Labs in Chiba University

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航空宇宙工学・空気力学（板倉 嘉哉） (introduction coming soon)

Aerospace engineering, aerodynamics

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The lab uses agriculture and food as teaching materials to create classes that can be shared across countries.

Professor Koji Tsuji's lab studies the design of classes that use agriculture, food, and plant genetic resources as teaching materials. Professor Tsuji is a faculty member in technology education at the Faculty of Education, specializing in plant breeding and agricultural education. Professor Tsuji has made the exploration, conservation, and use of plant genetic resources (wild species, landraces, and so on) a lifework, and has experience conducting field surveys in India, Nepal, Malaysia, and other countries. In recent years, the research focus has shifted to education. In collaboration with overseas universities, the lab works on developing classes that use specialty agricultural products of Chiba Prefecture as teaching materials, as one kind of plant genetic resource.

#Plant genetic resources #Agricultural education #SDGs

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The lab studies the properties of wood and develops teaching materials for learning about them.

Prof. Tanabe specializes in wood processing, with wood science and science education as the main research fields. The lab studies variation in wood quality and develops teaching materials for learning about the properties of wood. In its research on teaching materials, the lab has taken up woodworking lessons in junior high school Technology classes and materials testing machines used as teaching materials. In the Faculty of Education, Prof. Tanabe is a faculty member in Technology Education. In graduate school, the lab belongs to the Mathematics, Science, and Technology area of the Department of School Education, Graduate School of Education.

#Wood processing #Material quality #Wood science

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The lab approaches mental health problems in adolescence from the perspectives of psychiatry and psychopathology.

Prof. Hanazawa specializes in adolescent psychiatry and psychopathology. The professor studies eating disorders and stress-related binge eating from the standpoint of polyvagal theory. The professor also shares work on psychotherapy viewed through this theory and on supporting children at school, through papers and lectures. In the Faculty of Education, Prof. Hanazawa is a faculty member in School Nursing Education. In graduate school, the lab belongs to the Educational Development and Support area of the Department of School Education, Graduate School of Education.

#Adolescent psychiatry #Eating disorders #Polyvagal theory

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A pediatrics lab that searched for markers of childhood obesity in microRNAs from umbilical cord blood.

Associate Professor Takatani of this lab specializes in pediatrics and pediatric health. Her listed research keywords are endocrinology and pediatrics, and her listed research fields are fetal medicine and pediatric development. The lab has studied microRNAs in umbilical cord blood to search for new biomarkers that could be risk factors for obesity in early childhood. In the Faculty of Education's faculty list, Associate Professor Takatani appears under the "School Nurse Teacher" heading. In graduate school, the lab belongs to the Educational Development and Support area of the Department of School Education, Graduate School of Education.

#Pediatrics #Childhood obesity #MicroRNA

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体育・スポーツ心理学（西野 明） (introduction coming soon)

Physical education and sport psychology

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The lab studies the thawing and heating of fish and shellfish by looking at changes in their proteins.

The specialties of Prof. Yoneda of this lab are food science and fisheries chemistry. The research keywords listed are food education, cooking properties of fish and shellfish, and dietary habits. Past research aimed at new ways of cooking fish and shellfish meat by controlling protein denaturation through low-temperature cooking and pH adjustment. Currently, the lab is working on developing thawing and cooking methods that preserve the quality of frozen scallops.

#Cooking characteristics of seafood #Protein denaturation #Food science

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The lab investigates the colorants in modern garments and fabrics without damaging them.

The specialties of Associate Professor Kohama of this lab are dyeing science and clothing care science. The research keywords listed are clothing care science, natural dyes, and dyeing, and the research fields listed are cultural heritage science (dyeing and weaving) and clothing science. Currently, the lab is working on identifying dyes and pigments that may affect health in modern garments and fabric products, without damaging the objects. Associate Professor Kohama joined the Faculty of Education at Chiba University in April 2025.

#Dyeing science #Non-destructive analysis #Modern textiles

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The lab explores how children's understanding of others develops, through the words they use to talk about emotions.

Prof. Iwata's lab studies the developmental path through which preschool and elementary school children come to understand others, focusing on the emotion words that children say. It investigates how putting emotions into words regulates children's relationships with those around them, in peer play at kindergarten, in discussions at elementary school, and at meals in families that include three generations. The lab conducts observations at kindergartens and elementary schools and analyzes data on interactions among children. In the university's faculty directory, Prof. Iwata's specialties are listed as developmental psychology and educational psychology.

#Emotion talk #Understanding of others #Emotional socialization

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The lab investigates how depression biases the way people see things.

The lab of Associate Professor Yuki Nishiguchi studies how negatively biased perception arises in depressed states. In depression, people's perception tends to become biased toward the negative, and this bias is said to be hard to correct in a positive direction. The lab investigates the cause from the perspective of how difficult it is to update predictions during learning, and plans to test this with cognitive experiments and questionnaire surveys. The university's faculty directory lists Associate Professor Nishiguchi's fields of specialty as cognitive clinical psychology and educational psychology.

#Depression #Cognitive bias #Social support