Purpose

Students explore the mutual dynamics between living organisms and the environment, systems of biodiversity, and the uniformity of adaptation in these systems. To understand the overall structure of the biosphere as a cyclical symbiotic system, students identify the diverse and commonly shared life principles that govern everything from the molecular and cellular level up to individual beings and the interactions between them, and examine the diversity that exists in the activities of higher-order life forms. To more vigorously promote progress in the field of bioscience, we will form a group of specialized researchers by creating organic linkages in the frontier fields of academia, such as genome research, molecular histology in the post-genome era, proteomics, glycomics, chemical biology, biochemo-informatics, and biomics, which integrates engineering and bioscience. Our specific goals are to conduct research on higher-order systems at the molecular level?for example, the mechanisms of the spatial and temporal expression of the structure and functions of biomolecular aggregates, intermolecular interaction, and signal transmission and intercellular interaction?and to examine the structural principles of the molecular aggregates that govern life, as well as the operational principles of the molecular devices responsible for them.

This section will not only disseminate these new principles to the rest of the world, but will also serve as a center of international bioscience in which applied developmental research projects on health, drug creation, safety, and high-performance foods can be conducted using the wealth of biotech resources in Shizuoka Prefecture. It will also contribute towards the development of local bioindustries and disseminate important research findings to scholars all over the world.

Faculty Members(2021)

NamePositionDepartmentCampus
Koichiro AwaiProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Takashi UshimaruProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Toshiyuki OhnishiProfessorShizuoka
Tatsuya KatoProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Hirokazu KawagishiProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Yoko KimuraProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Masakazu SuzukiProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Yuichi TakikawaProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Hirobumi TakenouchiProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Toshinobu TokumotoProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Yasushi TodorokiProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Motonori TomitaProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Enoch Y. ParkProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Masakazu HaraProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Hirofumi HiraiProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Reiko MotohashiProfessorShizuoka
Tatsuya MoritaProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Masahito YamazakiProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Ayumu YamamotoProfessorBioscienceShizuoka
Takanori OyoshiAssociate Prof.BioscienceShizuoka
Reiko OkadaAssociate Prof.Shizuoka
Akiko KozakiAssociate Prof.BioscienceShizuoka
Shinya KodaniAssociate Prof.BioscienceShizuoka
Kazutoshi SayamaAssociate Prof.BioscienceShizuoka
Jae-Hoon ChoiAssociate Prof.BioscienceShizuoka
Hisae HirataAssociate Prof.BioscienceShizuoka
Saori MiyazakiAssociate Prof.BioscienceShizuoka
Takeomi MurataAssociate Prof.BioscienceShizuoka
Akira YukitaAssociate Prof.Shizuoka
Yosuke TashiroLecturerBioscienceHamamatsu
Takatsugu MiyazakiAssistant Prof.BioscienceShizuoka

Faculty Members Attached to the Section

Toshiyuki Ohnishi  Professor / Shizuoka

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Research Area

Organic Chemistry of Natural Products, Plant Chemistry

Research Detail

Research on Plant specialized metabolism

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Reiko Motohashi  Professor / Shizuoka

Research Area

Plant Molecular Biology, Plastid Differentiation

Research Detail

To better understand the mechanism of plastid differentiation, we are analyzing functions of plastid protein genes using Arabidopsis tag lines and tomato mutants.

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Reiko Okada  Associate Professor / Shizuoka

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Research Area

Animal Physiology, Biochemistry

Research Detail

I have been studying about effects of developmental and environmental changes on regulatory mechanisms of vertebrates.

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Akira Yukita  Associate Professor / Shizuoka

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Research Area

Molecular biology, Histology, Cell biology, Developmental biology

Research Detail

Molecular mechanism and evolutionary transition of bone formation and remodeling

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