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Food Resource Utilization Science Lab
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The lab studies the functional properties of food resources using bioassays.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the functions of food resources through bioassays
The Food Resource Utilization Science Lab focuses on international research on the functional analysis and effective use of food resources.
The lab also studies how to turn food components into seeds for functional foods and cosmetics, maps the distribution of functional properties in dryland vegetation and builds a database of them, and develops methods for evaluating the safety of foods and the environment.
Using bioassays based on animal cell engineering, the lab searches for new bioactive functions and clarifies their mechanisms, and it also conducts field surveys in drylands.
The lab's website introduces it under the name "Isoda Lab."
Key terms
- Bioassay
- A test that applies animal cell engineering to evaluate the functional properties and environmental safety of food resources.
- Neuroprotection assay
- A test that measures cell viability to evaluate the effect of preventing neuronal cell death caused by neurotoxins.
- Antidepressant assay
- A test that uses the forced swim test or tail suspension test in laboratory animals and judges antidepressant-like effects from immobility time.
NewsLab news
Paper on the effects of a squalene derivative in obese mice published in EXCLI Journal
Held a research results presentation with S&B Foods on cumin extract
Paper on trigonelline wins the 2026 GeroScience Outstanding Paper Award
Paper on how the scent of linalyl acetate acts on the brain published (joint work with Honda R&D)
Professor Isoda elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology (IAFoST)
ResearchResearch themes
The lab focuses on international research on the functional analysis and effective use of food resources. Using bioassays based on animal cell engineering, it searches for new bioactive functions and clarifies their mechanisms.
*Illustrative imageFunctional analysis and effective use of food resources
The lab evaluates the functional properties of food resources and studies how to turn food components into seeds for functional foods and cosmetics. It also maps the distribution of functional properties in dryland vegetation, builds a database of them, and develops methods for evaluating the safety of foods and the environment.
*Illustrative imageBioassays by field
The lab presents its tests using cells and laboratory animals, organized into the fields of basic, neural, intestinal, immune, anticancer, lifestyle disease, and skin. The neural field includes neurite outgrowth assays, neuroprotection assays, and antidepressant assays.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members include faculty, researchers, secretaries, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorHiroko Isoda
- Specially Appointed ProfessorHideo Kigoshi
- Associate ProfessorShinya Takahashi
- Assistant ProfessorYoko Nagumo
- Assistant ProfessorFarhana Ferdousi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Semi-desert vegetation in Lamu” HassanA2023 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Functional analysis and effective use of food resources: “Erodium glaucophyllum botanical model by Sebastian Brandt (Reco-Brandt)” TB0815 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Bioassays by field: “Fluorescence Microplate Reader Fluoroskan CF” real name: Matylda Sęk pl.wiki: Cygaretka commons: Cygaretka / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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