(aka)Matsu lab

My how the MATSUlab discourse graph has grown over the years! @discoursegraphs.bsky.social discoursegraphs.com

We just spent two days talking science, building lab culture, tie-dying t-shirts, telling spooky stories, making smores, and stargazing! #LabRetreat #MatsuLab @mattakamatsu.bsky.social @minismk.bsky.social @atsushimatsuda.bsky.social @valeriebenti.com

Congratulations to our own @atsushimatsuda.bsky.social on a fabulous new method accurately measuring 3D cellular membrane curvature from cryo-electron tomograms! @minismk.bsky.social, @ctleelab.bsky.social Interactive explainer: matsulabuw.github.io/mem-pinn/ reader.openrxivlabs.org/content/10.6...

Congratulations to Kenny Vo, who has brought is computer sciences skills to our lab for the last year, kept us on track with our code, and always knew the best anime to watch! We'll miss you, Kenny! #UWGraduate 🎓✨🎉

Congratulations to our newly graduated Benjamin Brown, we'll miss your mathematical brain, rigorous questions, and book/movie ratings! Can't wait to see all the Awesomeness you'll get up to in grad school! ✨🎉🎓

Grad student Maggie gave an excellent flash talk today about how failure is an essential part of learning and becoming a well-rounded scientist. How can we create a classroom and lab culture that helps students acknowledge and learn through failure?

We're excited to be at the Northwest Developmental Biology Meeting #NWDB2026 at #FridayHarbor. Such an amazing range of research happening in the PNW, and we've enjoyed hearing from such a wise range of scientists at different stages of their career!

Wondering what the role of actin in CLIC/GEEC endocytic scission is? Well, Maggie is here to tell you how we're going to find out! #NWDB2026

The Matsulab was represented at @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social 2026!

Honored to be one of the Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows at @uofwa.uw.edu. Grateful for the support from @moorefound.bsky.social and excited to pursue research applying computer vision to cellular membrane reconstruction @matsulab.com.

Team "My Brain is a Sandwich" was feeling really great about their impromptu bar trivia answers at our end-of-the-quarter happy hour! We didn't win, but we had a great time!

Lab lunch/Goodbye lunch. We're sad to see you go, Emma, and excited for you as you go out into the world! Featuring: Fred pointing and also some tiny pigs on the table. #PassThePigs

It was wonderful wonderful to join Hanna' graduation party and meet her friends and family. Hanna was the first undergraduate to join our lab more than two years ago! Congratulations, Hanna! 🎉🥂

Congratulations to our newly graduated Biology Majors Emma and Hanna! 🙌🏼🎉🎆 #UWGraduation @uwbiology.bsky.social

Congrats Emma Koves and Benjamin Brown on a terrific poster at the Undergraduate Research Symposium !!

Celebrating Matt's (belated) birthday with a cake and candle that is fire safe! 🎂🔥🎉

The Termini Lab at Fred Hutch in Seattle is recruiting a Lab Aide to join our group - more information and instructions to apply can be found at the posting below 👇🧫👇🔬👇🐁 careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/29265/l...

Grad student Abhishek presented his research on using an integrated approach to study load adaptation of actin networks in endocytosis at the MBTG talks today! 👏

Kicking off the new year pondering about our goals and priorities for this year using rocks, pebbles, and sand. #RocksPebblesSand #MatsuLab #GroupMeeting #AcademicLife

Pizza, "Down the Ave," and good company! 👾

Check out the digital story that @valeriebenti.com put together as part of UW Libraries Video Storytelling Workshop that's all about actin, endocytosis, and what we work on in the #MatsuLab! youtu.be/4PNVl69UH6E

New lab mascot, maybe? (Yes, we already have stickers made!) #ActinArchitect #3DPrinting #GooglyEyes #LabLife

Yesterday was a perfect day for "beta kayactin" and drinks with the Termini Lab! #MatsuLab #TerminiLab #AkaMini

Congratulations to Abhishek for successfully passing his general exam! #MatsuLab's first PhC and we couldn't be more proud! 🍾🍰🥼

First #MatsuLab poster presented by @valeriebenti.com at the ISCRM Stem Cell Symposium last week!

#TBT to a recent lab lunch where we got to welcome our new lab member Emma!

Congratulations to #MastuLab member Danish, who presented his capstone project on Tuesday and is graduating today! 🎉🥳

Fueling our research with some falafel! (The crooked photo is to commemorate a crooked table 🙃) #MatsuLab #LabLunch

Fueling our research with some falafel! (The crooked photo is to commemorate a crooked table 🙃) #MatsuLab #LabLunch

Presents from Pakistan to keep our noggins warm!

Sometimes, you just have to be your own Santa. @valeriebenti.com , Maggie, and Jonathan went on an adventure yesterday to pick up a piece of equipment, and would like to thank airtags, views of Mt. Ranier, and NOT the delivery service for their involvement.

In-action pictures from our #LabRetreat on Saturday!

We could not get enough of the beautiful sunset! Even the lab members that could not attend got to enjoy it ! #MatsuLab #LabRetreat

We had a wonderful time at our #LabRetreat, looking back, looking ahead, and looking at a beautiful view of the Space Needle!

The Akamatsu lab was founded in 2022. Around 1300, Akamatsu Norimura built a temporary fort on the hill that would eventually become Himeji Castle. New and Old meet during @valeriebenti.com's travels!

Success! The MatsuLab escaped from Locurio's "The Storykeeper" with 28 seconds to spare! 😅 And had an amazing time doing so. 🍄🌳🪺

A happy accident leading to a pretty picture. The caption is in the picture too! #LabLife #Bubbles By @valeriebenti.com

Don't think we didn't kick off the quarter without mustaches, we just forgot to take a group picture! Luckily, there's a screenshot to prove it happened! #MustacheMeeting #MatsuLab #HybridMeeting

Hi everyone! We're a new lab at the University of Washington that studies how cells use the actin cytoskeleton to push and pull on their membranes during endocytosis. The lab combines computational modeling with CRISPR engineering of human stem cells and fluorescence microscopy.