Yoshikatsu Sato
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Yoshikatsu Sato
Center Chief, Designated Associate Professor (Nagoya University)
Website
sato.yoshikatsu::i.mbox.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Plant physiology, Plant environmental response, Organelle movement, Live-imaging
The Live Imaging Center is an imaging and processing site that provides access to researchers worldwide. Yoshikatsu Sato provides generous support ranging from experimental design to data acquisition in addition to his own research on cellular and subcellular behaviors in response to environmental stimuli in plants. The imaging subjects cover a broad range of chemical fluorescent molecules as well as fluorescent proteins in a wide variety of biological specimens (bacteria, fungi, green algae, plants, animals). In addition to biological research, he is involved in the application of novel chemical fluorescent molecules for bio-imaging, collaborating with the chemistry groups at ITbM .
Research Highlights
- Taking a deep look: a near infrared fluorescent dye for long term bioimaging ~ Promising photostable tool for single molecule tracking and multicolor imaging ~
- Flexible warped nanographene developed for bioimaging ~ A new water-soluble nanocarbon triggers cell death when exposed to light ~
- Discovery of the maintenance mechanism of mitochondrial DNA in HeLa cells
- Stem cells inhibit reprogramming of adjacent cells in moss plants
- Plant cells penetrate into 1 micrometer gap ~ Observation by a microfluidic platform ~
- Live cell imaging of asymmetric cell division in fertilized plant cells ~ Insight into why leaves grow up and roots grow down in flowering plants ~
- AMOR, a love potion for plant fertilization ~ Discovery and synthesis of AMOR sugar chains that guide pollen tube growth ~
- A fluorescent dye that survives in live cell STED imaging ~A new molecular tool for continuous super-resolution fluorescence microscopy~
- Green light of hope to overcome Striga-triggered food insecurity in Africa ~ Fluorescent turn-on probe identifies the 'wake-up protein' in witchweed seeds ~