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Osamu Nureki, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Nureki Lab conducts research aimed at understanding life phenomena down to the fine detail of individual atoms. Its primary goal is to determine the three-dimensional structures of proteins and nucleic acids that are essential to living organisms, using cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography. To test what the determined structures reveal, the lab also carries out functional analyses, including in vitro experiments.
Masahiro Kasahara, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Kasahara Lab studies technologies for analyzing the massive amounts of data produced by DNA sequencing instruments. Over the past 20 years or so, the cost of reading DNA has dropped dramatically. The lab believes that an era of new observation technologies calls for new information analysis technologies that match them. The lab carries out its research in collaboration with experimental labs whenever possible, and also offers independent research topics for students who prefer them.
Hisanori Kiryu, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Kiryu Lab studies bioinformatics, which uses computers to analyze explosively growing biological data in order to make biological discoveries. It uses information technologies such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The lab also puts effort into building computational models of organisms, which the analysis requires. It aims to deeply understand life as an integrated system and to lead to technologies that freely control life at the cellular level.
Martin Frith, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Frith Lab uses computers to study genetic sequences. Sequences retain traces of the recipe of life and the history of evolution. The lab finds interesting and useful information in them, and develops the algorithms and mathematical methods needed to do so. It does not specialize in black-box methods such as deep learning, and aims for understanding rather than prediction.
Toyoshima Yu, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Toyoshima Lab studies how neural circuits process information and give rise to behavior. Using the small, transparent nematode C. elegans as a model, the lab observes neural activity in living animals. It combines whole-brain imaging with a 4D microscope and simulation based on mathematical modeling. The lab aims to understand, at the systems level, the entire process from receiving information from the environment to producing behavior.
Kaoru Sugimura, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Sugimura Lab studies the mechanisms by which cells move collectively and form patterns. The key to these mechanisms is the mechanical forces that drive deformation and movement. By combining live imaging, mechanical measurements, and physical models, the lab investigates the principles by which order arises in multicellular systems. The lab takes an interdisciplinary approach that integrates experimental biology, statistics and data analysis, and physics.
Shinya Kuroda, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Kuroda Lab studies the signaling and metabolic networks that regulate cellular functions. Its goal is to describe these mechanisms quantitatively and understand them as a "system." The lab analyzes them using both experimental methods and computer simulation. Beyond cultured cells, it is also advancing organism-level analyses using disease model mice and human data.
Asuka Kamei, Project Associate Professor
Food & Agriculture1 student voices
The Food Function Science Endowed Lab studies "food function science," which analyzes the nutrition, taste, and body-regulating functions of food together. Aiming to improve quality of life and well-being, the lab seeks to clarify the primary, secondary, and tertiary functions of food at the molecular level. Using model organisms and other systems, the lab aims to reveal the power of food through analyses based on molecular biology and biochemistry. The lab was established as an endowed chair funded by a donation from the Toyo Food Research Institute, and it actively pursues joint research with companies.
Keitaro Tanoi, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Radiation Plant Physiology Lab uses radioisotopes to study how nutrients and photosynthetic products move inside plants. Using radioisotopes, the lab has developed technology to observe inorganic substances and photosynthetic products inside plants in real time without damaging them. With this and other technologies, the lab aims to clarify how substances move inside plants. Its goal is to develop crops that can grow on farmland with little fertilizer, in arid regions, and in highly saline soil.
Hideaki Nojiri, Professor
Environment & Sustainability1 student voices
The Environmental Conservation Engineering Lab studies the ability of bacteria to break down environmental pollutants at the level of enzymes, genes, and cells. The lab aims to understand the unusual metabolic capabilities of bacteria at the molecular level and to apply that knowledge to uses such as pollution cleanup. Researchers use a wide range of biotechnology methods, including biochemistry, genetic engineering, genome biology, and structural biology. The lab puts effort into training researchers who can communicate their work internationally, for example by creating opportunities for graduate students to present overseas, and it actively welcomes international students.
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