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Kentaro Tanaka, Professor
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The Tanaka Lab studies how to combine and organize large numbers of molecules to create molecular organizations with new functions. In living organisms, many different kinds of molecules combine to form organized structures, and this gives rise to high-level functions. The lab aims to create new functions in molecular organizations by skillfully controlling combinations of the type, number, distance, and arrangement of molecules. Using metal complexes and cyclic molecules, the lab advances research on liquid crystals and catalysts.
Mizuki Tada, Professor
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The Tada Lab creates inorganic materials (catalysts) with diverse properties, using metal complexes and metal nanostructures as motifs. By creating catalysts, the lab aims to contribute to pioneering new chemical transformations (catalytic reactions). The lab also works to reveal the internal structure of a single catalyst particle by producing an extremely fine X-ray beam at the large synchrotron radiation facility SPring-8. It also aims to use synchrotron radiation techniques to clarify the reaction and degradation mechanisms of catalysts during the operation of polymer electrolyte fuel cells.
Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi, Professor
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The lab discovers molecules that carry information between plant cells and tissues, and investigates how they work. The lab has discovered several new peptide hormones and their receptors involved in plant growth and responses to the environment. The lab's approach is to focus on a specific molecule, study its function, and from there uncover new mechanisms and phenomena. Techniques for analyzing trace amounts of molecules by mass spectrometry form the foundation of the lab's research.
Yoshihisa Oda, Professor
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The Cell Spatiotemporal Control group (Oda Lab) conducts research with the goal of revealing how plant cells shape themselves. A plant body is built from stacked cells covered by cell walls, so how each individual cell takes shape is especially important for the development of the whole plant. Using xylem vessel cell differentiation and cell division as subjects, the lab studies the movements of the cytoskeleton that control how cell walls are deposited. The lab has also developed its own experimental method for growing only xylem vessel cells from cultured Arabidopsis cells.
Toshinori Kinoshita, Professor
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The Plant Physiology Lab studies how plants sense and respond to changes in their surroundings in order to live, using stomatal guard cells as its main research material. Stomata are pores in the epidermis of land plants. They open and close in response to light and drought, regulating gas exchange between the plant and the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide uptake and transpiration. The lab studies the signal transduction that opens and closes stomata in response to blue light, the plant hormone abscisic acid, and carbon dioxide, using physiological, biochemical, and molecular genetic methods. The lab is also affiliated with the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) and pursues research from the perspective of chemical biology.
Azusa Kamikochi, Professor
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The Neural Circuit Structure Lab uses fruit flies and mosquitoes to study the brain mechanisms that make courtship communication possible. The lab focuses on how the brain receives the sounds animals use during courtship and reads their meaning. Its research covers the auditory neural circuits and sound learning of fruit flies, the mating behavior of mosquitoes, and the changes in genes and neural circuits that drive the evolution of behavior. Understanding mosquito mating behavior from the angle of hearing may lead to new ways of controlling mosquito reproduction.
Masahiko Hibi, Professor
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The Organ Function Lab uses small fish such as zebrafish and medaka to study, at the molecular level, how vertebrate organs are formed and how they function. The lab investigates how the neural circuits of the cerebellum form, and the role cerebellar neural circuits play in motor learning and fear response learning. Another research theme is how pigment cells in medaka arise by branching off from neural crest cells. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name 'Organ Function Group.'
Yasukazu Okada, Professor
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The Integrative Evolutionary Ecology Lab uses insects such as ants and beetles to study how behavior and morphology are produced and how they have evolved. The lab focuses on 'plasticity,' the ability of behavior and morphology to change depending on the environment and experience in which an individual grows up. The lab uses a variety of methods, including developmental manipulation experiments by gene knockdown, histology, morphology, behavioral observation, bioinformatics, and field surveys. It is a research group that was launched in April 2024 at the School of Science, Nagoya University.
Hiroaki Norimoto, Professor
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The Neuroethology Lab studies the mechanisms of sleep, aiming to clarify the "significance" and "principles" of sleep. In addition to mammals such as mice, the lab uses bearded dragons as a model animal. The lab carries out its research with a variety of methods, including electrophysiology, pharmacology, molecular biology, and behavioral observation. The lab also investigates memory consolidation during sleep and the relationship between circadian rhythms and brain disorders.
Moe Yamada, Lecturer
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The lab studies the molecular mechanisms that underlie plant morphogenesis, using the moss Physcomitrium patens. Plant cells are surrounded by rigid cell walls, so the positional relationship between the two daughter cells produced by division is maintained permanently. Using high-resolution live-cell imaging, genome editing, and other approaches, the lab investigates the cytoskeleton, which is fundamental to cell growth and division, and its regulatory factors. Currently, the lab focuses particularly on the mechanism of cytokinesis, in which a cell divides into two.
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