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Rio Yokota, Professor
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The Yokota Lab studies how large-scale distributed parallel computing on supercomputers can be applied to a wide range of fields. The neural networks used in deep learning grow larger every year, and are reaching a point where only supercomputers can run the computation. Running existing frameworks as they are does not improve speed or accuracy, so the lab solves, one by one, the challenges specific to large-scale computing. Solving today's supercomputer challenges also means solving in advance the challenges that will arise on ordinary local compute servers ten years from now.
Masakazu Sekijima, Associate Professor
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The Sekijima Lab aims to create drugs and materials using computer science methods such as machine learning and supercomputing. These fields are called cheminformatics and materials informatics. Using deep learning and molecular simulation, the lab searches for drug candidates based on the three-dimensional structures of disease-related proteins and compounds, and develops methods to generate compounds that did not exist before. Students in the lab come from a wide range of backgrounds, including computer science, applied mathematics, organic synthesis, and pharmaceutical sciences.
Takuo Takuo Watanabe, Professor
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The Takuo Watanabe Lab studies the principles and mechanisms that make it easier to develop safe and reliable computing systems. It combines techniques from several fields: programming languages, systems software, and formal methods. Recently, the lab has focused on research on embedded and control systems using functional reactive programming languages. Its research uses functional programming languages that handle tree structures and symbols easily, and tools such as model checkers and proof assistants.
Sayaka Sekine, Associate Professor
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The Sekine Lab studies how the shapes of living organisms' bodies are formed. Using high-resolution imaging, the lab captures the shapes of tissues, cells, and molecular assemblies. It investigates how the heartbeat rhythm is generated and how it supports the construction of whole-body function. The lab aims to connect the mechanisms it uncovers to the design of living systems.
Takakazu Seki, Associate Professor
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The Seki Lab studies bio-interfaces formed by biomolecules and the electronic material surfaces of biosensors. By combining interfacial spectroscopy with several microscopy techniques, the lab observes what happens there at the molecular level. The goal is to understand the complex interplay among biomolecules, water, and ions. It is a new lab that was launched at Institute of Science Tokyo in October 2025.
Toshiaki Mori, Associate Professor
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The Mori Lab studies the roles that glycans and lipids on the cell surface play in living organisms. At the same time, based on the findings obtained, it aims to create highly functional materials that are useful as biomaterials. Using a quartz crystal microbalance, it tracks molecular binding and enzyme reactions as changes in mass. The lab pursues its research from two sides: "what can be understood" and "what can be made."
Tetsuya Kadonosono, Associate Professor
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The Kadonosono Lab studies "biopharmaceuticals" made from proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, cells, and other materials. Biopharmaceuticals can be given sophisticated mechanisms that small-molecule drugs cannot achieve, but their effects may not last, or they may cause severe side effects. By advancing design technology, the lab aims to create next-generation biopharmaceuticals with high efficacy and few side effects. It also works on developing diagnostic agents that can detect diseases with ultra-high sensitivity.
Asako Yamayoshi, Professor
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The Yamayoshi Lab studies nucleic acid therapeutics, which use nucleic acids, the substance of genes, to control gene function. It creates new artificial nucleic acids and examines their properties, covering everything from functional evaluation in cells to preclinical studies using laboratory animals. It also works on drug delivery systems using exosomes, small vesicles released by cells, and on artificial nucleic acids whose drug effects can be controlled by light. Through collaborative research with researchers in other fields and industry-academia partnerships, the lab aims for the real-world implementation of nucleic acid therapeutics.
Takeo Saneyoshi, Professor
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The Saneyoshi Lab studies how memories that last a lifetime are maintained. Focusing on synapses, the junctions between neurons in the brain, the lab investigates how molecules preserve memory information. The lab also studies the diseases that arise when these mechanisms break down. Liquid–liquid phase separation, in which proteins cluster together and separate into distinct phases, is one of the key clues.
Yasuka Toda, Associate Professor
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The Toda Lab studies what makes food "delicious" by looking at how taste receptors detect taste. Its methods include functional analysis of taste receptors, gene expression analysis, behavioral experiments, and analysis of food components. Studying a wide range of vertebrates, from fish to mammals, the lab investigates how the sense of taste has changed in response to changes in habitat and diet. The lab also searches foods for yet-unknown components that contribute to deliciousness.
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