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Atsushi Murai, Professor
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The Animal Nutrition Science Lab studies the mechanisms of animal nutrition and metabolism, using chickens, quails, mice, rats, and cells. The lab investigates the metabolic and transport mechanisms specific to the liver, kidney, and ovary, as well as new physiological functions of components contained in food. Focusing on essential nutrients, food components involved in taste and palatability, and food components with strong physiological effects, the lab aims to propose new concepts in nutritional physiology.
Satoshi Ohkura, Professor
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The Animal Production Science Lab works to elucidate the physiological functions that livestock naturally possess, with the aim of linking its findings to higher livestock productivity. In particular, the lab aims to clarify the mechanisms that control reproductive function, which bears directly on increasing livestock numbers, and to develop technologies for efficient reproduction. Using goats and cattle as research subjects, the lab studies the biological phenomena of ruminant livestock. The lab is located at Togo Field (the University Farm) of the Field Science Center for Education and Research, attached to the Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences.
Kenichi Nishijima, Professor
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The Avian Bioscience Lab uses chickens and quail to study how genes govern biological phenomena in birds. Using methods from cell engineering, developmental engineering, and molecular biology, the lab works on projects such as generating genetically modified avian model animals. The lab also studies how primordial germ cells, which will become sperm and eggs, differentiate and proliferate. Using mutant strains maintained by the Avian Bioscience Research Center, the lab also identifies the genes responsible for mutant traits and elucidates their functions.
Naoyuki Yamamoto, Professor
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The Aquatic Zoology Lab studies the nervous systems, sensory systems, motor systems, and behavior of fish and other aquatic animals. To understand how fish perceive their surroundings, the lab examines their sensory organs and the circuits in the brain that process sensory information. The Yamamoto-Hagio group studies neural circuits and motor control in fish, and the Abe group studies olfaction, vision, and the functions of neuropeptides. The lab traces its origins to the Department of Fisheries, established in 1951 at the same time as the School of Agricultural Sciences, and today continues as a lab of the Department of Animal Sciences.
Motoko Ikeda, Professor
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The Resource Entomology Lab studies the structure and replication mechanisms of insect-specific viruses at the molecular and cellular levels. Using the gene functions of both viruses and insects, the lab seeks to clarify how the insect species and body tissues that viruses prefer are determined, and how insects evade viral attack. Through this research, the lab aims to contribute to the development of technologies for producing useful substances and controlling insect pests.
Chieka Minakuchi, Associate Professor
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The Pest Control Lab focuses on the unique biological systems of insects and on their defense mechanisms against other species and foreign substances. Using physiological, biochemical, molecular biological, and morphological methods, the lab conducts basic research to clarify insect characteristics, including life history, physiology, and communication mechanisms. Based on the knowledge gained from basic research, the lab aims to find the weaknesses of pests and put them to use in pest control. Ultimately, the lab aims to contribute to building a symbiotic environmental system in which humans and other organisms, including insects, can coexist.
Toshio Nishikawa, Professor
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The Bioorganic Chemistry Lab aims to solve unresolved problems of natural products by using the techniques and knowledge of organic synthesis and organic chemistry. Living organisms use trace amounts of low-molecular-weight compounds in their life activities, such as plant and animal hormones and insect pheromones, but the mechanisms of action of many of them remain unknown. Among the secondary metabolites produced by plants and microorganisms are substances, such as antibiotics, that have contributed to human health as medicines and agrochemicals, and the lab also conducts research to clarify their biological functions. Through this research, the lab aims to contribute to human food and health.
Satoshi Yokoshima, Professor
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The Natural Products Chemistry Lab works on developing new reactions and establishing efficient synthetic methods through the synthesis of structurally complex natural organic compounds. Its goal is to realize "powerful synthesis", which can supply as much of a useful organic compound as humanity needs. Research themes are the total synthesis of natural products, the development of new synthetic methodologies, and the design and synthesis of functional compounds aimed at drug discovery. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Natural Products Chemistry Division".
Daisuke Urabe, Professor
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The Integrative Organic Chemistry Lab combines natural products chemistry, computational chemistry, data science, and organic synthesis, and aims to create bioactive molecules. Focusing on naturally derived bioactive natural products, the lab advances its research using three-dimensional structure analysis, transition state calculations, and machine learning. It works on elucidating structures and functions, designing simplified molecules, and developing synthetic routes. Prof. Urabe joined Nagoya University from Toyama Prefectural University in June 2026, and the lab started as a new lab.
Masaki Kita, Professor
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The Natural Products Chemical Biology Lab studies the bioactive substances that govern biological phenomena, starting from natural products chemistry. It takes on substances whose mechanisms of action have not been understood and phenomena that are still unknown at the level of substances, aiming to discover compounds that could become the basis of drugs and agrochemicals and to discover new pharmacological actions. It uses a variety of methods, including organic synthesis, instrumental analysis, identification of biological target molecules, bioactivity assays, and computational science and molecular design.
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