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A new preprint has been published entitled "Strain softening and hysteresis arising from 3D multicellular dynamics during long-term large deformation". Collaboration with Dr. Tsubota (Chiba U) & Tetsuya Hiraiwa (Academia Sinica). biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Prof. Ryo Akiyama (Dep Chem, Kyushu U) is visiting us from today! He will talk about their theoretical study on effective interaction between like-charged particles in an electrolyte solution on Monday morning at IOP. Welcome and thank you, Akiyama-san!

We, organizers, are pleased to announce that the international conference on mathematical biology, ACMB-JSMB2025, will be held in Kyoto from July 7th to 11th, 2025!😀 The details have been released on the website! pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/acmbj…

Mr Akinori Miyamoto, who is studying microrheology expt at Murayama-lab in TUAT and Tanimoto-lab in YCU and was doing intern before in our lab in MBI, visited us in IoP-AS to develop his research!! Thank you Akinori for coming! Let’s bridge soft and living matters together more💪

Three PhD students from mechgen.jp (Mr Teranishi, Mr Fukamachi, Mr Karimata) are visiting us Hiraiwa Lab - Theoretical Physical Biology Group in IoP-AS PALM labs @IOP AS TW to develop our biophysics research connection!! Thank you all for coming, sharing your beautiful results, and having stimulating discussions with us!

We invited Dr. Won Kyu Kim (SNU/KIAS, Korea) to our lab Hiraiwa Lab - Theoretical Physical Biology Group in IoP-AS PALM labs @IOP AS TW to learn his analytical methods for stochastic dynamics! He also gave a seminar at IoP on theory of first-passage time under confinement. Thank you for coming and sharing your knowledge, Wonkyu!

I invited Dr. Won Kyu Kim, precious office mate when we were working in Berlin 10 yrs ago (Prof Roland Netz's group, Free University Berlin), to our lab at Taipei. Great moment. He is an excellent theorist on stochastic dynamics and we learnt a lot about it. Vielen Dank, Won Kyu!

Last week, Dr. Garima Rani visited us at IOP-AS to expand research interaction between us! She also talked about their studies on mechanics and spatiotemporal dynamics of microorganisms. She will launch a theory lab in IIIT-Dehli after the return. Thank you Garima for coming😀

Keng-hui Keng-hui Lin and Tetsuya Tetsuya Hiraiwa invited Prof. Jun Nakanishi (NIMS, Japan) for 3 days. We learnt a lot from his seminar on their material development to study cellular mechanobiology. Wonderful days!

New paper, "Strain softening and hysteresis arising from 3D multicellular dynamics during long-term large deformation," is now published in "J Mech Behav Biomed Mater." Fantastic collaboration with K Tsubota, S Horikoshi, Tetsuya Hiraiwa. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New preprint by Yuting Lou! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We added detailed calculations, more case studies, and discussions on applicability, to Lou et al PRL '23. Fruitful collaboration with Sophie Theis, Timothy Saunders and JF Rupprecht - OM team starting at MBI! Thank you all and Mechanobiology Institute !

Prof. Oleg Igoshin from Dep Bioeng, Rice U, visited us on Tuesday! He delivered a great talk on their researches to uncover mechanisms of bacterial pattern formation using math modeling and machine-learning. We learnt a lot. Thank you again, Prof Igoshin!!

Congratulations to our great colleague, Dr. Kwan-Tai Leung, on his retirement🥳🎉🎊 We had the celebration event this month, which illuminated his successful path in both the work here and the life outside! Thank you very much, KT, for being a wonderful colleague of us, PALM!😀

How do simple chordate larvae sense water flow and swim upstream? 🌊🧠 Our new preprint from Chatzigeorgiou lab, in collaboration with Tetsuya Hiraiwa, combines behavior, calcium imaging, and modeling to explore this flow-sensing behavior. Read the full story⤵️biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Posted a little while ago on the other social "space" , here is our preprint on the cellular and behavioral mechanisms underlying Ciona larval rheotaxis. Great collab with Tetsuya Hiraiwa and Ayumi Ozawa. Well done Oleg!

He is currently working on how the consequences of adding self-propelled particles in a passive bath can be explained by effectively thermodynamic concepts.

Faculty position opening at Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica 中央研究院 Academia Sinica , Taiwan. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30190 Join us PALM labs @IOP AS TW !

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… New publication by Chia-Fu Chou with Chin-Lin Guo! New technology for scalable biofabrication integrating their special 3D PCL fiber scaffolds (AJ-3D ES scaffolds) and cell-laden hydrogels (bioink). Congratulations, Chia-Fu, Chin-Lin and all!!

📢 We are hiring! The Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, is inviting applications for open-rank faculty positions in various areas of physics. 📝 Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30190 ⏰ Deadline: September 1, 2025 We're looking forward to your application!