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Kaoru Takegawa, Professor
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The Fermentation Chemistry Lab studies eukaryotic microorganisms, mainly yeasts and filamentous fungi, and elucidates their diverse functions at the molecular level. Using genetic engineering, protein engineering, and cell biology, the lab gives microorganisms new functions or enhances their existing ones. The lab also conducts basic research that searches for and isolates new useful microorganisms from nature, with the aim of putting them to effective use. The lab's website introduces it under the name "Fermentation Chemistry Laboratory."
Tomoyuki Numata, Associate Professor
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The Biochemistry Lab studies the molecular mechanisms of antiviral defense and stress response in bacteria and archaea. Focusing on interactions between nucleic acids and proteins, the lab combines methods from biochemistry, molecular biology, and structural biology to elucidate how these systems work. Building on its findings, the lab also pursues research on genome editing, cell manipulation, and the development of antibacterial agents. The lab celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2021.
Mieko Arisawa, Professor
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The Agrochemical Chemistry Lab develops new organic chemical reactions and synthetic methods to create substances with molecular skeletons never seen before. Combining chemistry and biology, the lab conducts basic research that leads to the discovery of new chemical and biological phenomena, principles, and functions. The lab also carries out applied research aimed at developing agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals that respond appropriately to environmental stress in animals and plants. Lab visits are accepted at any time, and students from other universities can also join the study sessions for graduate school entrance exams.
Taizo Hanai, Professor
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The Synthetic Biology Lab studies the construction of synthetic gene circuits and synthetic metabolic pathways that produce substances such as bioalcohols. Like writing a program, the lab designs gene sequences that behave as desired under specific conditions or produce a desired substance. Microorganisms carrying the designed genes are created by recombinant DNA technology, then cultured to check their behavior and production. When the results differ from what was intended, the gene sequences are redesigned using computational analysis.
Yoshimitsu Yoshimitsu, Professor
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The Biophysical Chemistry Lab uses X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy to understand life phenomena at the molecular level from the three-dimensional structures of enzymes. The lab studies the relationship between enzyme structure and function, and how dynamic protein complexes work. It puts particular effort into analyzing the molecular mechanisms of sulfation signaling, the structure and function of glycan-related enzymes, the molecular mechanisms of RNA-related enzymes, and how antibodies recognize their binding partners. The lab supervises undergraduate students on the premise that they will go on to a master's program.
Hideki Hirakawa, Professor
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The Gene Regulation Lab uses information science methods to analyze genome sequence data and gene expression data from a wide range of organisms, from microorganisms to humans. The lab also comprehensively integrates data such as microRNA, peptides, proteins, and phenotypes, and uses bioinformatics to clarify the relationship between the phenotype and genotype of organisms. It also works on developing methods for predicting gene function and on decoding genome sequences.
Takahiro Nakamura, Professor
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The Genome Chemistry and Engineering Lab studies the nuclear and organellar genomes of plants and develops genome engineering technologies such as genome editing. Using PPR proteins, which are abundant in plants, the lab develops its own DNA and RNA editing technologies and advances their applications. The lab also investigates how the genomes of chloroplasts, mitochondria, and the nucleus work together to sustain life. Based on the lab's research results, EditForce, Inc., a Kyushu University startup, was founded in 2015.
Akiko Maruyama, Professor
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The Plant Nutritional Physiology Lab studies sulfur, one of the essential elements plants need to live. Plants make cysteine and methionine, amino acids that humans also need, from sulfate ions in the environment. The lab investigates how plants take up and use sulfur, and how they respond when it is deficient. Undergraduate students can join the lab through the Applied Biological Chemistry field of the Applied Biological Science Course, and graduate students through the Biological Functional Molecular Chemistry Division of the Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences.
Masao Sato, Professor
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The Nutrition Chemistry Lab conducts basic research on what kind of diet supports a healthy life. Because lifestyle-related diseases are difficult to cure once they develop, the lab focuses on preventing disease through diet. The lab targets vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction, and thrombosis. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name 'Nutrition Chemistry Division'.
Hirofumi Tachibana, Senior Professor
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The Food Chemistry Lab focuses on functional factors found in natural products, including foods, and studies how food factors affect our health and biological phenomena. The lab examines these effects over a wide range, from the molecular level to human clinical trials, and aims to apply its findings to functional foods, pharmaceuticals, and the food industry. The lab is also distinctive in that it produces mice lacking receptors for food factors and investigates mechanisms of action consistently from cell culture to animals. Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates carry out research while discussing it with one another.
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