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Takashi Suzuki, Professor
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The Suzuki Lab studies how the neural circuits that underlie our perception, memory, and thinking are built. The lab's model system is the visual system of the fruit fly (Drosophila). It investigates how axons recognize their partners and form synapses, and how synapses change in response to experience. The lab approaches these questions by combining genetic engineering, cell engineering, biochemistry, and light-based imaging methods.
Tachibana Kazunori, Associate Professor
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The Tachibana Lab uses Cladonema, a small jellyfish, to study the basic mechanisms of animals. Its subjects include light-controlled spawning, the rhythm of egg production, sleep, lifespan, self/non-self recognition, and sex determination. Day to day, the work is basically raising jellyfish, and on top of that the lab analyzes gene sequences and observes tissues under a microscope. Lab members also build their own programs for analyzing behavior recordings, using small computers and Python.
Hiroshi Kimura, Professor
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Kimura Lab studies why cells that carry the same genetic information take on different forms and functions. The key is chemical modification of histones, the proteins that DNA wraps around. These modifications change how genes function and are passed on through cell division. This phenomenon is called epigenetics. The lab develops methods to observe histone modifications and transcription in living cells and organisms, and investigates their significance and regulatory mechanisms.
Yuichi Hongoh, Professor
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Hongoh Lab studies the physiology and ecology of communities of microbes in the environment that are difficult to culture. It is said that more than 99% of the microbes on Earth have no known method of cultivation. The lab investigates the relationships between the protists that digest wood in termite guts and the bacteria and archaea that live in symbiosis with them. It also targets microbial communities living in glaciers and snow, using methods such as metagenomics and single-cell genomics.
Takashi Hirasawa, Associate Professor
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Hirasawa Lab works on metabolic engineering, using microbes as hosts to produce useful substances. Microbial cells multiply quickly and have highly active metabolism, which makes them excellent hosts for manufacturing. Having microbes produce substances that have been made chemically is expected to help build a circular society. Targeting Escherichia coli, coryneform bacteria, and budding yeast, the lab handles everything from strain breeding to developing production-process technologies.
Mikiko Tanaka, Professor
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The Tanaka Lab approaches the question of how body forms evolved by studying the mechanisms of development. Changes in animal form involve changes in developmental programs, so the lab analyzes the development of species that occupy key positions in the evolutionary tree. Its main model is the limb: hands and feet evolved from the pectoral and pelvic fins of ancient fish. In addition to chickens, zebrafish, and medaka, the lab works with many other animals, including cloudy catsharks, emus, and softshell turtles.
Kan Tanaka, Professor
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The Tanaka-Yoshida Lab studies the cell, the basic unit of life, across a wide range of organisms from bacteria and algae to plants. At the foundation of the cellular system are mechanisms for acquiring energy, represented by respiration and the light reactions of photosynthesis. Supported by these, biosynthesis allows cells to grow and then proliferate. The lab aims to understand not just the individual parts but the fundamental mechanisms by which they work together to sustain life, and ultimately to design cells at will.
Yoh-Ichi Tagawa, Associate Professor
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The Tagawa Lab studies how to reproduce, outside the body, tissues made of multiple types of cells. Cell biology to date has cultured a single type of cell and used it for research. This lab aims to go further and turn assemblies of interconnected tissues into a single living system. It builds culture models of the liver and intestine as devices, and works on drug metabolism and on creating disease models of intestinal inflammation and viral infection.
Noriyuki Asakura, Associate Professor
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The Asakura Lab aims to drive enzymes with light energy to produce useful substances and energy. Its focus is electron transfer reactions, in which electrons are passed from one molecule to another. The lab studies the mechanisms of electron transfer in photosensitizers, electron carriers, and oxidoreductases. Building on this, it is working to assemble reaction systems with high energy conversion efficiency on solid surfaces.
Nobuhiro Nakamura, Associate Professor
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The Nobuhiro Nakamura Lab studies how animal tissues and cells maintain their structure and function, starting from intracellular signal transduction. It aims to clarify at the molecular level how disease arises when these mechanisms go awry. The lab combines experimental methods from molecular biology, cell biology, histochemistry, and animal physiology. Its main clues are receptors that receive stimuli from outside the cell and ubiquitination, which tags proteins with a marker.
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