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Shinji Takeoka, Professor
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The Takeoka Lab studies structures formed by the assembly of lipids, biomedical polymers, proteins, nucleic acids, and other molecules, and applies them to medicine. The lab makes nanosheets, which are free-standing films only nanometers thick, and liposomes, which are lipid vesicles, and examines their properties. Applications are expanding to drug carriers, devices attached to the body to measure biological signals, and particles that act as substitutes for platelets. The lab also develops new fluorescent probes for observing phenomena inside cells.
Masahito Hosokawa, Associate Professor
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The Hosokawa Lab studies how to find useful substances from the microorganisms around us. It combines single-cell analysis, which examines cells individually, with microfluidic technology. The lab is developing a technological foundation for reading the genetic information of microorganisms whose genomes were previously unknown. It also uses synthetic biology methods to create new substances from the genetic resources that microorganisms carry.
Toru Asahi, Professor
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The Asahi Lab studies a wide range of subjects, from the chirality and optical properties of matter to biomolecules, insects, and materials design. The lab has three divisions, Biology, Physical Properties Science, and Materials Informatics, and each division carries out its research through groups. The lab's approach is to combine physical chemistry, biology, and data science methods. The lab also accepts doctoral and master's students from other schools and universities.
Inoue Inoue, Professor
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The Inoue Lab studies how neurons support the functions of the brain. Using cultured neurons, brain slices, and direct observation of animal brains, the lab captures the movement of molecules inside cells with electrophysiology and imaging techniques. The lab precisely measures intracellular signaling confined to neuronal dendrites, aiming to clarify the molecular basis that underlies synaptic plasticity. Not only neurons but also the function of glial cells is one of the central themes of research.
Toshio Ohshima, Professor
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The Ohshima Lab studies how the brain takes shape and comes to function, from the action of genes and proteins. Using mice and zebrafish, the lab examines at the level of the whole organism what roles genes play during brain development. The central theme is the mechanism by which neurons are generated, migrate to the correct locations, and connect with the correct partners to form neural circuits. The lab aims to connect this basic research to the development of treatments for neurological diseases and to neural regenerative medicine.
Nobuhito Goda, Professor
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The Goda Lab studies how lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease arise and progress. The lab creates its own mouse models of lifestyle-related diseases and mice with modified related genes, and examines how the diseases develop at the molecular level. One of its main pillars is searching for genes and proteins that can serve as new biomarkers leading to diagnostic and therapeutic methods. The lab is also working on developing therapies that use adeno-associated virus vectors, which have a high level of safety, to improve disease conditions.
Masamitsu Sato, Professor
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The Sato Lab (Cytoskeletal Logistics Lab) studies how cells divide and how tissues are formed. The lab focuses on the cytoskeleton, the structural framework of the cell, and especially on microtubules, and examines what roles they play in cell division and tissue formation. Using fission yeast, mice, and cultured human cells, the lab carries out its research with the methods of genetics and cell biology. It also investigates how abnormalities in the cytoskeleton are linked to diseases and their symptoms.
Kentaro Semba, Professor
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The Semba Lab studies how cancer arises and how it metastasizes, from the standpoint of gene function. The main clues are the mechanisms by which cancer cells proliferate and the interactions between cancer cells and the cells surrounding them. The full picture of cancer is still not completely understood, and there is a need for treatments that extend life while preserving patients' quality of life. Through this research, the lab aims to develop new anticancer drugs.
Naoya Takeda, Professor
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The Takeda Lab studies biomaterials aimed at applications in regenerative medicine. This field lies where medicine, engineering, chemistry, materials science, and cell biology meet and merge, and each member works on research in a different discipline. The lab's work covers organic and polymer synthesis, materials fabrication, microfabrication of substrate surfaces, control of cell behavior, and construction of regenerated tissue. What the lab values most is a spirit of "let's give it a try," and it expects members to think for themselves and take on challenges.
Haruko Takeyama, Professor
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The Takeyama Lab studies microorganisms found everywhere, from the sea and soil to human skin and the gut. Because many of them are difficult to culture, the lab developed a method that confines microbes one cell at a time in microdevices and reads their genomes with high accuracy. It also combines Raman spectroscopy, which can examine molecules without staining or destroying cells, to search for molecules inside a single cell. The lab also builds its own information technology to analyze the large amounts of data collected, and has extended it to the analysis of not only microbes but also animal cells and tissues.
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