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Satoshi Kamitani, Professor
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The Insect DX Lab uses digital technologies to aim for a transformation of business models in response to insect-related social problems facing modern society. Its work covers automating insect species identification, adding higher value to insect resources by digitizing specimen data, assessing insect diversity using DX, and promoting DX through collaboration with insect science-related fields. As a short-term goal, the lab aims to automate outbreak forecasting for stable flies and Calliphora nigribarbis using deep learning-based object detection, leading to prompt and appropriate pest control. As a long-term goal, it aims to infer how biodiversity will change under climate change, using data such as distribution data from insect specimen collections.
Chisa Aoki, Professor
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The Microbial Control of Insect Pests Lab conducts both basic and applied research on entomopathogenic microorganisms that act as natural enemies of pest insects. Its work includes isolating pathogenic microorganisms from diseased insects to identify them, and selecting strains that show high control effects against pest insects. The lab also studies ways to prevent infectious diseases in insects reared in large numbers, such as silkworms and honeybees, as well as the mechanisms by which insects protect themselves from pathogenic microorganisms. Graduate students can enter or advance to the lab through the Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, and undergraduates in the Agronomy Field of the Bioresource Production Science Course in the School of Agriculture can also conduct graduation research here under certain conditions.
Midori Tuda, Professor
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The lab studies the biological control of pests using parasitoid and predatory natural enemy insects, from both basic and applied perspectives. Natural enemy insects include predators, which capture and eat other insects, and parasitoids, which lay eggs on or in other insects. Prof. Tuda studies population fluctuations and evolution of pests and their natural enemies, as well as pest control using nanomaterials. Associate Professor Ueno studies the behavior, ecology, and life history of parasitoid wasps, and also works on pest control methods that use natural enemies.
Keiji Takasu, Professor
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The lab studies how alien insects become pests in new locations, and how to control them. It also works on assessing the impact of invading organisms on other organisms and ecosystems, plant quarantine technologies to prevent invasions, and the development of control methods for invasive pests. It also studies the behavior and ecology of parasitoid wasps, which are especially useful natural enemies for controlling invasive pests, and how to use them. Besides Japan, the lab conducts field surveys and laboratory experiments in Southeast Asia, Africa, and the United States.
Satoshi Yoshida, Professor
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The lab specializes in phytotronics, academic research centered on bioenvironmental control technology. Full-time faculty at the Experimental Bioenvironment Control Center conduct research and teach graduate students about advanced plant production systems such as plant factories. Research topics include domestic production of medicinal plants, vegetable cultivation using artificial light and LEDs, and plant production for fragrance raw materials. Because the lab does not belong to an undergraduate school, it accepts students starting in the graduate master's program.
Norimitsu Hamaoka, Associate Professor
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The Tropical Crop Science and Environment Lab conducts a wide range of research set in tropical regions, covering crops, the water environment, insects, and the management of natural resources. For tropical crops such as yam and rice, the lab studies traits that raise productivity, aiming to lead to the development of cultivation techniques. For ants, the lab studies species diversity in tropical Asia based on specimens collected in the field. The Institute of Tropical Agriculture, to which the lab belongs, provides graduate students with research and education that make use of fieldwork sites in Asia.
Douglas Drummond, Professor
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The Microtubule Dynamics Lab studies the behavior of microtubules, which are involved in cell division and intracellular transport, using yeast and filamentous fungi. Microtubules are assembled from the protein tubulin and, using GTP as an energy source, show dynamic instability: they switch between phases of growth and sudden shrinkage. It is known that microtubules made from yeast tubulin move differently from those made from mammalian tubulin, and the lab investigates how this difference arises from small differences in amino acids. The lab combines biochemical methods with in vitro analysis using microscopy to work at the cellular and molecular levels.
Tsuguru Fujii, Associate Professor
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The Silkworm Genetic Resources Lab maintains research silkworms in a wide variety of strains and conducts research using them. The lab holds about 800 strains, which its website describes as the most diverse collection in the world. It compares silkworms with unusual traits, such as a different cocoon color or larval body color, with normal silkworms to investigate why these differences arise. The lab accepts only graduate students and above; it has no undergraduate students and does not assign fourth-year undergraduates.
Hiromi Maekawa, Associate Professor
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The Eukaryotic Cell Microbiology Lab uses methylotrophic yeast to study the mechanisms that control cell division and sexual reproduction. Yeasts are industrially useful microorganisms, and research on them as model organisms has contributed greatly to understanding the cell cycle, protein transport, and more. The lab works with Ogataea polymorpha, which is evolutionarily distant from the well-studied budding yeast. It studies how this yeast switches its mating type and how it controls the progression of cell division.
Takahiko Kubo, Professor
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The Plant Genetic Resources Lab conducts genetics and plant breeding research on collecting and generating useful genetic resources in crops, and on developing, preserving, and managing their traits. The lab holds that crop improvement requires useful genetic resources, and that it is important both to collect cultivated varieties widely from around the world and to create resources by inducing artificial mutations and clarify their traits. Specifically, the lab works on genetic analysis of how storage proteins accumulate in rice seeds, development of rice mutant lines, and the preservation and characterization of rice landraces.
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