Imai Masayuki

イマイマサユキ | Imai Masayuki

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor
Homepage URL (2)： https://www.bio.phys.tohoku.ac.jp , https://www.bio.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/en/index.html

Research field (1)： Bio-, chemical, and soft-matter physics

Research keywords (3)： protocell , biophysics , soft matter

Research theme for competitive and other funds (30)：

2010 - 現在 Physics from molecular assembly toward cellular life
2022 - 2025 Development of Hierarchical Computational Technique for Complex Flows in Surfactant/polymer Composites
2020 - 2023 Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic Conditions for Emergence of Life Revealed by Minimal Cells
2020 - 2022 Mechanical Model of Cancer Cells and Its Application to Pathology
2020 - 2022 Multi-Cellular Tissues as a Platform for Aquatic Functional Materials

2019 - 2022 Multiscale Simulations on Complex Flows in Polymer/Surfactant Systems

2016 - 2020 Physical and mathematical approaches to the deformation of vesicles---from contact to adhesion, fusion and budding

2016 - 2019 Formulation and application of veriational approaches to non-equilibrium phenomena

2016 - 2019 Road from vesicles to protocells: metabolism, information, thermodynamics

2013 - 2018 Physical approach from soft matter to artificial cell

2013 - 2018 Synergy of Fluctuation and Structure : Quest for Universal Laws in Non-Equilibrium Systems

2013 - 2016 Physics of development from molecular assembly to protocell

2010 - 2014 Coupling between Deformations of Vesicle and Chemical Stimuli: Approach from Soft Matter toward Cellular Life

2011 - 2012 Swimming vesicle driven by artificial flagella

2006 - 2010 Phase Transition Dynamics of Soft matter Induced by Guest Components

2006 - 2010 Overview study on the creation of non-equilibrium soft matter physics

2007 - 2009 Morphology Formation Dynamics of Multi-Component Vesicles

2006 - 2007 準結晶構造をもつソフトマターメソフェイズの探索

2004 - 2006 Kinetics of structural transitions in polymeric systems ・・・properties of gyroid structure・・・

2003 - 2005 Soft Matter Complex Systems as Model Biological Systems

2004 - 2004 小角散乱を用いた次世代ナノ構造解析

2001 - 2003 Applied mathematics of pattern formation in material sciences

2000 - 2002 Dynamics of Morphology Transition of Complex Liquids

2000 - 2002 Crystallization mechanism of polymer

2000 - 2000 メゾ空間に拘束された高分子の相転移

1997 - 1999 Structural Formation during Induction Period of First Order Phase Transition

1995 - 1997 Study of Fluxon by Means of Neutron Scattering and Its Application to Engineering Science

1996 - 1996 高分子の結晶化におけるミクロからメゾスコピックへの秩序形成

1995 - 1995 高分子の結晶化におけるメゾスコピックな秩序形成と動的構造

1995 - 1995 高分子の結晶化に伴う密度および配向ゆらぎの成長過程

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Papers (147)：

Minoru Kurisu, Ryosuke Katayama, Yuka Sakuma, Toshihiro Kawakatsu, Peter Walde, Masayuki Imai. Synthesising a minimal cell with artificial metabolic pathways. Communications Chemistry. 2023. 6. 1
Minoru Kurisu, Masayuki Imai. Concepts of a synthetic minimal cell: Information molecules, metabolic pathways, and vesicle reproduction. Biophysics and Physicobiology. 2023
Toshikaze Chiba, Yuka Sakuma, Masayuki Imai, Primož Ziherl. Morphology of vesicle triplets: shape transformation at weak and strong adhesion limits. Soft Matter. 2023. 19. 23. 4286-4296
Masayuki Imai, Yuka Sakuma, Minoru Kurisu, Peter Walde. From Vesicles toward Protocells and Minimal Cells. Soft Matter. 2022
Petch Khunpetch, Yuka Sakuma, Masayuki Imai, Toshihiro Kawakatsu. Birthing of a daughter vesicle in a model system for self-reproduction vesicles. Physics of Fluids. 2021. 33. 7. 077103-077103

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MISC (85)：

Miglena I. Angelova, Anne-Florence Bitbol, Michel Seigneuret, Galya Staneva, Atsuji Kodama, Yuka Sakuma, Toshihiro Kawakatsu, Masayuki Imai, Nicolas Puff. pH sensing by lipids in membranes: The fundamentals of pH-driven migration, polarization and deformations of lipid bilayer assemblies. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes. 2018
Taro Toyota, Taisuke Banno, Juan M. Castro, Masayuki Imai. Locomotion and Transformation of Underwater Micrometer-Sized Molecular Aggregates under Chemical Stimuli. JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN. 2017. 86. 10. 101006
Yuka Sakuma, Masayuki Imai. From vesicles to protocells: The roles of amphiphilic molecules. Life. 2015. 5. 1. 651-675
Jimbo T., Sakuma Y., Urakami N., Ziherl Primoz, Imai M. 30pAC-8 Three-Dimensional Analysis of Self-reproducing Vesicles. Meeting abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan. 2014. 69. 1. 440-440
坂下あい, 今井正幸, 野口博司. 30pAC-10 拘束条件及びトポロジーの違いによるベシクル変形機構の解明(30pAC 膜・ミセル,領域12(ソフトマター物理・化学物理・生物物理)). 日本物理学会講演概要集. 2014. 69. 1. 440-440

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Patents (1)：

2成分ベシクルによるマイクロメートルサイズの物質輸送システム

Books (6)：

The giant vesicle book
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group 2020 ISBN:9781498752176
Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials
Springer 2015 ISBN:9783642296475
The Structure and Function f Biological Membranes
Kagakudojin 2014
Dynamics of Heterogeneity in Fluid Membranes
Elsevier 2012
Shape deformations of multi-component vesicles
Elsevier 2010

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Lectures and oral presentations (19)：

Morphology of vesicle aggregates
(Mini Conference on Physical Chemistry of Molecular Assembly 2019)
情報高分子と連携したベシクルの増殖:ミニマルセルへの新しい道
(細胞を創る研究会 11.0 2018)
情報分子と連携したベシクルの増殖:ミニマルセルへの新しい道
(第69回コロイドおよび界面科学討論会 2018)
Reproduction of Vesicles Coupled with Template Polymerization: Toward Self-Reproducing Automaton
(International Liquid Crystal Conference 2018 2018)
Morphology of a Model Multicellular Organism
(Nano-structured soft matter 2018)

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Professional career (1)：

博士(工学) (Kyoto University)

Committee career (2)：

2011/04 - 2013/03 日本中性子科学会評議員
2011/04 - 2013/03 日本中性子科学会評議員

Association Membership(s) (4)：

Japanese Society of Neutron Science , American Chemical Society , Biophysical Society , Physical Society of Japan

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