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Masato Nakatsukasa, Professor
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The Physical Anthropology Lab studies the adaptation and evolution of primates through both comparisons among living primates and reconstructions of phylogeny and ecology from fossils and other materials from past eras. Its materials include fossil primates and fossil humans, ancient human remains such as those from the Jomon period, and the teeth, muscles, skeletons, and brains of living primates. Its methods include comparative anatomy, paleopathology, quantitative morphology, biomechanics, and stable isotope analysis. The lab also actively carries out fossil excavation surveys overseas, in countries such as Kenya, Turkey, and Spain.
Michio Nakamura, Professor
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The Human Evolution Studies Lab focuses mainly on wild primates other than humans, aiming to clarify their ecology, behavior, and societies and to consider the process of hominization and the evolution of human nature. Centered on fieldwork, the lab also uses molecular ecology methods. Studying subjects ranging from great apes such as chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans to monkeys only distantly related to humans, the lab explores the origins of human behavior. Faculty members and students freely choose their own topics and study subjects according to their interests, and carry out research at field sites in Japan and abroad.
Michitaka Shimomura, Professor
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The Seto Marine Biological Laboratory stands on the southwest coast of the Kii Peninsula, a location with very high marine species diversity because of the influence of the Kuroshio Current. Taking advantage of this location, the lab conducts natural history research, including taxonomy and systematics of marine invertebrates, biogeography, ecology, and ethology. The lab uses two research and training vessels, an experimental site on Hatakejima, an uninhabited island in Tanabe Bay, and the Shirahama Aquarium for both research and education.
Shinichi Nakano, Professor
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Ecological Science I at the Center for Ecological Research studies ecological phenomena produced by diverse organisms, including animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms, in representative ecosystems of the Earth such as forests, grasslands, lakes, and rivers. Its themes include food webs of lake plankton, interactions between organisms and their environment using stable isotopes, watershed management using mathematical models, and connections among forests, rivers, and the sea.
Shizuka Fuse, Professor
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The Plant Systematics and Taxonomy Lab studies plant diversity and its evolution. The lab conducts field surveys in forests and grasslands in East and Southeast Asia, discovering and describing new taxa such as new species while clarifying the flora of each region. By combining DNA-based phylogenetic trees with anatomical and gene expression analyses, the lab investigates how plant forms and traits have evolved.
Tomonao Matsushita, Professor
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The Plant Molecular Physiology Lab (Matsushita Lab) studies the molecular basis of plants' remarkable ability to adapt to their environment. Its focus includes genome-wide regulation of gene expression in response to environmental stimuli, diversification of proteins and changes in their subcellular localization, and long-distance signaling among cells, tissues, and organs. The lab combines approaches from genomics, molecular genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, and plant physiology.
Soichi Inagaki, Professor
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The Plant Molecular Genetics Lab studies how heredity works in plants through three groups: Inagaki, Takenaka, and Tsugeki. Its themes are the establishment and inheritance of epigenomes such as DNA methylation, RNA editing in mitochondria and chloroplasts, and plant stem cells and organ formation.
Hiroshi Kudoh, Professor
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Ecological Science II at the Center for Ecological Research covers plants, animals, and microbes, dealing with relationships within and between species, ecosystems, and the global environment. Using molecular biology methods, theory, and experiments, the lab studies how plants behave in response to the seasons, their reproductive ecology, the diversity of interactions among organisms, and the dynamics of populations and communities.
Hidehito Tochio, Professor
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The Structural Physiology Lab (Tochio Lab) aims to elucidate the basic principles of cellular "information processing": how cells receive and respond to external stimuli. Biomolecules such as proteins carry and process this information. Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) as the main method, together with X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy, the lab studies proteins involved in the intracellular information processing behind immune and nervous system responses, and in the regulation of genetic code translation.
Shin-ya Kawaguchi, Professor
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The Neurobiology Lab (Kawaguchi Lab) studies synapses, the junctions where neurons pass information to one another, with the aim of uncovering the basic principles by which the brain and nervous system function. The lab investigates the molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity, in which the way synapses transmit information changes depending on how they are used, and how this plasticity alters information processing in neural circuits and animal behavior. Experiments using cultured neurons, brain slices, and mice are combined with simulations of mathematical models.
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