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Junya Hasegawa, Professor
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The Theoretical Catalysis Lab analyzes the chemical reactions and properties of complex molecules such as catalysts and biomolecules using theoretical calculations. It aims to clarify the principles behind reactions and to establish guidelines for molecular design to improve catalyst function. To this end, the lab also develops the necessary computational methods, proposing mathematical models that capture the essence of complex molecular systems and high-accuracy electronic structure theories. The lab accepts undergraduate students doing graduation research in the Department of Chemistry, School of Science, and graduate students of the Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering.
Tamaki Nakano, Professor
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The Functional Polymer Science Lab (Nakano Lab) studies polymers and supramolecules with highly controlled structures. The lab synthesizes polymers with helical structures and π-stacked polymers in which π-electron systems are regularly stacked. It investigates functions such as luminescence, nonlinear optics, and electrical conductivity, and has also begun research on polymer catalysts. Polymers made by choosing either right-handed or left-handed helicity can serve as materials for separating pharmaceuticals and for asymmetric catalysis.
Akinori Takaoka, Professor
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The Molecular Host Defense Lab studies, at the molecular level, the mechanisms of host defense against infection and cancer. Focusing on pathogen recognition receptors, which rapidly detect pathogens that enter the body, the lab searches for new receptors. By analyzing the signaling pathways that act downstream, it aims to elucidate the molecular pathology of intractable diseases such as infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, and cancer. The lab welcomes students and researchers from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their faculty, whether Science, Medicine, or others.
Fumio Motegi, Professor
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The Developmental Physiology Lab studies the mechanisms of pattern formation, by which cells and tissues acquire specific shapes and functions. It focuses on the role that mechanical stimuli from force, long a mystery, play in this process. Using the transparent nematode C. elegans, about 1 mm long, and cultured mammalian cells, the lab observes living cells as they proliferate and form tissue. By combining cutting-edge microscopy with its own original optical technology, the lab is opening up a new research field that merges life science and physics.
Benjamin List, Project Professor
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The Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Lab designs and discovers new chemical reactions by integrating computational science, information science, and experimental science. Reaction development still relies on trial and error in experiments, and it can take decades to find a single groundbreaking reaction. At ICReDD (Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery), the research center the lab belongs to, reaction pathways are first mapped out by computation, conditions are narrowed down to those worth trying using information science, and then they are verified by experiment. Data obtained from experiments is fed back into computation, and the aim is for the three fields to work as one to refine methods for designing reactions.
Toru Katoh, Associate Professor
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The Katoh Lab conducts research focused on the phylogenetic relationships, genetic diversity, and genetic differentiation of insects, beginning with Drosophila. Inferring the evolutionary history of organisms from genetic variation is one of the main challenges in phylogenetics, phylogeography, and population genetics. Insects are an extremely diverse group even among living things, so studying their evolutionary history is expected to explain a considerable part of the origin of biodiversity in nature.
Kazuhiro Kogame, Project Professor
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This lab studies the diversity and evolutionary pathways of algae, focusing on seaweeds and microscopic microalgae. It combines a variety of methods, including observation of morphology and ultrastructure, elucidation of life cycles through culture, crossing experiments, and molecular phylogenetic analysis. Project Professor Kogame mainly studies seaweeds, especially brown algae, and Lecturer Nakada mainly studies the green algal order Chlamydomonadales. The faculty introduction states that this is one of the few labs where students can properly learn algal taxonomy.
Kevin Wakeman, Assistant Professor
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The Wakeman Lab broadly studies the diversity and evolution of marine protists, algae, and invertebrates. Its main subjects are apicomplexans that parasitize invertebrates and dinoflagellates, including species that form red tides. The lab collects samples in places such as Guam, Okinawa, and Akkeshi in Hokkaido, and studies them using data such as genomes. It accepts short-term research students (for undergraduates), master's and PhD students, and postdoctoral researchers.
Tsuyoshi Abe, Associate Professor
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This lab studies the systematics of seaweeds at the Hokkaido University Museum. Focusing on the red algal genus Laurencia and its close relatives, it distinguishes species using molecular phylogeny, culture experiments, and chemical constituents in addition to morphological features. The lab also studies the seaweed flora of the northwestern Pacific, from Southeast Asia through Japan to the Russian Far East. The museum holds many seaweed specimens collected from several decades to more than a century ago, and these are also used in collaborative research in fields other than taxonomy.
Tomomichi Fujita, Professor
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The Fujita Lab studies the developmental mechanisms and environmental responses specific to plants, and their evolution, at the level of genes and cells. It tackles questions such as why plants excel at regeneration and totipotency, and why plant cells divide almost indefinitely without becoming cancerous. Using bryophytes such as the moss Physcomitrium patens as its main study material, the lab combines molecular genetics, cell biology, and omics analysis. The Fujita Lab and the Naramoto Lab share a common research base and each admits its own undergraduate and graduate students, while the two labs cooperate in supervising them.
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