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Ryo Yoshida, Professor
Materials & Nanotech3 student voices
The Yoshida Lab studies materials that use polymer gels to artificially recreate the functions of living things. The lab believes that cells and gels have very similar physicochemical properties, and that gels can be used to create materials with cell-like functions such as motion and mass transport. Centered on "self-oscillating gels" that beat on their own like a heart, the lab approaches the question "What is life?" from the perspective of materials science.
Kobayashi Hajime, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences3 student voices
The Kobayashi Lab researches technologies for the environment, energy, and decarbonization. The lab works on technology that uses microbes and electricity to produce useful substances, such as fuels, from CO2. Through Social Cooperation Programs with companies, the lab also researches oil and natural gas development, technology for storing CO2 underground, and countermeasures for subsurface environmental contamination.
Naoki Yoshida, Professor
Space, Particle Physics & Aerospace3 student voices
The Theoretical Cosmology Lab is a group that has been advancing research in astrophysics and observational cosmology. The universe is a physical system in which many physical processes, from microscopic to macroscopic scales, are intricately intertwined. Currently, the lab works on the formation of astrophysical objects and the exploration of the distant universe, as well as on machine learning and data science problems related to them. The lab aims to remain open at all times, and actively collaborates with research institutions in Japan and abroad, including the Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU) and the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU).
Ohkoshi Shin-Ichi, Professor
Materials & Nanotech3 student voices
The Ohkoshi Lab researches the creation of new materials that respond to light and electromagnetic waves, as well as new materials that solve environmental and energy problems. Using chemical synthesis methods, the lab works on a wide range of materials, from metal complexes such as Prussian blue to metal oxides and alloys. From common elements such as iron and titanium, the lab has created epsilon iron oxide, which has a large coercivity, and lambda-type titanium oxide, which switches between a metal and a semiconductor under light. The lab has also proposed a new concept, heat-storage ceramics, which can store thermal energy for a long time.
Yoshio Yamauchi, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences3 student voices
The Food Biochemistry Lab focuses on lifestyle-related diseases and studies them from the perspective of regulating lipid metabolism. Using biochemical methods to investigate life phenomena inside the body, the lab aims to show how the functions of food can be put to use. Its work ranges from basic research on molecular mechanisms to applied research using human iPS cells and other models. Through weekly experiment reports and discussion, faculty and students advance research together as one team.
Ryo Kohsaka, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban3 student voices
The Forest Landscape Planning Lab studies the spatial relationship between nature and people and the landscapes that emerge from it. The lab treats as "environment" not only natural environments such as forests, but also the residential environments and communities where people live. Within this framework, it examines the roles that "greenery" and "nature" have played, from the perspective of landscapes and places for recreation. Drawing on psychology, sociology, geography, history, and legal and institutional studies, the lab conducts research from the standpoint of spatial planning theory, covering scales from the region down to the individual site.
Kei Okada, Professor
Robotics & Control3 student voices
The Information Systems Engineering Lab (JSK) researches the functions and systems essential for intelligent robots that work in human society and living environments. From the perspectives of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, and biological systems, the lab works on humanoids (human-shaped robots) and other robots. The lab's research covers many differently shaped robots, such as musculoskeletal humanoids that imitate the human body and robots that fly while changing shape. The lab brings together people who learn alongside senior students and want to take on new challenges that have never been attempted before.
Yusuke Hirabayashi, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences3 student voices
The Neuronal Cell Biology Lab studies why animals are able to have sophisticated mechanisms for homeostasis and learning. Molecular reactions occur constantly in the body, but much is still unknown about where, when, and how they take place. The lab's central themes are the formation and functional regulation of neural circuits, and interorganelle interactions in mammalian cells. The lab uses genetic manipulation and analysis of cells and tissues with fluorescence and electron microscopy.
Hiroki Oota, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences2 student voices
The Genome Anthropology Lab studies the dispersal and environmental adaptation of Homo sapiens, with a focus on ancient genomics. The lab explores why sapiens was able to adapt to every kind of environment, including high latitudes, cold regions, and high altitudes, in the short span of about 60,000 years. DNA is extracted from the remains of people who lived in the past, such as the Jomon people, and the base sequences are determined with next-generation sequencers. Using Jomon genome data, the lab aims to clarify the population history of East Eurasia and the way people lived before the start of agriculture.
Hirokazu Tsukaya, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences2 student voices
The Developmental Evolution Lab studies how leaves are formed, including the mechanisms that control their development and their evolution. The above-ground parts of seed plants consist only of leaves and stems, and flowers are also assemblies of organs that are modified leaves. Using Arabidopsis thaliana as its main experimental material, the lab has been the first in the world to identify key groups of genes that control leaf shape and size. With molecular developmental genetics as its core, and also using methods from classical morphology and physiology, the lab works with a wide variety of plants, including non-model plants from Borneo and Thailand and the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha.
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