Master's students Noda and Audreyana gave presentations at the 15th CSJ Chemistry Festa 2025, held at Tower Hall Funabori in Tokyo from October 22nd to 24th.

Audreyana Ariella, a first-year master's student, gave an oral presentation at the "JSBBA Kansai 12th Student Forum" held on October 19th at Kyoto University's Yoshida Campus.

The second semester has already begun, and this year five third-year students have been pre-assigned to NPC laboratory. They will first meet once a week to acquire the organic chemistry knowledge and skills necessary for their graduation research. A welcome party was held at a yakitori restaurant. The third-year students were nervous at first, but gradually they opened up, and by the time they left the restaurant they were all smiling with V signs!

It's still hot in Osaka, but the autumnal equinox has passed and signs of autumn are gradually beginning to appear. Ms. Audreyana Ariella, a first-year master's student, is highly creative. In just a short amount of time, she created a wonderful flyer explaining the changing of the autumn leaves! She even made it in both Japanese and English! Please take a look. 〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜 🍂Why do leaves change color in autumn?🍂 In fact, it's all the work of molecules🧪

The following presentation was given at the 67th Symposium on The Chemistry of Natural Products held at Kawauchi Hagi Hall, Kawauchi Kita Campus, Tohoku University from September 9th to September 11th.

On Sunday, August 24th, we exhibited Open Laboratory during our second Summer Open Campus. We exhibited four programs that conveyed the appeal of organic chemistry, and the all lab members came together to welcome the high school students.

Ms. Hinata Togo, a second-year master's student, received the Best Poster Presentation Award at ACMS 2025 (The Second Asian Conference for "MONODUKURI" Strategy by Synthetic Organic Chemistry), an international conference held at the Okinawa Convention Center from July 30 to August 1.

As mentioned in a previous blog post, we exhibited at the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion at the Kansai Expo on Tuesday, August 19th. "Eat Mushrooms for Health! ~Artificial Chemical Synthesis of Medicinal Ingredients and Their Biological Activities Related to Dementia Prevention~" Despite the scorching heat, many people stopped by.

We will exhibit at the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion at the Kansai Expo on Tuesday, August 19th. "Eat Mushrooms for Health! ~Artificial Chemical Synthesis of Medicinal Ingredients and Their Biological Activities Related to Dementia Prevention~" Our booth hours will be 10:00 AM - 12:10 PM. It's difficult to find a specific time to meet us, but if you can (perhaps you just happen to be planning to go to the Expo!), please stop by!

Prof. Kobayashi gave an oral presentation and Togo, a second-year master's student, gave a poster presentation at ACMS 2025 (The Second Asian Conference for "MONODUKURI" Strategy by Synthetic Organic Chemistry), an international conference held at the Okinawa Convention Center from July 30 to August 1.

The students each made a dish and sent me photos. They all look delicious!

New academic year just started! This year, NPC laboratory consists of four graduate students and eight fourth-year students.

a graduate student, Togo, and two undergraduate students, Kanda, and Audreyana, gave oral presentations.

Three graduate students and eight undergraduate students have graduated from the Natural Products Chemistry.

The graduation thesis presentations were held in the middle of this week.

Today, the master's thesis defense of three second-year M2 students was successfully completed.

After a short winter break, the lab started on Monday, January 6th, and students have been working hard every day towards their master's...

I wrote an article in the December issue of Environmental Management, the journal of the Japan Environmental Management Association for Indu

A series titled "Check it out! The cutting edge of environmentally friendly solvents" has started on [Chematels].

We have succeeded in the collective syntheses of sterols, representative mushroom components, in short steps from ergosterol