Tomomi Tani

The paper measures cellular forces for nuclear centration in C. elegans embryos using centrifugation and microscopy, finding forces increase linearly with distance and friction is reduced in microtubule mutants.

The paper uses OI-DIC imaging to show that a transient increase in depletion force, caused by macromolecular crowding, contributes to mitotic chromosome condensation in human cells.

The paper uses polarized light imaging to detect activity-dependent structural changes in dendrites of mouse hippocampal slices, revealing birefringence variations linked to synaptic activity.