The 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan

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2SMP The survival strategies of unicellular organisms on a microscale

Wed. Nov 15, 2023 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Room M (Conference Room 431+432 (Bldg. 4, 3F))

Organizers: Kage Azusa (Gakushuin Univ.)、Nomura Mami (Yamagata Univ.)、Shiba Kogiku (Univ. of Tsukuba)

共催:学術変革領域研究(A)「ジオラマ行動力学」

Movement is one of the fundamental characteristics of life. Although biophysical studies on molecular- and organelle-level motility have elucidated the mechanisms of biological movement, much remains unknown about behavior and its significance at the cellular level. In this symposium, we invite researchers to challenge the behavioral analysis of unicellular organisms and the techniques for capturing cell movement on a microscale. Through the presentations on various subjects including ciliates, amoebae, microalgae, and marine particles, we would like to discuss the behavior and survival strategies of unicellular organisms which are unique to microenvironments, aiming to establish the field of biophysics of behavior.

2:05 PM - 2:35 PM

〇Shashank Shekhar1, Hanliang Guo2, Sean Colin3, Wallace Marshall4, Eva Kanso5, Jack Costello6 (1.Emory University, Atlanta, USA, 2.Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, USA, 3.Roger Williams University, Bristol, USA, 4.University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA, 5.University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, 6.Providence College, Providence, USA)