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Masahiro Kasahara, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Kasahara Lab studies technologies for analyzing the massive amounts of data produced by DNA sequencing instruments. Over the past 20 years or so, the cost of reading DNA has dropped dramatically. The lab believes that an era of new observation technologies calls for new information analysis technologies that match them. The lab carries out its research in collaboration with experimental labs whenever possible, and also offers independent research topics for students who prefer them.
Hisanori Kiryu, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Kiryu Lab studies bioinformatics, which uses computers to analyze explosively growing biological data in order to make biological discoveries. It uses information technologies such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The lab also puts effort into building computational models of organisms, which the analysis requires. It aims to deeply understand life as an integrated system and to lead to technologies that freely control life at the cellular level.
Martin Frith, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Frith Lab uses computers to study genetic sequences. Sequences retain traces of the recipe of life and the history of evolution. The lab finds interesting and useful information in them, and develops the algorithms and mathematical methods needed to do so. It does not specialize in black-box methods such as deep learning, and aims for understanding rather than prediction.
Toyoshima Yu, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Toyoshima Lab studies how neural circuits process information and give rise to behavior. Using the small, transparent nematode C. elegans as a model, the lab observes neural activity in living animals. It combines whole-brain imaging with a 4D microscope and simulation based on mathematical modeling. The lab aims to understand, at the systems level, the entire process from receiving information from the environment to producing behavior.
Kaoru Sugimura, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Sugimura Lab studies the mechanisms by which cells move collectively and form patterns. The key to these mechanisms is the mechanical forces that drive deformation and movement. By combining live imaging, mechanical measurements, and physical models, the lab investigates the principles by which order arises in multicellular systems. The lab takes an interdisciplinary approach that integrates experimental biology, statistics and data analysis, and physics.
Shinya Kuroda, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Kuroda Lab studies the signaling and metabolic networks that regulate cellular functions. Its goal is to describe these mechanisms quantitatively and understand them as a "system." The lab analyzes them using both experimental methods and computer simulation. Beyond cultured cells, it is also advancing organism-level analyses using disease model mice and human data.
Ichigaku Takigawa, Professor
AI & Machine Learning0 student voices
The Takigawa Lab conducts research to create "new information science" that helps us understand life. The lab does no experiments and is a 100% dry lab, doing all of its research computationally. The lab designs machine learning and machine discovery algorithms for complex data that cannot be represented by numbers alone, such as metabolism, chemical reactions, and three-dimensional structures. It is a new lab that started in April 2025, and it accepts undergraduate thesis students from the Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.
Koji Tsuda, Professor
AI & Machine Learning0 student voices
Tsuda Lab studies the theory of machine learning, data mining, and statistical science. The lab applies this theory to a wide range of fields, including molecular biology, protein science, organic chemistry, and materials science. In collaboration with experimental researchers at institutions such as the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and RIKEN, the lab works on developing new molecules and materials.
Yutaka Suzuki, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Suzuki Lab uses next-generation sequencers to read large amounts of genetic data and study diseases and the mechanisms of life. The lab works on cancer, long-read DNA analysis, spatial transcriptomics (analysis that identifies where genes are active within tissue), and infectious diseases and immunity, among other topics. The lab also studies gene activity in the bodies of healthy people, with the aim of rethinking the concepts of "health" and "mibyō" (the pre-disease state). The lab seeks to understand how genetic mutations affect the way genes function, by modeling this through both experiments and computation.
Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Tsunoda Lab aims to overcome diseases such as cancer by studying how diseases are related to biological phenomena such as immunity. The lab analyzes huge volumes of biomolecular data obtained from many clinical specimens using methods such as deep learning and quantum computing. The lab finds new causes of disease, reconstructs the relationships among those causes as a network, and thereby understands the mechanisms of disease as a whole. The lab places more emphasis on analytical methodology than on experiments, and attracts a diverse mix of people, including clinicians, researchers who love mathematics, and international researchers.
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