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2025.12.6-7

Rie gave an oral presentation at the 36th JSME Conference on Frontiers in Bioengineering in Hirosaki, Japan.

Jeong organized the Biofrontier Symposium 2025. This year, we invited Dr. Neil Lin from UCLA.

2025.11.18-21

Jeong and Rie gave an oral presentation at the 12th Asian-Pacific Conference on Biomechanics (AP Biomech 2025) at Auckland, New Zealand.

2025.11.7-8

Jeong gave an invited presentation at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Clinical Biomechanics, Kyoto.

2025.10.22-25

Jeong gave an oral presentation at the 11th JSME-KSME Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (J-K TFEC11), Okinawa.

2025.10.7

Rie has received an overseas travel grant from the Nitto Foundation to attend the AP Biomech 2025 in Auckland, New Zealand! Congrats!

2025.10.3

Jeong gave an oral presentation at the 59th Kyushu University Medical-Engineering Collaboration Initiative, Kyushu Univ Hospital Campus, Fukuoka.

2025.9.7-10

Jeong attended the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in Hokkaido Univ, Japan.

2025.8.28-29

Jeong attended the M&M (Materials & Mechanics) and CMD (Computational Materials Design) Young Researchers’ Symposium 2025 in Nagoya and gave an oral presentation.

2025.6.4-7

Jeong gave an oral presentation at the 64th Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering in Fukui, Japan.

2025.5.24-25

Jeong and Rie attended the 37th Bioengineering conference of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in Keio Univ, Yokohama (Japan). Rie gave a poster presentation.

2025.5.18

Jeong gave an oral presentation at Kickoff Meeting of the Cooperative Research Program (Joint Usage/Research Center Program), Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University.

2025.4.1

Jeong moved to Kyushu University (Fukuoka) and got promoted to an Associate Professor!

2025.3.25

Farewell party!
Congratulations to Ryotaro (master course) for graduation!!!

2025.3.13

Jeong’s got the Research Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Tokai Branch!

2025.3.12

Eisuke gave an oral presentation at the 56th JSME Tokai Branch Graduate Research Conference at Chubu University, Kasugai-shi.

He’s got a Best Presentation Award! Congrats!

2025.2.18-19

Department of Biomedical Engineering in the University of Melbourne (Prof. Kathryn Stok’s group, A/Prof Vijay Rajagopal, and Prof. Marcus Pandy) visited Nagoya University for Melbourne-Nagoya Joint Research Workshop! Ryotaro, Rie, and Eisuke gave an oral presentation in the workshop.

2024.12.17

Asst. Prof. Vivek Prakash (University of Miami) visited Nagoya University and delivered a seminar!

2024.12.14-15

Ryotaro and Rie gave an oral presentation at the 35th JSME Conference on Frontiers in Bioengineering in Yokohama, Japan.

2024.11.18

Another paper is out in Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry! This note represents that hydrostatic pressure up-regulates Sost gene expression in osteocytic spheroids. (This work was mainly conducted by Kotone)

2024.11.13

New paper is out in Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials! This paper details our assessment of the mechanical properties and behaviors of osteocytic spheroids under compression! (This work was mainly conducted by Takashi)

2024.9.24

Our group attended Joint Research Workshop with Nagoya Institute of Technology.

2024.9.12

Jeong and Takashi attended the Symposium of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering 2024 in the University of Tokyo, Japan. It was Takashi’s last presentation. Great work!

2024.9.8-10

Jeong attended the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in Ehime University at Matsuyama, Japan.

2024.9.7

Farewell party for Takashi! He starts his PhD course in UC Irvine 🇺🇸 Good luck!

2024.9.4

Jeong and Takashi gave an invited presentation at the 10th International Conference on Mechanics and Materials in Design (M2D 2024) at Nagoya Univ, Nagoya (Japan).

2024.7.31

Farewell party for Marina at Hoshigaoka. Good luck!! 🇺🇸

2024.7.24

New paper is out in Cell and Tissue Research!
It covers multi-scale analysis ranging from tissue to cell to chromatin condensation levels in cartilage spheroids! (This work was mainly conducted by Kosei)

This paper was also selected as the Cover Image in the September issue!!

2024.6.11-14

Takashi (and Jeong’s poster) attended the SB3C 2024 at the Grand Geneva Resort, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (USA).

He was selected as a finalist for MS Student Paper Competition!

2024.6.8

Jeong gave an oral presentation at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Biorheology at Waseda University in Tokyo (Japan).

2024.5.27

Eisuke (B4), Shinnosuke (B4), and Marina (NUPACE student, North Carolina State Univ) joined the group!

2024.5.23-25

Jeong gave an oral presentation at the 2024 Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering in Kagoshima, Japan.

2024.5.20

Group photo for Biomechanics lab 2024!

2024.5.11-12

Jeong, Takashi, and Ryotaro attended the 36th Bioengineering conference of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya (Japan).

Jeong received the Seguchi Prize from the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineering – Bioengineering division!

2024.5.5

Jeong gave an invited oral presentation at the IEEE-NEMS 2023 at KUAS, Kyoto (Japan).

2024.3.25

Farewell Party!

Congratulations to Kotone (master course), Takashi (master course), Masahiro (bachelor course), and Rie (bachelor course) for graduation! Takashi and Rie will start PhD course and master course in BML from April, respectively.

2024.3.8

Rie and Masahiro gave an oral presentation at the 55th JSME Tokai Branch Graduate Research Conference at Daido University, Nagoya.

