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Haruhide Mori, Professor
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The Biochemistry Lab studies enzymes involved in carbohydrate metabolism. Carbohydrates have highly diverse structures, and the enzymes that act on them are also diverse, so many enzymes are thought to remain unknown in nature. The lab finds enzymes with new functions and clarifies what they do and the protein structures that underlie their activity, aiming to develop better enzymes and to produce useful substances. Working with plants and microorganisms, the lab bases its research on biochemical experiments and also incorporates methods from molecular biology and organic chemistry.
Satoru Fukiya, Professor
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The Microbial Physiology Lab studies the mechanisms of microbial growth, fermentation, metabolism, interactions, and evolution. The lab investigates how bifidobacteria living in the human gut survive there, and how gut bacteria convert bile acids. It is also conducting research that evolves bacteria in the laboratory to elucidate how antimicrobial resistance, the loss of effectiveness of antibiotics, evolves. The lab aims to apply its results to the production of useful substances, the maintenance of health, and public health.
Satoshi Ishizuka, Professor
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The Food and Nutrition Lab studies the relationship between food and the body's metabolism. Overeating causes metabolic abnormalities, which lay the groundwork for diseases such as lifestyle-related diseases. The lab aims to clarify how metabolism changes in the intermediate stages before disease develops. It also investigates, using physiological and biochemical methods, the effects that characteristic components of food materials have on the body.
Tohru Hira, Professor
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The Food Function Chemistry Lab studies the relationship between food components and health. The lab is divided into groups led by individual faculty members, and each group pursues its own research themes. It investigates how the gut senses nutrients, functional components of food and how they act, and the interactions between gut bacteria and the body. In addition to methods from chemistry and molecular biology, it conducts experiments using cultured cells and laboratory animals.
Tatsuhiro Ezawa, Associate Professor
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The Rhizosphere Regulation Lab studies microbes that live in symbiosis with plant roots, especially arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can form symbioses with about 80% of land plants; in return for sugars from the plant, they collect the scarce phosphate in the soil and deliver it to the plant. The lab pursues two lines of research: clarifying the mechanisms of symbiosis at the molecular level, and studying the ecology of symbiotic microbes living in extreme environments such as strongly acidic soils and volcanoes, with the aim of applying it to the revegetation of degraded land. A revegetation method for strongly acidic soil that uses isolates obtained by the research group has been commercialized.
Teruo Sone, Professor
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The Applied Molecular Microbiology Lab studies a wide range of microorganisms, specializing in applied mycology and microbial genetics. It works on the mechanisms of mutation in the rice blast fungus, which causes rice disease, and on the search for and development of highly functional phytases. It also analyzes how microorganisms change during winemaking, and preserves and manages strains in the AHU Strain Preservation Room.
Yoshitaka Uchida, Associate Professor
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The Environmental Life Geochemistry Lab studies how materials and nutrients cycle through soil, plants, and the atmosphere. Earth's environment is maintained by the balanced cycling of carbon, nitrogen, water, and other substances, but that balance is easily disrupted. Working with dairy farms and dairy-intensive regions in Hokkaido, the lab is carrying out a project to devise ways of producing milk without burdening the environment. It also researches growing perennial grains, which can be harvested for many years after a single planting, in Hokkaido.
Toshizumi Miyamoto, Professor
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The Silviculture Lab aims to grow and protect forests, conducting research on how to cultivate and manage natural forest and plantation forest resources. It investigates long-term forest change, tree characteristics, genetic analysis and breeding, and the mechanisms by which fallen leaves and other litter decompose and nutrients cycle in the forest. Management of plantation forests as timber resources and the responses of trees to various stresses are also subjects of research. The lab also studies tree diseases and the fungi involved in decomposing fallen leaves and other matter.
Yutaka Tamai, Professor
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The Forest Product Manufacturing Lab studies how to increase the production of resources obtained from forests, such as woody biomass and specialty forest products, and how to put them to new uses. The lab aims to develop technologies that turn wood and similar materials into high-performance materials. As the foundation for this, the lab conducts basic research to clarify how organisms in forests interact with one another and how materials flow in and out of forest ecosystems. Main research themes include the cultivation and breeding of basidiomycetes and elucidating the mechanisms of symbiosis between plants and fungi.
Junko Morimoto, Professor
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The Ecosystem Management Lab studies a wide range of terrestrial ecosystems, including forests, rivers and wetlands, grasslands, farmland, and cities. The lab clarifies how ecosystems work and the benefits that nature provides to people (ecosystem services), and applies this to developing ecosystem management technologies and plans. Its three main issues are conserving biodiversity, addressing climate change, and restoring degraded nature. The organisms and methods studied are diverse, combining field surveys, laboratory experiments, and computer-based analysis.
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