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Nina Yasuda, Professor
Environment & Sustainability0 student voices
The Aquatic Conservation Lab aims for harmony between people and aquatic ecosystems, studying how their rich diversity arises and how it should be protected. In addition to coral reef ecosystems, the lab studies a wide range of aquatic organisms, including corals living in deeper continental shelf waters and river fish. While emphasizing fieldwork, the lab combines it with genetic analysis, rearing experiments, and collaboration with researchers from very different fields. Prospective graduate students are welcome, and lab visits are accepted at any time.
Hiromi Nakanishi, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The New Functional Plant Development Lab uses biotechnology to create plants and crops with new functions. Its goals include edible vaccines, hairy roots for cleaning up the environment, crops that grow even in soils where plants grow poorly, and crops suited to low-input agriculture. To develop such plants, the lab also conducts basic research to uncover how plants absorb nutrients.
Takuya Hiroshima, Professor
Environment & Sustainability0 student voices
The Global Forest Environment Lab studies sustainable forest management using technologies such as geoinformatics. Many of today's global environmental problems are related to forests. Forests have a large impact on the environment and account for most of the Earth's biological resources, so how to use them sustainably has become a major challenge. The lab studies forests, which hold the key to solving global environmental problems, and the environment surrounding them.
Takuya Akiyama, Associate Professor
Materials & Nanotech0 student voices
The International Plant Materials Science Lab researches how to create functional materials from plants, which are abundant in nature. The lab aims to open a path for using unused plants and agricultural residues as renewable resources. Its research rests on two pillars: studying woody cell walls to understand them chemically, and using the adhesive power of plants' natural components to make materials for furniture and construction. The lab also accepts students from other universities, students from humanities and other non-science faculties, and international students, and its lab seminars are held half in English and half in Japanese.
Kae Miyazawa, Associate Professor
Food & Agriculture0 student voices
The International Plant Resource Science Lab (Miyazawa Lab) studies agricultural systems that work in harmony with natural ecosystems. Human activities, including agriculture, place a heavy burden on the functions that maintain the cycles and sustainability of ecosystems. The lab aims to create technologies and systems in which people producing food and living well can itself enrich the global environment and ecosystems. The lab approaches its work from both natural science and social science, from the connections among living things in the soil to the mechanisms by which delicious vegetables spread.
Yoichiro Kato, Professor
Food & Agriculture0 student voices
The Kato Lab (International Plant Resource Science Lab) studies plant resource biology as field agronomy for food production. Its work covers new crop species and varieties, cultivation methods, and ways to harmonize agriculture with the environment and biodiversity. The lab is located on the main campus in Yayoi and conducts crop experiments in the fields of the Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services (the university farm). The lab also actively carries out on-site research in tropical regions and developing countries.
Yasunobu Matsumoto, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The International Animal Resource Science Lab (Matsumoto Group) studies the relationship between pathogenic microorganisms that cause infectious diseases and the immune systems of their host animals. Using a variety of infection models, the lab investigates how pathogens survive inside the host's body and how the host's immune response suppresses pathogen growth and the onset of disease. The lab also focuses on mucosal vaccines that do not require injection and on edible vaccines, and is evaluating their efficacy. Many of the infectious diseases the lab studies are endemic overseas, so the lab also conducts overseas field surveys and international collaborative research.
Hisashi Inokuma, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare0 student voices
The Production Animal Clinical Medicine Lab is responsible for research, education, and clinical practice on diseases of cattle and other production animals. On farms, large-scale diagnostic equipment is often hard to use, and it is not uncommon for a case to end without anyone knowing what the disease actually was. The lab analyzes such difficult-to-diagnose cases in collaboration with veterinarians in the field and the Veterinary Pathology Lab, and returns the results of definitive diagnoses to the field. Fieldwork is carried out mainly at the university's affiliated farm in Kasama, Ibaraki Prefecture, and the lab currently operates as a research group within the Veterinary Reproduction and Breeding Lab.
Koichi Ito, Project Associate Professor
Food & Agriculture0 student voices
The Food and Biological Function Models Lab studies the functions of the animal body, with “food” as its keyword. The lab is located at the university’s affiliated farm in Kasama, Ibaraki Prefecture, and is distinctive in being able to use many animal models, from large animals such as cattle and horses to laboratory animals such as mice and rats. It aims to clarify the basic mechanisms of physiological responses in animals and to improve how the body works through “food.” The lab investigates the effects of foods, feeds, and their additives, with the aim of improving the health of humans and animals and the productivity of production animals.
Yasuyuki Momoi, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare0 student voices
The Veterinary Clinical Pathology Lab studies the causes, mechanisms (pathophysiology), diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in companion animals such as dogs and cats. It is a clinical lab that provides care in the internal medicine services of the University of Tokyo Veterinary Medical Center, and it takes the diseases encountered in daily clinical practice as its research themes. Clinical pathology mainly refers to clinical laboratory tests such as blood and urine tests. The lab conducts a great deal of research related to these tests, while also working broadly on research that is useful in clinical practice. Any research theme related to animal diseases is welcome, and students can consult the faculty members and decide together on the research they want to do.
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