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Yuichi Takeuchi, Associate Professor
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The Takeuchi Lab studies what kinds of adaptive changes occur in the brain and nervous system that govern the behavior of living organisms. The forms and behaviors of living things are diverse, and even within a single species there are different types. Right- and left-handedness in humans is one such individual variation. The lab studies African scale-eating cichlids, in which the brain circuits and genes related to handedness can be examined, and it is the only lab in the world that breeds and maintains them for experiments. It also works with many other fish species. The lab hopes that, through research, students will develop the ability to solve mysteries with their own hands.
Nobuaki Tanaka, Associate Professor
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The Tanaka Lab studies the processing of sensory information and the neuroendocrine system, using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and squid. How does the brain recognize the external environment and produce behavior suited to it? In Drosophila, the lab investigates how odor information is processed and how that processing is modulated by an individual's mood and physical condition. Recently, the lab has also begun studying motor control of a body without joints or a skeleton, as well as sensory information processing in the brain, using the pygmy squid, a cephalopod. In both animals, the lab combines anatomical and physiological methods to clarify the structure and function of individual neurons.
Michael Schleyer, Assistant Professor
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The Schleyer Lab is an international research team that studies learning and memory, decision-making, and movement. The brain is one of the greatest unknowns, and much remains unknown about how it controls the body and behavior. The lab therefore focuses on the brain of a small, simple invertebrate: the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. It has only about 10,000 neurons, and genetic tools are available that allow neural circuits to be analyzed at the level of single cells. Through research that could be called "insect psychology," the lab approaches the question of what a small insect thinks with its simple brain.
Yoshinao Katsu, Professor
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The Katsu Lab studies how the proteins that receive sex hormones (receptors) arose during evolution. The lab isolates receptor genes from animals at key points in animal evolution, such as cartilaginous fishes, ancient fishes, lampreys, and amphioxus, and examines their functions. It traces when and how the precise endocrine systems of higher vertebrates came into being.
Atsushi Kimura, Professor
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The Kimura-Fujimori Lab studies the functions of the mammalian genome, especially how gene expression is regulated. Using mouse testis, ovary, and placenta, the lab investigates how genes are activated when sperm and eggs are formed. The key players are long noncoding RNAs, which function without being made into proteins, and DNA sequences that serve two roles. When necessary, the lab generates transgenic mice to confirm the functions of genes.
Asato Kuroiwa, Professor
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The Kuroiwa-Chikami-Yang Lab studies how males and females are determined in animals. Using spiny rats (Tokudaia), a group endemic to Japan that lacks a Y chromosome, the lab investigates the mechanisms of sex determination and the evolution of sex chromosomes. In birds, the lab uses chickens and Japanese quail to clarify the molecular basis of how sex is determined. The lab also studies the evolutionary history of sex determination in insects and reads the diversity encoded in primate genomes.
Tomoya Kotani, Associate Professor
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The Kotani Lab studies how a fertilized egg develops into an individual, using maternal factors as a starting point. More than 10,000 kinds of factors are stored in the oocyte, and fertilization and the development that follows proceed through their actions. Using zebrafish and mice, the lab investigates when and where maternal factors act, and how they are regulated. Using a technology that visualizes mRNA with high sensitivity, the lab tracks the structures mRNA takes in the cytoplasm and the switching of translation.
Katsueki Ogiwara, Associate Professor
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The Ogiwara Group studies how the ovary works, starting from the proteins involved in reproduction. The group raises its own medaka and mice and investigates, at the molecular level, the mechanism of ovulation, in which eggs are released from the ovary. Its subjects also include how the wound left after ovulation heals, and how the follicle that will grow is selected from among many follicles. Many questions in reproductive biology remain unanswered, and this field provides a foundation for applications such as reproductive medicine.
Shusei Mizushima, Associate Professor
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The Mizushima Lab studies the mechanism of fertilization in birds and genetic engineering techniques for birds that make use of that mechanism. In bird fertilization, polyspermy occurs, in which dozens of sperm enter a single egg. The lab has shown that stimulation by multiple sperm is required for embryonic development to begin. Currently, using quail and molecular biology methods, the lab is investigating how fertilization is involved in the origin of germ cells.
Shigeyuki Koshikawa, Professor
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The Koshikawa Lab conducts research that connects the lives of organisms in the wild to the evolution of developmental mechanisms. With the keyword Eco-Evo-Devo (ecology, evolution, and development), it works mainly with insects. The lab investigates how the wing and body patterns of the fruit fly Drosophila guttifera are formed and what roles they serve. It also studies the adaptation of blind ground beetles, which live in shallow underground layers and are thought to have lost their vision.
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