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Hiroshi Wada, Professor
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The Wada Lab studies how new morphologies, the raw material for natural selection, have been generated over the course of animal evolution. Focusing on animals such as shelled molluscs and echinoderms, which include sea urchins and starfish, the lab investigates what changes occurred in genetic information and in the process of development. In some cases, similar forms are built through development involving different genes. The lab considers that this "developmental system drift" may underlie the evolution of new forms. The lab also works on the phylogeny and classification of reptiles, and on how species are treated in science textbooks.
Kenichiro Ishida, Professor
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The Plant Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and Evolution Lab studies the systematics and evolution of algae and protists. The lab investigates the origin and evolution of eukaryotes that carry out diverse forms of photosynthesis, as well as the evolution of plastids (chloroplasts) in algae. The lab's research also includes the development of new algal biomass resources.
Masaki Takenaka, Assistant Professor
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The Takenaka Lab studies the origin of insect wings and the evolution of river-dwelling insects using the methods of developmental genetics and phylogenetics and evolutionary biology. Its main research subjects are river-dwelling insects. The lab investigates the acquisition of evolutionary novelties such as insect wings, adaptation to river environments, and the formation of the ecosystems of the Japanese archipelago, and it also conducts research using environmental DNA. The lab was launched in April 2025 as an independent lab in the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Tsukuba.
Mari Fujita, Project Assistant Professor
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The Insect Comparative Embryology Lab conducts research on the comparative embryology and phylogenetics and evolutionary biology of insects. On the faculty list of the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, Project Assistant Professor Mari Fujita is introduced as specializing in the field of systematics and evolutionary biology.
Aoi Tsuyuki, Assistant Professor
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The Animal Systematics Lab (Assistant Professor Aoi Tsuyuki) studies the systematics and evolutionary biology of marine invertebrates, focusing on polyclad flatworms of the phylum Platyhelminthes. The publications page lists papers such as records of species found in Japanese seas and descriptions of new species. The lab also investigates the phylogenetic placement of species using both morphological and molecular evidence. Assistant Professor Aoi Tsuyuki joined the Shimoda Marine Research Center at the University of Tsukuba in April 2026.
Ben Harvey, Assistant Professor
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The Future Oceans Lab (the Harvey Lab) uses marine ecosystem research to investigate how changing environmental conditions, namely ocean acidification, ocean warming, and marine heatwaves, are changing the ocean. The lab is a research group based at the Shimoda Marine Research Center of the University of Tsukuba. It combines fieldwork, aquarium experiments, and desk-based analysis. Surveys and experiments are conducted in the intertidal and subtidal zones, and the lab also carries out analyses using statistics and models. The lab collaborates internationally with researchers around the world.
Shota Masumoto, Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor Shota Masumoto, who specializes in microbial ecology, studies plants, fungi, and their interactions from an ecological perspective. The main study sites are regions such as the Arctic and high mountains. In addition to plant–fungus interactions, the lab also studies community assembly. At the University of Tsukuba, the research is carried out together with members of Mitsuru Hirota's lab.
Yuko Omori, Assistant Professor
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The Aquatic Ecology Lab studies the material cycles carried out by marine microbes and how these cycles respond to environmental change. The lab focuses on the flow in which organic matter produced by phytoplankton is decomposed, transformed, and transported by zooplankton and bacteria. It places particular emphasis on the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere mediated by volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
Kazuharu Ohashi, Lecturer
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The Ecological Interactions Lab (Ohashi Lab) studies the interactions that species exert on one another and the traits that organisms have evolved through those relationships. A specialty of the lab is the relationship between the flowers of angiosperms and pollinators, the animals that visit flowers in search of nectar and pollen. Based on field surveys, the lab chooses methods to suit each question, including laboratory experiments and mathematical models involving computer simulations. The lab also carries out collaborative research with various researchers in Japan and abroad.
Mitsuru Hirota, Professor
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The Terrestrial Ecology Lab studies the ecology of land plants and the movement of carbon (the carbon cycle) in terrestrial ecosystems and organisms. Its ultimate aim is to accurately describe and understand how ecosystems work and how organisms live, and it uses the cycling of materials, centered on carbon, as the means to do so. The lab often goes into the field to conduct surveys and observations, and it also carries out laboratory experiments in parallel as needed. On the lab's website, it is also introduced under the name "Hirota Lab."
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