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Yukari Takeuchi, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Veterinary Ethology Lab studies the natural behavior of mammals, working with laboratory rats, wild brown rats, and household animals. In its rat research, the lab investigates the pheromones used for communication with other rats. For wild brown rats, the lab studies both individual animals in the laboratory and groups in their actual habitats. For household animals, the lab uses epidemiological methods to identify the factors that matter for preventing problem behaviors and improving the quality of veterinary care.
Yasuyuki Goto, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Applied Immunology Lab uses the methods of immunology to study protozoan diseases, which are infectious diseases caused by protozoa. Its main targets are leishmaniasis and toxoplasmosis. Beyond analysis of genes and cells, the lab's research takes in infected animals and patients, and the field sites where the diseases are spreading. The lab also conducts a great deal of international collaborative research with researchers overseas.
Sugimoto Koichi, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Sugimoto Lab studies the eater–eaten relationship between plants and the animals that eat them (herbivores). It focuses in particular on whether the invisible volatile compounds (scents) that plants emit repel or attract herbivores. Combining behavioral experiments with herbivores and chemical analysis of plant components, the lab investigates the underlying mechanisms down to the molecular level. The findings are expected to contribute to developing pest management technologies that use less pesticide.
Hajime Obata, Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Marine Inorganic Chemistry Group uses chemical methods to study how elements and substances circulate in the ocean (material cycles). Researchers board research vessels to collect seawater, seafloor sediment, and air samples, and use precise chemical analysis to examine their composition and isotopic differences. The world's oceans, including the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Sea of Japan, are the lab's field sites. The lab aims to clarify how the ocean responds to global environmental problems such as carbon dioxide emissions, and what role it plays.
Koji Inoue, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Molecular Marine Biology Group studies the mechanisms behind intriguing biological phenomena in marine organisms, using genes and genomes. Since life first emerged, the sea has been the stage for the evolution of living things. Focusing on shellfish and corals from deep-sea hydrothermal vent areas, medaka and related fishes, and other organisms, the lab explores how these mechanisms have evolved and what they mean within the organisms' ecology. The lab encourages anyone interested in its research to visit and talk with its members in person.
Katsufumi Sato, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
Sato Lab studies the behavior, physiology, and ecology of marine animals, with a strong emphasis on field research. Animals that live in the vast ocean and dive deep are hard to observe, so the ecology of many aquatic animals has remained poorly understood. To address this, the lab uses biologging: small data loggers are attached to animals to record dive depth, swimming speed, body temperature, and more. The lab studies a wide range of animals, from sea turtles in the tropics and penguins in the polar regions to fish and seabirds around Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture.
Kosei Komatsu, Associate Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Komatsu Lab studies phenomena at the sea surface, where the atmosphere and the ocean meet, and their effects on climate and marine ecosystems. It has become clear that small changes at the sea surface affect daily weather, global climate, and even marine ecosystems. The lab investigates the actual state and mechanisms of these phenomena by combining numerical simulations with observations from research vessels, work boats, and drones. It also studies how variations in ocean currents, waves, and water structure affect plankton and fish.
Naoki Itoh, Professor
Food & Agriculture0 student voices
The Fish Pathology Lab studies infectious diseases of fish and shellfish. Aquatic animals suffer from infectious diseases just as land animals do, and there are concerns about their adverse effects on aquaculture, fishery resources, and ecosystems. Using field surveys, diagnosis, infection experiments, cell culture, and genetic analysis, the lab seeks solutions from the perspectives of both the pathogens and the fish and shellfish. The lab is also particularly interested in elucidating how pathogens evade host defenses and multiply efficiently within the host.
Fumiki Hosoi, Professor
Imaging & Sensing0 student voices
The Laboratory of Biological and Environmental Information Engineering studies information on living organisms and the environment using information engineering methods centered on image data. Its subjects span a wide range of scales, from individual plants and plant communities to ecosystems and regional and global environments. By measuring and analyzing this information, the lab aims to clarify the relationships between living organisms and the environment, and to propose solutions to real-world problems to society. The lab also aims to apply its research to food production, such as plant factories and precision agriculture, and to global environmental issues, such as global warming and biodiversity conservation.
Shinji Nagata, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Nagata Lab (Team N) studies the mechanisms underlying instinctive feeding behavior in insects. When insects moved onto land, becoming able to eat new resources such as plants was a turning point that led to their explosive diversification. The lab investigates what insects eat and how they eat it from multiple perspectives: evolution, neurobiology, metabolism, and the components contained in their food. Mainly using the two-spotted cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus), the lab works on topics such as how hormones regulate the motivation to eat.
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