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Jun Terao, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis2 student voices
The Terao-Iwai Lab studies molecular architectonics, in which organic molecules are treated as the pillars and walls of a house and assembled into structures. The lab carefully designs where and how to connect functional molecules on the nanometer scale. It combines molecular architecture techniques, centered on organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and supramolecular chemistry, with the fields of applied physics, interface chemistry, and theoretical chemistry. Through this approach, the lab works on creating a wide range of functional molecules, supramolecular materials, and molecular catalysts.
Kuniyoshi L Sakai, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Sakai Lab studies the mechanisms of higher brain functions, with a focus on language. When people speak or understand what others say, the brain is thought to carry out information processing based on "Universal Grammar" without conscious awareness. The lab investigates which brain systems implement the principles of that computation, using physical measurement technologies such as MRI and MEG. Technologies that can measure brain activity without damaging the brain are the key to advancing the neurobiology of language.
Shuji Ishihara, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Ishihara Lab studies self-organization phenomena in living systems. The lab is interested in how cells emerge from collections of molecules, and how tissues and whole organisms emerge from collections of cells. It combines nonlinear and nonequilibrium physics and soft matter physics with data analysis based on mathematical statistics and machine learning. The lab also values finding mathematically and physically interesting themes starting from the phenomena themselves.
Yuki Shiomi, Associate Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Shiomi Lab conducts experimental research in condensed matter physics, with topology, magnetism, and spintronics as its main keywords. The lab develops quantum materials centered on magnetic materials (magnets) and measures their physical properties. It combines the synthesis of inorganic materials, measurements of physical properties under magnetic fields at room and low temperatures, and numerical calculations such as band structure calculations. The lab aims for results that bridge basic and applied research, from the discovery of unknown quantum phenomena to the development of material functions using magnetic materials.
Taro Toyota, Associate Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Toyota Lab draws on organic chemistry and polymer chemistry to tackle problems in life science and materials science. The lab investigates the properties of cells and cell aggregates by creating organic molecular assemblies with “lifelike” properties and using them to understand how cells work. Organic molecules and polymers are assembled up to the micrometer scale, and molecular reactions and motions are used as triggers to bring out the dynamics of the resulting assemblies. Building on this, the lab focuses on creating cell-mimicking reaction environments and materials with hierarchical structures and functions.
Junko Kanoh, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Kanoh Lab studies the functions of telomeres, located at the ends of chromosomes, and of the subtelomeres adjacent to them. At the molecular level, the lab aims to clarify how these regions are involved in sustaining life, preserving species, genome evolution, cellular senescence, and the onset of disease. Using fission yeast, human cells, and cells from great apes, the lab mainly relies on molecular biology, molecular genetics, and cell biology. To these, it adds next-generation sequencing analysis and structural analysis through collaborative research, investigating the questions from multiple angles.
Takayuki Kurihara, Associate Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Kurihara Lab conducts experimental research on optical properties, using light to investigate the properties of materials. The lab uses femtosecond lasers, which emit intense light for only an instant, like a strobe shutter. In this way, it makes the motion of elementary excitations in solids, such as magnons, phonons, excitons, and plasmons, visible in the time domain. Drawing on laser and light-source technologies, the lab devises its own measurement methods and aims to carry out solid-state physics experiments that no other lab can do.
Hirokazu Hasegawa, Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Hasegawa Lab studies the interaction between high-intensity laser light and molecules in order to understand it in depth. The lab also aims to open up new areas of science that make use of high-intensity light. Its work includes clarifying the ionization processes induced by high-intensity light, and generating extremely highly excited rotational states and investigating their properties. To gain deep understanding from simple systems, the lab studies gas-phase isolated molecules.
Daisuke Kiriya, Associate Professor
Semiconductors & Electronic Devices1 student voices
The Kiriya Lab studies the interfaces formed when two or more materials come into contact, from an interdisciplinary perspective that combines multiple fields. It focuses in particular on combining molecular materials (organic materials) with inorganic materials. Molecular materials are soft and highly varied, while inorganic materials are hard, show high values for physical properties, and serve as building blocks of electronic devices. By combining the two, the lab aims to create highly functional devices with spontaneity, devices that respond to stimuli and their environment, and quantum properties and quantum devices.
Moritoshi Sato, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Sato Lab is developing entirely new foundational technologies for manipulating biological phenomena with light. Applying these foundational technologies, the lab creates technologies that freely control genome editing, gene expression, and intracellular signaling, both inside cells and in living organisms. The lab manipulates genes involved in biological phenomena and diseases with light in order to elucidate how they function. The lab aims to make it possible to treat a variety of diseases, including cancer and genetic disorders, through new light-based approaches.
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