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Keitaro Yamanouchi, Professor
Food & Agriculture0 student voices
The Animal Resource Science Center, affiliated with the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo, breeds strains of production animals and laboratory animal resources and manages their husbandry. It produces and raises livestock, mainly horses, cattle, pigs, and goats, and also grows the forage crops used as their feed. It is a place where students of veterinary medicine and applied animal science gain hands-on experience in production animal clinical medicine and livestock hygiene. It also conducts demonstration research on maintaining the health of production animals, evaluating the safety of livestock products, and animal-assisted therapy.
Kiyonori Kawasaki, Associate Professor
Food & Agriculture0 student voices
The Animal Nutrition Lab searches for new feed ingredients for rabbits, cattle, pigs, and chickens, and investigates how useful they are. In recent years, the lab has focused on research on using insects as feed and on searching for ingredients that improve the gut environment and antioxidant capacity of animals. In addition to digestibility trials and component analysis, the lab evaluates ingredients with methods such as metabolome analysis and metagenomic analysis. The lab is located inside the University Farm in Kasama, Ibaraki Prefecture, and students commute to the farm to conduct their research.
Fujimoto Masaru, Associate Professor
Food & Agriculture0 student voices
The Crop Science Lab focuses on the roots of Gramineous crops such as rice, sorghum, and barley. It studies root morphogenesis, physiological functions, responses to the environment, and interactions with the rhizosphere microbes that live around the roots. The lab also works to clarify the genetic factors and mechanisms that determine these traits, and to understand how the diversity seen among crop species and varieties arises. Its goals are to breed varieties that adapt well to environmental change and to develop sustainable, low-input cultivation techniques that make use of microbial functions.
Ryota Tochinai, Associate Professor
Food & Agriculture0 student voices
The Food Pathogenic Microbiology Lab studies pathophysiology and toxicology based on the evaluation of animal physiological function. The lab explores animal disease models and original techniques for evaluating physiological function that are useful for nonclinical safety studies of food and pharmaceuticals. By combining pathological analysis with constantly changing data such as animal vital signs, the lab works to clarify the mechanisms of disease and to develop technologies for prevention and treatment. The lab is now seeking to extend this approach to models of infections caused by food-borne microorganisms.
Akira Kiminami, Professor
Economics & Social Systems0 student voices
The Kiminami Lab studies how to achieve sustainable agricultural management and rural communities. It views agricultural management as an organization that produces food, materials, and services such as local environmental conservation and recreation, and delivers them to society. The lab analyzes agricultural management in terms of desirable ways of operating, the ability to combine resources for production, and the mechanisms for procuring resources and distributing outcomes, and considers effective strategies and policies. In education, the lab aims to develop students' ability to identify social issues on their own and find ways to solve them.
Hironori Yagi, Associate Professor
Economics & Social Systems0 student voices
The Yagi Lab studies the management of agriculture, agriculture-related businesses, and the economy, society, resources, and environment of the surrounding regions. The focus of its research is how to set strategies suited to social and economic change, how to run organizations, which are groups of people, and how to keep them growing sustainably. Using methods from management science and related economics, the lab conducts research based on fieldwork, as well as theoretical research built on that foundation. In the undergraduate lab seminar, students not only read the literature on farm management but also hold discussions with farm managers.
LIU Jingyu, Associate Professor
Environment & Sustainability0 student voices
The Liu Lab studies climate change and sustainable development. A stable supply of food and nutrition is essential to the livelihoods of many people and to social stability. At the same time, food systems are thought to have a major impact on resource use, the environment, the climate, and biodiversity. The lab builds and applies models using quantitative methods, aiming to contribute to the sustainable use of food, energy, water, and resource systems.
Kentaro Kawasaki, Associate Professor
Economics & Social Systems0 student voices
The Kawasaki Lab studies a wide range of topics in agricultural economics, including production, the environment, trade, and development. Although the topics are diverse, the lab's analytical approach is consistent: it aims to deliver its messages through numbers. The lab builds up, one by one, the numbers that form the basis of objective evidence, which matters when opinions are divided over specific measures. Students choose their own research topics freely and discuss them actively in the lab seminar, which undergraduate thesis students and graduate students attend (students from other labs also join the graduate lab seminar).
Yuki Okada, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Okada Lab (Laboratory of Pathology and Development) studies changes in chromatin in germ cells. In germ cells, which pass genetic information on to the next generation, the environment surrounding the DNA also changes dramatically so that the information is transmitted correctly. The lab focuses on chromatin, which regulates gene function by changing the higher-order structure of DNA, and investigates how these changes contribute to the maintenance or erasure (resetting) of genetic information. The lab's research uses mice and biochemical methods.
Mitsuyoshi Ando, Professor
Economics & Social Systems0 student voices
The Ando Lab studies food, agriculture, and rural areas, along with the policies that affect them. Building on an economic perspective and adding political, administrative, social, and historical perspectives, the lab examines policy issues both theoretically and empirically. Its methods are statistical data analysis and on-site field surveys. Prof. Ando's research themes are agricultural policy studies, farmland systems, structural policy, and comparisons of policy with the EU and the UK.
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