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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.
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.
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