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Yuji Inagaki, Professor
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The Molecular Evolution field is part of the Division of Life Sciences at the Center for Computational Sciences and studies the relationships among the major lineages of eukaryotes. It has been proposed that eukaryotes can be divided into about six major lineages. Using molecular phylogenetic analysis based on the sequences of multiple genes, the field examines whether each lineage is truly monophyletic. The same approach is used to infer the evolutionary relationships among these groups. To make inferences with less bias, the field also studies phylogenetic analysis methods themselves.
Hiroyuki Kusaka, Professor
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The Global Environmental Science Division focuses on atmospheric science, conducting research aimed at a comprehensive understanding and future prediction of the global environment. Using advanced computer systems, it runs numerical simulations that cover everything from global atmospheric phenomena to small-scale phenomena such as urban climate. Using a regional weather model, it tackles unsolved problems in everyday weather, such as the urban heat island effect, localized torrential downpours, and the cap clouds and lenticular clouds that form over mountains. The Global Environmental Science Division is one of the research divisions of the Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba.
Osamu Tatebe, Professor
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The High Performance Computing Systems Division studies the hardware and software that support the ultra-fast, large-scale computation required by cutting-edge computational science. As a division of the Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, it works with the teams in each application field within the center, aiming to provide high performance computing systems suited to real problems. Its research covers a wide range of topics, including computer architecture, parallel programming languages, numerical methods and libraries, accelerator systems such as GPUs, large-scale distributed storage, and grid and cloud environments. The description on the research page was last updated in December 2019.
Toshiyuki Amagasa, Professor
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The Data Infrastructure group conducts research and development centered on data engineering, addressing how to obtain the data that is needed and use it as useful information. It belongs to the Computational Informatics Division of the Center for Computational Sciences and is in charge of the data engineering fields related to the use of big data. It works with divisions such as the Global Environmental Science Division, the Particle Physics Division, and the Life Sciences Division, and carries out applied research in each field of computational science. The research page was last updated in December 2019, and its content reflects that time.
Yoshinari Kameda, Professor
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The Computational Media Lab studies computational media, which merges sensing functions such as cameras with abundant computing resources over computer networks. It aims to realize next-generation video media and visual augmentation technologies, including free-viewpoint video, mixed-reality information presentation, and see-through vision. Because it deals with information related to people, the lab places importance on aligning the time scale of information processing with that of humans, and proposes new frameworks for presenting information in forms that people can easily understand. The research descriptions on the lab's research page date from around 2019.
Hiromi Yanagisawa, Professor
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The Yanagisawa Lab studies how cells respond to changes in their surrounding environment, the extracellular environment. The cells that make up the human body change their cytoskeleton and functions in response to changes in the extracellular environment, and in this way maintain the condition of the body. The lab focuses on vascular cells (endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, and fibroblasts) and tissue stem cells, and investigates how cells respond to environments altered by aging and disease. The lab also continues research on the extracellular matrix, the main component of the extracellular environment, and works with researchers in imaging, bioengineering, and glycoengineering to develop new tools for diagnosis and treatment. On the lab's website, it is introduced as the "TARA Center Circulation Project, Hiromi Yanagisawa Lab."
Kenji Iwasaki, Professor
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The Iwasaki Lab conducts research aimed at clarifying the mysteries of life and the causes of disease from the structures of molecules. For structural analysis, the lab uses cryo-electron microscopy with single-particle analysis, as well as X-ray crystallography. Targeting viruses, bacteria, and soft tissue tumors, the lab aims to contribute to drug discovery through a method called structure-based drug design (SBDD). The key to successful structural analysis is how well the target molecule is prepared, and the lab draws on all of its knowledge of biochemistry and cell biology.
Nen Saito, Associate Professor
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The Mathematical Life Dynamics Research Project (Saito Project) studies living systems mathematically, drawing on biophysics, mathematical biology, and nonequilibrium and nonlinear physics. Targeting the movement of cells and tissues, collective phenomena in molecular assemblies, and evolutionary dynamics, the lab describes phenomena mathematically to explain their mechanisms and compares the models with experimental data. Even simple simulations can give rise to new phenomena when run at large scale, and the lab also searches the life sciences for real counterparts to the phenomena it finds.
Satoshi Ohno, Associate Professor
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The Life Systems Science Lab (Ohno Lab) aims to create new mathematical frameworks for understanding the essence of living systems from large-scale biological data. By combining the strong descriptive power of artificial intelligence (AI) with the logical rigor of systems biology, the lab is developing broadly applicable analysis technologies. The lab works on projects such as single-cell metabolic modeling, integrated multi-omics analysis, understanding of disease states, and diagnostic and predictive AI using medical data. The Ohno Lab is a new lab launched in January 2026, and it is recruiting undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds, including biology, medicine, information science, and the mathematical and physical sciences.
Masashi Yanagisawa, Professor
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The Yanagisawa-Funato Lab uses mice to study the mysteries of sleep, such as why sleep is necessary in the first place. The lab uses forward genetics: it examines the sleep of mice with randomly induced mutations and identifies the causative genes in pedigrees in which sleep abnormalities are inherited. So far, the lab has discovered new sleep-regulating molecules such as SIK3 and NALCN. The lab also puts effort into research that can be applied from basic science to the clinic.
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