PI at RIKEN BDR. Vascular biologist. ❤️ endothelial cells @phnglab.bsky.social
Joined March 2021
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13 May 2025
👩🔬The BDR Diversity Working Group organized an event in April titled, "Inspiring Women in Science," featuring talks by three leading international women scientists on their career paths followed by a panel discussion. Read more about the event👇 bdr.riken.jp/en/news/bdr-new…
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Meet the lab of @LabPhng, based @BDR_RIKEN, Kobe, Japan. The lab is interested in vascular #morphogenesis, in particular, endothelial cell mechanobiology in #zebrafish🐟
Find out more about the lab and what it's like working at RIKEN BDR:
thenode.biologists.com/lab-m…
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Exploring the Uncharted Waters of Endothelial Tip Cell Migration: A Story of Aquaporins, Hydrostatic Pressure, and Angiogenesis💧
@LabPhng tells the behind the paper story that includes a revisit of an observation made more than 10 years ago:
thenode.biologists.com/explo…
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Li-Kun Phng retweeted
6 Mar 2025
Zebrafish study reveals that, along with actin polymerisation, hydrostatic pressure underlies the push of endothelial tip cells into new territory
📹: Igor Kondrychyn et al @riken_en in @eLife
➡️: bpod.org.uk/archive/2025/3/6
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Water flow helps the development of new blood vessels. #developmentalbiology #angiogenesis #zebrafish #riken @LabPhng @BDR_RIKEN doi.org/10.7554/eLife.98612.… riken.jp/en/news_pubs/resear…
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24 Dec 2024
Delighted to share latest preprint from @LabPhng @BDR_RIKEN where we investigated how #endothelial cell behaviours and #mechanobiology control blood vessel size in #zebrafish. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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24 Dec 2024
In the absence of krit1/ccm1, ECs lack circumferential actin, undergo reduced cell deformation and exhibit enlarged vessels, thus providing a mechanistic understanding of how cerebral cavernous malformation arises
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24 Dec 2024
Kudos to @yamacy23 for her immense effort in putting the whole story together. Check out this laser ablation experiment that she did! And thank you to all coauthors for their input @MechgenLab @Lagendijk_lab @vizcie
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6 Oct 2024
Perfect weather to celebrate 8th year anniversary of @LabPhng @BDR_RIKEN at Suma Beach! Thank you to all past and present lab members for their hard work! @yamacy23 @swesoe2
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Li-Kun Phng retweeted
4 Oct 2024
Prof Fumio Motegi gave a career talk about learnings from failure at the recent BDR-Launchpad event for ECRs. Learning that seasoned researchers cherish both success AND failure was enlightening! Thank you for your time! @RIKEN_BDR @BDR_RIKEN #ECRs #BDRLaunchpad @dev_mechanics
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Li-Kun Phng retweeted
1 Oct 2024
Drs. Stephan Huveneers (@Huveneers_Lab) and Li-Kun Phng (@LabPhng) discuss new conceptual advances gained from in vitro and in vivo models of #angiogenesis on the control of #endothelial cell dynamics.
📰 bit.ly/4eHTpE6
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Li-Kun Phng retweeted
30 Sep 2024
Endothelial cell mechanics and dynamics in angiogenesis sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Dynamic interaction with @LabPhng to overview recent insights in #mechanotransduction & #angiogenesis
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1 Sep 2024
Had the pleasure of hosting @SiekmannLab who visited @LabPhng @BDR_RIKEN en route to #IZFC2024 in Kyoto recently. Take home message from his talk - the importance of veins in making blood vessels! #zebrafish
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Li-Kun Phng retweeted
18 Aug 2024
The #YoRC Workshop at #IZFC2024 is in the books! Thank you to our amazing panel and fantastic speakers!
And of course congratulations to our THREE prize winners sponsored by @Aquaneering .
@yaksi_emre @blkraven25 @LabPhng
@ZebrafishNerd @KKalyviotis
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30 Jul 2024
Second paper published within a week from @LabPhng @BDR_RIKEN where we demonstrate an important role of water flow and hydrostatic pressure in endothelial cell #mechanics #migration in #zebrafish. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.98612 @eLife
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30 Jul 2024
Pleased to share a review written by @LabPhng and @BenjaminHogan13 about #endothelial cell transitions in #zebrafish vascular #devbio! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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