We encourage young researchers and those working on unique, creative and interdisciplinary ideas and technologies to join.
There will be a poster session, with some of poster abstracts selected for oral presentations.
Travel grants are available from around the world.
We’re excited to share that the RIKEN BDR Symposium 2026 titled
“Biological Horizons: Innovative Explorations into Life’s Mechanisms and Dynamics”
will be held March 2–3, 2026 at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (Kobe, Japan).
www2.bdr.riken.jp/sympo/2026/i...
New PI position alert!
An excellent opportunity to launch your own lab in Japan, aligned with your research interests.
www.riken.jp/en/careers/p...
Thank you to everyone who attended the 2025 RIKEN BDR-
CuSTOM Joint Organoid Symposium in Kobe! The last two and a half days were filled with exciting talks on the latest advancements in #organoid research.
We wish everyone a safe journey home!
www2.bdr.riken.jp/joint-organo...
📣 #Call for proposals: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
This programme enables researchers based in Switzerland to do a research stay in #Japan for 12 to 24 months.
📆 Submission deadline: 30 April 2025
➡️ https://buff.ly/3EByN3E
Job Alert!
We are recruiting a postdoc for organoid technology at RIKEN BDR, Japan.
This is a valuable opportunity to work in collaboration with multiple labs, aiming for an advanced integration of developmental biology and engineering.
Please contact!
www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
Through live imaging with new tools, Wuergezhen et al. visualise the hidden dynamics of the basement membrane (BM).
We show how BM turnover & expansion coordinate with cellular movements & divisions, highlighting their active & synergistic roles in skin morphogenesis.
rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Scanning electron microscope image of a human trunk-like structure (left) and human embryo (right) false coloured for somites (magenta) and neural tube (gold).
Have you ever wondered how your back formed? The human embryo makes a neural tube (future spinal cord) and somites (trunk muscle/bone) from ~d20. They’re formed at the same time and place, so we used human Trunk-like Structures (hTLS) to investigate their ‘co-development’… (1/7)
Excited to share our latest work published in Nature Communications!
We reported an elastoplastic property of epithelia that determines the irreversibility of folding and is regulated in a mechanosensitive manner.
#Mechanobiology #Biophysics #Developmentalbiology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢We're recruiting! Fully funded PhD studentship starting Oct 2025. Interested in #mechanobiology #CancerResearch #Immunology? Awesome project w/
@leonerossetti.bsky.social
&
@koechllab.bsky.social
studying the impact of tissue mechanics on T-cells 👩🔬
kcl.ac.uk/dentistry/re.... Deadline 19 Jan
I just found out about the 2025 RIKEN BDR Symposium, and it looks amazing! If you’re into cutting-edge research, this is a great chance to present and connect.
The deadline for short talk submissions is December 15!!
The RIKEN BDR Symposium 2025 will be held at the same venue immediately before the 2025 RIKEN BDR-CuSTOM Joint Organoid Symposium.
BDR Symposium from March 3rd to the morning of March 5th
BDR-CuSTOM Symposium from the afternoon of March 5th to March 7th.
Why not join us in Kobe this March?
Please join us for an exciting symposium on organoids, March 5-7 in Kobe! Explore cutting edge technologies, share insights, and discuss future directions in architecting organs from stem cells.
Registration for oral presentation: Due by 12th December
Registration fee: FREE!
Open Postdoc Position!
Join us in exploring how to provide spatiotemporal information to cells, mimicking developmental processes, to control organoid architecture. Let’s work together in an environment where we aim to bring the idea of “Can we culture cells as we design?” to life!
