Yukitaka Ishimoto

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University
: Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Systems Science and Technology, Akita Prefectural University

Degree: D.Phil(Mar, 2004, The University of Oxford)
M.HES(Kyoto University)
B.Sc(Kyoto University)

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YI received Master of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University and D.Phil (mathematical sciences) at the University of Oxford.

After he received the degree on mathematical physics (particle theory), he moved onto and conducts research in an interdisciplinary field of various branches of science & technology, such as soft matter physics, biophysics, fluid science, developmental biology, biological informatics, bioengineering, and so on.

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2024 - Present

Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University
Apr, 2019 - Apr, 2024

Professor, Faculty of Systems Science and Technology, Akita Prefectural University
Apr, 2024 - Sep, 2024

Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Systems Science and Technology, Akita Prefectural University
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2019

Associate Prof, Faculty of Systems Science and Technology, Akita Prefectural University
Nov, 2014 - Mar, 2015

Research Scientist, RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, RIKEN
Apr, 2012 - Nov, 2014

Research Scientist, Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN
Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2012

Special Assistant Prof, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University
Apr, 2006 - Mar, 2010

Research Fellow, Okayama Institute for Quantum Physics
Apr, 2004 - Mar, 2006

Research Scientist, RIKEN

Education

Oct, 1999 - Mar, 2004

Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Science, The University of Oxford

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2021 - Present

Committee member, Workshop for functional fluid engineering, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2024

Manager of student society, Tohoku Branch, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2024

Counsellor, Tohoku Branch, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2023

Delegate, Bioengineering Division, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2020

Public Relations Committee, Bioengineering Division, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

Major Papers

Programmed disassembly of a microtubule-based membrane protrusion network coordinates 3D epithelial morphogenesis in Drosophila

Ngan Vi Tran, Martti P Montanari, Jinghua Gui, Dmitri Lubenets, Léa Louise Fischbach, Hanna Antson, Yunxian Huang, Erich Brutus, Yasushi Okada, Yukitaka Ishimoto …

The EMBO Journal, 43(4) 568-594, Jan 23, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Coordinate Normalization of Live-Cell Imaging Data Reveals Growth Dynamics of the Arabidopsis Zygote.

Zichen Kang, Hikari Matsumoto, Tomonobu Nonoyama, Sakumi Nakagawa, Yukitaka Ishimoto, Satoru Tsugawa, Minako Ueda

Plant & cell physiology, Mar 20, 2023 Peer-reviewed
Dynamical Rheological Properties of In-Silico Epithelial Tissue by Vertex Models

Takuya Toyoshima, Yukitaka Ishimoto

Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, 36 632-638, 2020 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
Towards Particle Tracking Velocimetry of Cell Flow in Developing Tissue Using Deep Neural Network

Yukitaka Ishimoto, Tomoaki Watanabe

Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, 36 495-504, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Coupling between dynamic 3D tissue architecture and BMP morphogen signaling during Drosophila wing morphogenesis

Jinghua Gui, Yunxian Huang, Martin Montanari, Daniel Toddie-Moore, Kenji Kikushima, Stephanie Nix, Yukitaka Ishimoto, Osamu Shimmi

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 116(10) 4352-4361, Mar, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Spontaneous Spatial Correlation of Elastic Modulus in Jammed Epithelial Monolayers Observed by AFM

Yuki Fujii, Yuki Ochi, Masahiro Tuchiya, Mihoko Kajita, Yasuyuki Fujita, Yukitaka Ishimoto, Takaharu Okajima

BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 116(6) 1152-1158, Mar, 2019 Peer-reviewed
A mechanical model for diversified insect wing margin shapes.

Yukitaka Ishimoto, Kaoru Sugimura

Journal of theoretical biology, 427 17-27, Aug 1, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Coordination of Cellular Dynamics Contributes to Tooth Epithelium Deformations

Ritsuko Morita, Miho Kihira, Yousuke Nakatsu, Yohei Nomoto, Miho Ogawa, Kazumasa Ohashi, Kensaku Mizuno, Tetsuhiko Tachikawa, Yukitaka Ishimoto, Yoshihiro Morishita …

PLOS ONE, 11(9) e0161336, Sep, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Synergistic action of nectins and cadherins generates the mosaic cellular pattern of the olfactory epithelium

Sayaka Katsunuma, Hisao Honda, Tomoyasu Shinoda, Yukitaka Ishimoto, Takaki Miyata, Hiroshi Kiyonari, Takaya Abe, Ken-ichi Nibu, Yoshimi Takai, Hideru Togashi

JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY, 212(5) 561-575, Feb, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Bubbly vertex dynamics: A dynamical and geometrical model for epithelial tissues with curved cell shapes.

