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Osamu Nureki, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Nureki Lab conducts research aimed at understanding life phenomena down to the fine detail of individual atoms. Its primary goal is to determine the three-dimensional structures of proteins and nucleic acids that are essential to living organisms, using cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography. To test what the determined structures reveal, the lab also carries out functional analyses, including in vitro experiments.
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.
Tetsuo Shibuya, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare1 student voices
Shibuya Lab researches and develops medical data informatics technologies to accelerate medical science research in the era of personalized genomic medicine. With advances such as next-generation sequencers, a wide variety of large-scale data is accumulating in medical science at a furious pace. The lab advances research on big data algorithms and related topics from two sides: applications to bioinformatics and the foundations of information science. The lab is located in the Human Genome Center at the Institute of Medical Science, and also uses the center's supercomputer for its research.
Yoichi Mieda, Associate Professor
1 student voices
Mieda Lab studies the Langlands correspondence in the field of number theory. The lab's research centers on geometric objects called Shimura varieties and their local counterparts, Rapoport-Zink spaces. The main goal is to gain a deeper understanding of automorphic representations and representations of p-adic reductive groups through these objects.
Tomoki Miyakawa, Associate Professor
Environment & Sustainability1 student voices
Miyakawa Lab studies phenomena such as the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), a huge cluster of clouds that forms in the tropics. The lab uses NICAM, a global cloud-resolving model that can calculate clouds across the entire Earth in fine detail, and NICOCO, which couples NICAM with an ocean model. It also combines the MIROC climate model, satellite data, in-situ observational data, and theoretical models. The lab aims to reproduce, understand, and predict these phenomena.
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