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Organ Morphogenesis Regulation Lab
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The lab studies how organs and tissues take shape in Xenopus embryos.
AboutAbout the lab
Pursuing the functional beauty of living organisms
The Organ Morphogenesis Regulation Lab uses Xenopus embryos and tadpoles to study how the shapes of tissues and organs are formed.
The body is made of tissues and organs that embody the beauty of form designed to maximize function (functional beauty).
These shapes are assembled during development through the precise movements of individual cells, but much of the mechanism, including what gives the cells their instructions, remains a mystery.
The lab aims to uncover the mechanisms by which cells form and control shape while coping with stress from the environment.
On the lab's website, it is presented under the name "Shindo Lab."
Key terms
- Morphogenesis
- The process during development in which cells move and the shapes of tissues and organs are assembled
- Follicle
- A ball-shaped tissue with an internal lumen that makes up the thyroid
- Epidermis
- The tissue that covers the surface of the embryo like a single sheet
NewsLab news
A master's student won a Poster Presentation Award at the 2nd Asian Xenopus Conference
A paper by Prof. Shindo and colleagues was published in EMBO Reports
ResearchResearch themes
The shapes of tissues and organs are assembled during development through the precise movements of individual cells (morphogenesis). Using Xenopus embryos and tadpoles, the lab seeks to uncover how cells form and control shape while coping with stress from the environment.
*Illustrative imageNutrition and Thyroid Morphogenesis
For the tadpole thyroid to form follicles, which are ball-shaped tissues, the tadpole must start feeding, and shape formation temporarily stalls when nutrition is insufficient. Paying particular attention to the relationship with the digestive tract, the lab aims to clarify how nutrition controls shape formation.
*Illustrative imageForming Organs That Withstand Environmental Fluctuation
Around the time organ shape is completed, individuals are exposed to fluctuations in nutrition, temperature, pH, and other factors. By manipulating the environment of Xenopus larvae, the lab searches the whole body for organs that respond to environmental factors and for their target molecules.
*Illustrative imageHow the Epidermis Withstands Stretching and Compression
Even when the embryo's body shape changes dramatically, the epidermis neither tears nor sags. The lab is investigating whether neurotransmitters and their receptors correct distortions in the shape of epidermal cells caused by stretching or compression.
*Illustrative imageEmbryonic Posture and Shape Formation
Within the limited space of the egg envelope, the embryo builds tissues and organs while holding a bent posture. The lab develops devices that apply external force and specialized devices that measure stress within tissue, in order to examine the relationship between force and shape formation.
MembersFaculty
The Organ Morphogenesis Regulation Lab consists of faculty, master's and undergraduate students, a secretary, a Frog Manager, and a Lab Technician.As of 2026
- ProfessorAsako Shindo
- LecturerYuri Yasuoka
- Assistant ProfessorSoichiro Kato
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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: “Tadpoles 10 days” The original uploader was Tarquin at English Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Nutrition and Thyroid Morphogenesis: “American Bullfrog Tadpole 3D Model, Bullfrog Lithobates catesbeianus Tadpole 3D model” Ffish.asia / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Forming Organs That Withstand Environmental Fluctuation: “XenopusLaevis 6473” Davefoc / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- How the Epidermis Withstands Stretching and Compression: “Cuboidal Epithelium Section” FishtailBob / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Embryonic Posture and Shape Formation: “Xenopusembrion” Juan J. Segura Sampedro / Public domain (cropped)
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- Related lab (Cell Function Design Lab): “Organoid (NIH BioArt )” Courtesy of NIAID Ryan Kissinger / Public domain (cropped)
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