2023.12.16-17

Kotone and Takashi gave an oral presentation at the 34th JSME Conference on Frontiers in Bioengineering in Yamaguchi, Japan.

2023.11.15-18

Jeong gave an oral presentation at the 12th Asian-Pacific Conference on Biomechanics (AP Biomech 2023) at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2023.11.03

Jeong gave an invited presentation at the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers Annual Meeting 2023 at Songdo, Korea.

Songdo Convensia

2023.10.28

Jeong gave an oral presentation at the 2023 Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering Tokai branch in Nagoya University, Japan.

Jeong received the Young Researcher Award from the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering Tokai branch!

2023.10.23

Group dinner (Korean fried chicken party 🍗)

NENE chicken @Hoshigaoka

2023.9.25

Our group attended Joint Research Workshop with Nagoya Institute of Technology.

@Nagoya Univ

2023.9.20-22

Jeong and Takashi attended Melbourne-Nagoya Joint Research Workshop in the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Emerging technologies to study biomechanical and mechanobiological characterization of bone, cartilage, muscle, and tendon
PIs: Jeonghyun Kim (Nagoya Univ) and Kathryn Stok (Univ of Melbourne)

2023.9.3-6

Jeong and Takashi attended the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan.

Jeong delivered an invited presentation at 2023 Japan-Korea joint symposium.

2023.7.16-21

Jeong gave an invited presentation at the International Conference on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM 2023) in Okinawa, Japan.

2023.7.9-12

Jeong attended the 28th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

2023.6.24

Farewell party for Kosei! He starts his PhD course in MBI at NUS🇸🇬 Good luck!

2023.6.21

Group photo for Biomechanics lab 2023!

2023.06.14

New paper is out in Integrative Biology!
(Optical clearing technique and Python for 3D image analysis of cell nuclear morphology in spheroids)

2023.06.13

We received the Nagoya – Melbourne Joint Research Workshops Fund 2023 !

2023.06.06

Mr. Ikebe (M1), Mr. Sakuraba (B4), and Ms. Suzuki joined the group!

2023.06.04

Jeong and Kosei attended the 35th Bioengineering conference of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in Sendai, Japan.

Congrats to Prof. Matsumoto (Lab head) for the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Bioengineering division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering!

2023.05.20

Jeong delivered an invited presentation at the 62nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering in Nagoya, Japan.

2023.04.14

Welcome party!

2023.03.27

Farewell party!

Congratulations to Kosei for graduation! He has also got JSPS fellowship (DC1) from April.

2023.03.23

Jeong delivered an oral presentation at the 22nd Congress of the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine in Kyoto, Japan.

2023.03.14

Congrats!! Another award for Kosei from the Society of Life Support Engineering!

2023.03.10

Congrats to Kosei for the Best Presentation Award at the 72th Conference of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Tokai Branch (Tokai Engineering Complex 2023)!

2023.01.19

We win first place in the softball competition!

2022.12.19

Year-end party!

2022.12.18

Jeong, Kosei, and Takashi attended the 33rd JSME Conference on Frontiers in Bioengineering in Kobe, Japan.

2022.11.07

Jeong attended the 4th International Symposium on Mechanobiology in Sydney, Australia.

2022.10.07

Jeong gave an oral presentation at TERMIS-AP 2022 in Jeju, Korea.

2022.09.24

Our latest research on the multicellular behaviors of osteocytic spheroids is published in BBRC!

2022.09.13

Jeong delivered an oral presentation at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in Toyama, Japan.

2022.08.03

Our new paper on cartilage spheroid is out in Biotechnology and Bioengineering!

2022.07.12

Jeong and Kosei attended the 9th World Congress of Biomechanics (Taiwan) (online).

2022.06.28

Jeong and Takashi attended the 61st Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering in Niigata, Japan.

2022.06.26

Jeong and Kosei attended the 34th Bioengineering conference of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in Fukuoka, Japan.

Kosei got the Outstanding Student Poster Award !

2022.06.06

Ms. Niioka (M1) joined the group!

2022.06.04

Jeong delivered an oral presentation at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Biorheology in Kanagawa, Japan.

2022.05.24

Group photo of BML 2022 !

2022.04.16

Welcome party!

2022.03.25

Farewell party!

2022.03.25

Congratulations to Takashi on getting his Bachelor degree! He will continue his Master course in BML.

2022.03.11

Jeong got the Young Researcher Award of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Tokai Branch!

2022.03.10

Congrats! Both Shingo and Takashi got the Best Presentation Award from the 53rd JSME Tokai Branch Graduate Research Conference (Tokai Engineering Complex 2022).

2021.12.03

Jeong gave an oral presentation at the 11th Asian-Pacific Conference on Biomechanics (AP Biomech 2021) (Kyoto, Japan) (online).

2021.12.01

2021.09.07

Jeong delivered an oral presentation at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (Chiba, Japan) (online).

2021.07.13

Jeong delivered an oral presentation at the 26th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics 2021 (Milan, Italy) (online).

2021.07.07

Jeong gave an invited presentation at the ESCHM-ISCH-ISB 2021 (Fukuoka, Japan) (online).

2021.06.25

Jeong got the 2020 JBSE Paper of the Year Award and the 2020 JBSE Graphics of the Year Award!

2021.06.24

Our new paper on MSC spheroids is out in Scientific Reports!

2021.06.18

Group photo of BML 2021 !

2021.06.07

Mr. Tomida (M1), Mr. Inagaki (B4), and Mr. Mizushima (B4) joined the group!

2021.04.01

Jeong has appointed as an assistant professor in Nagoya University.