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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.
Vishwajit Sur Chowdhury, Associate Professor
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The Animal Nutritional Physiology Lab studies heat stress in chickens, a major threat to the poultry industry. The lab has identified physiological and metabolic indicators related to heat stress, and has found amino acids that play a role in body temperature regulation, including L-citrulline, L-leucine, and taurine. In addition to amino acids, the lab also focuses on neuropeptide Y and related peptides, which regulate stress and immune function.
Jae Man Lee, Professor
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The Insect Food Science Lab studies the development of sustainable food, feed, and pharmaceuticals using insect factories and genetic technology. Using genetic recombination and genome editing, the lab aims to raise the value of insects and put them to practical use as resources for food and feed. The lab is also developing technologies that use insects to produce new functional substances, such as biopeptides and oral vaccines. The lab is working to apply these technologies to food security and pharmaceuticals.
Michito Tsuyama, Assistant Professor
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The Plant Metabolic Regulation Lab studies the mechanisms by which conifers withstand environmental stress, from the perspective of photosynthetic regulation. Conifers dominate the harsh-climate regions of the mid- to high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, and they have various mechanisms for adapting to cold, drought, and other stresses. Regulation of photosynthesis is especially important: without it, photosynthesis suffers light-induced damage under environmental stress. Based on information obtained from photosynthesis research, the lab is trying to create improved trees.
Koshi Maeda, Professor
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The Agricultural Economics Lab studies economic problems and policy issues arising from the characteristics of agriculture and imperfections in market mechanisms, from the perspective of international industrial organization. The lab holds that the main causes of economic disparities in agriculture are imperfect competition, in which either sellers or buyers gain excessive price-bargaining power, and excessive market intervention by governments at home and abroad. Holding that it is important to realize fair, free competition by appropriately combining market functions and policy, the lab investigates the causes and solutions using quantitative economic analysis tools.
Norikazu Inoue, Professor
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The Agricultural Management Lab studies the problems facing modern farm management and ways to address them from the perspective of the theory of the structure of productive forces. The lab examines planning, management, and extension for the sustainable development of farm businesses, while they produce safe and secure food and conserve the regional environment. The lab includes international students, mainly from Asia, as well as students from Japan, and it also studies agricultural problems overseas from the perspective of farm management. The lab holds a lab seminar every week, where members report on their research and extracurricular activities and exchange opinions.
Masahiro Moritaka, Professor
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The Food System Lab studies how food is distributed from the perspective of distribution economics. Many distribution actors are involved from upstream to downstream, and their behaviors affect one another. The lab clarifies the behavioral principles of each actor and explores institutional design and contract design that lead to overall optimization. Its main interests are the efficiency and stability of food distribution and food safety.
Takaaki Watanabe, Associate Professor
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The Agrarian Question Lab studies the problems surrounding agriculture under a capitalist economy, and the related policy challenges, from the perspective of political economy. The lab holds that agriculture is slow to become capitalized and tends to have lower productivity than industry, and that this has caused various political-economic problems in Japan and abroad. It critically examines the relationship between agrarian problems and agricultural policy, and identifies policy challenges. It also analyzes movements within agriculture, such as cooperatives, social movements, and endogenous development, and looks for ways to solve problems from the agricultural field itself.
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