Masaya Hagiwara
@masayah.bsky.social
Bioengineer, focusing on organ reconstitution by controlling cellular microenvironment. Team leader of Human Biomimetic System Lab at RIKEN, Japan.
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Masaya Hagiwara
@masayah.bsky.social
· Feb 4
Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher at Human Biomimetic System RIKEN Hakubi Research Team (K24101)
www.riken.jp
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
www2.bdr.riken.jp
October 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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...
“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...
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...
An excellent opportunity to launch your own lab in Japan, aligned with your research interests.
www.riken.jp/en/careers/p...
FY 2025 Call for RIKEN ECL Team / Unit Leaders
www.riken.jp
May 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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...
An excellent opportunity to launch your own lab in Japan, aligned with your research interests.
www.riken.jp/en/careers/p...
Reposted by Masaya Hagiwara
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...
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...
March 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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...
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...
Reposted by Masaya Hagiwara
📣 #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
➡️ https://buff.ly/3EByN3E
This programme enables researchers based in Switzerland to do a research stay in #Japan for 12 to 24 months.
📆 Submission deadline: 30 April 2025
➡️ https://buff.ly/3EByN3E
February 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
📣 #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
➡️ https://buff.ly/3EByN3E
This programme enables researchers based in Switzerland to do a research stay in #Japan for 12 to 24 months.
📆 Submission deadline: 30 April 2025
➡️ https://buff.ly/3EByN3E
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...
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...
Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher at Human Biomimetic System RIKEN Hakubi Research Team (K24101)
www.riken.jp
February 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Masaya Hagiwara
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/...
We show how BM turnover & expansion coordinate with cellular movements & divisions, highlighting their active & synergistic roles in skin morphogenesis.
rupress.org/jcb/article/...
December 23, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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/...
We show how BM turnover & expansion coordinate with cellular movements & divisions, highlighting their active & synergistic roles in skin morphogenesis.
rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Reposted by Masaya Hagiwara
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)
December 18, 2024 at 7:33 AM
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)
Reposted by Masaya Hagiwara
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...
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...
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...
www.nature.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Masaya Hagiwara
📢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
@leonerossetti.bsky.social
&
@koechllab.bsky.social
studying the impact of tissue mechanics on T-cells 👩🔬
kcl.ac.uk/dentistry/re.... Deadline 19 Jan
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 .
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2024 at 11:51 AM
📢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
@leonerossetti.bsky.social
&
@koechllab.bsky.social
studying the impact of tissue mechanics on T-cells 👩🔬
kcl.ac.uk/dentistry/re.... Deadline 19 Jan
Reposted by Masaya Hagiwara
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!!
The deadline for short talk submissions is December 15!!
We will have "Towards Redesigning Lifecycles" at RIKEN BDR, Kobe Japan, March 3-5!
Gorgeous Speakers🤓, Free Registration🤑, Japan in Spring🌸.
What else do you want?
The oral abstract deadline is Dec 15.
www2.bdr.riken.jp/sympo/2025/i...
Gorgeous Speakers🤓, Free Registration🤑, Japan in Spring🌸.
What else do you want?
The oral abstract deadline is Dec 15.
www2.bdr.riken.jp/sympo/2025/i...
December 7, 2024 at 6:15 AM
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!!
The deadline for short talk submissions is December 15!!
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!
Registration for oral presentation: Due by 12th December
Registration fee: FREE!
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...
www2.bdr.riken.jp
December 4, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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!
Registration for oral presentation: Due by 12th December
Registration fee: FREE!
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!
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!
Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher at Human biomimetic system RIKEN Hakubi Research Team (K24037)
www.riken.jp
December 2, 2024 at 7:33 AM
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!
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!