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Hiroshi Naka, Associate Professor
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Organic chemistry is the discipline of understanding the properties, structures, and reactivity of organic molecules, manipulating them at will, and producing new molecules with unprecedented functions. Building on discoveries of new phenomena in organic chemistry, the Pharmaceutical Molecular Chemistry Lab contributes to drug discovery science by developing new technologies for both discovering and manufacturing drugs and by elucidating biological phenomena. Pharmaceuticals are expanding to diverse medium-sized and large molecules such as antibodies, peptides, and nucleic acids, and the lab develops its own methods to synthesize complex, large molecules efficiently and in an environmentally conscious way.
Ikuo Kimura, Professor
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The Metabolic Genome Pharmacology Lab (Kimura Lab) studies how lipid ligands related to nutritional state and sex differences (fatty acids and sex steroid hormones) trigger rapid physiological responses through receptors on the cell membrane, focusing on biological phenomena involved in energy metabolism. The aim is to apply this knowledge to functional foods, supplements, and drug discovery for the treatment and prevention of lifestyle-related diseases such as obesity and diabetes. The lab's work spans physiological experiments in genetically modified mice, cell experiments, analysis of metabolites by mass spectrometry, genome analysis, and searches for substances that bind to receptors.
Motonari Uesugi, Professor
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Chemical biology is biology that starts from chemistry. Life is ultimately made up of chemical reactions, so conversely, chemistry should make it possible to understand and manipulate biological phenomena. The Chemical Biology Lab, also known as the Uesugi Lab, has been discovering and designing organic compounds that have unique effects on living organisms and human cells, and using them as tools to investigate and manipulate biological phenomena. Its major goal is to open up a new world of bioactive synthetic compounds. By proposing compounds with new uses, new shapes, and new sizes, the lab aims to contribute to future approaches to drug discovery and to cell therapy.
Ryutaro Tao, Professor
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The Pomology Lab studies the mechanisms behind the various traits involved in how fruit trees bear fruit and how that fruit comes to be used. Founded in 1926, the lab carries out its research while growing persimmons, Japanese apricots, peaches, and other fruit trees in the orchard of the Kyoto Farm, located on the grounds of the Faculty of Agriculture. The lab's persimmon orchard is known as one of the largest persimmon cultivar collections in Japan and abroad. The knowledge gained is applied to developing new varieties with useful traits and new breeding technologies.
Reiji Masuda, Professor
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The Satoumi Ecology and Conservation Lab is based at the Maizuru Fisheries Research Station in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, and studies organisms living in river mouths and coastal seas. It conducts education and research related to fisheries science and environmental science, covering the ecology, physiology, behavior, and taxonomy of aquatic organisms, including fish. The lab also works on Mori-Sato-Umi Connectivity Studies, which comprehensively examines ecosystem linkages from forest to sea. Equipped with facilities such as a specimen museum, rearing buildings, and a research and training vessel, it is the only university-affiliated fisheries research station on the Sea of Japan side, and promotes joint use of its facilities.
Emi Takeyama, Professor
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The lab studies, from the perspective of planning theory, how farming and mountain village areas should develop as they are affected by globalization. Because farming and mountain villages are strongly shaped by local conditions, they find it hard to adapt to environmental change, and various distortions and frictions arise. The lab's topics include the direction of endogenous regional development, rational social infrastructure development for farming and mountain villages, and systems of cooperation between urban and rural areas. It is a practical and interdisciplinary field that starts from local issues and builds tools that help solve them.
Ryozo Noguchi, Professor
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The Agricultural Systems Engineering lab views agriculture, in which many elements are interconnected, as a single system and studies it from the perspectives of energy, resources, and information. The lab believes that solving the challenges of the 21st century, such as food and environmental problems and securing a stable energy supply, requires optimizing the whole system as well as advancing individual technologies. Undergraduate students join the lab in their fourth year (graduate students belong to the Division of Environmental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Hiroshi Isoda, Professor
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The Living Sphere Timber Structure Science Lab studies how to build safe, rational buildings using wood and wood-based materials. It works on joint methods that connect structural members, the development of new construction methods, and ways to evaluate the performance of existing buildings. When wood is used in buildings, the CO2 that trees took in through photosynthesis stays stored in the city for the decades the building is in use. From strength tests of structural members to full-scale shake-table tests and numerical analysis, the lab develops new joint methods and structures. In the Department of Forest Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, the lab is listed under the name 'Timber Structure Science'.
Hiroyuki Noda, Associate Professor
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The Fault Physics Lab builds physical models and analyzes their behavior in order to understand and make use of the various phenomena that accompany fault motion. The lab studies the mechanics of rock fracture and friction using theory, numerical simulation, observation, and experiments.
Takuya Nishimura, Professor
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The Space Geodesy Lab uses space geodetic data such as GNSS to model plate motion and fields of crustal deformation associated with earthquakes, slow slip, and similar phenomena. Based on observational data such as crustal deformation and seismic activity, the lab also works to improve long-term earthquake forecasting.
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