{"id":10699,"date":"2026-08-18T14:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/?p=10699"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:11:27","slug":"epigenetics-research-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/news\/epigenetics-research-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Epigenetics Research in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>SUMMER 2026<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Kelsey Kusi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I spent my summer in Nagoya, Japan, conducting research at Nagoya University in\u00a0Dr. Kenji Ichiyanagi\u2019s Laboratory of Genome and Epigenome Dynamics under\u00a0the guidance of Torahiko Yamanaka.\u00a0My research focused on the epigenetic regulation of meiotic recombination in mice to understand how genes such as Dnmt3l and Setdb1 influence DNA recombination during meiosis. Through immunofluorescence microscopy and mouse models, I gained hands-on experience with techniques that deepened my understanding of genetics, molecular biology, and scientific research.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10701\" src=\"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/IMG_9914-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kelsey in a kimono\" width=\"282\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/IMG_9914-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/IMG_9914-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/IMG_9914-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/IMG_9914-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/IMG_9914-1500x2000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/IMG_9914-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/IMG_9914-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/IMG_9914-950x1267.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/IMG_9914-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"<h3>SUMMER 2026<\/h3>\r\n<strong>Kelsey Kusi<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI spent my summer in Nagoya, Japan, conducting research at Nagoya University in\u00a0Dr. Kenji Ichiyanagi\u2019s Laboratory of Genome and Epigenome Dynamics under\u00a0the guidance of Torahiko Yamanaka.\u00a0My research focused on the epigenetic regulation of meiotic recombination in mice to understand how genes such as Dnmt3l and Setdb1 influence DNA recombination during meiosis. Through immunofluorescence microscopy and mouse models, I gained hands-on experience with techniques that deepened my understanding of genetics, molecular biology, and scientific research.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10701\" src=\"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/IMG_9914-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kelsey in a kimono\" width=\"282\" height=\"376\" \/>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUMMER 2026 Kelsey Kusi I spent my summer in Nagoya, Japan, conducting research at Nagoya University in\u00a0Dr. Kenji Ichiyanagi\u2019s Laboratory of Genome and Epigenome Dynamics under\u00a0the guidance of Torahiko Yamanaka.\u00a0My research focused on the epigenetic regulation of meiotic recombination in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":914,"featured_media":10700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-pack-abroad"],"acf":[],"flickr_id":"","youtube_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10703,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10699\/revisions\/10703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/international-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}