Yohsuke T. Fukai

Really cool! Smaller than GFP and reversibly binding last-generation rhodamine dyes. De novo pan-rhodamine binders for fluorescence microscopy from mammalian cells to extremophiles www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Congrats @bohuang.bsky.social @rhodamine110.bsky.social @mullinslab.bsky.social et al

Delighted to share that I've joined Kyushu University as an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics! I'm looking forward to working on nonequilibrium physics and biophysics with students here. Feel free to reach out about JSPS postdoc opportunities or collaborations!

Yohsuke T. Fukai, Kyogo Kawaguchi, et al. reconstituted gene-scale #chromatin arrays with controlled #histone modification patterns in vitro and showed that heterogeneous #acetylation alone can drive pattern-dependent changes in chromatin architecture and dynamics. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

To probe gene-scale chromatin physics, we built 96-mer (20 kb) arrays with defined histone marks. Combining single-molecule tracking, AFM imaging, and developing in vitro Hi-C, we saw how specific modifications dictate chromatin structure and dynamics. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Longer wrap-up to come, but in the meantime: we had a fantastic and productive time at the napari hackathon at @globias.bsky.social 2025 conference! Thanks to all the participants and to the GloBIAS team for hosting us!

Last call for Les Houches! Apply now or never! ;) (ok, in 2 years again then) and share with your friends.

Call for RIKEN ECL Team / Unit Leaders. In my (biased) opinion, this is probably the best option if you are seeking an independent position in Japan. I will be happy to chat/answer questions via email. www.riken.jp/en/careers/p...

Excited to share our preprint on the molecular architecture of heterochromatin in human cells 🧬🔬w/ @jpkreysing.bsky.social, @johannesbetz.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social 🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv

Congratulations to Zihui, Sano-san, and the team on this interesting work! They found that +1 topological defects attract neural progenitors—an observation that seems at odds with expectations for an extensile active nematic. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I feel like this post is becoming even more relevant for our early-career researcher friends in the US—unless it’s already too late. It doesn’t have to be our lab or RIKEN; if you’re interested in coming to Japan, I’m always happy to chat!

Starting in April 2025, our RIKEN Hakubi Lab will transition to a Chief Scientist Lab, and we plan to move to Wako in 2026. My affiliation with the IPI, Department of Physics at The University of Tokyo, will continue as before.

In vitro synthesis of up to 96 nucleosomes. Amazing platform to study chromatin folding!! Gene-scale in vitro reconstitution reveals histone acetylation directly controls chromatin architecture | BioRxiv #chromatin #nucleosome #3Dchromatin #preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Re-posting from my twitter: LapTrack ( github.com/yfukai/laptr... ) provides you the linear-assignment based robust tracking algorithm, aware of splitting and merging particles, in a simple, Pythonic and flexible API. Installable with “pip install laptrack”.

And our new preprint! "Gene-scale in vitro reconstitution reveals histone acetylation directly controls chromatin architecture", biorxiv (2024). Led by Yohsuke T Fukai, in collaboration with Kurumizaka lab (U Tokyo) and Umehara lab (RIKEN BDR). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...