Integrative Life Sciences
Multicellular organisms are the life forms wherein the basic unit comprises many cells derived from an egg to form and fulfill the function of a single individual. Each of the cells undergoes differentiation and diversification to fulfill independent roles during the process of ontogeny, and the mutual interaction of these cells (network formation) is the foundation of integrated function as an individual. We aim to clarify the mechanisms by which cell populations (e.g., neural networks) control life phenomena (e.g., brain functions), implementing research and education, making full use of cutting-edge technologies.
Laboratories
Brain and Nervous System
| Neuroethology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Hiromu Tanimoto Associate Professor Nobuhiro Yamagata |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | The neural foundation of sensory processing and memory and learning, behavioral analysis, neuroanatomy | ||
| Neurogenetics | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Atsushi Higashitani (C) Visiting Professor Daisuke Yamamoto Associate Professor Masayuki Koganesawa |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Brain gender difference, genes and behavior | ||
| Brain Development | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Kentaro Abe Assistant Professor Masashi Tanaka |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Experience dependent gene regulation, Postnatal skill development, Live imaging, Social interaction, Communication, Song learning, Disease model animals. | ||
| Systems Neuroscience | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Ken-ichiro Tsutsui Assistant Professor Shinya Ohara Assistant Professor Shinya Nakamura |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Higher order brain functions, systems neuroscience | ||
Cellular Network
| Membrane Trafficking Mechanisms | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Mitsunori Fukuda Assistant Professor Naonobu Fujita |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | Intracellular vesicle transport, melanosome transport, autophagy, secretion,neurotransmitter release, small GTPase Rab | ||
| Developmental Dynamics | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Asako Sugimoto Assistant Professor Nami Haruta Assistant Professor Shinsuke Niwa |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Developmental Biology, Cell Biology, Live Imaging | ||
| Organelle Pathophysiology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Tomohiko Taguchi Assistant Professor Kojiro Mukai |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | Proteome analysis of organelle membrane proteins,Biological reactions that proceed on the cytosolic face of organelles,Organelle cooperation underlying the innate immunity response and inflammation,Development of specific probes for membrane phospholipids | ||
| Super-Network Brain Physiology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Ko Matsui Lecturer Toru Ishizuka Assistant Professor Tomomi Tsunematsu |
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Undergrad education |
Medicine | ||
| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Optogenetics, Electrophysiology, Fluorescent live imaging, Acute brain slice, Rodent in vivo optical cell activity manipulation and measurements, Synaptic transmission, Glial cell, Astrocyte, Neuron-glia interactions | ||
Developmental Regulation Network
| Germ Cell Development | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Yasuhisa Matsui Assistant Professor yohei hayashi |
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Undergrad education |
Medicine | ||
| Campus | Seiryo | ||
| Keywords | germ cell, pluripotential stem cell, epigenetic regulation, metabolic regulation | ||
| Cancer Biology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Natsuko Chiba Assistant Professor Yuki Yoshino Assistant Professor Kei Otsuka |
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| Campus | Seiryo | ||
| Keywords | Tumor suppressor, centrosome, DNA damage response, genome integrity | ||
| Developmental Neurobiology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Toshihiko Ogura Assistant Professor Atsushi Kubo |
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| Campus | Seiryo | ||
| Keywords | Developmental biology, new mechanobiology | ||
Cooperative faculities
| Developmental Neuroscience | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Noriko Osumi |
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Undergrad education |
Medicine | ||
| Campus | Seiryo | ||
| Keywords | Brain Development, Transgenerational epigenetis | ||
| Molecular Oncology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Kozo Tanaka |
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Undergrad education |
Medicine | ||
| Campus | Seiryo | ||
| Keywords | Cell division, Cancer, Aging | ||
| Experimental Immunology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Toshiyuki Takai |
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| Campus | Seiryo | ||
| Keywords | Immune regulation, receptor, immune disorders | ||
Ecological Developmental Adaptability Life Sciences
The aim of this major is to clarify the generation and mode of life of organisms, the evolution mechanisms that have created these organisms, the role of biological interactions, and the effect of human activity on ecosystems by researching the environmental response of the organisms and the background adaptation mechanisms, through the layers of life phenomena from genes to individuals, groups, and ecosystems. We also aim to educate and foster graduates who fully utilize the cross-sectoral knowledge and understanding obtained through this study.
