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The research page describing our current projects is now opened!!

We had a farewell party for Dr. Kenji Hirai, who is leaving our group in the beginning of April. A lot of Japanese alumni were occasionally visiting Kyoto for the conference so that the former and current members of MC2 celebrated the departure of Kenji Hirai.

Ph.D Students, Mr. Masashi Nakahama and Mr. Chiwon Kim traveled to Canada and USA, respectively, for giving a talk. These tours are supported by JSPS Oversea Visit Program (Bon Voyage Program). Masashi gave a talk in the group of Prof. George Shimizu in University of Calgary and Chiwon gave a talk in the group of…

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Mr. Kenji Hirai, a PhD student in the MC2 group, defended his PhD thesis!! Kenji has worked in our group since his undergraduate training in 2007 and have done a lot of great works on core/shell or heterostructured PCP system.Now we celebrate Dr. Kenji Hirai. Congratulation!!

We had a new year party with all professors in the Kitagawa Laboratory at Kiyoshi（喜よ志）.

The former member of MC2, Dr. Manuel Tsotsalas, started working in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) in the beginning of 2013 as independent guest researcher. Good luck, Manuel!!

We had a year-end party of the iCeMS Kitagawa group, who are working in iCeMS Complex 2, at our favorite Spanish restaurant. We also had a party with the former students of Kitagawa Group. Finally, we had a party with the alumni of MC2, Mio, Yoko and Yohei.

We had a welcome party for Mr. JiCheng "Tony" Zhang at our second meeting room, so-called HUB.

We organized "6th Annual Symposium on Nanobiotechnology: Kyoto Cell-Material Integration" @Shiran Kaikan, Kyoto (8-9/Nov/2012). The organizer is Ken-ichiro Kamei and the co-organizer is Shuhei Furukawa. All of the MC2 group members worked at the symposium.