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Kazuyuki Takeda, Associate Professor
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The Molecular Structural Chemistry Lab studies the science of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Its work covers fundamental research on NMR phenomena and nuclear spin dynamics, development of NMR hardware and new methods, and applied research in solid-state NMR. NMR is an indispensable analytical tool in modern chemistry, but the lab does not regard it as merely an analytical tool and seeks to understand NMR phenomena at a deeper level.
Shigeki Matsunaga, Professor
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The Matsunaga Lab mainly discovers and develops new organic chemical reactions, aiming to contribute to synthesizing pharmaceuticals and other compounds more efficiently and with less waste, and to making full use of the diversity of organic compounds. In particular, the lab focuses on designing and developing its own original catalysts and reagents.
Michitaka Notaguchi, Professor
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The Notaguchi Lab (plant physiology) aims to clarify the mechanisms of the robust and flexible ways of living that plants have acquired to adapt in the natural world. The lab studies everything from how plants receive environmental information locally, to signal transduction inside cells, to systemic signaling at the tissue and whole-plant levels. Using state-of-the-art cell imaging techniques and original microdevices, the lab conducts research at levels ranging from molecules to whole plants.
Tokitaka Oyama, Associate Professor
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The Morphological Regulation Division (Chronobiology Group) studies the mechanisms of the circadian clock in plants and cyanobacteria. From the perspective of cellular clocks, the lab examines what kind of temporal regulation operates at each level of the plant: whole organism, organ, tissue, and cell. The lab also works on the diversity of photoperiodism, which makes plants flower according to the season, on developing reporter systems that use bioluminescence, and on interactions between plants and bacteria.
Hiroyuki Ogata, Professor
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The Ogata Lab (Microbial Ecology and Evolution) analyzes large-scale life data to understand the diversity, biological functions, and evolution of life, from the molecular level to the global environment. Its main tool is theoretical and computational science approaches, namely bioinformatics. Research centers on the functions and evolution of giant viruses, and on the functions of marine microbial ecosystems and their effects on the environment. The lab is also active as a core member of the international Tara Oceans project. Undergraduate students are accepted from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Graduate students can join from two programs: the Department of Biological Sciences in the Graduate School of Science and the Department of Emergent Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Teppei Yoshida, Professor
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The Yoshida Lab uses photoemission spectroscopy to study the electronic states of materials with strong electron correlations, such as high-temperature superconductors and materials that undergo metal-insulator transitions. More than 35 years after their discovery, the mechanism by which copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors become superconducting has still not been elucidated. Using synchrotron radiation facilities and laboratory light sources, the lab extracts electrons directly from materials and examines them. Undergraduate students are assigned to the Materials Science Course to carry out their graduation research (in graduate school, the Materials Science Course of the Department of Human and Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies).
Kanto Nishikawa, Professor
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The Kyoto University Herpetology Lab (Nishikawa Lab) studies the natural history of small animals such as amphibians and reptiles. Focusing on amphibian systematics, biogeography, and natural history, the lab conducts fieldwork in the mountains and forests of Asia and also works on the conservation of the Japanese giant salamander. Undergraduates join the Earth and Life Environment Course to carry out their graduation research. For graduate school, students can enter either the Earth and Life Environment Course in the Department of Human and Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, or the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies (the Division of Environmental Management for the master's program and the Division of Global Environmental Studies for the doctoral program).
Hironori Haga, Professor
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The Diagnostic Pathology Lab is a diagnostic pathology lab that examines tissues and cells under a light microscope to diagnose disease. While placing importance on observing the morphology of tissue, the lab conducts research that links it with genetic tests and other examinations as well as clinical information. As the Department of Diagnostic Pathology at Kyoto University Hospital, the lab handles daily diagnosis and studies the pathology of tumors in various organs, transplant pathology, and the relationship between intracellular signaling and disease. The lab is also working on applying photoimmunotherapy to allergic diseases.
Osamu Takeuchi, Professor
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The Medical Chemistry Lab (Takeuchi Lab) studies how inflammation arises and is regulated, from the perspective of innate immunity. Immune activity is tightly controlled in the body, balancing the removal of pathogens against the risk of going too far and causing disease. The lab focuses especially on how RNA is regulated inside cells, and investigates it using genetically modified mice and other approaches. It aims to apply its findings to developing new ways to control diseases involving inflammation.
Hiroyoshi Nishikawa, Professor
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The lab analyzes the tumor microenvironment (the environment surrounding cancer) with its own original methods and comprehensively investigates the interactions between the immune system and cancer cells. The lab has established the idea that genetic abnormalities in cancer cells directly affect immune responses, opening up a new field of tumor biology. The lab approaches the mechanisms of cancer through a “from human to mouse” method: it extracts immune-related factors from comprehensive data on cancer patients and confirms their significance in mouse models. The lab is a division of the Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology.
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