Our lab studies how collective cell behavior emerges and links with biological functions in development and reproduction. We focus on cellular mechano-chemical coupling regulations in mammalian tissues and explore design principles of multicellular dynamical systems by combining live cell imaging and mathematical modeling. 

18 Aug 2025 Zoé from Sylvain Gabriele's lab has joined us as an internship student. Welcome!! --> [People]

14 Jul 2025 Josiah has joined us as a summer internship student. Wishin him a great experience this summer! --> [People]

8 Jul 2025 Qin Ying has joined us as a FYP student. Wishing her a fun and inspiring year ahead! --> [People]

26 Jun 2025 Charmaine has joined us as a FYP student. Excited for all the adventures she’ll have in the lab! --> [People]

10 Jun 2025 Vignesh has joined us as a MUST internship student. Hope he has a fun and meaningful summer! --> [People]

09 Jun 2025 Ankita’s talk in the GRS of Cell Contact and Adhesion was nominated as one of the top two talks of the seminar and she presented a 15 min talk in the GRC!

24 Mar 2025 Yuan Zhe has joined us as a new PhD student. Welcome!! --> [People]

14 Mar 2025 Kosuke from Satoshi Toda's lab has joined us as a internship student (JSPS scholarship). Welcome!! --> [People]

22 Jan 2025 Pawan has joined us as a postdoc research fellow. Welcome!! --> [People]

18 Dec 2024 Prof. Seiji Takashima, who has stayed for 3 weeks in our lab, delivered the seminar at the MBI --> [Photo]

09  Dec 2024 Prof. Yoshitaka Fujihara delivered the talk in the lab seminar --> [Photo]

03 Dec 2024 Our lab was featured by Lab meeting of the NODE!

11 Nov 2024 Gefei has joined us as a new PhD student (co-joint with Rong Li's lab). Welcome!! --> [People]

02 Oct 2024 Uploaded a review manuscript titled "collective sperm movement in vivo" to an archive repository --> [Publications]

30 Sep 2024 We hosted a seminar with Dr. Michael Lanz from Stanford University and CZ Biohub --> [Photo]

24 Sep 2024 Ankita successfully delivered her QE presentation! --> [Photo]

29 Aug 2024 The collaborative paper with Toda's lab was accepted in EMBO Reports --> [Publications]

26 Aug 2024 Xingyu has joined us for her Capstone Project in Biotechnology. Welcome! --> [People]

31 Jul 2024 Trusha has finished her internship work. Looking forward to the next steps in her bright future!

19 Jul 2024 Aditya completed his MUST internship program. Wishing you the best of luck!

19 Jun 2024  Tsuyoshi was awarded JSDB Frontiers Prize.

03 Jun 2024  UROPS student Emmanuel joined us. Welcome! --> [People]

21 May 2024  Two intenship students, Trusha and Aditya, joined us. Welcome! --> [People]

16 May 2024 Poster and oral presentations by lab members at SCBS annual conference 2024. --> [Photo]

10 May 2024 Owen finished his UROPS program at Physiology dept, NUS. Wishing you a good trip back!

10 May 2024 MOE AcRF Tier 2 grant awarded to our lab.

23 Apr 2024 Tsuyoshi gave the seminar at MSC, Université Paris Cité (hosted by Prof. François Graner)

16 Apr 2024 Tsuyoshi gave an invited talk at the EMBL|EMBO symposium–The mechanics of life: from development to disease

1 Apr 2024 Tann has joined us as a postdoc felllow. Welcome!! --> [People]

25 Mar 2024 Veronica successfully delivered her QE presentation! --> [Photo]

4 Mar 2024 Tsuyoshi delivered an invited talk at the RIKEN BDR symposium 2024.

28 Feb 2024 Dr. Mitsuru Morimoto from RIKEN BDR visited us and gave an exciting talk! --> [Photo]

25 Jan 2024 MBI was featured in several media! [NUS news] [The Straits Times] [Lianhe Zaobao] [JST Science portal ASEAN]

16 Jan 2024 Owen from HKUST has joined us as a UROPS student. Welcome!! --> [People]

22 Dec 2023 The 5-day workshop "Simulating tissue dynamics with cellular Potts model" at Lorentz Center in Leiden was successfully concluded! --> [Links]

