Division of Biological Science and Technology

						As of 2025/10/30
Course	Research Field	M	D	Name	Title	Research subject keywords
Course in Biological Sciences	Plant Developmental Biology	2	2	ITO, Masaki	3	Cell division, Cell cycle, Gene expression, Growth regulation
		2	0	KOFUJI, Rumiko	1	Land Plants, Phylogeny, Evolution, Morphogenesis, Bryophytes
	Ecology and Conservation	2	2	OHKAWARA, Kyohsuke	2	Behaviour, Evolution, Sociality, Interaction, Ant, Bird
		2	2	TUNO, Nobuko	2	Interactions between Fungi and Animal, Vector ecology, Tropics, Malaria
		2	2	NISIKAWA, Usio	2	Conservation biology, Aquatic ecology, Invasion ecology, Agricultural ecology
	Plant Physiology and Biochemistry	2	2	SAKAMOTO, Toshio	2	Stress physiology, Photosynthesis
	Functional Biochemistry	2	2	TAOKA, Azuma	3	Molecular microbiology, Prokaryotic organelle, Bacterial cytoskeleton, Magnetotactic bacteria
		2	2	KONNO, Hiroki	2	Biochemistry, Single molecule imaging
		2	2	NAKAYAMA, Takahiro	2	Protein Science, Single-molecule observation, High-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM)
		2	1	KANEMORI, Masaaki	2	Stress response, Molecular chaperone, ATP-dependent protease
	Insect Molecular Biology	2	2	KIYA, Taketoshi	2	Silkworm insect pheromone
		2	0	KIYA, Seika	1	Insect, C. elegans, behavior, neurla plasticity
	Differentiation and Developmental Biology	2	2	KAMEI, Hiroyasu	2	Fish, Embryo, Hypoxia, Growth retardation, Catch-up growth, Neural crest cells
		2	2	KOBAYASHI, Isao	2	Hematopoietic stem cell, Zebrafish, Stem cell niche, Cell adhesion molecule
	Aquaculture Science	2	2	TAKEUCHI, Yutaka	3	Aquaculture, Aquatic reproductive biotechnology, Germ cells
		2	2	MATSUBARA, Hajime	3	Seed production technology, Aquatic reproductive biology
	Environmental Physiology	2	2	SUZUKI, Nobuo	3	Calcium metabolism, Bone metabolism, Gravity response, Environmental pollutant
		2	2	SEKIGUCHI, Toshio	2	Comparative endocrinology, Marine invertebrate physiology
		2	2	KITANI, Yoichiro	2	Fish body surface, Innate immunity, Antimicrobial substances, Stress response
		2	0	HONDA, Masato	1	Environmental pollutant, Biomonitoring, Environmental toxicity
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	2	2	WONG, Richard W.	3	Nucleoporin, NPC, Cell cycle, Mitotic spindles, Kinesin, Nuclear pore
		2	2	HAZAWA, Masaharu	2	Nucleo pore complex, Genomics, Epithelial biology
	Cancer Biology	2	2	HIRAO, Atsushi	3	Stem cell, Self-renewal hematopoietic stem cell
		2	2	OSHIMA, Masanobu(**)	3	Inflammation and cancer, Genetics, Mouse model
		2	2	OKAMOTO, Kazuo	3	Immunity, Bone metabolism, Cancer, Bone metastasis, Autoimmune disease
		2	2	GOTO, Noriko(*)	3	Growth factor, Receptor, Stem cells, Tumor
		2	2	JOHMURA, Yoshikazu	3	Cellular senescence, Cell cycle, Aging, Healthy lifespan
		1	1	SUZUKI, Takeshi	3	Tumor virus, Oncogene, Genome informatics
		1	1	TAKAHASHI, Chiaki	3	Molecular oncology, Molecular biology, Cancer genetics
		2	2	HIRATA, Eishu	3	Brain tumor, Astrocyte, Microglia, Migraine
	Human Physiology	0	2	MASUDA, Kazumi	3	Mitochondoria, Free radical, Oxidative phosphorylation, Redox, Skeletal muscle physilogy
		0	1	SHIBAGUCHI, Tsubasa	2	Skeletal muscle, Mitochondria, miRNA, Epigenetics
	Tumor Cell Biology	0	2	TAKINO, Takahisa	3	Cell invasion, Extracellular matrix, MMP
Course in Bioengineering	Biochemical Engineering	2	2	NINOMIYA, Kazuaki	3	Drug delivery, Tissue engineering, Water treatment, Biomass refinery
		2	2	TSUGE, Yota	2	Applied microbiology, Metabolic engineering, Microbial metabolism
	Bio-Sustainable Chemistry	2	2	KURODA, Kosuke	2	Bioethanol, Green chemistry, Ionic liquid, Cell, Microorganism
	Chemical Reaction Engineering	2	2	TAKAHASHI, Kenji(**)	3	Biorefinely、Chemical Reaction Engineering
		2	2	WADA, Naoki	1	Bioplastics, Biodegradable plastics, Sustainable chemistry
	Genome informatics	2	2	YAMADA, Yoichi	2	Molecular biology, Bioinformatics
	Bioinformatics	2	2	SATOU, Kenji	3	Analysis of biological data
	Biofunctional engineering	2	2	KAKIKAWA, Makiko	2	Biological function, Applied magnetics, Environmental microbiology
	Statistics and Machine Learning	2	2	HIROSE, Osamu	2	Bioimage informatics, Object tracking, Particle filter, State space model, Markov random field
	Functional Molecules in Plants	2	2	NISHIUCHI, Takumi	2	Plant immunity, New Plant Breeding Techniques, Paleoproteomics
		2)principal supervisor			3)Professor
		1)superviosr			2)Associate Professor
		0)cannot be a supervisor			1)Assistant Professor
				***) will retire on 2026.3.31
				**) will retire on 2027.3.31
				*) will retire on 2028.3.31