship is by recruiting your own peers and classmates...experiences to share. The conversation builds a relationship for the future and the 1:1 format is good for...you will make good progress on both building relationships and thinking about future career options. 5....

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...https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat0839 Yoshimi, K., & Mashimo, T. (2022). Genome editing technology and...all-in-one Cascade plasmids — such as the Tomoji Mashimo lab and the Tilmann Weber lab — to increase efficiency...doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2023.01.024 Morisaka, H., Yoshimi, K., Okuzaki, Y., Gee, P., Kunihiro, Y., Sonpho...Yamamoto, T., Sano, S., Hotta, A., Takeda, J., & Mashimo, T. (2019). CRISPR-Cas3 induces broad and unidirectional...s41587-019-0310-0 Makarova, K. S., Wolf, Y. I., Alkhnbashi, O. S., Costa, F., Shah, S. A., Saunders, S. ...

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...from Kyoto University, and Marcus N. Leiwe and Takeshi Imai from Kyushu University. Stochastic multicolor...from Kyoto University, and Marcus N. Leiwe and Takeshi Imai from Kyushu University. Richi Sakaguchi is...anatomical maturation of the olfactory system.      Takeshi Imai is a professor at Kyushu University. His lab...2732. PubMed PMID: 26972009. Ke, Meng-Tsen, and Takeshi Imai. "Optical clearing and index matching of tissue...PMC4246963. Sakaguchi, Richi, Marcus N. Leiwe, and Takeshi Imai. "Bright multicolor labeling of neuronal circuits...

... 181-206. PubMed PMID: 17224625. Mizushima, Noboru, Tamotsu Yoshimori, and Beth Levine. "Methods in mammalian...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4517063. Yoshii, Saori R., and Noboru Mizushima. "Monitoring and measuring autophagy...20144757. PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC2852113. Noda, Takeshi, and Daniel J. Klionsky. "The quantitative Pho8Δ60...