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Takeaki Ozawa, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Ozawa Lab develops analytical methods and measurement technologies for living organisms, and uses them to explore the mysteries of life in cells, fish, mice, and other systems. The lab improves proteins that absorb or emit light (fluorescent and luminescent proteins) and pursues its research under the motto "Opto-Bioanalysis," bioanalysis using light. Its research rests on three pillars: "observing" how molecules function in living systems, "searching" for molecules that could become drug candidates, and "manipulating" how molecules function with light. Students are welcome not only from chemistry but also from those who have studied physics or biology.
Taro Hitosugi, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Hitosugi Lab aims to clarify the properties that emerge when atoms assemble into a solid, and to create new materials and functions. The lab fabricates thin films and interfaces with controlled atomic arrangements, and investigates their structures and electronic states using state-of-the-art measurements such as scanning tunneling microscopy, electron microscopy, and photoelectron spectroscopy. Its targets extend beyond metal oxides to materials containing organic molecules, and the lab also focuses on applications in the energy field, such as all-solid-state batteries. In a digital laboratory that combines data science and robotics, the lab also conducts research that automates the entire process from materials synthesis to evaluation.
Robert E. CAMPBELL, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Campbell Lab uses fluorescent proteins as a starting point to build research tools for observing chemical changes inside living cells and tissues. Its raw materials are brightly colored fluorescent proteins found in marine organisms such as jellyfish and corals. Using directed evolution, a method that mimics the process of evolution in the lab, the lab creates sensors whose fluorescence changes in response to specific changes. The resulting tools are distributed to researchers in cell biology and neuroscience, and are used to address a wide range of questions, from how cells work to the causes of psychiatric disorders.
Hiroki Oguri, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Oguri Lab studies the structures, biosynthetic mechanisms, and roles in nature of natural products made by living organisms, and designs and synthesizes new molecules with novel functions. Using synthetic organic chemistry, the lab proposes approaches that rationally modify and expand biosynthetic pathways. The lab systematically diversifies the molecular scaffolds themselves, assembling whole families of compounds that carry many functional groups. The lab works on creating candidate molecules effective against infectious diseases and cancer, and on supramolecular research that makes use of natural product scaffolds.
Shu Kobayashi, Project Professor / Professor Emeritus
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Kobayashi Lab studies chemical transformation and material transformation methods that place a small burden on the environment. The lab has worked on reactions that use water as the solvent and on immobilized catalysts that can be recovered and reused repeatedly. It is also advancing the precise synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other compounds through flow synthesis, in which solutions are passed continuously through the reaction setup. Building on organic synthetic chemistry, the lab conducts education and research across the fields of science, engineering, pharmaceutical sciences, and agriculture.
Tatsuya Tsukuda, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Tsukuda Lab studies the chemistry of metal clusters, which form when metals are divided into particles of 2 nm or smaller. Adding or removing even a single atom in a metal cluster can greatly change its stability and physical properties, and clusters show properties that could not be predicted from bulk metals. While clarifying how these properties arise, the lab creates new groups of nanomaterials, including catalysts. The lab's work ranges from the precise synthesis of clusters protected by organic ligands to tracking the reactions of clusters isolated in vacuum.
Kamon Sanada, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Sanada Lab studies how neurons in the brain are generated, migrate, mature, and are maintained. The neocortex is found only in mammals and is thought to underlie higher-order functions such as perception, thought, and memory. The lab mainly analyzes the mouse neocortex in vivo and in primary neuronal cultures. The findings also contribute to understanding malformations of brain development and neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS and Alzheimer's disease.
Takeuchi Haruki, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Takeuchi Lab studies the mechanisms of perception, emotion, and memory, using the mouse olfactory system as a model. Using methods from molecular biology and neurophysiology, the lab investigates at the cellular level how neural circuits are formed and how they function. The lab observes and manipulates neural activity using electrophysiology, calcium imaging, and optogenetics. Based on scientific evidence, the lab also explores strategies for preventing and treating neurological disorders through odors.
Uemura Sotaro, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Uemura Lab studies the "individuality" of single molecules and single cells. Even among cells or molecules of the same type, each one behaves differently, but when they are measured together, the results are averaged and these differences become invisible. Using original technologies that examine single molecules and single cells in detail, the lab aims to achieve personalized diagnosis of diseases, develop new drugs, and elucidate the mechanisms of molecules.
Siomi Mikiko, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Siomi Lab studies the RNA-based mechanisms that silence transposons in germline tissues. Transposons are sequences that move around the genome, and when they transpose in germ cells, they damage the germline genome. At the core of their silencing are piRNAs, a class of short RNAs, and the PIWI proteins that piRNAs guide. Using germ cells from Drosophila, silkworms, and mammals, the lab works to uncover these mechanisms.
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