Laboratories
Biological Dynamics
| Plant Development | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Junko Kyozuka Assistant Professor Satoshi Naramoto Assistant Professor Aino Komatsu |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Plant Architecture, Meristem, growth program | ||
| Histogenetic Dynamics | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Erina Kuranaga Assistant Professor Daiki Umetsu Assistant Professor Yuichiro Nakajima |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | histogenesis, Cell migration, Cell death | ||
| Plant Sensory and Developmental Biology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Hideyuki Takahashi Associate Professor Nobuharu Fujii Assistant Professor Akie Kobayashi |
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| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | gravimorphogenesis, gravitropism, hydrotropism, circumnutation, sex expression of flowers in cucurbits | ||
| Organ Morphogenesis | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Koji Tamura Assistant Professor Gembu Abe |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | Morphogenesis, organ regeneration | ||
| Plant Cell Wall Biology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Kazuhiko Nishitani Lecturer Ryusuke Yokoyama Assistant Professor Takeshi Kuroha |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | Plants, Cell wall, Molecular biology, Signaling,Hormones | ||
Ecological Dynamics
| Aquatic Ecology Laboratory | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Jotaro Urabe Assistant Professor Wataru Makino |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | Animal ecology, Biological interactions, Food web, Population genetics, Lakes and rivers, Coastal ecosystems, Plankton and benthos. | ||
| Functional Ecology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Koki Hikosaka Assistant Professor Riichi Oguchi |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | Plant ecophysiology, Plant ecology, Photosynthesis, Environmental adaptation | ||
| Evolutionary Biology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Masakado Kawata Assistant Professor Shinichiro Maruyama |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | Evolutionary biology, Ecology | ||
| Ecological Integration | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Michio Kondoh Associate Professor Satoki Sakai Assistant Professor Masahiro Aiba |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | Structure and dynamics of ecological systems, Plant Evolutionary Ecology, data-driven ecology | ||
Biodiversity Dynamics
| Plant Diversity and Evolution | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Masayuki Maki Assistant Professor Koji Yonekura Assistant Professor Motonari Ohyama |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Kawauchi | ||
| Keywords | Plant diversity, plant evolution, species preservation | ||
| Conservation Biology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Satoshi Chiba Associate Professor Shuichi Shikano |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Kawauchi | ||
| Keywords | Biodiversity preservation, evolutionary ecology, biogeography | ||
| Marine Biodiversity | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Gaku Kumano Professor Jotaro Urabe (C) Associate Professor Takuya Minokawa Assistant Professor Satoshi Takeda Assistant Professor Ayaki Nakamoto |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Asamushi | ||
| Keywords | Embryogenesis; Evolution; Morphogenesis; Ascidian; Sea urchin; Phoronid; Jellyfish; Flatworm; Sea snail; Crab; Tissue shaping; Germline development; Micromere; Gene regulatory network; Intertidal biology; Marine ecology; Symbiosis; Population ecology | ||
Eco-Socio Dynamics
| Ecosystem Functions | |||
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| Faculty |
Visiting Professor Toru Nakashizuka |
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| Campus | Humanity and Nature | ||
| Keywords | Environmental change, Biodiversity, Ecosystem servises | ||
Cooperative faculities
| Systems Bioinformatics | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Kengo Kinoshita |
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Undergrad education |
Engineering | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | Genome, Protein, Personalized medicine | ||
Molecular and Chemical Life Science
The aim of this major is to approach essential understanding of life phenomena by clarifying the mechanisms at work in living bodies ranging from low-molecular-weight compounds to highly polymerized compounds such as nucleic acids and proteins. This major proactively incorporates an interdisciplinary approach combining chemistry and biology. We conduct research and impart education aiming to develop a methodology to enable healthy control of life phenomena, using fundamental knowledge obtained at the molecular level.
