The weekend after the rainy season ended, the members of our laboratory got together for some recreational activities. We went to Tsurumi Ryokuchi’s Flower Expo Memorial Park. After enjoying a round of park golf in the morning and having lunch, we spent time in the open field playing badminton, frisbee, baseball, and ball games. The top three finishers in Park Golf are as follows: 1st Place (Tie): Kobayashi and Kotaro Kami 3rd Place: Kotaro Tanaka

Prof. Kobayashi, second-year master's student Audreyana Ariella, and Yui Kanda gave presentations at the 5th International Symposium on Process Chemistry (ISPC 2026), held at Act City Hamamatsu from July 1 to 3.

Our research findings regarding the synthesis of oxysterols derived from mushrooms have been published in ChemistryEurope, the flagship journal of Wiley! Bioinspired Aerobic Oxidation to Functionalize the CD Ring of the Steroid Framework: Synthesis and Stereochemical Assignments of Gargalol C and Related Oxysterols Hinata Togo, Yui Kanda, Shoji Kobayashi* The original paper is here. （Open Access）