Ryuichiro Nakato
@rnakato.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Lab of Comput. Genomics, University of Tokyo, Japan. Dad of 3 kids🧒🧒👧Data-driven analysis, Epigenomics, 3D genome, Single cell, Cohesin and CTCF.
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Atacama is a place of exceptional beauty
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November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Atacama is a place of exceptional beauty
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Spent a week in the Atacama desert in Chile last week - the driest place on earth
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November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Spent a week in the Atacama desert in Chile last week - the driest place on earth
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I’m happy to announce that I'll be joining Prof. Markus List's lab @itisalist.bsky.social at @tum.de for two months, starting in December. I’m looking forward to establishing new collaborations on deep learning and network analysis. I’m grateful to the @embo.org grant for supporting this stay!
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I’m happy to announce that I'll be joining Prof. Markus List's lab @itisalist.bsky.social at @tum.de for two months, starting in December. I’m looking forward to establishing new collaborations on deep learning and network analysis. I’m grateful to the @embo.org grant for supporting this stay!
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This hypothesis provides a (potential) explanation to many paradoxes and confusions in the field of enhancer-promoter interactions. An absolute must read!!
Really excited to share our latest work led by @mattiaubertini.bsky.social and @nesslfy.bsky.social: we report that cohesin loop extrusion creates rare but long-lived encounters between genomic sequences which underlie efficient enhancer-promoter communication.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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September 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
This hypothesis provides a (potential) explanation to many paradoxes and confusions in the field of enhancer-promoter interactions. An absolute must read!!
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Delighted to share a new preprint from the lab!
We identified zinc-finger associated domain (ZAD)-containing C2H2 zinc-finger proteins (ZAD-ZnFs) as insulator-binding proteins in Drosophila.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We identified zinc-finger associated domain (ZAD)-containing C2H2 zinc-finger proteins (ZAD-ZnFs) as insulator-binding proteins in Drosophila.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Delighted to share a new preprint from the lab!
We identified zinc-finger associated domain (ZAD)-containing C2H2 zinc-finger proteins (ZAD-ZnFs) as insulator-binding proteins in Drosophila.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We identified zinc-finger associated domain (ZAD)-containing C2H2 zinc-finger proteins (ZAD-ZnFs) as insulator-binding proteins in Drosophila.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Years ago, @arnausebe.bsky.social gave talk that prompted us to discuss on #3DGenomics and #Evolution. I offered we could help. Next, @ianakim.bsky.social came to the rescue 😁.
The results are out today at Nature, including support from @encent.bsky.social.
Iana explains what she did here 👇🏻🎉👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻
The results are out today at Nature, including support from @encent.bsky.social.
Iana explains what she did here 👇🏻🎉👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻
I’m very excited to share our work on the early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture - the main project of my postdoc, carried out across two wonderful and inspirational labs of @arnausebe.bsky.social and @mamartirenom.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome - Nature
The physical organization of the genome in non-bilaterian animals and their closest unicellular relatives is characterized; comparative analysis shows chromatin looping is a conserved feature of ...
www.nature.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Years ago, @arnausebe.bsky.social gave talk that prompted us to discuss on #3DGenomics and #Evolution. I offered we could help. Next, @ianakim.bsky.social came to the rescue 😁.
The results are out today at Nature, including support from @encent.bsky.social.
Iana explains what she did here 👇🏻🎉👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻
The results are out today at Nature, including support from @encent.bsky.social.
Iana explains what she did here 👇🏻🎉👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻
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Very happy to share the peer-reviewed version of our paper in which we study the formation and function of pair-wise and multi-way enhancer-promoter interactions in gene regulation (see thread below): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Very happy to share the peer-reviewed version of our paper in which we study the formation and function of pair-wise and multi-way enhancer-promoter interactions in gene regulation (see thread below): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In today's poster session #probgen25. To the pop gen folks, interesting observation: The influence of a nucleotide on reconstructing others, rather than its own reconstructability, is a better predictor of function. This metric makes DNA LMs beat conservation in several benchmarks.
