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Noriyuki Kioka, Professor
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The Cell Biochemistry Lab studies the various vital functions of mammalian cells, including human cells, from the perspective of the biochemistry of genes and proteins. Cells in the body proliferate, move, and differentiate in response to their surroundings, such as the collagen that surrounds them. The lab aims to clarify how cells respond to their extracellular environment and how the body maintains homeostasis, and to use this knowledge to help overcome cancer and lifestyle-related diseases. Undergraduates are assigned to the lab in their fourth year (graduate school: Graduate School of Agriculture, Division of Applied Life Sciences).
Kenji Sugase, Professor
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The Biomacromolecular Chemistry Lab studies proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases, thrombosis, long-term memory, and the regulation of the epigenome. Mainly using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), the lab analyzes at the atomic level the dynamic structures of proteins, which change according to the environment inside the body. The lab also develops its own NMR instruments that can measure molecules under flow, light, and electric fields. Undergraduates are assigned to the lab in their fourth year (graduate school: Graduate School of Agriculture, Division of Applied Life Sciences).
Masatoshi Murai, Professor
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The Bioregulation Chemistry Lab isolates and synthesizes strongly bioactive organic compounds with its own original approaches, and uses them to clarify biological phenomena chemically. The lab draws on chemical and biological methods in balance. Its two major themes are the enzymes responsible for energy metabolism in mitochondria and the peptides found in scorpion and spider venoms. Undergraduates are assigned to the lab in their fourth year (the graduate program is the Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Naoki Mori, Professor
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The Chemical Ecology Lab focuses on chemical substances that act in interactions between organisms and analyzes the mechanisms involved. It deals with toxic substances made by plants, the countermeasures of insects that detoxify and overcome them, and pheromones and hormones that control insect behavior in tiny amounts. By analyzing, synthesizing, and bioassaying various bioactive substances, the lab clarifies the strategies of living things. Undergraduates are assigned to the lab in their fourth year (the graduate program is the Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Kentaro Ifuku, Professor
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The Plant Nutrition Lab aims to understand the role plants play in the Earth's material cycles and to think about the future of environmental, food, and energy problems. It studies the mechanisms of photosynthesis, how plants respond to environmental stress, material production by microalgae, and the inorganic nutrients that support plant growth. Undergraduates are assigned to the lab in their fourth year (the graduate program is the Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Jun Ogawa, Professor
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The lab searches for and develops the unique latent abilities of microorganisms, and conducts research to put them to use in industry and everyday life. The lab collects a wide variety of microorganisms from the natural world, and identifies and refines abilities useful for health, food production, environmental conservation, the shift of raw materials from petroleum to biomass, and the production of valuable substances. The lab carries out its research in cooperation with Industrial Microbiology, an industry-academia joint research chair. Undergraduate students join the lab in their fourth year (graduate school: Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Hiroya Yurimoto, Professor
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The lab studies microorganisms that use one-carbon compounds (C1 compounds) such as methanol and methane, known as C1 microorganisms. With molecules, chemistry, cells, and metabolism as keywords, the lab seeks to understand microbial metabolism and cellular mechanisms and to apply that understanding to protein production, higher crop yields, and reduction of greenhouse gases. Prof. Yurimoto joined the lab in April 2025. Undergraduate students join the lab in their fourth year (graduate school: Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Osamu Shirai, Professor
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The lab studies bioelectrochemistry, the chemistry of biological mechanisms involving the flow of electrons and ions. In the body, the flow of electrons and ions generates the energy for life activities, and drug transport and information transmission across biological membranes take place. The lab clarifies phenomena involving biological membranes and oxidoreductases, and also builds devices that imitate the sophisticated functions found in nature. Undergraduate students join the lab in their fourth year (graduate school: Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Yosuke Takaoka, Professor
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The lab designs and synthesizes artificial molecules, modified with original ideas from compounds such as plant hormones and those involved in energy metabolism. The lab studies in detail how these molecules behave inside plants and elsewhere, aiming to understand and control the intriguing biological phenomena in which these compounds are involved. Undergraduates are assigned to the lab in their fourth year (graduate school: Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Yoshiharu Inoe, Professor
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The lab uses yeast as its main model organism to study how signals from cellular metabolites are transmitted and how cells respond to various stresses. Using genetic and biochemical methods, the lab investigates transcription factors that sense stress and activate the necessary genes, as well as the mechanisms that transmit signals within cells. Undergraduates are assigned to the lab in their fourth year (graduate school: Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture).
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