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Cell Biomechanics Lab
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The lab studies cell movement through mechanics and systems engineering.
AboutAbout the lab
Seeing cell movement through the lens of mechanics
The lab focuses on cell biomechanics and investigates cell behavior.
Within cell behavior, the lab mainly studies cell motility in general.
When cells sense the physical environment and stimuli outside them, structures inside the cell such as the cytoskeleton change, and cell functions change as a result.
The lab aims to clarify this mechanism from the perspectives of mechanics and systems engineering, and to apply the findings to biomedical engineering.
Key terms
- Biomechanics
- A field that studies the workings of living bodies and cells using the concepts of mechanics
- Cytoskeleton
- A network of fibrous structures inside the cell that maintains its shape and generates movement
- Mechanobiology
- A field that studies how cells sense and respond to mechanical stimuli such as force and stiffness
ResearchResearch themes
The lab focuses on cell biomechanics, aiming to understand cell behavior from the perspectives of mechanics and systems engineering and to apply it to biomedical engineering. Within cell behavior, the lab mainly studies cell motility in general.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Cell Biomechanics Lab are faculty members and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2025
- Associate ProfessorMichiko Sugawara
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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: “HeLa-II” National Institutes of Health (NIH) / Public domain (cropped)
- Cell Biomechanics and Mechanobiology: “Fluorescence.microscope1” Bioguy10 / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ishii-Fukagawa Lab): “AMOLED display microphoto 002 front ( )” Jan Helebrant / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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