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Hiroki Taniguchi, Professor
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The Response Properties Lab (Y Lab) studies the "responses" that appear when electric fields, magnetic fields, pressure, and the like are applied to materials. Responses such as polarization, magnetization, and strain offer clues to the inner workings of materials and can also become tools that enrich daily life. The lab synthesizes materials with distinctive structures, such as crystals, quasicrystals, and glasses, in house and measures their responses over wide ranges of temperature and frequency. The lab pursues two complementary lines of work: basic research in condensed matter physics and applied research aimed at innovation in science and technology.
Ryoji Noyori, Distinguished Professor
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The Noyori Special Lab devises molecular catalysts (catalysts made of molecules) and studies new chemical reactions and methods for synthesizing compounds. Prof. Noyori, a Special Professor, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 for his research on asymmetric reduction reactions using catalysts with chiral ligands. The lab is now creating new catalytic processes and working to pioneer synthetic chemistry that forms the foundation of a sustainable society. Its goal is to generate ideas and foundational technologies that help solve problems in energy and resources, the environment, and healthcare.
Hiroshi Abe, Professor
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The Abe Lab studies how to design drug molecules and functional molecules, mainly based on nucleic acids. The lab synthesizes nucleic acid derivatives, which are chemically modified nucleic acids, and develops drug discovery technologies that use them. A distinctive feature is that everything from building molecules with organic chemistry to confirming how they work with molecular biology can be done in the same lab. The molecules it creates can also be used in basic life science research and chemical biology research.
Akiyoshi Hishikawa, Professor
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The Hishikawa Lab studies how light interacts with matter and pursues new chemistry using extreme light. In lasers strong enough to rival the electric fields inside atoms and molecules, matter behaves in ways fundamentally different from how it behaves under weak light. Using the properties of coherent light and advanced spectroscopic methods, the lab explores new phenomena in atoms, molecules, and solids. The lab aims to pioneer new pathways of chemical reactions and to control them with light.
Osami Shoji, Professor
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The Shoji Lab designs and synthesizes molecules that bind to proteins and nucleic acids from a chemical perspective, and studies how to reengineer the functions of biomolecules. The lab aims to draw out new functions, different from the original ones, from naturally occurring proteins. It works consistently from devising new methods through to stages where they can be used as drugs or biocatalysts. Its main pillars are biocatalysts using enzymes, artificial metalloproteins, and gene regulation by peptide nucleic acids (PNA).
Yuichiro Tsuchiya, Project Professor
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The Plant Chemical Genetics Lab studies life processes driven by small signaling molecules, using parasitic plants, which live by taking nutrients from other plants. Using small-molecule probes to manipulate and visualize the action of genes, the lab investigates how parasitic plants sense signaling molecules coming from host plants and change their form in response. The lab focuses mainly on the germination of seeds of Striga, a parasitic plant that causes serious damage to grain production in Africa, and also aims to develop control methods based on what it learns. The lab belongs to the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM).
Akira Yoshinari, Project Lecturer
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The Biomolecular Dynamics Group studies how plants, which cannot move from where they grow, live in accordance with their environment, by looking at the movement of molecules inside cells. Centered on live-cell imaging, which observes living cells, the group investigates how cell polarity arises and how transporters that carry nutrients move. The group belongs to the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM). Together with chemists at ITbM and the Frommer Group at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany, the group also develops tools for visualizing biomolecules.
Yuki Arano, Associate Professor
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Prof. Arano studies operator algebras and, from that standpoint, quantum groups. An operator algebra can be thought of as a "noncommutative version" of the algebra formed by continuous functions on a space. Studying the group structure on such a "noncommutative space" is quantum group theory in the sense of operator algebras. Centered on the representation theory and topological aspects of quantum groups, the professor also works on the classification of group actions and on tensor categories.
Hidetoshi Awata, Associate Professor
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Prof. Awata studies the mathematical structures of quantum field theories, including superstring theory. Superstring theory is considered a leading candidate for a theory that explains interactions, including gravity, in a unified way. To grasp the new geometric and algebraic structures essential to understanding it, the lab analyzes the underlying mathematics. The lab studies the representation theory of infinite-dimensional algebras such as the Virasoro algebra, and the properties of Jack polynomials and Macdonald polynomials.
Johannes Jaerisch, Associate Professor
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Prof. Jaerisch studies dynamical systems, centering on ergodic theory and fractal geometry. The initial values of orbits that behave chaotically often form a fractal set, such as a Julia set. For conformal dynamical systems, Prof. Jaerisch investigates the relationship between their properties as dynamical systems and their properties as fractals, using thermodynamic formalism as a tool. In the message to students, the professor says that fractal geometry is a new field, so students can take on new challenges from a fairly early stage.
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