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Takeshi Enomoto, Professor
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Building on meteorology, the Disaster Climate Lab aims to clarify how extreme weather and abnormal weather conditions arise and how predictable they are, as well as climate change and its mechanisms, in relation to changes in atmospheric composition and variability in atmospheric and oceanic circulation. The lab carries out its research through numerical experiments with general circulation models and regional weather models, and through analysis of long-term meteorological and oceanic observation data and operational ensemble numerical weather prediction data. The lab is a cooperating research group of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Graduate School of Science, and belongs to the Atmospheric Science division.
Hirohide Saito, Professor
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RNA–protein complexes (RNPs), formed when proteins recognize the sequence and structure of RNA, regulate gene expression and cell fate decisions and play a central role in the molecular mechanisms inside cells. The Saito Lab takes on the development of new technologies for understanding and controlling living systems, through design biology and experimental evolution centered on RNA and RNPs. The lab provides research supervision to master's and doctoral students in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, helping them acquire methods in RNA synthetic biology, molecular biology, stem cell biology, and bioengineering.
Akitsu Hotta, Associate Professor
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It is said that genetic mutations are involved in more than half of the intractable diseases that are difficult to treat. Technologies that repair genes and patient-derived iPS cells are powerful tools for developing new treatments for intractable diseases caused by genetic mutations. The Hotta Lab focuses mainly on muscular dystrophy and develops a variety of technologies, including gene repair by genome editing, delivery into the body, and creation of cells that avoid immune rejection.
Tatsuro Egawa, Associate Professor
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The lab studies, at the molecular and cellular levels, the mechanisms by which skeletal muscle changes through exercise, aging, nutrient intake, and other factors. Starting from familiar questions such as "Why is exercise good for health?" and "Why do muscles weaken with age?", the lab takes on the mysteries of exercise and muscle. Centered on aging and glycation stress, the lab examines mechanisms that hinder skeletal muscle adaptation to exercise, as well as food components and physical stimuli for people who find exercise difficult. Beginning with elucidating the molecular mechanisms of skeletal muscle adaptation, the lab aims to realize a society in which everyone can enjoy sports.
Takashi Tsukiura, Professor
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The Tsukiura Lab studies how human memory, particularly episodic memory, is supported in the brain. The aim of the research is to use neuroscience to clarify the mental functions of memory: taking in information, then recalling and using it. The lab combines functional brain imaging such as fMRI, neuropsychological methods with patients who have brain damage, and experimental psychology methods with healthy participants. It also investigates how emotion, reward, and interactions with others affect memory, and how memory changes with aging.
Jun Saito, Associate Professor
0 student voices
The Applied Mechanics Lab studies the computational methods themselves used to verify whether civil engineering structures are mechanically safe. To explain data obtained from field measurements and laboratory experiments in a coherent way, the lab models the mechanical phenomena involved in the simplest form possible. Based on those models, it develops methods that predict future behavior by computer. The subjects range widely from water flow to ground, concrete, and tunnels, in a field where a foundation in mathematics and mechanics is essential.
Takashi Yamamoto, Professor
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The Structural Materials Lab studies concrete, the most widely used material in civil engineering structures. As the foundation of society, civil engineering structures are used for many years under harsh natural and social environments, and they become damaged and deteriorate. The lab therefore covers a broad range, from the basic properties of concrete as a material to the durability performance and maintenance of structures. It also works on soundness assessment, repair, and strengthening of deteriorated structures, and on the development of new materials and new structural forms.
Yasuo Kitane, Professor
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The Structural Mechanics Lab studies civil engineering structures such as bridges made of steel and FRP. It investigates how much force a structure can withstand, how it behaves in an earthquake, and how it deteriorates over time. Using both loading experiments and numerical simulation, the lab clarifies mechanical behavior and develops rational design methods. Student teams take part in bridge model contests and the Japan Steel Bridge Competition, giving students the chance to learn about bridges in depth.
Tomomi Yagi, Professor
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The Bridge Engineering Lab does research in wind engineering, studying how structures behave in strong winds. Focusing on bridge girder cross-sections and cables, it examines airflow and vibration using wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). It clarifies the mechanisms by which structures begin to vibrate on their own in wind, and develops countermeasures to suppress the vibration. It also covers disaster prevention and maintenance, including strong-wind disasters from typhoons and tornadoes, corrosion from airborne salt, and snow accretion on structures.
Yoshikazu Takahashi, Professor
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The Structural Dynamics Lab studies how infrastructure such as bridges shakes in earthquakes. The lab traces its origins to the first research chair named for earthquake engineering in a civil engineering department at a Japanese university. Through both experiments and analysis, it covers everything from response to seismic shaking, to control methods that reduce shaking, to implementation in seismic design. In recent years, performance evaluation that takes into account changes in material properties over long use has become important, and the lab is also advancing research on deteriorated members.
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