Greetings from the Graduate School of Biological Sciences at Tokyo Metropolitan University!

Life is a wonderfully tangled network of interactions. Inside the cells, molecules and proteins work together to keep them functioning. Neurons link together to form the brain that generates behavior. Cells assemble and cooperate with one another to build tissues and organs, growing single fertilized eggs into a complete organisms. Beyond the individuals, animals and plants shape each other's survival, microbes fill the planet's environments, and species change over evolutionary time. Biology is the study of how all these connections work together.

In our department, we explore these interactions at every scale. Our laboratories study how molecules support brain function, how cells communicate to maintain healthy tissue, and how the developmental program unfolds in the embryo. We also study how microorganisms acclimate to extreme environments, how animals and plants interact in nature, and how genes, genomes, and species evolve. We combine biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, field research,  mathematical and computational approaches, state-of-the art techniques, and a variety of model systems to study the operation, evolution, ecology, and development of life.

As a graduate student here, you will join one of our research groups and work on your own question, while learning to see how your topic connects to the wider network of life. Whether you are interested in molecules and cells, organisms and their behavior, or ecosystems and evolution, there's a place for you in one of our labs.  

Please explore our research laboratories and connect with us!

Get to know the Graduate School of Science at TMU

Introduction to our Research Laboratories