March 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In today's poster session #probgen25. To the pop gen folks, interesting observation: The influence of a nucleotide on reconstructing others, rather than its own reconstructability, is a better predictor of function. This metric makes DNA LMs beat conservation in several benchmarks.
Dr. Poonam Bheda, editor of Molecular Systems Biology and someone I met at the #EMBO meeting in February, visited our lab. She gave a seminar, and we had dinner together afterwards. It was a great time, we heard lots of interesting things about what an editor does and thinks. Thank you, Poonam!
April 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Dr. Poonam Bheda, editor of Molecular Systems Biology and someone I met at the #EMBO meeting in February, visited our lab. She gave a seminar, and we had dinner together afterwards. It was a great time, we heard lots of interesting things about what an editor does and thinks. Thank you, Poonam!
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Nice to catch up with Luca @lucagiorgetti.bsky.social in Tokyo!
April 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Nice to catch up with Luca @lucagiorgetti.bsky.social in Tokyo!
日本のコミュニティはTwitterが好きだからね＞RP
April 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
日本のコミュニティはTwitterが好きだからね＞RP
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ほんとか。自分の分野ではTwitter:Bluesky=100:1くらいに見える
Twitter上のアカデミック・リサーチは「死んだ」。
研究者らはXを離れブルースカイへの移行を早めており、新しい研究内容についての情報は、3月はついにブルースカイ上のポスト数が、Xのそれを上回ったそう。記事リンク↓
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...
研究者らはXを離れブルースカイへの移行を早めており、新しい研究内容についての情報は、3月はついにブルースカイ上のポスト数が、Xのそれを上回ったそう。記事リンク↓
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...
April 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
ほんとか。自分の分野ではTwitter:Bluesky=100:1くらいに見える
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Bye bye magical Kyoto, see you next time!
April 10, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Bye bye magical Kyoto, see you next time!
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Bio foundation models are great design and engg tools. But can they help decode the fundamental principles of life?
We harnessed a single-cell FM for decoding the long-debated relationship between genome arch. and gene coregulation. 1/
Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We harnessed a single-cell FM for decoding the long-debated relationship between genome arch. and gene coregulation. 1/
Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tracing the Shared Foundations of Gene Expression and Chromatin Structure
The three-dimensional organization of chromatin into topologically associating domains (TADs) may impact gene regulation by bringing distant genes into contact. However, many questions about TADs' fun...
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April 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Bio foundation models are great design and engg tools. But can they help decode the fundamental principles of life?
We harnessed a single-cell FM for decoding the long-debated relationship between genome arch. and gene coregulation. 1/
Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We harnessed a single-cell FM for decoding the long-debated relationship between genome arch. and gene coregulation. 1/
Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Farewell party for Gima-san and Wilhelm!🎉
March 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Farewell party for Gima-san and Wilhelm!🎉
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I had a wonderful time at Heidelberg! Huge thanks to the organizers from both EMBO and JST for making this all happen!!
We are hosting the second joint meeting co-organized with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). It is part of the EMBO Global Activities to strengthen the research dialogue and international interactions.
#LifeSciences #Conference 🧪
#LifeSciences #Conference 🧪
March 3, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I had a wonderful time at Heidelberg! Huge thanks to the organizers from both EMBO and JST for making this all happen!!
Munich is a beautiful city.
March 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Munich is a beautiful city.
I was truly moved by the warm welcome at the EMBO meeting! It was an incredible opportunity. Thank you #EMBO and #JST for hosting this wonderful event!
We are hosting the second joint meeting co-organized with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). It is part of the EMBO Global Activities to strengthen the research dialogue and international interactions.
#LifeSciences #Conference 🧪
#LifeSciences #Conference 🧪
March 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM
German feast in Freising!🍻 Had a great dinner with amazing company, including Eijy Nagai @en-coding.bsky.social, who's currently on sabbatical in Markus's lab. Cheers to great food and great people!
March 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
German feast in Freising!🍻 Had a great dinner with amazing company, including Eijy Nagai @en-coding.bsky.social, who's currently on sabbatical in Markus's lab. Cheers to great food and great people!
