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Masaya Hagiwara

@masayah.bsky.social
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Bioengineer, focusing on organ reconstitution by controlling cellular microenvironment. Team leader of Human Biomimetic System Lab at RIKEN, Japan.

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Yanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This epic paper, which has been a heroic 10 year journey for the lead author, Ricardo Barrientos, is finally out in Cell today! Many thanks to all co-authors, especially Billie Meadowcroft and Andela Saric for their beautiful MD simulations www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape
Basement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane ada...
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RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) @riken-bdr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🚨Apply for a position under the BDR–RISE Program! Seeking highly motivated early-career researchers to lead cross-disciplinary projects across multiple BDR labs. 🗓️Deadline: June 30, 2026 See full job ad👇 www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
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Seeking a Senior Research Scientist, Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (25-3469)
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Masaya Hagiwara @masayah.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We encourage young researchers and those working on unique, creative and interdisciplinary ideas and technologies to join. There will be a poster session, with some of poster abstracts selected for oral presentations. Travel grants are available from around the world.
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Masaya Hagiwara @masayah.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We’re excited to share that the RIKEN BDR Symposium 2026 titled “Biological Horizons: Innovative Explorations into Life’s Mechanisms and Dynamics” will be held March 2–3, 2026 at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (Kobe, Japan). www2.bdr.riken.jp/sympo/2026/i...
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RIKEN BDR Symposium 2026
RIKEN BDR Symposium 2026 -Biological Horizons: Innovative Explorations into Life’s Mechanisms and Dynamics- will be held at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Kobe, Japan on March 2 to 3...
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Masaya Hagiwara @masayah.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
New PI position alert! An excellent opportunity to launch your own lab in Japan, aligned with your research interests. www.riken.jp/en/careers/p...
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FY 2025 Call for RIKEN ECL Team / Unit Leaders
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RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) @riken-bdr.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Thank you to everyone who attended the 2025 RIKEN BDR- CuSTOM Joint Organoid Symposium in Kobe! The last two and a half days were filled with exciting talks on the latest advancements in #organoid research. We wish everyone a safe journey home! www2.bdr.riken.jp/joint-organo...
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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) @snsf.ch · 14/02/2025
📣 #Call for proposals: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 This programme enables researchers based in Switzerland to do a research stay in #Japan for 12 to 24 months. 📆 Submission deadline: 30 April 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/3EByN3E
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Masaya Hagiwara @masayah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Job Alert! We are recruiting a postdoc for organoid technology at RIKEN BDR, Japan. This is a valuable opportunity to work in collaboration with multiple labs, aiming for an advanced integration of developmental biology and engineering. Please contact! www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
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Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher at Human Biomimetic System RIKEN Hakubi Research Team (K24101)
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Hironobu Fujiwara : 藤原裕展 @hirofujiwara.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Through live imaging with new tools, Wuergezhen et al. visualise the hidden dynamics of the basement membrane (BM). We show how BM turnover & expansion coordinate with cellular movements & divisions, highlighting their active & synergistic roles in skin morphogenesis. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Have you ever wondered how your back formed? The human embryo makes a neural tube (future spinal cord) and somites (trunk muscle/bone) from ~d20. They’re formed at the same time and place, so we used human Trunk-like Structures (hTLS) to investigate their ‘co-development’… (1/7)
Scanning electron microscope image of a human trunk-like structure (left) and human embryo (right) false coloured for somites (magenta) and neural tube (gold).
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Aki Teranishi @aki-teranishi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Excited to share our latest work published in Nature Communications! We reported an elastoplastic property of epithelia that determines the irreversibility of folding and is regulated in a mechanosensitive manner. #Mechanobiology #Biophysics #Developmentalbiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An actin bracket-induced elastoplastic transition determines epithelial folding irreversibility - Nature Communications
During morphogenesis, epithelial folding is irreversible, ensuring that the process proceeds in one direction. Here, the authors report that, given sufficient curvature or duration of a fold, these ce...
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gentlemanlab.bsky.social @gentlemanlab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
📢We're recruiting! Fully funded PhD studentship starting Oct 2025. Interested in #mechanobiology #CancerResearch #Immunology? Awesome project w/ @leonerossetti.bsky.social & @koechllab.bsky.social studying the impact of tissue mechanics on T-cells 👩‍🔬 kcl.ac.uk/dentistry/re.... Deadline 19 Jan
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kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a messy room .
ALT: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a messy room .
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Tsuyoshi Hirashima @hirashima0203.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I just found out about the 2025 RIKEN BDR Symposium, and it looks amazing! If you’re into cutting-edge research, this is a great chance to present and connect. The deadline for short talk submissions is December 15!!
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Masaya Hagiwara @masayah.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The RIKEN BDR Symposium 2025 will be held at the same venue immediately before the 2025 RIKEN BDR-CuSTOM Joint Organoid Symposium. BDR Symposium from March 3rd to the morning of March 5th BDR-CuSTOM Symposium from the afternoon of March 5th to March 7th. Why not join us in Kobe this March?
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RIKEN BDR Symposium 2025
RIKEN BDR Symposium 2025: Towards Redesigning Lifecycles will be held at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Kobe, Japan on March 3 to 5, 2025.
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Masaya Hagiwara @masayah.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Please join us for an exciting symposium on organoids, March 5-7 in Kobe! Explore cutting edge technologies, share insights, and discuss future directions in architecting organs from stem cells. Registration for oral presentation: Due by 12th December Registration fee: FREE!
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2025 RIKEN BDR-CuSTOM Joint Organoid Symposium
2025 RIKEN BDR-CuSTOM Joint Organoid Symposium“Integrated organoid science: Stem Cells, Engineering, Medicine” will be held at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Kobe, Japan on March 5 t...
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Masaya Hagiwara @masayah.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Open Postdoc Position! Join us in exploring how to provide spatiotemporal information to cells, mimicking developmental processes, to control organoid architecture. Let’s work together in an environment where we aim to bring the idea of “Can we culture cells as we design?” to life!
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Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher at Human biomimetic system RIKEN Hakubi Research Team (K24037)
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