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BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS, NON-EQUILIBRIUM SOFT MATTER

 Biological systems are largely made of soft materials such as colloids, polymers, foams, gels, and membranes. Softness of the constituent materials provide complexity, flexibility, toughness as well as responsiveness to biological systems. Soft matter physics aims for fundamental understanding of "softness" of biological materials. Why core parts of living organisms consist of soft materials?
 Mechanics of soft matters in living systems are regulated by metabolic activity. The non-equilibrium mechanics of soft matters play essential roles to facilitate dynamic processes in life. We investigate the statistical mechanics and dynamics of the process from material physics perspectives, by measuring "softness" and "non-equilibrium properties" of soft matter.

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2022

 

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2016

  • Kohei Tanamachi was awarded the poster prize for 64th the society of rheology, Japan
  • Our article was publised in Rhysical Review Letters, "Analytical Limit Distributions from Random Power-Law Interactions
  • Ryo Ogiwara (master's student) was awarded the poster prize for cell competition colloquium, Japan

 

2010

  • Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan

 

2009

  • Work shop "nonequilibrium soft matter"
  • "high resolution probing of cellular force transmission" editor's suggestion

 

2008

  • Invited talk in annual seeting of Japan physical society
  • Hosted SSP symposium (physics)

 

2007

  • Invited talk in American Society for cell biology, annual meeting
  • S. M. Perren Research Award