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Yoshitaka Takano, Professor
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The lab studies the interactions between plants and pathogens. Worldwide, 10-15% of food is lost every year to diseases caused by pathogens, but plants also have a variety of countermeasures against them. Targeting filamentous fungi (molds), bacteria, and viruses, the lab investigates what this battle actually looks like using the methods of molecular biology and cell biology, aiming to develop new crop protection technologies. Undergraduates are assigned to the Advanced Biological Science Course in their third year, and to this lab within the course in their fourth year (the graduate school is the Graduate School of Agriculture, Division of Applied Biosciences).
Kenji Matsuura, Professor
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The Insect Ecology Lab studies the mechanisms and evolution of insect societies, using termites as its main study organism. Societies of social insects such as ants, bees, and termites feature conflict and the mechanisms that resolve it, soldiers that defend the nest, agriculture, and hygiene management using antimicrobial substances. Founded in 1923 as the first lab in Japan dedicated to the study of insect ecology, the lab values research in which students observe with their own eyes and form their own questions. Undergraduates are assigned to the Advanced Bioscience Course in their third year, and to this lab within the course in their fourth year (graduate students belong to the Division of Applied Biosciences, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Takaaki Daimon, Professor
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The Insect Physiology Lab studies the mechanisms behind insects' diverse biological phenomena using methods such as molecular genetics, physiology, biochemistry, and chemical ecology. Insects are deeply involved with humans as agricultural pests and as carriers of infectious diseases, and coexisting with them requires solving “mysteries” such as form, color, metamorphosis, diapause, reproduction, and behavior. The lab is located on the North Campus, in a building other than the Faculty of Agriculture Main Building (the former Pesticide Research Facility). Undergraduates are assigned to the Advanced Bioscience Course in their third year, and to this lab within the course in their fourth year (graduate students belong to the Division of Applied Biosciences, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Chihiro Tanaka, Professor
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The Microbial Environment Control Lab studies the properties of microbes that cause plant diseases and microbes that live in symbiosis with plants, and how they interact with other organisms. The lab aims to skillfully control microbes in farmland and forests, and to use this to protect useful plants and improve the productivity of agriculture and forestry. The lab is jointly run by two fields, one from the Graduate School of Agriculture and one from the School of Global Environmental Studies, and graduate students of the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies also belong to it. Undergraduates are assigned to the Advanced Bioscience Course in their third year, and to this lab within the course in their fourth year (graduate students belong to the Division of Environmental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Norihide Hinomoto, Professor
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The Ecological Information Lab aims to understand how living things live in nature and to apply that understanding to people's lives. As a lab in the Graduate School of Agriculture, it studies insects, and the main way it can benefit people is through the control of agricultural pests. Using small pests such as spider mites and their natural enemies, such as phytoseiid mites and predatory bugs, as its main study subjects, the lab conducts both basic and applied research. Undergraduates are assigned to the Advanced Bioscience Course in their third year, and to this lab within the course in their fourth year (graduate school: Graduate School of Agriculture, Division of Environmental Science and Technology).
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).
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