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Ayumi Minoda, Assistant Professor
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The lab studies the environmental responses of photosynthetic organisms and the physiology of extremophilic microorganisms. Its specialty is plant molecular physiology, and it belongs to the plant development and physiology field of the College of Biological Sciences. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Lab, Minoda Lab."
Iwane Suzuki, Professor
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The Photosynthetic Metabolism Regulation Lab uses microalgae to study how photosynthetic organisms respond to environmental change and how their metabolism works. The lab works with a wide range of algae, including cyanobacteria, coccolithophores, haptophytes, labyrinthulids, diatoms, golden algae (Chromophyton rosanoffii), and green algae. The lab studies how organisms that cannot move sense environmental changes and survive, as well as how coccolithophores build their shells. The lab's website also introduces it under the name "Plant Metabolism and Physiology Lab."
CHIBA Chikafumi, Professor
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The Laboratory of Regenerative Physiology aims to clarify, at the molecular level, how adult newts regenerate their bodies. The research subject is the Japanese fire-bellied newt. Even as adults, these newts can regenerate complex tissues and organs, such as the brain, spinal cord, retina, heart, and limbs. The lab combines genetic modification, single-cell analysis, advanced imaging, bioinformatics, and comparative physiology with mice. Its long-term goal is to connect the findings to medical approaches for human degenerative diseases, fibrosis, and trauma.
VOGT Kaspar Manuel, Associate Professor
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The lab of Associate Professor Kaspar Manuel Vogt uses mice to study how sleep affects the function of neurons in the brain and learning. Its research fields are neurochemistry/neuropharmacology and neurophysiology/neuroscience in general, with the cerebral cortex, slow waves, imaging, and sleep as its research keywords. The lab has shown, using optogenetic methods that rely on light-responsive proteins, that neurons in the cerebral cortex respond more strongly during slow-wave sleep than during wakefulness. Currently, the lab is comparing motor learning, and synaptic changes in a brain region that controls movement, between well-rested mice and sleep-deprived mice.
Fumiaki Maruo, Project Assistant Professor
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The lab of Project Assistant Professor Fumiaki Maruo studies how stem cells are maintained, proliferate, and differentiate. It uses germline stem cells from the process of egg formation in Drosophila as an experimental material. It also uses neural stem cells in the regenerating retina of newts and undifferentiated germ cells in the developing gonads. The lab investigates these questions with methods from genetics, immunology, and molecular biology.
Ryusuke Niwa, Professor
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The Niwa Lab uses insects to study how nerves, hormone-secreting endocrine organs, and various peripheral organs work together to regulate life processes. The topics it investigates are germline stem cell proliferation, energy metabolism, the timing of development, and the establishment of parasitism. Its main research subjects are the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the parasitoid wasps that use it as a host, and the lab is also taking on the development of environmentally friendly pesticides based on fundamental findings. The lab's website also introduces it as the "Physiological Genetics Research Project (Niwa Project)."
Ryusuke Niwa, Professor
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The Sanaki Lab (physiological genetics and oncology) studies cancer progression predisposed by the internal environment of the body, and how to control it. The overall goal of the lab is to investigate the mechanisms of stress tolerance and to enhance the ability to maintain the body's physiological functions under stress. According to the lab's website, in cooperation with Professor Ryusuke Niwa, lab placement is possible for the Biology Practicum, graduation research, and graduate school.
Chikafumi Chiba, Professor
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The Newt Retina Regeneration Lab (Chiba Lab) studies how the Japanese fire-bellied newt regenerates its body, at the molecular and cellular levels. The website describes the newt as a vertebrate that fully regenerates even the tissues of its limbs, tail (including the spinal cord), jaw, eyes (lens and retina), brain, and heart. By bringing out the differences between newts and humans, the lab aims to open a path for applying this animal's regeneration strategies to medicine. On the lab's website, it is presented under the name "Regeneration Physiology Lab."
Shota Shiga, Project Assistant Professor (Early Career Support)
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Project Assistant Professor (Encouragement) Shota Shiga, who works in animal physiology, studies the dynamics and properties of the cells that function when a newt's limb regenerates. Shiga is introduced in the faculty list of the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Tsukuba as a faculty member in the field of animal development and physiology. The researcher directory lists a paper on a muscle cell line from adult Japanese fire-bellied newts, and a conference presentation on the characteristics and differentiation fates of dedifferentiated cells from cultured skeletal muscle.
Keisuke Sakurai, Assistant Professor
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The Sakurai Lab studies how animals receive light and transmit it to the brain. Its targets are the two types of photoreceptors in the retina, rods and cones, as well as non-visual photoreception. The lab combines electrophysiology, a technique for recording the electrical responses of cells, with genetically modified mice and simulations of mathematical models.
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