No.143 Seminar ： How do cells move and divide? –Synthetic cell approach–
- Makito MIYAZAKI (The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research/Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Associate Professor)
- 2018/02/06 4:30pm
- The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research (Research Administration Building 1F)
- Japanese(This seminar is open for students and researchers at Kyoto Univ.)
Summary
Motility and Self-replication: Both are essential functions for all living systems that could be regarded as a definition of life. I have been studying the mechanisms of motility and self-replication in single-cell level, because the cell is the smallest unit of life. In this seminar, I will introduce my research interests on cell biological study from the viewpoint of physics, then I will give you a short overview of the cytoskeleton, which regulates cell motility and division processes. After that, I will present the advantages of the synthetic cell approach, followed by our experimental results. Finally, I would like to discuss about my research projects during the Hakubi program.