Research Laboratories

MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE (Kanae Ando, Taro Saito, Akiko Asada)

How does the brain work?
How to protect the brain health as you age?

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY (Kimiko Fukuda, Naohito Takatori)

CELLULAR GENETICS (Takaomi Sakai, Satomi Takeo, Tsunaki Asano)

How is animal behavior controlled by the brain?

MOLECULAR GENETICS (Jun-ichi Kato, Shigeki Ehira)

PLANT DEVELOPMENT AND PHYSIOLOGY (Takashi Okamoto, Toshiko Furukawa, Atsuko Kinoshita)

How do plant fertilization and early development proceed?
What are the barriers to interspecific hybridization, and how to overcome them?

CELL BIOLOGY and BIOCHEMISTRY (Hiroyuki Kawahara, Naoto Yokota)

私たちが生きる仕組みとは？タンパク質の分解から理解する！

EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS (Koichiro Tamura, Aya Takahashi, Masafumi Nozawa)

Our goal is to understand the mechanisms of evolution at the level of genes and genomes.

NEUROBIOLOGY (Adam Z. Weitemier)

私たちは脳がどのように行動を制御しているか

PLANT ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSES (Takashi Kanegae, Rei Narikawa)

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY (Shin Haruta)

ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Ecology and evolution of social behavior, sexual traits and phenotypic plasticity.

PLANT ECOLOGY (Jun-ichiro Suzuki, Yuya Tachiki)

Taxonomy team of SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY LABORATORY (Katsuyuki Eguchi, Takahiro Yoshida)

Systems behavior lab of SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY LABORATORY (Adam L. Cronin, Isaac Planas-Sitjà)

SYSTEMATIC BOTANY (Noriaki Murakami, Yoko Kakugawa, Hidetoshi Kato)