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Multicellular Order Lab
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A research group that explores how order in the plant body arises from coordination among its cells.
AboutAbout the lab
Communication between cells creates order in plants.
The Multicellular Order Research Group uses plants to study how the order of the body arises when diverse cells communicate with one another and act in coordination.
The group aims to clarify how order among groups of cells is created and maintained, and how it changes depending on circumstances.
The group works on identifying the signaling molecules that carry information between cells, elucidating the mechanisms of that signaling, and analyzing the functions of the related genes.
The group also explores new ways of controlling multicellular order, using artificial compounds with novel activities that it discovered itself.
Key terms
- Signaling molecule
- A molecule that carries information between cells
- Organismal order
- The state in which the whole organism is normally well regulated and orderly
ResearchResearch themes
Inside the body of a multicellular organism, diverse groups of cells communicate with one another and act in coordination. This lab investigates how order among groups of cells is created and maintained, and how it changes depending on circumstances, using plants as its subject, since plants flexibly survive in whatever environment they happen to sprout in.
*Illustrative imageBeautiful cell patterns inside plants
In the plant body, cells from small to large are arranged in orderly, almost geometric patterns. The lab investigates how these patterns are formed, focusing on signaling molecules that are produced only in characteristic parts of the body.
*Illustrative imageSignal transmission that supports organismal order
Among the mechanisms that support the order of the whole organism (organismal order), the lab focuses in particular on signal transmission and is working to elucidate its mechanisms. In some cases, the failure of just a single piece of information to be transmitted causes the entire organism to age rapidly.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorNaoyuki Uchida
- Assistant ProfessorAsuka Higo
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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: “Plant Tissue Culture Lab - Atlanta Botanical Garden” Daderot / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Beautiful cell patterns inside plants: “354 Spider plant Chlorophytum comosum LEAF epidermis print” ChrisInMilton / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Signal transmission that supports organismal order: “ISS-56 Arabidopsis plants inside the Advanced Plant Habitat (1)” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Endocrine Signaling Lab): “Drosophila melanogaster under a microscope 01” Gannu03 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Genetics Lab): “Culture vials of Drosophila melanogaster in Unifei” Mateus S. Figueiredo / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Photobiology Lab): “Plant-cell-sucrose-gradient-fractions” Zuzanna K. Filutowska / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Microbial Motility Lab): “Microbiology techniques 1” Luis Fernando Flores LAB / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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