14 Dec 2023 Our paper on curvo-mechano-chemical feedback in murine developing lungs has been accepted for publication in Current Biology! --> [Publications]

14 Dec 2023 Tsuyoshi gave the plenary lecture in the 2023 Japanese mechanobio-discussion meeting on Zoom

06 Dec 2023 Tsuyoshi co-organized the symposium at the annual meeting of MBSJ with Tetsuhisa Otani at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He also presented the latest findings on ERK pattern formation through cell competition.

29 Nov 2023 Veronica and Haoshun each delivered their first talk at the TMM seminar. Well done! --> [Photo]

09 Oct 2023 Nicole has joined us as a research assistant. Welcome!! --> [People]

04 Oct 2023 Tann from NIPS and Aki and Shuya from Kanzawa Univ visited and gave seminars. Thanks for sharing exciting topics! --> [Photo]

07 Sep 2023 Ankita's review paper on ERK-mediated force generation in tissue morphogenesis and homeostasis has been accepted in Current Opinion in Cell Biology! --> [Publications]

03 Aug 2023 Haoshun, an internship student from Tsinghua University, China, has joined our lab. Welcome!! --> [People]

27 Jul 2023 Tsuyoshi gave a talk at the international conference of JST PRESTO Multicellular System held in Kyoto

21 Jul 2023 Pratiman got the best poster prize for the MUST program. Congratulations on this achievement!  --> [Photo]

18 Jul 2023 Our review paper on cell mechanosensing for ERK activation has been accepted in Current Opinion in Cell Biology. We discuss possible mechanisms of stretching-induced ERK activation in the article. --> [Publications]

05 Jul 2023 Veronica's review paper on epididymis has been accepted in Andrology! This review has highlighted the role of mechanobiological factors in shaping the development and physiology of the mammalian epididymis. --> [Publications]

31 May 2023 The paper on ERK activity waves in epithelial cells with Prof. Edouard Hannezo and Dr. Daniel Boocock  has been accepted in PRX Life . --> [Publications]

22 May 2023 Pratiman, a MUST internship student from NISER, India, has joined us! Welcome!! --> [People]

17 May 2023 The paper on cell extrusion with Prof. Kohki Kawane's lab has been accepted in Developmental Cell. --> [Publications]

30 Mar 2023 Tsuyoshi gave a seminar at UMons research institute for bioscience in Belgium (host: Prof. Sylvain Gabriele). 

13 Feb 2023 Open position for a postdoc research fellow. We look foward to your application.

10 Feb 2023 A new internship student Abhi from Vellore Institute of Technology, India, has joined us. Hope she has a fruitful time! --> [People]

10 Jan 2023 Prof. Sylvain Gabriele at Univ of Mons and Dr. Marine Luciano at Univ of Geneve visited us and will stay for three weeks. Soyez les bienvenus! 

02 Dec 2022 Tsuyoshi gave the invited talk in the symposium "Cell and Tissue Mechanics in Development" of the 45th annual meeting of MBSJ.

01 Nov 2022 PhD students Ankita and Veronica have joined us. They are the first students in our lab. Welcome!

19 Sep 2022 Sound has joined our lab as a research assistant. Welcome!

07 Sep 2022 Tsuyoshi gave the invited talk in Von Behring-Röntgen-Symposium 2022 "The Epididymis" in Giessen, Germany.

15 Jul 2022 Short interview article related to the fantastic outreach project "Cell Worlds" came out in FocalPlane. 

28 Jun 2022 Lab introduction was released on the MBI website.

06 Jun 2022 Start the lab at the MBI!

News has been updated from June 2022. For the news before, please visit News at Kyoto Univ.