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Miyako Kusano, Professor
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The Metabolic Network Science Lab studies the mechanisms of metabolism inside plants, focusing on metabolites, which are organic compounds. The lab aims to clarify how plants allocate the energy they produce for themselves, and how they produce different metabolites in both quantity and quality in response to the environment. By analyzing volatile organic compounds, the components of odor, the lab explores how compounds in soil affect plant growth and how the aroma of tomatoes and other crops is produced. Developing measurement technologies using analytical instruments is also one of the main pillars of the lab's research.
Yukari Sunohara, Associate Professor
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The Plant Functional Biochemistry Lab studies the mechanisms of bioactive substances that act on plants, and plant responses to them. For both natural and synthetic bioactive substances, the lab identifies which molecules they act on (target molecules) and investigates how they work. The lab also studies plant responses to photooxidative stress, the biosynthesis of aroma compounds, semiochemicals that act among insects, plants, and animals, and the uptake and transport of metals in land plants. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Plant Function Regulation Lab."
Hideyuki Shigemori, Professor
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The Natural Products Chemistry Lab searches for the target molecules of natural and synthetic bioactive compounds and studies how they work. Its research also covers phototropism, gravitropism, and allelopathy in plants. It also lists new pharmaceuticals and functional foods derived from untapped biological resources as research topics. The lab also examines whether components of seaweeds and plants can inhibit the aggregation of amyloid β.
Maki Asano, Assistant Professor
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The Soil Environmental Chemistry Lab conducts research on forest soils, soil organic matter, and the soils of the Eurasian steppe. The university's researcher directory lists soil carbonates, soil aggregates, soil organic matter, and pedogenesis as research keywords. In the College of Agro-Biological Resource Sciences, the lab is listed as one of the research areas of the Applied Life Chemistry course (chemistry field).
Keiko Yamaji, Professor
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The Plant Environmental Biochemistry Lab studies the mechanisms by which plants tolerate environmental stress such as heavy metals, focusing on their relationships with endophytes. The lab also investigates how plants and the microbes around their roots influence each other through chemical substances. Its research projects and papers include many that focus on plants growing naturally at abandoned mine sites.
Jun Furukawa, Associate Professor
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The Plant Nutrition Lab studies how plants adapt to environmental changes such as temperature, water, and nutrients. The lab focuses in particular on the roles of inorganic ions and the functions of the cell wall. Using the actions of signaling molecules such as plant hormones as clues, the lab investigates how separate organs, such as roots and shoots, influence one another. Its research also makes use of radioisotopes, research nuclear reactors, and accelerators.
Shigeru Matsuyama, Lecturer
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The Insect Semiochemistry Lab studies the semiochemicals that insects use. Its research field is bioorganic chemistry, and its listed keywords are insects, plants, semiochemicals, pheromones, and kairomones. Division of labor in social insects, semiochemicals of the Japanese honeybee, insect sex pheromones, and the relationship between plant scents and insects appear among its research topics and papers. In the College of Agro-Biological Resource Sciences, the lab corresponds to the Insect Semiochemistry field of the Applied Life Chemistry Course.
Yoko Nagumo, Assistant Professor
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The Biological Function Regulation Lab conducts chemical biology research using natural compounds that act on animal cells. The research identifies the target molecules on which the compounds act and analyzes the mechanisms of their action. The lab belongs to the Applied Life Chemistry Course in the College of Agro-Biological Resource Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, and its faculty member is Assistant Professor Yoko Nagumo.
Akiyoshi Fukamizu, Specially Appointed Professor
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The Genome Information Biology Lab studies how signals related to lifestyle, such as diet, hormones, and stress, change the activity of genes both inside and outside the cell. Focusing on modifications such as methylation that are added to proteins, the lab aims to understand at the molecular level how lifestyle-related diseases arise and how life processes work. Using cultured cells, mice, and nematodes, the lab investigates mechanisms involved in lifespan, aging, and blood pressure regulation, among other topics. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Fukamizu Lab."
Keiji Kimura, Professor
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The Biological Information Regulation Lab studies at the molecular level how chromosomes are formed and divided equally during cell division. Chromosomes in mitosis are huge complexes assembled from DNA, RNA, and proteins. Abnormalities in the replication or segregation of chromosomes are thought to lead to a variety of diseases, including cell death and cancer. On the lab's website, it is also introduced under the name "Kimura Lab."
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