Photo of Moemi Kawashima in a gray long dress standing in a large bright room with floor-to-ceiling glass windows. She leans against a tall white column that supports the room and gazes dreamily out of the window. There is a little smile on her face. In her hands, she holds a small white origami artwork depicting a swan. There is the following text: “I am characterizing a protein in the plasma membrane of a mold called Aspergillus nidulans. The protein is conserved in many organisms but nobody knows its exact function and that is what I am trying to find out.”
Illustration of the cover page of the Leibniz HKI Calendar 2025 for the month of May as a graphic in overall muted shades of dark beige, gray and white.
Close-up of Moemi Kawashima, whose face can only be seen blurred in the background. In the foreground, she holds two petri dishes up to the camera, her hands are wearing blue rubber gloves. In the black-labeled petri dishes with lids, you can see two different fungi cultures that have grown there and fill the dish. The fungus culture on the left is white with a dark brown dot in the center. The fungus culture on the right is light brown in color, with a larger black dot in the middle. It is accompanied by the following text in black and white font: “I was fascinated by the international environment and the photonics research in Jena.”
Frontal view of Moemi Kawashima in a long gray dress. She is holding a small white origami artwork in her hands in front of her stomach. She is standing in a large, bright conference room. A lot of bright light enters through floor-to-ceiling glass windows. To her left and right are rows of chairs with metal legs and gray textile backrests. To Moemi’s right, you can see the following text in black and white lettering with a beige splash of color underneath: “It is all about being respectful to each other.”
🌸🌈 Happy #DiversityDay! Meet Moemi Kawashima, our #May #calendar face and one of our many PhD researchers coming from abroad! From Tokyo 🇯🇵 & physics to Jena & fungi, she’s now decoding a mysterious mold protein 🧬 that can be found in Aspergillus nidulans: lmy.de/mdoge
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