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Iwasaki Lab
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The lab draws on science and aesthetics together to explore "life" in its entirety.
AboutAbout the lab
From both science and art, toward life.
The Iwasaki Lab explores life through both scientific research and artistic creation and research.
Unraveling how organisms exist scientifically is important, but life is not something that biology discovered; it is also a composite concept with a complex social, historical, and philosophical accumulation.
The lab believes that what matters is to explore both at the same time while trying to read the relationship between them.
The lab regards art as an excellent place for nurturing such interdisciplinary inquiry.
Key terms
- Cyanobacteria
- Photosynthetic microorganisms. They live in a wide range of habitats, from polar regions to deserts, and supply much of the molecular oxygen on Earth.
- Circadian rhythm
- A rhythm with a period of about one day, kept inside cells. It can synchronize with the light-dark cycle of the environment.
- Bioaesthetics
- An attempt to explore the question of what life is through not only biology but also practices in the humanities and the arts.
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The lab pursues at the same time experimental biology on microorganisms and activities that explore life in practice from a broader standpoint, regardless of species. On the science side, it uses cyanobacteria, which are photosynthetic microorganisms, to study the phenomenon in which living things spontaneously generate rhythms and forms.
*Illustrative imageBiological clocks ticking inside cells
The lab studies the biological clock (circadian rhythm), in which rhythms are kept inside cells and can synchronize with environmental cycles. It is not limited to bacteria; it is a phenomenon universal to living things, also seen in humans.
*Illustrative imageForms created by cell populations
The lab studies collective behavior in which groups of cells, with movement, autonomously create large-scale spatial patterns. Using organisms as simple as possible, it seeks to elucidate principles common to all life.
*Illustrative imagePractice of bioaesthetics
Exploring life is not a privilege of the natural sciences; it is a major theme that humanity has long sought within culture, including society, literature, and art. The lab has created a place for research and creative work together with artists and humanities researchers interested in life, and runs it under the name metaPhorest.
MembersFaculty
At metaPhorest, the bioaesthetics platform run by the Iwasaki Lab, research and creative work are carried out together with artists and humanities researchers interested in life.
- ProfessorHideo Iwasaki
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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: “Cyanobacteria 029” Lamiot / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Biological clocks ticking inside cells: “Pendulum clock by Jacob Kock, antique furniture photography, IMG 0931 edit” Christoph Braun / CC0 (cropped)
- Forms created by cell populations: “A starling murmuration - geograph.org.uk - 6389346” Walter Baxter / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Practice of bioaesthetics: “BonsaiTridentMaple” Peggy Greb, USDA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Kikusato Lab): “City Lights of Asia and Middle East 2016” NASA Earth Observatory / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Kiga Lab): “Block tower on narrow base” Reseletti / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Okano Lab): “Plastic-compass” Evan-Amos / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Bannai Lab): “Synapsin and CamK2 positive neurons” ManuelSchottdorf / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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