Yukitaka Ishimoto, Yoshihiro Morishita

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 90(5-1) 052711-052711, Nov, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Two-dimensional lattice liquid models.

Yukitaka Ishimoto, Takahiro Murashima, Takashi Taniguchi, Ryoichi Yamamoto

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 86(3 Pt 1) 031124-031124, Sep, 2012 Peer-reviewedLead author
Effect of interaction shape on the condensed toroid of the semiflexible chain

Y. Ishimoto, N. Kikuchi

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 128(13), Apr, 2008 Peer-reviewed
Solving Infinite Kolam in Knot Theory

Yukitaka Ishimoto

Forma, 22(1) 15-30, Oct 10, 2007 Peer-reviewed
Massive Majorana fermion coupled to two-dimensional gravity and the random-lattice Ising model

Al B. Zamolodchikov, Y. Ishimoto

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 147(3) 755-776, Jun, 2006 Peer-reviewed
Low-energy states of a semiflexible polymer chain with attraction and the whip-toroid transitions

Y. Ishimoto, N. Kikuchi

Journal of Chemical Physics, 125(7), 2006 Peer-reviewed
Two-Point Functions and Logarithmic Boundary Operators in Boundary Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories

Yukitaka Ishimoto

May 26, 2004 Peer-reviewed
Two-Point Functions and Boundary States in Boundary Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories

Yukitaka Ishimoto

Dec 14, 2003 Peer-reviewed
Boundary states in boundary logarithmic CFT

Yukitaka Ishimoto

Mar 9, 2001 Peer-reviewed

Teaching Experience

Apr, 2024 - Present

AI, Math & Data Science I (Saga University)
Apr, 2024 - Present

Calculus I (Saga University)
Apr, 2016 - Present

Fluid Mechanics (Akita Prefectural University)
Physics
Bioengineering
Problem class on applied mathematics
Applied Mathematics
Problem class on thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
Problem class on quantum mechanics

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

器官形態形成予測を実現する定量化および学習型数理モデルの構築

科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(C), 基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2026

石本志高
生命情報の低次元化を起点とする多階層モデル駆動型研究戦略の創出

戦略的な研究開発の推進戦略的創造研究推進事業 CREST, 科学技術振興機構, 2021 - 2026

植田美那子
Multiscale Theories of Genome Modality

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Nov, 2020 - Mar, 2025
4D data analysis and simulation study on the relationship between extracellular signaling and morphogenesis

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research), Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2018 - 2022
Simulation study of organ/tissue dynamics model based on complex shapes of single cells

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

Ishimoto Yukitaka
フィールド向け頑健計器と作物循環系流体回路モデルによる形質変化推定技術に関する研究

戦略的な研究開発の推進戦略的創造研究推進事業 CREST, 科学技術振興機構, 2015 - 2020

三宅亮
Modelling viscoelastic dynamics of organ morphogenesis and its numerical analysis

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2017

Ishimoto Yukitaka, SUGIMURA Kaoru
ソフトマターの多階層/相互接続シミュレーション

戦略的な研究開発の推進戦略的創造研究推進事業 CREST, 科学技術振興機構, 2006 - 2011

山本量一

Social Activities

Lecture on "Scientific Thinking" (as a part of SSH program)

Lecturer

Yokote high school, Akita prefectural university, May 20, 2020 - May 20, 2020
Lecture on bioengineering (mechanical engineering)

Lecturer

Otawara high school, Akita prefectural university, Oct 16, 2018 - Oct 16, 2018
High school-university joint program "Principles of forms in living body"

Lecturer

Akita prefectural university, Jul, 2017 - Jul, 2017
Lecture on attempts of biophysical engineering

Lecturer

Noshiro-shoyo high school, Akita prefectural university, Nov 5, 2015 - Nov 5, 2015
Science cafe "Principles of forms in living body"

Lecturer

Akita prefectural university, Jul, 2015 - Jul, 2015
Seminar on Modern Physics

Lecturer

Nov, 2008 - Nov, 2008
全国物理コンテスト「物理2008」交流イベント

Logistic support

Aug, 2008 - Aug, 2008
Oxford Access Scheme Summer School

Lecturer

British Telecom, Aug, 2003 - Aug, 2003