(aka)Matsu lab

@matsulab.com

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We are a cell biology lab based at the University of Washington established in 2022. Computational modeling, human stem cell genome-editing, fluorescence microscopy to study forces by the actin cytoskeleton in endocytosis. matsulab.com

Maggie presents a slide with the text: How can we productively acknowledge failure in the classroom? What would it look like if students learned... ... that rewards can come from mistakes? ... that failure is not only inevitable but essential? ... that mistakes are made by everyone?
Maggie and Valerie pose in front of a projection screen showing the conference name
Maggie presents her poster on the role of actin in CLIC/GEEC endocytic scission
Abhi, Atsushi, and Ben take a selfie in front of the BPS2026 banner.
The MatsuLab members having a happy our at Stoup brewing
A white board with post-it notes organized in 4 categories: science (what we research), how we do research, lab culture/environment, and how we share research.
Matt takes a selfie with all the lab members, who are sitting in couches around a table with lots of snack. There's a modern art painting and a white board full of post-its in the background.
The Matsulab smiles in front of the Seattle skyline. Tall people are squatting in the front, and shorter folks are in the back row.
Selfie of the Akamatsu Lab! Matt, Emma, and Hanna are wearing regalia. Hanna and Emma are holding flowers. Everyone is smiling in the sun.
Members of the Vasquez and Akamatsu Lab smile in front of bowling lanes.
Hanna, Emma, Matt, Ben, and Aadarsh in front of a poster titled "Effects of Arp2/3 Complex Distributions of Endocytosis in Simulation
Matt blows out a candle for his birthday. The candle flame is a little flame-shaped piece of paper. The cake says "Happy Birthday"
Abhi gives a presentation titled "An Integrated Approach to Study Load Adaptation by Endocytic Actin Networks". Along with the title, logos for UW biology and the Akamatsu Lab can be seen on the first slide.
Abhishek and Matt smiling in front of Abhishek's poster
The MatsuLab smiles sitting around a table with a card game, pizza boxes, and drinks. FLTR: Matt, Atsushi, Valerie, Maggie, Aadarsh, Abishek, Ben, Hanna and Emma
A 3D printed actin with googly eyes end a little yellow construction hat on its "head".
Members of the MatsuLab and Termini Lab on a dock wearing life vests after kayaking.
Abhi, Maggie, Valerie, and Matt cheer with red cups over a table full of snacks to celebrate the occasion!
Valerie stands next to a poster with the title "Gene-edited hiPSC-derived lumenoids for imaging endocytic dynamics in a 3D environment.
Lab members Hanna, Valerie, Emma, Maggie, and Abhi sit around a table with Vietnamese food.
Danish stands next to his capstone project poster titled "Analyzing cell morphology in response to immune stimuli"
Six MatsuLab members sit around a red picnic table having lunch.
The MatsuLab members wear a traditional Pakistani hat during group meeting.
A sign of a cell with a bowler hat, small mustache, and googley eyes named "Chiller Chaplin". A blue magnet says: "The world needs more women scientists" and another magnet shows a platypus on a sled in a snowglobe.
A microscope with a label showing a cell wearing a fedora hat and googley eyes named "Clyde"
Valerie is smiling, Jonathan is holding a box and smiling to, and Maggie is throwing up her arms in joy. In the background, we see a suburban neighborhood and a little piece of a delivery truck.
Matsulab members sitting on the floor in a brainstorming session with post its on a roll of white paper.
Selfie of the MatsuLab members in front of the Space Needle at sunset
The MatsuLab Members pose with the Seattle Space Needle in the Background.
A water bottle with a Akamatsu-lab sticker is held up with Himeji Castle in the background.
The MatsuLab team in front of a mysterious book case at the Locurio escape rooms.
Danish is reading a card game rules booklet.
The MatsuLab members sit around a table playing a game.
Several copper-colored bubbles of different colors. In the middle of two bubbles near the lower left corner, you can see the handwritten word "bubbles" reflected.
The MatsuLab group members sit around a meeting table wearing fake mustaches. In the side corner, one lab member is joining the meeting remotely.
Simulated model of an endocytotic event, with actin in yellow, linkers are red, Arp2/3 in pink.