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Animal Nutrition Science Lab
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The lab identifies nutrient deficiencies and excesses and uncovers how animals respond to them.
AboutAbout the lab
Bringing science to animal nutrition
The Animal Nutrition Science Lab aims to establish basic nutritional science for improving animals' quality of life (QOL).
Animals cannot live without taking in nutrients every day, but they do not always eat a nutritionally complete diet.
The lab therefore works on identifying nutrient deficiencies and excesses and on understanding how animals respond to them.
Undergraduates are assigned to the Applied Animal Science Course in their third year, and to this lab within the course in their fourth year (graduate school: Division of Applied Biosciences, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Key terms
- Micronutrients
- Nutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, that support bodily functions in small amounts
- Metabolomics
- A method for comprehensively analyzing the small molecules (metabolites) in the body all at once
ResearchResearch themes
To achieve both a high QOL and a rich dietary life, it is essential to identify nutrient deficiencies and excesses and to understand how animals respond to them. The lab studies the use of micronutrients, the regulation of body growth, and the alleviation of stress responses.
*Illustrative imageIdentifying nutrient deficiencies and excesses
Using metabolomics and metallomics (comprehensive analysis of minerals), the lab examines nutrients including micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals. It searches for indicators of nutrient deficiency and excess and for relationships among nutrients, and evaluates nutritional balance.
*Illustrative imageMechanisms that protect the body from nutrient deficiency and excess
Nutrient deficiency or excess does not immediately cause disease. Using the liver, muscle, and adipose tissue as examples, the lab investigates these protective mechanisms under the hypothesis that nutritional information is sensed and integrated through communication between cells.
MembersFaculty
The Animal Nutrition Science Lab consists of faculty members, administrative assistants, Visiting Researchers, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorMasayuki Funaba
- Assistant ProfessorShozo Tomonaga
- Assistant ProfessorYohei Kanamori
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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: “Water reflection of a boy feeding hay to a cow in a paddy field at golden hour in Laos” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Identifying nutrient deficiencies and excesses: “Nuts on Spice Bazaar in Istanbul 01” Miomir Magdevski / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Mechanisms that protect the body from nutrient deficiency and excess: “Human Liver (NIH BioArt 230)” Courtesy of NIAID Ryan Kissinger / Public domain (cropped)
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