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Organelle micromechanics at Japan's National Institute of Genetics
We study the dynamics of cytoskeleton in vertebrate eggs and embryos, by using a combination of high-resolution imaging, biophysical nanomanipulation, cell biology and materials science. |
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NEWS (last update on Feb 25, 2025)
2/18/25 Our previw article on embryonic spindle dynamics by Di Talia's group is out! Tanaka and Shimamoto, Curr Biol 2025 12/04/24 Our protocol on AI-based analysis of bipolar and multipolar spindle assembly in cell-free Xenopus egg extracts is out! Tanaka et al., Methods Mol Biol 2025 10/14/24 Our collaborative study with Kuo-Chiang Hsa's group at Academia Sinica is out! Saju et al., Nat Commun 2024 10/4/24 Yuta gave a talk at the 52nd Naito Conference: Frontiers of Physical and Mechanical Biology. https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event/naito52/top?lang=ja 10/1/24 Amruta's review paper on spindle self-organization is out! Congrats!! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12551-024-01236-z 10/1/24 Amruta joined the lab as a graduate student at SOKENDAI university. Warm welcome! 6/8/24 Yuta gave a talk at EMBO|EMBL symposium Microtubules: from atoms to complex systems. https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/ees24-07/ 4/1/24 Akihiro won the JSPS postdoctoral fellowship. Congrats! 1/24/24 Our collaborative work with Satoshi Goto's lab at Rikkyo University is out! Yamamoto-Hino et al., J Cell Biol, 2024 11/14/23 Yuta gave a talk at the 61th Annual Meeting of Japan's Biophysical Society and organized a symposium titled "Cytoskeletal dynamics at boudaries." Masahito gave a poster presentation there. 11/13/23 Our collaborative work with Yoshihisa Oda's lab at Nagoya University is out! Sasaki et al., Nat Commun, 2023 Press release: https://www.nig.ac.jp/nig/ja/2023/11/research-highlights_ja/pr20231113.html 11/1/23 田中彬寛君が遺伝研のフェローシップを獲得し、遺伝研ポスドクとして研究を開始しました！ 10/31/23 Yuta gave a talk at the 96th annual meeting of Japan's Physiological Society in Fukushima. 7/27-28/23 Hata-san and Yuta organized the Cell Division Meeting in NIG campus. https://www.nig.ac.jp/nig/ja/research/nig-meetings?id=1486 7/26/23 Lam Nyugen from Vietnam successfully completed his 6-week internship program in the lab. He worked on in vitro reconstitution of a mitotic kinesin and produced an exciting outcome. Great work!! 6/22/23 We headed to a campus-wide retreat in Gotenba:) 4/1/23 Akihiro Tanaka joined the lab. Welcome!! 4/1/23 Masahito Tanaka started his career as the JSPS postdoctoral fellow. Congratulations! 3/15/23 Yuta gave a talk at the 100th anniversary of the Physiology Society of Japan meeting in Kyoto. 1/19/23 Yuta gave a talk at Genome Stability Meeting in University of Sussex. 1/6/23 Kei gave a talk at Seitai Undou Han Meeting in Tokyo. 12/4/2022 Yuta gave a talk at ASCB/EMBO Cell Bio meeting in Washington D.C. 12/1/2022 Masahito gave a talk at Molecular Biology Society of Japan Annual Meeting in Makuhari. 11/30/2022 Yuta gave a talk at the Molecular Biology Society of Japan Annual Meeting in Makuhari. Yuta also organized a workshop focusing on nucleoskeletal and cytoskeletal dynamics. 10/25/2022 We published a research paper on mitotic spindle assembly (Fukuyama et al., PNAS, 2022)! This is a collaborative work with our colleagues, Yusuke Maeda, Kuo-Chiang Hsia, and Jeff Ti Labs. ・Kudos Article "Memory form-like material property of the cell division machine" ・Press release 10/1/2022 Masahito got a conpetitive postdoctoral fellowship from JSPS! Congratulations!! 9/28/2022 Yuta organized a symposium at the Biophysical Society of Japan Annual Meeting in Hakodate (Co-organizer: Motoshi Kaya, University of Tokyo). We thank all the speakers and the audience to join us:) 7/28/2022 We organized "cell division meeting" at National Institute of Genetics (co-host: Shoji Hata at Tokyo University). 