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Toshiyuki Nakagaki

Researcher at Hokkaido University

Publications -  108
Citations -  6053

Toshiyuki Nakagaki is an academic researcher from Hokkaido University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Physarum polycephalum & Physarum. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 103 publications receiving 5469 citations. Previous affiliations of Toshiyuki Nakagaki include Future University Hakodate & Future University in Egypt.

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Maze-solving by an amoeboid organism

TL;DR: It is shown that this simple organism has the ability to find the minimum-length solution between two points in a labyrinth.
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Rules for biologically inspired adaptive network design

TL;DR: It is shown that the slime mold Physarum polycephalum forms networks with comparable efficiency, fault tolerance, and cost to those of real-world infrastructure networks—in this case, the Tokyo rail system.
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A mathematical model for adaptive transport network in path finding by true slime mold.

TL;DR: A mathematical model of the adaptive dynamics of a transport network of the true slime mold Physarum polycephalum, an amoeboid organism that exhibits path-finding behavior in a maze, which contains a key parameter corresponding to the extent of the feedback regulation between the thickness of a tube and the flux through it.
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Amoebae anticipate periodic events.

TL;DR: The mechanisms underlying these types of behavior from a dynamical systems perspective were explored, finding that when plasmodia of the true slime mold Physarum were exposed to unfavorable conditions, they reduced their locomotive speed in response to each episode.
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Path finding by tube morphogenesis in an amoeboid organism

TL;DR: This work has studied how the plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum, a large amoeboid cell, is able to track the shortest path between two selected points in a labyrinth through a simple cellular mechanism based on interacting cellular rhythms.