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Hirokazu Takahashi, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences2 student voices
The Takahashi-Shiramatsu Lab (Biological Intelligence Systems Lab) aims to understand the brain as a mechanical system and to build next-generation, brain-like information processing systems. The lab measures and analyzes patterns of neural activity spread across time and space to clarify how the brain represents information. Its research covers neural circuits of many scales, from cultured neurons to the brains of rats and humans. The research is carried out mainly by students trained in mechanical engineering, who approach the brain from the perspective of "reverse engineering" it.
Tsutomu Suzuki, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences2 student voices
The Suzuki Lab focuses on the chemical modifications that RNA undergoes and studies the roles of RNA in a wide range of life phenomena. RNA is subject to many kinds of modifications after it is synthesized, so its functions can no longer be explained by genome sequence information alone. Abnormalities in RNA modifications can cause human diseases, and the concept of "RNA modopathy," proposed by the lab, is becoming established. Combining molecular biology, biochemistry, and analytical chemistry, the lab also develops its own devices for isolating RNA and its own mass spectrometry techniques.
Kyoko Nozaki, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis2 student voices
The Nozaki Lab studies methods for making organic compounds and polymers, centered on catalytic reactions. The lab also explores the functions of the new substances obtained through its original methods. From many perspectives, such as whether the research is elegant and whether it truly has the potential to benefit society, the lab pursues "what is truly interesting." The lab takes pride in the breadth of its research subjects and the versatility of its members.
Takamasa Sakai, Professor
Materials & Nanotech2 student voices
The Sakai Lab advances "precision gel science," aiming to put hydrogels to medical use on the basis of firm scientific principles. A gel is a material in which a three-dimensional polymer network holds a liquid. Hydrogels, which contain water, are found in familiar items such as soft contact lenses, diapers, and jelly. Although gels are familiar materials, many mysteries about them still remain, and the lab seeks to solve them using gels with a controlled structure. Medical applications are pursued in joint research with institutions such as the University of Tokyo Hospital, under the guidance of clinicians.
Tsuyoshi Yanagida, Professor
Materials & Nanotech2 student voices
The Yanagida Lab creates nanoscale structures from atoms and molecules and studies the new properties that emerge in them. Using "self-assembly," the mechanism by which atoms and molecules spontaneously organize themselves, the lab arranges atoms at targeted positions. The lab focuses in particular on nanowires: thin, wire-shaped crystals made of metal oxides. The lab pursues both the establishment of fundamental principles of nanomaterials chemistry and the development of new devices, driving science and applications together.
Shinichiro Hirabayashi, Associate Professor
Fluids & Heat2 student voices
The Hirabayashi Lab studies technologies for using ocean energy, such as wind and waves, as well as ocean space. Japan has limited land area but is surrounded by vast seas, which hold great potential for solving resource and energy problems. The lab puts particular emphasis on research on floating offshore wind turbines, which suit the deep waters around Japan. It also works on analyzing how floating structures sway in currents, and on planning systems that use ocean space.
Yusuke Yokoyama, Professor
Earth & Climate2 student voices
The Yokoyama Lab uses geochemical methods to study climate change and shifts in the marine environment, mainly over the past 2 million years. The lab analyzes records preserved in coral skeletons, ice cores, tree rings, and sediment cores from the seafloor and lake bottoms. It determines when these records were formed by dating them with accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Its main themes are environmental change in Antarctica, environmental change in the mid- and low latitudes, solar activity and variations in the Earth's magnetic field, and changes in the solid Earth and the evolution of the surface environment.
Jun Terao, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis2 student voices
The Terao-Iwai Lab studies molecular architectonics, in which organic molecules are treated as the pillars and walls of a house and assembled into structures. The lab carefully designs where and how to connect functional molecules on the nanometer scale. It combines molecular architecture techniques, centered on organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and supramolecular chemistry, with the fields of applied physics, interface chemistry, and theoretical chemistry. Through this approach, the lab works on creating a wide range of functional molecules, supramolecular materials, and molecular catalysts.
Gojiro Nakagami, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare2 student voices
The Gerontological Nursing / Wound Care Management lab is pioneering a new academic field called "nursing science and engineering," which integrates nursing science with bioscience, engineering, and data science. The lab's goal is to realize a life of care and recovery in which patients are not made to endure suffering. In particular, it works to establish new care techniques for people receiving care who cannot communicate their own pain or distress. Established in 2004, the lab has been led by Professor Gojiro Nakagami since April 2022.
Miho Ohsugi, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Ohsugi Lab studies the mechanisms of cell division that occur from fertilization through early development in mammals. The fertilized egg formed by the fusion of an egg and a sperm begins development by repeating a special type of division called cleavage. During this period, chromosome segregation and nuclear formation show features unique to mammals that differ from those of other animals. Using mice, the lab examines the mechanisms that underlie totipotency while observing live embryos under a microscope.
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