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Hideki Shibata, Professor
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The Molecular Cell Regulation Lab uses cultured animal cells to study how proteins maintain cellular homeostasis and respond to the environment. Focusing on calcium-binding proteins, the lab aims to elucidate protein-protein interaction networks and the control systems they form. Diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders arise from the breakdown of the systems that control cells, including proliferation, motility, and survival and death. By elucidating intracellular control mechanisms at the molecular level, the lab aims to apply its findings to identifying drug targets, developing early diagnostic markers, and analyzing food components that may help prevent disease.
Kiyotaka Kiyotaka, Professor
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The Cell Biochemistry Lab studies the physiological and pathological roles of transglutaminase, an enzyme that cross-links proteins to bond them together. Using cultured cells and animal models, the lab investigates how the epidermis of the skin forms, fibrosis in which tissue becomes hardened, and blood coagulation. The lab also establishes mice and medaka as disease model organisms and analyzes them. The lab accepts fourth-year students from the Department of Applied Biosciences in the School of Agricultural Sciences to carry out their graduation research.
Daita Nadano, Associate Professor
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The Molecular Biological Regulation Lab studies how the mechanism by which proteins are synthesized in higher animals (translation) is regulated. Focusing on ribosomes, which make proteins in cells, the lab examines their links to proliferation, differentiation, and death in mammals. The lab also studies the relationship between a protein called bystin, which is produced in large amounts in cancer cells, and the process of ribosome formation. The lab's research introduction page also lists the analysis of higher-order biological regulation in mammals (including cancer research) and the analysis of response mechanisms in epithelial tissue.
Chihiro Sato, Professor
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The Glycoscience Lab studies the structure and function of glycans that cover the surface of cells. Glycans are said to be the third chain of life after proteins and nucleic acids, and they mediate the exchange of information inside and outside cells. The lab focuses on polysialic acid, a chain of linked sialic acids, and investigates its roles in nervous system and brain function and its links to psychiatric disorders. The lab also carries out basic research to apply its findings to agriculture, medicine, and pharmacy.
Andres Maturana, Associate Professor
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The Animal Cell Physiology Lab studies changes in calcium ion concentration and the function of calcium channels in cells such as muscle cells. The research page of the lab's website shows the experimental environment, including fluorescence images of changes in calcium ion concentration in myotubes and patch clamp equipment. The news section also lists a paper on the relationship between skeletal muscle calcium channels and aging, and a paper on the binding between the axon guidance receptor ROBO3 and NELL2.
Ken-ichiro Nakajima, Professor
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The Food Neuroscience Lab works within shokurigaku, the study of the relationship between food and the body, and aims to uncover the neural mechanisms that give rise to appetite and food preferences. Using methods from neuroscience, the lab studies how the brain senses food factors such as nutrients, taste substances, and odor substances. In mice, the lab manipulates and measures the activity of specific neurons using methods such as optogenetics, and conducts behavioral tests that evaluate appetite and food preferences. It is a new lab that began accepting students in 2024.
Hirofumi Aiba, Professor
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The Molecular Microbiology Lab (Aiba Lab) uses microbes as models to gain a deep understanding of universal life phenomena at the molecular and cellular levels. Using yeast, the lab aims to identify the factors involved in determining cell lifespan. Using E. coli, the lab has worked out how two-component systems allow cells to sense environmental changes and relay that information inside the cell, and it has extended this research to cyanobacteria and fission yeast. Although the lab belongs to the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, it also takes part in education for the School of Agricultural Sciences, and students from the Department of Applied Biosciences who are writing their graduation theses are assigned to it.
Hitoshi Sakakibara, Professor
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The Plant Signaling Molecules Lab studies, with a focus on the action of signaling molecules, how plant growth is coordinately regulated in response to changes in the nutrient environment. The lab aims to identify key molecules that carry information within cells, between cells, and between organs, and to clarify the mechanisms of their biosynthesis and transport at the molecular level. Its main research subject is cytokinin, a plant hormone that acts in the regulation that promotes plant growth. The lab welcomes motivated students and early-career researchers who are interested in its research themes.
Sumie Ishiguro, Associate Professor
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The Biochemistry Lab studies the mechanisms by which plant organs such as flowers, pollen, seeds, and tubers are formed. Its goal is to understand developmental biology, which clarifies which genes build an organism's body, from a biochemical perspective. The lab investigates through what changes in the molecules that make up the body the activity of genes leads to the formation of shape. The phenomena it studies include flower buds opening, the surface structure of pollen forming, and nutrients accumulating in tubers and seeds.
Yuichi Fujita, Professor
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The Genome Information Function Lab studies the molecular mechanisms that regulate metabolism in photosynthetic organisms. Using cyanobacteria, the lab studies chlorophyll biosynthesis and nitrogen fixation. Using Arabidopsis thaliana, the lab studies the circadian clock and cytokinin signaling. Once assigned to the lab, each student takes charge of one research theme and carries out experiments while learning from senior members how to use the laboratory equipment.
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