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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.
Satoshi Naramoto, Associate Professor
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The Naramoto Lab studies the mechanisms by which plants build their forms, starting at the cellular level. Plant form is not determined by genes alone. It arises from the combined effects of cell orientation, plant hormone action, intracellular trafficking, the cytoskeleton, the state of biological membranes, and responses to the environment. Using bryophytes, ferns, Arabidopsis thaliana, mycoheterotrophic plants, and others, the lab investigates how body axes are established and how organs form. Centered on live imaging and microscopy, the lab combines molecular genetics, cell biology, AI-based image analysis, and mathematical biology, aiming not only to "see" development but to "measure and understand" it.
Yukako Chiba, Professor
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The Chiba Lab studies how RNA-mediated regulation of gene expression contributes to the distinctive physiological phenomena of plants. Currently, the lab focuses in particular on the role of RNA in plant stress responses. Regulation of gene expression through mRNA degradation is thought to be especially effective when a rapid response is needed. Using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the lab investigates these questions with methods from molecular genetics and physiology.
Ryohei Nakano, Professor
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The RTNakano Lab studies how plants communicate with the diverse microbes in natural environments, and how that conversation affects the way plants live. Various microbes colonize plant roots, and this community is called the "microbiota." Because the microbiota greatly affects plant growth, stress tolerance, and disease resistance, it can even be considered a part of the plant in natural environments. Using plant and microbial genetics, multi-omics, and cell biology, the lab examines how the root microbiota influences the coordination of growth and immunity.
Hidetaka Ito, Associate Professor
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The Morphology and Function III Lab studies how plants sense and respond to their environment in order to live. Because plants cannot move from place to place, they detect changes such as heat, cold, drought, light, and surrounding organisms, and regulate gene activity and growth accordingly. Combining genetics, molecular biology, and genome and epigenome analysis, the lab investigates how plants receive, remember, and respond to environmental information. The central themes are responses to environmental stress, epigenetics, transposons, and communication between plants.
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