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Biology and Bioscience

Outline of Chair

The goal of our Ph.D. program is to provide research opportunities to learn how to explore unknown or unsolved questions behind diverse structure and function of organisms living in nature. To achieve
the goal,we investigate evolutionary facts and causalities with students who develop academic philosophy and skills of multidisciplinary approaches in evolutionary biology as the universal basis of biological
sciences. In parallel, our educational programs provide research opportunities for studies on conservation of biodiversity and environment and on breeding of safe and functional food resources by means of
advanced biotechnology.

Research Fields

This chair consists of the two fields of: Evolutionary Biology, which researches plants, fungi, fish and other topics; and Breeding of Food Resources, which researches genetics, breeding and related functions of mammals, birds, farmed and wild plants, mushrooms and other topics.

Teaching and Research Faculty

Hiroyoshi Kubo   Professor   Evolutionary Biology

Physiology, development and genetics in plants

Yasuo Itoh   Associate Professor   Evolutionary Biology

Molecular mechanisms of fungal genetic transformation

Naoki Shibata   Associate Professor   Evolutionary Biology

Mechanisms of sex determination and sex differentiation are studied using medaka as a model organism.In particular,differences among strains and those among closely related species are focused

Takahiro Asami   Professor   Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary biology of left-right asymmetry and reproductive isolation

Keisuke Takada   Associate Professor   Evolutionary Biology

Molecular phylogeny and ecology in freshwater fishes

Ko-ichi Hamano   Professor   Breeding of Food Resources

Researches in sperm physiology and fertilization of farm animals

Yuji Takagi   Associate Professor   Breeding of Food Resources

Elucidation of the physiological mechanism controlling reproduction and development in mammals

Shunsuke Suzuki   Assistant Professor   Breeding of Food Resources

Evolution of gene regulatory mechanism in mammals

Mineo Minami   Professor   Breeding of Food Resources

Genetics and breeding of functional food plants

Ken-ichi Matsushima   Associate Professor   Breeding of Food Resources

Genetics and breeding of functinal vegetable and spice

Tamao Ono   Professor   Breeding of Food Resources

Introduction and expression of foreign genes and germ cells in bird

Kiyoshi Banno   Professor   Breeding of Food Resources

Cell breeding and control of differentiation in fruit trees

Mitsukimi Sugimoto   Associate Professor   Breeding of Food Resources

Researches of the psychological and physiological effect of horticultural therapy and horticultural activities

Masaki Fukuda   Professor   Breeding of Food Resources

Breeding of functional mushrooms

Akiyoshi Yamada   Associate Professor   Breeding of Food Resources

Mycology, ecophysiology of mycorrhizal symbiosis

Hiroshi Kagami   Professor   Breeding of Food Resources

Establishment of avian ES cells and the genetic regulation in differentiation

Takeshi Shimosato   Associate Professor   Breeding of Food Resources

Molecular biotechnology of functional bacteria and bacterial components

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