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Exploring the scientific foundations of life through interdisciplinary approaches to address society’s problems.

Team Leader Takefumi Kondo

Team Leader
Takefumi Kondo Ph.D.

Laboratory for Developmental Genome System

LocationKobe/ Developmental Biology Bldg.

E-mailtakefumi.kondo [at] riken.jp

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Exploring feedback system harmonizing function and shape

Our bodies are composed of multiple organs with appropriate "forms" and "functions." During animal development, epithelial tissues, which consist of a single layer of cell sheets, repeatedly grow and deform to shape an appropriate form. The function of an organ depends on the property of cells, and cells appropriately differentiate to fulfill the physiological roles of their constituent organs. These physical and biochemical processes proceed simultaneously. Therefore, to understand the self-organization mechanism in organogenesis, we believe that it is necessary to clarify the dynamics of both processes, how the two crosstalk spatiotemporally, and how this crosstalk achieves the harmony of form and function. Our laboratory aims to reveal the diversity and universality of feedback mechanisms across the genome-cell-tissue hierarchy by quantitatively analyzing the dynamics at each level using single-cell genomics, imaging techniques, and Drosophila genetics.

Selected Publications

Tsuboi A, Fujimoto K, Kondo T.
Spatio-temporal remodeling of extracellular matrix orients epithelial sheet folding.
Science Advances 9, eadh2154 Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 JST 2023 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh2154

Sakaguchi S, Okochi Y, Tanegashima C, et al.
Single-cell transcriptome atlas of Drosophila gastrula 2.0.
Cell Reports 42, 112707 Tue Jul 25 00:00:00 JST 2023 doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112707

Okochi Y, Sakaguchi S, Nakae K, et al.
Model-based prediction of spatial gene expression via generative linear mapping.
Nature Communications 12(1), 3731 Thu Jun 17 00:00:00 JST 2021 doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24014-x

Kondo T, Hayashi S.
Two-step regulation of trachealess ensures tight coupling of cell fate with morphogenesis in the Drosophila trachea.
eLife 8, e45145 Fri Aug 23 00:00:00 JST 2019 doi: 10.7554/eLife.45145

Kondo T, Hayashi S.
Mechanisms of cell height changes that mediate epithelial invagination.
Development, Growth & Differentiation 57(4), 313-323 Fri May 01 00:00:00 JST 2015 doi: 10.1111/dgd.12224

Kondo T, Sakuma T, Wada H, et al.
TALEN-induced gene knock out in Drosophila.
Development, Growth & Differentiation 56(1), 86-91 Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 JST 2014 doi: 10.1111/dgd.12097

Kondo T, Hayashi S.
Mitotic cell rounding accelerates epithelial invagination.
Nature 494(7435), 125-129 Thu Feb 07 00:00:00 JST 2013 doi: 10.1038/nature11792

Kondo T, Plaza S, Zanet J, et al.
Small peptides switch the transcriptional activity of Shavenbaby during Drosophila embryogenesis.
Science 329(5989), 336-339 Fri Jul 16 00:00:00 JST 2010 doi: 10.1126/science.1188158

Kondo T, Hashimoto Y, Kato K, et al.
Small peptide regulators of actin-based cell morphogenesis encoded by a polycistronic mRNA.
Nature Cell Biology 9(6), 660-665 Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 JST 2007 doi: 10.1038/ncb1595

Members

Team Leader

Team LeaderTakefumi Kondo

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Research ScientistArisu Tsuboi

Technical ScientistMitsutaka Kadota

Technical ScientistOsamu Nishimura

Expert TechnicianChiharu Tanegashima

Technical Staff IIKaori Tatsumi

Technical Staff IDooseon Cho

AssistantSayo Saito

Student TraineeSonoko Mizuno

Student TraineeShutaro Endo

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