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Shoji Takada, Professor
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The Theoretical Biophysics Lab aims to understand the molecular mechanisms of fundamental life phenomena from a biophysical perspective. Using theory, simulation, and single-molecule experiments, the lab studies the regulation of gene expression, the dynamic structure of chromosomes and chromatin, DNA replication and repair, and the workings of biomolecular machines. The lab also uses methods from molecular evolution to explore the relationship between evolution at the level of form and behavior and evolution at the level of genes.
Masataka Yanagawa, Professor
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The Molecular Biological Information Lab seeks to understand the essence of proteins by combining three pillars: molecular evolution, physiological function, and molecular mechanisms. As a model, the lab focuses on photoreception in animals. Centering on rhodopsin, the photoreceptor protein of the retina, the lab analyzes the molecular basis of the diversity of photoreceptive functions using spectroscopy, biochemistry, molecular biology, and electrophysiology.
Tomoko Nishiyama, Professor
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The Genome Integrity and Control Division (Nishiyama Lab) studies how the genome is passed on to cells of the next generation in the form of chromosomes. The lab examines the structural changes chromosomes undergo, from genome replication through condensation into mitotic chromosomes to equal segregation into two daughter cells. Higher-order chromosome structure is also important for regulating gene expression, and defects in it are known to cause hereditary diseases.
Makoto Kitabatake, Assistant Professor
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Gene Expression (Kitabatake Lab) is a cooperating chair of the Department of Biological Sciences in the Graduate School of Science, run by Assistant Professor Makoto Kitabatake of the Virus Infection Research Division at the Institute for Life and Medical Sciences. Assistant Professor Kitabatake conducts molecular biology research on the mechanisms by which RNA and proteins are produced. The lab recently developed a method that uses purified factors to join DNA quickly and inexpensively.
Atsushi Mochizuki, Professor
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The Mathematical Life Science group (Mochizuki Lab) aims to explain life phenomena that arise from complex biomolecular networks and intracellular structures, using mathematical theory. The lab has independently developed mathematical theories that determine important aspects of dynamics from network information alone, and it repeatedly alternates between theoretical predictions and experimental verification. It also models the shapes and movements of organelles, the cytoskeleton, and other structures using methods from statistical physics, soft matter physics, and complex systems science.
Nobutoshi Yamaguchi, Professor
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The Biomolecular Information Lab (Institute for Chemical Research) focuses on the epigenome as the information that determines when, where, and how plants activate their genes. By clarifying how gene expression is regulated through histone modification, DNA methylation, and chromatin structure, the lab aims to understand the molecular foundations of plant morphogenesis and environmental response.
Masanaru Takai, Professor
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The Phylogeny Lab (Kyoto University Museum) conducts interdisciplinary, comprehensive research on primate phylogeny and evolution. It studies fossils of primates and various other mammals using diverse methods, including excavations in Japan and abroad, morphological comparison, reconstruction of paleoenvironments through isotope ratio analysis, image analysis such as CT, and engineering-based functional morphology analysis. Faculty members conduct research at the Kyoto University Museum in the Yoshida area.
Eishi Hirasaki, Professor
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The Division of Body Control Mechanisms (Institute for the Evolution of Human Behavior) aims to clarify the body control mechanisms underlying movements and behaviors unique to humans, such as upright bipedal locomotion, spoken language, and fine manipulation with the hands, as well as their evolutionary origins. The lab uses kinematic data, neural and biological signal data, morphological data, and simulation models based on them to explore the evolution and adaptation of body movement and its control mechanisms in humans and monkeys.
Katsuki Nakamura, Professor
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The Division of Cognitive Neural Mechanisms (Institute for the Evolution of Human Behavior) studies humans and monkeys, and aims to clarify the brain mechanisms that form the foundation of human behavioral traits such as social behavior, communication, and memory, as well as their evolutionary origins. The lab uses a variety of methods, including neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and imaging methods. Its central themes are elucidating the neural basis of spoken language, which is unique to humans, and the evolution of the cognitive functions that underlie language.
Masayuki Matsumoto, Professor
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The Division of Integrative Brain Mechanisms (Institute for the Evolution of Human Behavior) explores the structure and function of the complex, finely organized neural circuits that make up the primate brain, and aims to understand, as a system, the diverse brain functions that arise from them. The lab combines methods from neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuroethology, molecular biology, and informatics. By clarifying the operating principles and roles of the networks that run through the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, and cerebellum, the lab seeks to shed light on higher brain functions such as movement, cognition, and sociality, as well as the mechanisms of psychiatric and neurological disorders.
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