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Hideki Sezutsu, Visiting Professor
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The Sezutsu Lab studies technologies that use genetically modified silkworms to produce proteins useful for pharmaceuticals and other applications. The silk thread that silkworms spin to make cocoons is made of protein, which makes silkworms highly efficient protein factories. The lab is developing technologies that make silkworms produce human collagen, cancer diagnostic reagents, and other proteins in place of silk proteins. This is a cooperative course of the Department of Integrated Biosciences, run by a lab at NARO (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki.
Genichiro Ishii, Visiting Professor
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The Ishii Lab studies the environment formed by cancer cells and the non-cancerous cells around them (the tumor microenvironment). Fibroblasts in particular act as cells that directly influence the properties of cancer cells. The lab builds models that mimic the tumor microenvironment in culture dishes, and uses them to investigate the mechanisms by which cancer progresses and those that determine how well drugs work. It is an affiliated laboratory of the Department of Integrated Biosciences, run by a lab at the Exploratory Oncology Research and Clinical Trial Center (EPOC) of the National Cancer Center Japan.
Ishikawa Asano, Professor
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Ishikawa Lab studies the mechanisms (adaptive evolution) by which organisms have come to have diverse forms, behaviors, and life histories suited to the environments they live in. Using the threespine stickleback, a fish in the stickleback family, as its main model, the lab searches for the genes and genetic variants that cause differences in form and traits in nature. The lab investigates the molecular functions of the variants it finds, their effects on survival and reproduction, their evolutionary origins, and even their impact on ecosystems.
Minoru Yoneda, Professor
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The Yoneda Lab uses isotopes as indicators to study the distinctive nature of humans, who have adapted to a wide range of environments through culture. Working with archaeologists, the lab has reconstructed the lives of people in the Jomon period from an ecological perspective. It also examines animals and plants that lived near settlements to study when and how cultivation and domestication began. The lab is also developing methods that use isotopes to read the lives of past animals and plants that can no longer be observed directly.
Taisei Kikuchi, Professor
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Kikuchi Lab studies the still-unknown properties of a wide range of nematodes and parasites. Omics analysis centered on genomics, together with computational data analysis, forms the core of its research. Alongside understanding biological phenomena from the ground up, the lab aims to contribute to overcoming diseases caused by parasites.
Kuninori Suzuki, Professor
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The Suzuki Lab uses budding yeast as a model of eukaryotic cells to study the dynamics of intracellular structures (organelles). A particular focus is autophagy, in which cells degrade their own contents when nutrients are scarce. The lab approaches its mechanism through live imaging with fluorescence microscopy and quantitative analysis of microscope images. The lab is also working to discover new organelles that lack membranes.
Masashi Suzuki, Associate Professor
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Suzuki Lab studies the relationships among plants, insects, and microorganisms, which have evolved together over a long time, with the aim of creating useful biological resources. Plant diseases are a good model for studying the relationships among these three groups. In recent years, the lab has focused mainly on viruses, the smallest of plant pathogens. It investigates at the molecular level how viruses with only a few genes make plants sick.
Masataka Suzuki, Professor
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The Suzuki Lab studies how males and females are determined in living organisms. The lab approaches the phenomena of sex from the perspective of three S's: the sex-determining system (System), symbiotic bacteria (Symbiont), and species (Species). A distinguishing feature of the lab is its broad perspective, spanning the molecular level to the ecological level. Using insects such as the spongy moth and the silkworm, the lab aims to extend research on sex determination into the field of ecology.
Takahiro Kikawada, Visiting Professor
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The Kikawada Lab studies anhydrobiosis in Polypedilum vanderplanki, an insect that does not die when it dries out and revives when it gets water. The lab aims to clarify how living things survive extreme environments such as desiccation, freezing, and strong acidity, and to apply those mechanisms to new biotechnology. It is working to build the foundations of technology that lets cells and biological materials be stored, transported, and used at room temperature without refrigeration. The lab is a cooperative chair of the Department of Integrated Biosciences, run by a NARO research group.
Nakato Ryuichiro, Associate Professor
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Nakato Lab conducts research that uses computation to analyze genomes, epigenomes, gene transcription, 3D genome structure, and single-cell data. The lab aims to clarify how the same genome gives rise to different gene activity depending on cell type, cell state, and disease. Rather than only using existing analysis methods, the lab develops the models and methods that its questions require. Members with different backgrounds in life science and informatics work together on shared questions.
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