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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.
Satoshi Tsuneda, Professor
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The Tsuneda Lab works to uncover how bacteria live and develops technologies to draw out their functions. It integrates "single-cell engineering," which isolates and examines individual cells, with "multicellular engineering," which examines the relationships among cells within populations and tissues. The subjects are microbial cells and animal cells, and the lab also studies the interactions between the two. Its work ranges widely from developing methods to elucidating molecular mechanisms and developing applied technologies, aiming to contribute to medicine, health, food, and the environment.
Kei Yura, Professor
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The Yura Lab studies computational methods for analyzing biomolecular data measured with cutting-edge technologies, as well as their applications. Its targets include predicting the structure and function of proteins encoded in genomes, and estimating the mechanisms by which genetic variants lead to disease. When existing methods cannot solve a problem, the lab develops new methods of its own. The lab draws on all of its knowledge of science and engineering, including biology, physics, and information science.
Masato Inoe, Professor
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The Inoe Lab's ultimate goal is to create intelligence artificially. Because many hurdles remain before it can be given human-level generality, the lab is currently working on more fundamental problems. The lab believes that processing information according to probabilistic models, and in particular handling high-dimensional distributions efficiently, is an essential foundation for realizing intelligence. The lab believes these techniques and insights will prove powerful not only in speech and image processing but also in bioinformatics, such as the regulatory mechanisms of gene expression.
Hideo Iwasaki, Professor
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The Iwasaki Lab explores life through both scientific research and artistic creation and research. Unraveling how organisms exist scientifically is important, but life is not something that biology discovered; it is also a composite concept with a complex social, historical, and philosophical accumulation. The lab believes that what matters is to explore both at the same time while trying to read the relationship between them. The lab regards art as an excellent place for nurturing such interdisciplinary inquiry.
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