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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.
Mako Nakamura, Professor
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The Animal Life Science Lab (Nakamura Lab) conducts research using animal cells and chicken embryos, with the aim of solving the world's food problems. Focusing on chicken meat, the lab works on two areas: developing “cultured meat” and increasing the value of internal-organ parts (smooth muscle). By studying how chicken muscle forms, the lab aims to open up new possibilities for meat. Students from the School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation study in the lab through their Degree Project.
Yukiko Ogino, Professor
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The Aquatic Molecular Developmental Biology Lab uses fish such as medaka to study how differences in external morphology and behavior between males and females are created and have evolved. The lab focuses on secondary sexual characteristics that are typical of males, and much of the mechanism of their evolution is still unknown. Using methods from genetic engineering and developmental biology, the lab studies the evolution of the androgen receptor through the genome duplication that occurred specifically in teleosts, and the evolutionary and developmental mechanisms of the secondary sexual traits that led to the diversity of reproductive modes. The model fish include medaka, mosquitofish, and swordtails.
William Ka Fai Tse, Associate Professor
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The Aquatic Developmental Toxicology Lab studies the mechanisms of diseases related to development, as well as osmoregulation in cells and fish. Its research focuses on disease mechanisms, the function of deubiquitinating enzymes, osmoregulation, and developmental toxicity. The lab works with cultured cells and small fish such as zebrafish and medaka. Combining a variety of molecular biology techniques with omics technologies, the lab tackles questions in biology.
TA VIET TON, Associate Professor
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The Mathematical Modeling Lab studies real-world phenomena using mathematical and statistical models. The lab belongs to the Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences at Kyushu University. Its listed research themes include fish schools, forest ecosystems, fur patterns of animals, and classification of English accents using AI.
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.
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