Aya Sato

This paper investigates how SPO-11 and its cofactors, particularly DSB-1, regulate meiotic DNA double-strand break formation in C. elegans through dimerization and evolutionary adaptation.

This study introduces DECODE, a high-throughput method for identifying epitopes at single amino acid resolution, demonstrating its utility in antibody-based research and disease modeling.

This study develops a single-step in vitro ribosome reconstitution method using EngA and ObgE to restore ribosome activity under near-physiological conditions.

The paper investigates how C. elegans meiotic chromosomes sense length to ensure proper segregation, finding that crossover sites act as diffusion boundaries for a short arm-determining factor.

This paper identifies a meiosis-specific function of the phosphatase GSP-2 in promoting germ cell immortality through small RNA-mediated genome silencing in C. elegans.