Publications
(Lab members are underlined)
1) Mi Jing Khor, Gaganpreet Sangha, and Kenji Sugioka*. (2024) 2) Yukimasa Shibata, Yuri Tanaka, Shunsuke Mori, Kaito Mitsuzumi, Shion Fujiii, Hiroyuki Sasakura, Yuki Morioka, Kenji Sugioka, Kosei Takeuchi and Kiyoji Nishiwaki. (2024) 3) Christina Rou Hsu+, Gaganpreet Sangha+, Wayne Fan, Joey Zheng and Kenji Sugioka*. (2023) 4) Kenji Sugioka*., (2022) 5) Rain Xiong and Kenji Sugioka*., (2020) 6) Christina Rou Hsu, Rain Xiong and Kenji Sugioka*., (2019) 7) Bruce Bowerman and Kenji Sugioka., (2019) 8) Kenji Sugioka* and Bruce Bowerman., (2018) 9) Kenji Sugioka,Lars-Eric Fielmich, Kota Mizumoto, Bruce Bowerman, Sander van den Huevel*, Akatsuki Kimura* and Hitoshi Sawa*., (2018) 10) Kenji Sugioka*, Danielle Hamill*, Josh Lowry, Marie E. McNeely, Molly Enrick, Bhavna Murali, Lauren W. Parsons, James R. Priess and Bruce Bowerman., (2017) 11) Josh Lowry, John Yochem, Chien-Hui Chuang, Kenji Sugioka, Amy A. Connolly and Bruce Bowerman., (2015) 12) Amy Connolly, Kenji Sugioka, Chien-Hui Chuang, Josh Lowry and Bruce Bowerman., (2015) 13) Kenji Sugioka and Hitoshi Sawa., (2012) 14) Kenji Sugioka, Kota Mizumoto and Hitoshi Sawa., (2011) 15) Kenji Sugioka and Hitoshi Sawa., (2010)
Cytokinesis-dependent twisting of HMR-1/Cadherin regulates the first left-right symmetry-breaking event in Caenorhabditis elegans.
bioRxiv * Corresponding author
Endogenous chondroitin extends lifespan by inhibiting VHA-7-mediated tubular lysosome formation.
Scientific Reports 14, 29651.
Contractile ring mechanosensation and its anilin-dependent tuning during early embryogenesis.
Nature Communications 14, 8138.
+ Co-first author * Corresponding author
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Symmetry-breaking of animal cytokinesis.
Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology (127), 100-109; doi.org/10.1016/j.semcdb.2021.12.008
* Corresponding author
Improved 3D cellular morphometry of Caenorhabditis elegans embryos using a refractive index matching medium
Plos One 15(9), e0238955, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238955
* Corresponding author
In vitro reconstitution of spatial cell contact patterns with isolated Caenorhabditis elegans embryo blastomeres and adhesive polystyrene beads.
Journal of Visualized Experiments (153), e60422, doi: 10.3791/60422
* Corresponding author
Breaking Symmetry: Worm Cue Finally Found
Developmental Cell, 48(5): 593-594.
Combinatorial contact cues specify cell division orientation by directing cortical myosin flows.
Developmental Cell 46, 257-270.e5. (Cover article).
* Corresponding author
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Tumor suppressor APC is an attenuator of spindle-pulling forces during asymmetric cell division.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jan 30;115(5): E954-E963.
*co-corresponding authorPreprint 
Centriolar SAS-7 acts upstream of SPD-2 to regulate centriole assembly and pericentriolar material formation.
eLife, Jan 16;6. doi: 10.7554/eLife.20353.
*co-first author
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High-throughput cloning of temperature-sensitive C. elegans mutants with adult syncytial germline membrane architecture defects.
G3: Genes| Genomes| Genetics, g3. 115.021451
The C. elegans kinesin-13/MCAK family member KLP-7 acts through kinetochores to limit spindle pole number during oocyte meiotic spindle assembly.
Journal of Cell Biology, 210(6): 917-932
Formation and functions of asymmetric microtubule organization in polarized cells.
Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 24(4):517-25.
Wnt regulates spindle asymmetry to generate asymmetric nuclear β-catenin in C. elegans.
Cell, 146(6): 942-54.
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Regulation of asymmetric positioning of nuclei by Wnt and Src signaling and its roles in POP-1/TCF nuclear asymmetry in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genes to Cells 15(4): 397-407. 