We are an interdisciplinary team with diverse backgrounds including physics, engineering, biology, and medicine. We are interested in uncovering fundamental principles of (dys)functional organizations in living cells, with a particular focus on biomolecular condensates and aggregates.
Shunsuke received his B.S. in department of science from Kyoto University in 2011 and received his Ph.D. in physics and astronomy from Kyoto University in 2016, where he experimentally and numerically revealed the coupling mechanism of phase separation and membrane shape due to the asymmetric lipid composition in lipid bilayers together with Professor Takashi Taniguchi.
After his Ph.D., he conducted postdoctoral research on "three-dimensional" phase separation in living cells at Princeton University with Professor Cliff Brangwynne, where he was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow. At Princeton, he studied nucleation principles of biomolecular condensates with advanced imaging and bioengineering technologies in order to reveal how condensates form at right time at right place.
He joined the Center for iPS Cell Research and Applications (CiRA) at Kyoto University in 2022 as an associate professor to elucidate fundamental principles of biomolecular organization in intracellular space in the context of cellular physiology and diseases using state-of-art technologies (e.g. super-resolution imaging and optogenetics).
