Ken Kurokawa

This study shows cohesin maintains condensed euchromatic domains in human cells by preventing local mixing, which is crucial for transcriptional insulation.

This study identifies biogeographic patterns of freshwater giant viruses using MAGs from deep lakes, revealing cosmopolitan and restricted species, and factors influencing their distribution.

This study benchmarks long-context genome language models on biosynthetic gene clusters, showing layer selection impacts performance and revealing how models encode biological information.

This study identifies intersegment interactions in influenza A virus infected cells using LIGR-seq, showing they form in viral inclusions and are influenced by vRNP concentration and Rab11.

The paper develops Repli-Histo labeling to study nucleosome motion in euchromatin and heterochromatin, finding that euchromatic regions exhibit greater motion and influence replication timing.

This study shows that Limosilactobacillus reuteri from tamely bred mice increases tameness and oxytocin levels when administered, suggesting a role in domestication.

The paper develops a Metagenomic Thermometer to predict environmental temperature from metagenomic sequences, achieving high accuracy in hot spring samples and estimating human body temperature.

The paper develops a CRISPR-based method to infer viral sequences and predict hosts from metagenomic data, identifying numerous viral genomes and analyzing the evolution of a retroelement locus.