7/10/2022 Yuta gave talks at World Congress of Biomechanics in Taiwan. 8/25/2021 A collaborative work with Ikawa Lab (Osaka Univ) was published in Journal of Cell Biology (Mori et al., J Cell Biol 2021）! The study focused on the mechanism demixing paternal chromosome from maternal chromosomes in a fertilized embryo of mouse. 6/16/2021 Yuta gave a talk at the Biomechanical Engineering Society of Japan Annual Meeting (Zoom). 4/1/2021 Kei Saito joined the lab! Welcome!! 11/30/2020 We released a preprint of our work on mitotic spindle self-organization (Yan et al., arXiv 2020）! 11/2/2020 Yuta gave a talk at the Molecular Biology Society of Japan Annual Meeting (Zoom). 9/18/2020 Yuta gave a talk at the Biophysical Society of Japan Annual Meeting (Zoom). 12/22/2019 Yuta gave a talk at the 37th chromosome workshop in Japan. 12/7/2019 Yuta gave a talk at ASCB/EMBO Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Alex Dunn, Manu Prakash, and Sophie Dumont organized the session entitled "Mechanics of Large Cellular Machines." Thank you for the invitation! 10/1/2019 A new research assistant Naoko Watanabe joins our lab. Welcome! 4/22/2019 Jun's work on spindle micromechanics is published in Developmental Cell. Congratulations!! 9/18/2019 Yuta organized a symposium session at Biochemical Society of Japan Annual Meeting, with Daiju Kitagawa from University of Tokyo. Thank you to the speakers for their exciting talks. 3/31/2019 Yuta gave a talk at Circulation Society Annual Meeting in Yokohama. 11/24/2018 Yuta gave a talk at Motor protein meeting in Tokyo. 9/14/2018 Yuta gave a talk at Japan's Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in Okayama. 8/20/2018 Jun's work on spindle micromechanics is out in BioRxiv. 8/14/2018 Yuta gave a talk at the International Xenopus Conference in Seattle. http://conferences.genetics-gsa.org/xenopus/2018/index 4/1/2018 A new postdoc Gen Shiratsuchi joins our lab. Welcome! 12/11/2017 Yuta gave a talk at UT Southwestern. 10/19/2017 Yuta gave a talk at the annual meeting of Japanese Society for Cell Synthesis Research in Kyoto. 6/13/2017 Yuta gave a talk at the annual meeting of Japanese Society for Cell Biology in Sendai. 5/31/2017 Jun's work on frozen Xenopus eg extract preparation is out in Molecular Biology of the Cell! Congratulations!! 4/5/2017 Our work on nuclear micromechanics is out in Molecular Biology of the Cell! Many thanks to Dr. Kazu Maeshima (NIG) and his lab members for this nice collaboration. 1/17/2017 Yuta gave a talk at the bioengineering society meeting in Nagoya. 12/4/2017 Yuta gave a microsymposium talk at the annual ASCB meeting in San Fransisco. 7/25/2016 Yuta gave a talk at Osaka University on collective force generation of mitotic motor proteins. 6/15/2016 Megumi Yamaoka joins our lab as a research assistant. Welcome! 1/12/2016 Yuta gave a talk at an international meeting of Japan Q-bio society. 11/7/2015 Yuta gave a public lecture at the annual NIG symposium in Tokyo. 9/29/2015 Jun & Yuta's review on spindle micromechanics is published in Journal of Biophysical Society of Japan. 9/28/2015 Yuta's work on collective force generation of mitotic motor protein kinesin-5 is published in Developmental Cell. 8/15/2015 A Japanese textbook "Mechanobiology" is published. Yuta contributes to a section of the book. 4/15/2015 Yuta wins the Young Scientists' Prize from MEXT! 3/11/2015 Yuta gave a talk at National Institute for Physiological Sciences. 3/4/2015 Yuta gave a talk at Wako campus of RIKEN. 10/1/2014 Our first generation of Xenopus frogs has arrived through a long journey from Chiba prefecture. Welcome to the lab! 9/16/2014 A paper on in vitro reconstitution of the augmin complex is published in Nature Cell Biology. Yuta is one of the co-authors. 7/1/2014 Lab helper Mayumi Aono joins our lab. Welcome! 7/1/2014 Postdoctoral fellow Jun Takagi joins our lab. Welcome! 7/1/2014 Official start of Shimamoto Lab at National Institute of Genetics. |
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