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Yukihiko Tokunaga, Associate Professor
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The Theoretical Ecology Lab studies, from the perspective of population biology, why organisms live in groups or alone. Its study subjects are wide-ranging: wild heron colonies, bean weevil populations kept indoors, wild bumblebee colonies, and artificial life (digital insects) running inside a computer. Associate Professor Yukihiko Tokunaga is often described as a theoretical researcher, but he considers himself a researcher who focuses mainly on field surveys. Associate Professor Tokunaga teaches theoretical biology as well as ecology, statistics, and programming.
Louis J Irving, Assistant Professor
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The Irving Lab studies how plants interact with their biotic and abiotic environments. It is said that plant productivity is held below its potential by stresses such as drought, nutrient shortage, disease, and parasites. For this reason, the lab considers it important to understand the factors that limit production. The relationships between parasitic plants and their hosts are studied using rootboxes and isotope tracers. The lab also studies how plants extend their roots and how this affects competition between plants.
Kazuo Watanabe, Professor
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Prof. Kikuchi studies the mechanisms of environmental stress response in higher plants and the production of crops that tolerate stress. Assistant Professor Oguchi specializes in plant adaptation to the environment and in the development and evaluation of genetically modified forest trees. In the College of Biological Sciences' lab introductions, the lab is presented as a research group in the fields of plant molecular and physiological sciences and plant biotechnology. On the lab's website, its members are introduced under the name "Watanabe-Kikuchi-Oguchi Research Group."
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.
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