Matthew  Akamatsu

Matthew Akamatsu

Seattle, WA

Assistant Professor in Biology

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Published on Feb 02, 2026

Autonomous selection and completion of a microproject by an undergraduate student

A second undergraduate student joined the lab and used our issues board to identify initial entry projects. Like the previous student, he claimed an issue page and used it to guide his work, allow...

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Published on Sep 18, 2024

It's working!

To explore the extent to which our Issues board aids newcomers in quickly identifying and executing impactful starter projects, we brought on two undergraduate students and asked them to select an ...

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Published on Apr 02, 2024

AI assistant + discourse graphs = 🤝🏼

Our lab discourse graph has grown so much!So, how do we make sense of this densely interconnected network of research knowledge?In addition to synthesis retreats and journal clubs, we're creating a...

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Published on Feb 26, 2024

New players have arrived!

We're very happy to share that Joel Chan has joined this experiment! Joel's research group developed discourse graphs and studies how users adopt and adapt discourse graphs for their use cases. Jo...

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Published on Feb 07, 2024

A synthesis journal club

We thought we would share how our lab graph has allowed us to conduct a new type of journal club that we made up, called a "synthesis journal club." Usually, journal clubs focus on a single researc...

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Published on Dec 18, 2023

And we're off!

We are so excited to get started with this project. Project kickoff during lab retreatOn December 16, the lab got together in downtown Seattle for an end-of-year retreat. There, we used our discou...

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