Laboratories
Chemical Biology
| Analytical Biooganic Chemistry | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Hirokazu Arimoto Assistant Professor Kaori Itto |
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Undergrad education |
Agriculture | ||
| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | chemical biology, autophagy, synthetic organic chemistry | ||
| Biostructural Chemistry | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Makoto Sasaki |
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Undergrad education |
Agriculture | ||
| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Natural product synthesis, synthetic organic chemistry, structure-activity relationships, function analysis | ||
| Bioactive Molecules | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Yoshikazu Tanaka Visiting Professor Shinjiro Yamaguchi Assistant Professor Kiyoshi Mashiguchi |
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Undergrad education |
Agriculture | ||
| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Plant hormones, biologically active substances, plant physiology | ||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Kazumasa Ohashi Associate Professor Ken-ichi Yasumoto Assistant Professor Kazunari Yamashita |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Chemistry | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | Mechanobiology, Signal transduction, Cytoskeleton, Stress Response, Imaging | ||
| Applied Biological Molecular Science | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Yoshikazu Tanaka Associate Professor Tomohisa Ogawa Assistant Professor Takashi Matsui |
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Undergrad education |
Agriculture | ||
| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | protein, structure analysis, virulence factor, toxin, protein complex, food protein, biomineralization, natural organic compound synthesis enzyme | ||
Molecular and Network Genomics
| Microbial Genetics and Genomics | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Masataka Tsuda Associate Professor Yoshiyuki Otsubo |
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| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Environmental microbiology, genome microbiology, bioremediation of chemical pollutants | ||
| Microbial Symbiosis | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Kiwamu Minamisawa Associate Professor Hisayuki Mitsui Assistant Professor Masayuki Sugawara |
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| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Plant-microbe symbiosis science (root nodule bacteria, endophytes), agrobiotechnology | ||
| Plant Molecular Breeding | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Masao Watanabe Associate Professor Akira Kanno |
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| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Epigenetics, Pollen-stigma interaction, Genomics, Evolutionary developmental biology | ||
| Molecular Genetics and Physiology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Atsushi Higashitani Associate Professor Jun Hidema Associate Professor Shusei Sato Assistant Professor Mika Teranishi Assistant Professor Masanori Izumi Assistant Professor Yasukazu Daigaku |
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| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Bioengineering, Genetic diversity and Evolution, Plant-microbe interaction, Repair process, Signal transduction, Stress response | ||
| Evolutionary Genomics | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Takashi Makino |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Biology | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | Evolutionary genomics, Evolution of duplicated genes, Comparative genomics, Bioinformatics | ||
Multilevel Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
| Molecular Analysis of Biological Functions | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Satoshi Takahashi Assistant Professor Kiyoto Kamagata Assistant Professor Hiroyuki Oikawa |
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| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Protein dynamics, single molecule biology | ||
| Biofunctional Chemistry and Nanobiotechnology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Shin Mizukami Associate Professor Toshitaka Matsui Assistant Professor Toshiyuki Kowada |
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| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Chemical biology, Bioimaging, Photofunctional molecules | ||
| Structural Biology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Kenji Inaba Associate Professor Hiroshi Kadokura Assistant Professor Satoshi Watanabe |
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| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | Protein quality control, structural biology | ||
Microbial Evolution and Function Research
| Microbial Evolution and Function Research | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Yuji Nagata Lecturer Hirokazu Yano Assistant Professor Hiromi Kato Assistant Professor Yukari Sato |
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| Campus | Katahira | ||
| Keywords | bacteria, evolution, bioremediation | ||
Genome Informatics
| Omics and Imformatics | |||
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| Faculty |
Visiting Professor Daisuke Shibata Visiting Professor Takahiro Nagase Visiting Associate Professor Hideki Hirakawa |
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| Campus | Kazusa DNA | ||
| Keywords | Metabolome analysis, metabolomics, biotechnology, metagenome, gene function analysis, comparative genome analysis, all genome array determination, next-generation sequencer, bioinformatics | ||
Cooperative faculities
| Chemical biology of Natural Product | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Minoru Ueda |
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Undergrad education |
Science / Chemistry | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | Natural products chemistry, Chemical biology | ||
| Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Takayuki Doi |
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Undergrad education |
Pharmaceutical | ||
| Campus | Aobayama | ||
| Keywords | natural product synthesis, design and synthesis of bioactive molecules, molecular probe synthesis | ||
| Redox Biology | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Hozumi Motohashi |
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Undergrad education |
Medicine | ||
| Campus | Seiryo | ||
| Keywords | KEAP1-NRF2 system, transcriptional regulation, oxidative stress, mitochondria, sulfur metabolism, aging, inflammation, macrophage | ||
| Cellular Function | |||
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| Faculty |
Professor Keiko Nakayama |
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Undergrad education |
Medicine | ||
| Campus | Seiryo | ||
| Keywords | Cell cycle, Oncogenesis, Next generation sequencer, Genetically engineered mouse, Protein chemistry, Cell biology | ||