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Taro Toyota, Associate Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Toyota Lab draws on organic chemistry and polymer chemistry to tackle problems in life science and materials science. The lab investigates the properties of cells and cell aggregates by creating organic molecular assemblies with “lifelike” properties and using them to understand how cells work. Organic molecules and polymers are assembled up to the micrometer scale, and molecular reactions and motions are used as triggers to bring out the dynamics of the resulting assemblies. Building on this, the lab focuses on creating cell-mimicking reaction environments and materials with hierarchical structures and functions.
Junko Kanoh, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Kanoh Lab studies the functions of telomeres, located at the ends of chromosomes, and of the subtelomeres adjacent to them. At the molecular level, the lab aims to clarify how these regions are involved in sustaining life, preserving species, genome evolution, cellular senescence, and the onset of disease. Using fission yeast, human cells, and cells from great apes, the lab mainly relies on molecular biology, molecular genetics, and cell biology. To these, it adds next-generation sequencing analysis and structural analysis through collaborative research, investigating the questions from multiple angles.
Takayuki Kurihara, Associate Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Kurihara Lab conducts experimental research on optical properties, using light to investigate the properties of materials. The lab uses femtosecond lasers, which emit intense light for only an instant, like a strobe shutter. In this way, it makes the motion of elementary excitations in solids, such as magnons, phonons, excitons, and plasmons, visible in the time domain. Drawing on laser and light-source technologies, the lab devises its own measurement methods and aims to carry out solid-state physics experiments that no other lab can do.
Hirokazu Hasegawa, Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Hasegawa Lab studies the interaction between high-intensity laser light and molecules in order to understand it in depth. The lab also aims to open up new areas of science that make use of high-intensity light. Its work includes clarifying the ionization processes induced by high-intensity light, and generating extremely highly excited rotational states and investigating their properties. To gain deep understanding from simple systems, the lab studies gas-phase isolated molecules.
Daisuke Kiriya, Associate Professor
Semiconductors & Electronic Devices1 student voices
The Kiriya Lab studies the interfaces formed when two or more materials come into contact, from an interdisciplinary perspective that combines multiple fields. It focuses in particular on combining molecular materials (organic materials) with inorganic materials. Molecular materials are soft and highly varied, while inorganic materials are hard, show high values for physical properties, and serve as building blocks of electronic devices. By combining the two, the lab aims to create highly functional devices with spontaneity, devices that respond to stimuli and their environment, and quantum properties and quantum devices.
Moritoshi Sato, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Sato Lab is developing entirely new foundational technologies for manipulating biological phenomena with light. Applying these foundational technologies, the lab creates technologies that freely control genome editing, gene expression, and intracellular signaling, both inside cells and in living organisms. The lab manipulates genes involved in biological phenomena and diseases with light in order to elucidate how they function. The lab aims to make it possible to treat a variety of diseases, including cancer and genetic disorders, through new light-based approaches.
Sayaka Uchida, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
Uchida Lab assembles metal oxide clusters like building blocks to create solids with useful functions. The lab uses anionic inorganic metal oxide clusters called polyoxometalates. Using these as building blocks, the lab synthesizes porous ionic crystals (PICs) and uses their voids as sites for adsorbing, transporting, and converting molecules and ions. Based on inorganic chemistry, coordination chemistry, and physical chemistry, the lab is developing applications in catalysts and proton conductors.
Yoshio Kikukawa, Professor
Space, Particle Physics & Aerospace1 student voices
The Kikukawa Lab specializes in elementary particle theory and studies quantum field theory and lattice gauge theory. The lab belongs to the Physics Group of the Division of Basic Science, Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. At the undergraduate level, the lab is in charge of the Mathematical and Natural Sciences Course in the Department of Integrated Natural Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences.
Tatsuru Masuda, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Masuda Lab analyzes plant metabolic systems using the metabolism of tetrapyrrole molecules as a clue. The representative tetrapyrroles in plants are chlorophyll, which receives light energy in photosynthesis, and heme, which carries oxygen and transfers electrons. Both are made through a shared biosynthetic pathway, but because they generate reactive oxygen species when exposed to light, their synthesis requires strict control. The research began with the question of how plants achieve both strict control and active biosynthesis.
Ikeda Hajime, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Ikeda Lab unravels the evolutionary history preserved in genomes to clarify how plants interact with their environments. Its goal is to understand the mechanisms by which biodiversity has been generated. Centered on fieldwork, the lab analyzes evolutionary dynamics using DNA sequences and genomic data. It also combines this with approaches that grow plants in the laboratory and study them physiologically and genetically.
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