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Masashi Okubo, Professor
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The Okubo Lab develops energy storage devices (batteries, capacitors, etc.) that provide a stable, low-cost electricity supply in a sustainable society. Energy storage devices, including lithium-ion batteries, are widely used in society, and people can no longer be without them even for a moment. The lab will create dream energy storage devices that are more efficient, longer-lasting, and safer. From the viewpoints of materials science and energy storage device engineering, the lab creates ideas for batteries never seen before, and the materials that make them possible.
Toshiyuki Okano, Professor
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Okano Lab conducts research using molecules, genes, cells, and whole animals, with the molecular mechanisms of how the animal nervous system receives and transmits external information as its main theme. Centering on cryptochrome, a molecule believed to receive blue light, the lab has investigated the mechanisms by which organisms respond to the geomagnetic field and to very weak light. It uses a variety of animals as research materials, including chickens, western clawed frogs, zebrafish, and deep-sea fish. The lab invites anyone with questions to feel free to drop by.
Hiroshi Kikusato, Associate Professor
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Kikusato Lab works toward a sustainable energy society, conducting research on energy networks centered on electric power. In its laboratory, the lab has built a virtual demonstration environment for large-scale power and energy networks, and carries out practical verification by combining digital technology with actual power equipment. The lab also actively collaborates with research institutions and companies in Japan and abroad, advancing research and development aimed at real-world implementation while using state-of-the-art research facilities. It is a new lab, established in April 2025.
Daisuke Kiga, Professor
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Kiga Lab uses synthetic biology, an advanced extension of genetic engineering, as its means of research. Synthetic biology is a field that aims to build artificial living systems in test tubes or inside cells by combining the "parts" of life, such as DNA, RNA, and proteins, based on accumulated information on biomolecules such as genome data. The lab's work ranges from the scientific exploration of the origin of life to establishing methods for designing organisms and applying them in industry. The faculty member writes that the lab plans to pursue the work described in the research introduction, but that this is not an absolute constraint, and that the faculty member supports applicants who take on problems driven by their own sense of the issues.
Keiichiro Kondo, Professor
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The Kondo Lab studies how to use electricity smartly in electric mobility systems, with power electronics as its foundational technology. Railways have long been electrically driven, and electric drive is now spreading to automobiles and aircraft as well. Electrifying moving machines requires technologies that deliver power supply, electrical energy storage, power conversion, and electrical-mechanical energy conversion with high precision and speed, using compact, lightweight equipment. The lab was established in April 2018 with the arrival of Prof. Kondo, and advances practical research through joint research with companies and other organizations.
Takayuki Sota, Professor
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The Sota Lab is an engineering lab for the optical properties of materials that uses light to probe the properties of materials, aiming to contribute to society with the knowledge gained. Light is a type of electromagnetic wave and interacts with the electronic systems inside materials, so differences arise in the properties of light as it passes through a material. Both inorganic and organic materials have their own distinct electronic systems, so by evaluating these differences appropriately, the properties of a material can be monitored. With visible light, the energy of the photons hardly perturbs the material, so a key feature is that materials can be examined without contact and noninvasively.
Atsuko Takamatsu, Professor
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The Takamatsu Lab uses mathematics and physics to investigate the mechanisms of biological phenomena that cannot be understood from genetic information alone. The lab regards life as a system that behaves dynamically, and believes that, in addition to information about its parts, it is necessary to understand how that system operates. The lab aims to understand, through both experiments and theory, the dynamics that arise when components come together and interact with one another. The subjects differ from theme to theme, but they all share the approach of understanding biological phenomena from a mathematical standpoint.
Ryo Mizuuchi, Associate Professor
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The Mizuuchi Lab seeks to answer the question of how life began by experimentally recreating the process through which life arises from simple, nonliving molecules. Drawing on evolutionary biology, biophysics, and synthetic biology, the lab works on developing and evolving self-replicating molecular systems and protocell models. In the course of this work, the lab also develops a variety of biotechnologies. It is a new lab, established in 2023.
Hiroko Bannai, Professor
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The Bannai Lab aims to elucidate how the brain works and how neurological diseases develop, using nanoscale biological information on the structure, function, and dynamics of the protein molecules that make up living organisms. The brain, which processes enormous amounts of information, is often compared to a computer, but a major difference is that the proteins and lipids that make up the brain are constantly replaced throughout life. The lab asks how the brain's structure is maintained while its components are replaced, and how it can still carry out higher functions such as memory, learning, and thought. Under the banner of "nanoscale biology," the lab aims to connect biology, semiconductor nanotechnology, medicine, and informatics.
Toshiki Makimoto, Professor
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The Makimoto Lab researches semiconductor devices and materials using cutting-edge techniques such as MBE (molecular beam epitaxy). Semiconductor engineering is a core field of electronics, built on semiconductor physics, material properties, and semiconductor nanotechnology. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the lab aims to create technologies that will support the information society of the future. The lab is divided into a GaAs (gallium arsenide) team and a new materials team, each carrying out its own research.
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