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Welcome to the page of the research group of Dr. Jun Nakanishi, group leader.
The activity of cells is highly dependent on their extracellular environments. Our group develops new materials for chemically and mechanically engineering cellular environments and look at how they regulate cellular functions. Such material biological approach is important not only for fundamental understanding of life phenomena, but also for a number of biomedical applications including stem cell regulation, tissue engineering and drug testing. Currently, we are focusing on cell adhesion and cell migration signaling, which is essential for various physiological and pathological processes.
* Master and PhD degrees can be obtained in Waseda University: (Link)
Topics
1) Our new paper has been appered in Talanta Open.
Kazuhiro Tatematsu, Shota Yamamoto, Masao Kamimura, Kazuo Yamaguchi, and Jun Nakanishi*
"Dynamic cell photo-manipulation technology for the molecular and mechanical regulation analyses of collective cell migration"
2) Our new paper has been appered in Advanced Materials.
Zhou Lu, Mizuki Tenjimbayashi, Junhong Zhou, and Jun Nakanishi*
"Ultimately Adaptive Fluid Interfacial Phospholipid Membranes Unveiled Unanticipated High Cellular Mechanical Work"
3) Our new paper has been accepted in Advanced Materials.
Takeshi Ueki*, Koichiro Uto, Shota Yamamoto, Ryota Tamate, Yuji Kamiyama, Xiaofang Jia, Hidenori Noguchi, Kosuke Minami, Katsuhiko Ariga, Hongxin Wang, and Jun Nakanishi*
"Ionic Liquid Interface as A Cell Scaffold"
Nakanishi group, RCFM, National Institute for Materials (NIMS), Tsukuba, JAPAN