Quantifying the emergent elasticity in biological self-assembly structures.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24K23179
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Review Section	0701:Biology at molecular to cellular levels, and related fields
Research Institution	Kanazawa University
Principal Investigator	Das Tamoghna・Kanti 金沢大学, ナノ生命科学研究所, 特任助教 (70998872)
Project Period (FY)	2024-07-31 – 2026-03-31
Project Status	Granted (Fiscal Year 2024)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000) Fiscal Year 2025: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000) Fiscal Year 2024: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords	Active self-organization
Outline of Research at the Start	The model faithfully serves as a conceptual analogue of the crowded cellular environment, typically found in tissues. This simple setting would be instructive for exploring the basic mechanisms of emergent cooperativity and associated mechanics within an ever-changing, noisy environment.