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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.
Fuminori Hashihama, Associate Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Hashihama Lab, part of the Biogenic Element Dynamics Group at the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, studies how biogenic elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycle through the ocean. The cycling of biogenic elements results from the interplay of transformations by marine organisms and the transport of materials by seawater movement, and it has a major influence on the global environment and ecosystems. Fieldwork aboard research vessels is the core of the lab's work, including cruises that traverse the Pacific and Indian Oceans and monitoring in the seas around Japan. Using highly sensitive analytical methods capable of measuring extremely low nutrient concentrations, the lab investigates the cycling of biogenic elements in nutrient-poor ocean regions.
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.
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.
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