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Interdisciplinary Fusion 3 (Earth-Life Co-evolution Research Unit) Lab
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A research unit that treats the Earth and life as a single system.
AboutAbout the lab
The Earth and life have evolved together.
The Earth-Life Co-evolution Research Unit is a research unit of the Science Collaboration and Exploration Center (SACRA), which is attached to the Graduate School of Science. It aims to create a new interdisciplinary field that treats the global environment and life as one integrated system.
Experts in life sciences, earth sciences, and data science come together to explore the relationship between biological and geological phenomena across various scales of time and space. They aim to elucidate the interaction between biological evolution and environmental change.
At the graduate level, research and education are carried out as the Interdisciplinary Fusion Course of the Graduate School of Science.
Key terms
- Genome
- The entire set of genetic information that an organism has
- Transcriptome
- The entirety of the gene information (RNA) that is active in a cell at a given moment
- Biotic event
- A major turnover of living organisms that occurred in Earth's history
ResearchResearch themes
The unit regards the global environment and life as one integrated system and studies the interaction between biological evolution and environmental change.
*Illustrative imageThe mismatch between biotic events and environmental change
The unit seeks to solve the puzzle of biotic events whose timing does not coincide with changes in Earth's surface environment. It does so by integrating large-scale genome analysis of living organisms, phenotype data, and fossil and geological records.
*Illustrative imagePredicting future life and the future Earth
The unit traces the evolution of organisms' genome structures and transcriptomes alongside changes in the global environment, and takes on simulations that predict what future organisms and the future global environment will look like.
*Illustrative imageInteraction between life and the global environment
Combining molecular biology, bioinformatics, computer science, and mathematical analysis, the unit seeks to capture, through large-scale gene analysis, the big picture of how organisms sense and adapt to their environment and how that mechanism has evolved.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorKenichi Kurotani
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorKentaro Okada
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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: “Geological time spiral” United States Geological Survey / Public domain (cropped)
- The mismatch between biotic events and environmental change: “Five past mass extinction events—periods” Source: OpenStax, 2019 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Predicting future life and the future Earth: “Nature timespiral horizontal layout white background” Pablo Carlos Budassi / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Interaction between life and the global environment: “Stromatolite (fossil) at Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum 8899” Gunnar Creutz / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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