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Hideaki Kato, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Kato Lab studies proteins that act as "biological sensors," receiving stimuli from the outside world, such as light and chemical substances, and converting them into information. The lab discovers new molecules in nature and elucidates their structures, functions, and mechanisms of action at the molecular level. Centered on structural analysis by cryo-electron microscopy, it combines methods such as structure prediction, molecular dynamics simulation, and electrophysiology. Based on the findings, the lab engineers and creates proteins, developing tools for research as well as drug discovery seeds that lead to next-generation medicine.
Ken Sato, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
Sato Lab studies how proteins are transported inside cells (vesicular transport). Cells contain membrane-bound organelles such as the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi apparatus, which exchange materials through small membrane sacs called transport vesicles. The lab focuses on vesicular transport in the secretory pathway, investigating how transport vesicles form from the endoplasmic reticulum and how proteins are sorted and carried. The lab mainly uses budding yeast as its model organism and analyzes these processes with bioimaging and with methods that reconstitute the phenomena using artificial membrane vesicles.
Atsushi Ikeda, Associate Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter0 student voices
The Ikeda Group studies the physics of soft matter and nonequilibrium materials. Many materials around us, like mayonnaise, behave like a liquid when squeezed out of the bottle but hold their shape on a plate. The lab aims to understand this coexistence of solid-like and liquid-like behavior in materials such as glass, lathered shampoo, sand piles, and gels. The lab conducts its research through theoretical analysis based on statistical mechanics and continuum mechanics, together with numerical simulations.
Daisuke Yokogawa, Associate Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
The Yokogawa Lab takes a theoretical chemistry approach to answering the "why" of chemistry. Where things with different properties meet, as at the boundary between water and oil, interesting properties appear that are not seen in either one alone. The lab also pursues research in boundary regions where fields of chemistry overlap, such as organic chemistry and physical chemistry. Using statistical mechanical methods and quantum chemical calculations, the lab strives to calculate under conditions as close to real experiments as possible.
Junichiro Yajima, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Yajima Lab investigates the question "What is life?" by studying the mechanisms behind the movements of proteins and cells. The lab aims to uncover the principles by which bio-nanomachines such as kinesin and dynein, as well as cilia and cells, move. The lab pursues both reverse bioengineering, which seeks to understand living things by taking them apart, and forward bioengineering, which builds systems artificially from biological macromolecules. The lab uses advanced measurement and imaging techniques, such as optical tweezers and microscopes that measure positions in three dimensions.
Shuichi Hiraoka, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
Hiraoka Lab builds on supramolecular chemistry, coordination chemistry, and synthetic organic chemistry to study self-assembly, the process by which molecules come together to form structures. The lab's guiding question is "What governs temporal organization?" Rather than looking only at what exists at a given moment, such as structure, state, and equilibrium, the lab focuses on how organization arises over time. The lab aims not only to explain phenomena but also to find the principles behind them and derive new concepts.
Fumitaka Mafune, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
The Mafune Lab studies the structures and reactions of clusters, which are small groups of a few atoms. Using a unique method that rapidly probes reactivity with gas-phase clusters, the lab is working on designing catalysts that do not use platinum or rhodium. The lab also determines cluster structures from their vibrational spectra, using light from an infrared free-electron laser. A distinguishing feature of the lab is that it uses methods from both physics and chemistry to explore chemical phenomena with lasers.
Masanari Okuno, Associate Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
The Okuno Lab uses molecular spectroscopy to clarify the structure of molecules in liquids and at interfaces. In solutions and at interfaces, molecules exist in a disordered, jumbled “mess,” and their structures and behavior are still largely unknown. Mainly using laser spectroscopy to capture molecular vibrations, the lab investigates molecular structure, intermolecular interactions, and chirality. The lab develops its own spectroscopic instruments that did not exist before, aiming to gain new insights into molecular structure.
Keisuke Wakasugi, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Wakasugi Lab studies how to discover and create proteins with new functions. The lab searches for new functions of natural proteins involved in diseases such as cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative diseases, and infectious diseases, as well as in aging and lifespan, and works to clarify the mechanisms that regulate them. It also aims to create new proteins with even better functions and to contribute to medicine, including the development of drugs to treat disease. The lab also conducts basic research that focuses on how proteins acquired their functions over the course of biological evolution.
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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