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Tasaki Lab
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The lab uncovers how living systems create their forms, using both mathematical models and data.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward the mechanisms by which life builds form
Prof. Tasaki studies, from a mathematical standpoint, how the complex structures of living systems arise and how they achieve their sophisticated functions.
The lab looks across multiple levels: gene-level regulation that determines cell states, the movement of cell populations, the shapes of tissues, and the relationship with the surrounding environment.
For each level, and for the links between levels, the lab builds mathematical models fitted to experimental data.
The lab also develops new data analysis methods to extract the necessary information from high-dimensional life science data.
Key terms
- Self-organization
- The spontaneous formation of an ordered pattern in the whole as parts influence one another
- Mathematical model
- A description of how a phenomenon works in mathematical equations, which can be run on a computer to reproduce the phenomenon
- High-dimensional data
- Data in which each item carries a large number of variables, so the overall picture is hard to see as it is
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to understand the self-organization of complex structures in living systems and their sophisticated functions. It takes an approach that spans biology, chemistry, physics, information science, and mathematics, and cuts across the spatiotemporal levels of the objects of study.
*Illustrative imageSeeing life across levels
The lab analyzes these levels from a multiscale perspective: gene-level regulation that controls cell states, collective motion determined by interactions between cells, the microscopic structure and macroscopic shape of cell populations and tissues, and the relationship with the surrounding environment.
*Illustrative imageMathematical models fitted to experimental data
From gene-level regulation in cells to tissue shape, the lab builds mathematical models fitted to experimental data for each level and for the links between levels.
*Illustrative imageIntegrating data analysis and models
Using newly developed data analysis methods, the lab extracts the necessary information from high-dimensional life science data. By integrating mathematical models with the extracted data, evolving the models, and deepening theory, the lab aims for a paradigm shift in the understanding, prediction, and control of life.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorSohei Tasaki
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Bacteria mats near Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone” Daniel Mayer / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Seeing life across levels: “Bacillus subtilis stained with Nile Red” EditorInTheRye / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Mathematical models fitted to experimental data: “An eye of microorganisms” Melfoulon / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Integrating data analysis and models: “Microtubule binding domain fused with GFP-tag reveals microtubule network of HeLa cell line” DrBib / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Nakano Lab): “Hurricane Isabel from ISS” Image courtesy of Mike Trenchard, Earth Sciences & Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Furuhata Lab): “Canal-helix” Ag2gaeh / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Human Mathematical Sciences Lab): “Diplora strigosa” LASZLO ILYES (laszlo-photo) from Cleveland, Ohio, USA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Miyao Lab): “Hofstadter's butterfly” Mytomi / Public domain (cropped)
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