Do also check out amazing videos of cortical actin dynamics in #zebrafish #endothelialcells such as this one! @riken-bdr.bsky.social
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Do also check out amazing videos of cortical actin dynamics in #zebrafish #endothelialcells such as this one! @riken-bdr.bsky.social
Here's the link to the original article if you haven't checked it out already! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy to share a write-up of our recent publication @natcomms.nature.com demonstrating
how circumferential actomyosin-driven endothelial cell contractions constrict vessel diameter, providing insights into mechanisms of normal vessel remodelling and CCM.
www.bdr.riken.jp/en/news/rese...
A special thank you to all the mentors for agreeing to be part of the Mirai Alliance! @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social @aikosada.bsky.social @takeokalab.bsky.social @fumikubo.bsky.social Naoko Satoh-Takayama, Chisako Sakuma, Yumi Konagaya, Mineko Kengaku, Ai Niitsu, Hiromi Yanagisawa
Feb 11 is International Day of Women and Girls in Science and at RIKEN BDR, we celebrate the achievements of #womeninscience by holding an IDWGIS Symposium. We also recently launched Mirai Alliance, a mentorship network for women researchers in life sciences. www.bdr.riken.jp/en/news/bdr-...
Information on the conference on vascular development and maintenance held in Bavaria, Germany in September 2026. Conference is held in a historical monastery on a lake in beautiful Bavaria. Registration is now open! Lots of great speakers that are leaders in the field. We will pick a large number of talks from abstracts to elevate early career investigators. Join us!
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SEEON ANGIOSCIENCE! Fantastic, long-running meeting on Development & Maintenance of the Vasculature.
🗓️ Sept 2026
🌍 Bavaria, Germany
Registration open! Join us!
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Simply delighted to end the year with the acceptance of Yan’s paper www.nature.com/articles/s41.... It was a heroic effort on her part, and many thanks to all our collaborators for their help!
@vizcie.bsky.social @juliaeckert.bsky.social
🪰Yu-Chiun Wang’s team & Univ. of Hohenheim group discovered how fly embryos solve the “tissue tectonic collision” that occurs in morphogenetic movements between tissues and why the #cephalicfurrow evolved, a longstanding mystery to developmental biologists.
In @nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Tissues transition between solid & fluid states in development & disease; cytoplasm turns crowded or inert to literally 'solidify'. Any connections? Turns out nothing's known. @sameerthukral.bsky.social & @bipashadey29.bsky.social pulled this review off brilliantly with a conceptual synthesis.
@mvikkula.bsky.social
Another successful #leducq #ReVAMP meeting held at Orford, Canada! Great science, food and friendship... Thanks @ondinecleaver.bsky.social for hosting us and showing us the way up the mountain! A la prochaine!
Tiny molecular spirals in cells can scale up to control the twist and turn of entire tissues, an important step towards understanding left-right symmetry in tissues and organs.
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Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🥳
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We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.
A fantastic week at the Mechanobiology Conference in Vietnam, filled with fascinating talks, fruitful discussions, and amazing people.
Huge thanks to the organizers and ICISE for making it all possible!
Missing @yuchiunwang.bsky.social in the group photo!
And many thanks to speakers from Japan: @satsawai.bsky.social, @ashindo.bsky.social, @sugimuralab.bsky.social, Takashi Hiiragi, Fumio Motegi, Tatsuo Shibata, Hirokazu Tanimoto, Satoshi Toda and Fumiko Toyoshima
Special thanks to @ybellaichelab.bsky.social, @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social, @herveturlier.bsky.social, Lance Davidson, Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich, Madan Rao, Yusuke Toyama and Fengzhu Xiong for making the long journey to Japan. And to @rashmi-priya.bsky.social for making a special appearance!
Thanks to the generosity of #FujiharaFoundation and the excellent organization of Fumio Motegi and his team, the ' #Mechanics of Life Across Scales' symposium was held successfully at beautiful Awaji. We had 3 days of fantastic #mechanobiology talks with speakers from Japan, India, Europe and US.
Had the absolute pleasure of hosting the Leducq ReVAMP biannual meeting @riken-bdr.bsky.social in Kobe this spring! #endothelial #mechanobiology #vascularmalformations See you all again in Fall @ondinecleaver.bsky.social @mvikkula.bsky.social
Check us out @the-node.bsky.social !
📢 Mechanobiology Conference III: From Fundamental Research to Applications
📅 July 06-12
📍 ICISE Quy Nhon, central Vietnam
The registration and abstract submission is now open!
🔗 icisequynhon.com/conferences/...
Thank you @the-node.bsky.social for inviting me to write a 'Behind the Story' piece on our recent study!
Exploring the Uncharted Waters of Endothelial Tip Cell Migration: A Story of Aquaporins, Hydrostatic Pressure, and Angiogenesis thenode.biologists.com/exploring-th...
Stoked to present our latest, superbly led by Chris et al & @torres-sanchez.bsky.social We tackled a fundamental problem – how tissues are patterned during development – found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
At #RIKEN BDR, women represent 10% of PIs, 31% of researchers, 38% of students and 74% of technical staff. On #IDWGIS last month, we celebrated their achievements and contributions to research at BDR. www.bdr.riken.jp/en/news/bdr-... #internationalwomensday
Zebrafish study reveals that, along with actin polymerisation, hydrostatic pressure underlies the push of endothelial tip cells into new territory
📹: Igor Kondrychyn et al RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan in @elife.bsky.social
➡️: bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
Chuffed to find out that our work was featured as an Insight article in @elife.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/106.... Thank you Sean Sun and colleague for highlighting our work!
Proteins that allow water to move in and out of cells help shape the development of new blood vessels.
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What an honor to host @itaiyanai.bsky.social at RIKEN-BDR, Kobe! From learning Night Science creativity, to see them come alive with Day Science rigor, Itai truly demonstrated the "yes, and" attitude in person! Thank you for your great energy, passion and generosity! Can't wait to have you back!
Read the Research Highlight here! www.riken.jp/en/news_pubs... @RIKEN BDR
