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Tomoyuki Makino, Professor
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The Soil Science Lab studies soil from three perspectives: as the foundation of food production, as a sink and source of elements, and as a habitat for living organisms. Most of the food people eat is produced through soil, and soil is also the environment in which more than half of the organisms on Earth live. The lab's work ranges from practical field research to experiments that combine the latest analytical techniques. The lab takes a broad view in tackling problems through soil, with the aim of building sustainable agricultural systems that can respond to environmental change.
Toshiki Nakano, Professor
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The Fisheries Resource Chemistry Lab investigates the biochemical and food-chemical properties of aquatic biological resources such as fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and seaweed, using every available analytical method. The lab considers the sustainable and efficient use of aquatic biological resources essential, because these resources are finite. At the same time, these organisms are highly diverse, and as a result of evolution and adaptation to their environments, they contain various functional substances that are useful for promoting human health and preventing disease. The lab's ultimate theme is to provide education and research that apply these properties to production, utilization, and the development of biological functions, and to train people who can succeed in this field.
Hiroyuki Ishida, Professor
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The Plant Nutrition Lab studies functions specific to higher plants, using major crops such as rice and model plants such as Arabidopsis. Its aim is to clarify the mechanisms of photosynthesis, the absorption and assimilation of inorganic nutrients, and the distribution and use of assimilated products within the plant, as well as how these relate to the environment. In light of global-scale environmental change caused by humans, the lab considers it necessary to deeply understand how plants that serve as food respond and adapt to environmental change. The lab's research spans the gene level to the whole-plant level.
Masako Toda, Professor
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The Food Chemistry Lab studies the mechanisms by which allergies and lifestyle-related diseases linked to food and biological functions arise, and how to prevent them. The lab focuses on how food components affect immune function, and the digestion, absorption, and function of lipids and fat-soluble vitamins. The research uses laboratory mice, cultured cells, and clinical samples such as blood.
Tomoyuki Fujii, Professor
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The Terahertz Food Engineering Lab is part of the Food and Natural Products Chemistry chair in the Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural Science. Associate Professor Ishikawa studies foods and agricultural products using spectroscopic analysis. The main recent research themes listed are evaluating the state of water in crops and foods, and developing nondestructive methods for estimating the growth and quality of crops. Associate Professor Ishikawa also lists the analysis of the relationship between the structure and physical properties of food polymers, and the development of spectroscopic imaging devices and their application to agriculture, as main research themes. Professor Fujii lists bioengineering and food engineering as research keywords.
Masaru Enomoto, Professor
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The Bioorganic Chemistry Lab studies natural organic compounds that can control the behavior and functions of organisms even in trace amounts. Using the methods of synthetic organic chemistry, the lab aims to elucidate how bioactive substances exert their activity, as well as their structure-activity relationships. The lab also aims to realize applications in agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals. Professor Masaru Enomoto hopes to learn from the organic chemistry that living organisms use, and to develop new synthetic methods and uses for natural products.
Tatsuya Unuma, Professor
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The Aquatic Animal Physiology Lab studies the mechanisms of reproduction at the tissue, cell, and molecular levels in bivalves and sea urchins, which have large catches and high aquaculture production in northern Japan. The lab believes that technology to control sex and maturation would secure a stable supply of the next generation and help produce individuals whose commercial value varies with sex and maturity. The lab aims to apply its findings to advanced aquaculture and stock enhancement technology.
Atsuo Kikuchi, Professor
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Pediatric Pathophysiology (Department of Pediatrics, Tohoku University School of Medicine) is a department that aims to deliver clinical care, education, and research on childhood diseases, each at a high level. At the university hospital, pediatricians specializing in hematology and oncology, neurology, nephrology, neonatology, endocrinology, inborn errors of metabolism, and cardiology provide highly specialized care in outpatient clinics and on the wards. One example of the research the lab aims for is to start from the patient in front of them and propose previously unknown disease concepts, clarify pathophysiology, and suggest new treatments. In the professor's message, the professor says they keenly feel the weight of the words of the fourth professor of the department: "Understanding physiology through pathophysiology."
Keisuke Goda, International Distinguished Professor
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The Emergent Medicine Lab practices "serendipity engineering," which deliberately generates unexpected discoveries, and aims to extend it into medicine. Using new biotechnology that integrates biochemistry, photon science, nanotechnology, and information science, the lab aims to discover unknown biological phenomena and apply them to medicine. The lab conducts its research by combining theory, experiments, and computation. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Goda Lab."
Yoko Izumi, Professor
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As part of social medicine, the Health Policy lab deals with the laws and systems of health care, medicine, and research and development that contribute to people's health. Laws and social systems do not directly save the individual patient in front of you, but they directly and indirectly affect the lives, livelihoods, and futures of many citizens. As part of the Biobank Division of the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, the lab also works every day on creating value from biobanks and promoting joint research with companies.
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