Thank you so much to Markus @itisalist.bsky.social and all the DaiSyBio members for inviting me to the seminar and the great dinner! I had a fantastic time and great discussions. Hope to see you all again soon! 🚀🍽️
This week, we had the honour to have visitors from Japan! 🇯🇵
@rnakato.bsky.social Lab of Computational Genomics, University of Tokyo gave the seminar talk "Deep learning-based approaches to elucidate unknown functional regions of the genome". Looking forward to further collaboration opportunities!
@rnakato.bsky.social Lab of Computational Genomics, University of Tokyo gave the seminar talk "Deep learning-based approaches to elucidate unknown functional regions of the genome". Looking forward to further collaboration opportunities!
March 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Thank you so much to Markus @itisalist.bsky.social and all the DaiSyBio members for inviting me to the seminar and the great dinner! I had a fantastic time and great discussions. Hope to see you all again soon! 🚀🍽️
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This week, we had the honour to have visitors from Japan! 🇯🇵
@rnakato.bsky.social Lab of Computational Genomics, University of Tokyo gave the seminar talk "Deep learning-based approaches to elucidate unknown functional regions of the genome". Looking forward to further collaboration opportunities!
@rnakato.bsky.social Lab of Computational Genomics, University of Tokyo gave the seminar talk "Deep learning-based approaches to elucidate unknown functional regions of the genome". Looking forward to further collaboration opportunities!
February 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This week, we had the honour to have visitors from Japan! 🇯🇵
@rnakato.bsky.social Lab of Computational Genomics, University of Tokyo gave the seminar talk "Deep learning-based approaches to elucidate unknown functional regions of the genome". Looking forward to further collaboration opportunities!
@rnakato.bsky.social Lab of Computational Genomics, University of Tokyo gave the seminar talk "Deep learning-based approaches to elucidate unknown functional regions of the genome". Looking forward to further collaboration opportunities!
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We are hosting the second joint meeting co-organized with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). It is part of the EMBO Global Activities to strengthen the research dialogue and international interactions.
#LifeSciences #Conference 🧪
#LifeSciences #Conference 🧪
February 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We are hosting the second joint meeting co-organized with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). It is part of the EMBO Global Activities to strengthen the research dialogue and international interactions.
#LifeSciences #Conference 🧪
#LifeSciences #Conference 🧪
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The #Japan Science and Technology Agency | EMBO Workshop brings together more than 100 participants to foster scientific exchanges and collaborations. We are delighted to welcome you in Heidelberg! 🧪
February 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The #Japan Science and Technology Agency | EMBO Workshop brings together more than 100 participants to foster scientific exchanges and collaborations. We are delighted to welcome you in Heidelberg! 🧪
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A comprehensive benchmark and guide for sequence-function interpretable deep learning models in genomics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631405v1 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/bioczsun/cisFinder
January 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A comprehensive benchmark and guide for sequence-function interpretable deep learning models in genomics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631405v1 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/bioczsun/cisFinder
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Atlas of the plasma proteome in health and disease in 53,026 adults
A real tour-de-force. Looking at total protein content in human plasma over 15 years: identifying potential disease causes and treatments based on existing drugs. #MedSky
www.cell.com/cell/fu...
A real tour-de-force. Looking at total protein content in human plasma over 15 years: identifying potential disease causes and treatments based on existing drugs. #MedSky
www.cell.com/cell/fu...
Atlas of the plasma proteome in health and disease in 53,026 adults
A large-scale proteomics study involving 53,026 individuals maps 2,920 plasma proteins
to 406 prevalent diseases, 660 incident diseases, and 986 health-related traits, identifying
promising biomarkers for disease discrimination and potential therapeutic targets
and paving the way for precision medicine.
www.cell.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Atlas of the plasma proteome in health and disease in 53,026 adults
A real tour-de-force. Looking at total protein content in human plasma over 15 years: identifying potential disease causes and treatments based on existing drugs. #MedSky
www.cell.com/cell/fu...
A real tour-de-force. Looking at total protein content in human plasma over 15 years: identifying potential disease causes and treatments based on existing drugs. #MedSky
www.cell.com/cell/fu...