List of Faculty Members, Graduate School of Life Science(As of September 1, 2023)
Transdisciplinary Life Science Course, Division of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsBioinformationand Molecular
Science

Professor

OSE Toyoyuki

Associate Professor

UEHARA Ryota

Assistant Professor

ISHIHARA Sumire

Associate Professor

NAKAOKA Shinji

Assistant Professor

YAMAGUCHI Ryo

Professor

MONDE Kenji

Associate Professor

TANIGUCHI Tohru

Assistant Professor

SWAMY Mahadeva M. M.

Professor

TAMAOKI Nobuyuki

Assistant Professor

PADINHARE KAYAKALI
HashimAMMATHNADU
SUDHAKAR Amrutha

Research Topics

Protein, nucleic acid, enzyme, signal transduction, infection regulation,disease related factor, X-ray/neutron structural biology, cryo-EM, NMR,
quantum biology, protein crystallography, computer science, proteinscience, biophysics
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/g6new/

Cell division, ploidy, cytoskeleton, motor protein, self organization,
cancer, aging, liver disease, microscopic analysis, biochemistry, molecularbiology, cell culture, mouse model, transcriptome, mathematicalmodeling, compound screen
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/uehara_lab/

mathematical biology, systems biology, bioinformatics, microbial ecology,
precision medicine, multi-omics, mathematical modeling, machinelearning, big data analysis
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/infmcb/index-e.html

Chemical Biology, Chirality, Organic Synthesis, Inhibitors, Vibrational
Circular Dichroism, Helix, Lipid Mediator, Glycoconjugate, Medicinal
Chemistry, Organic Probe Synthesis, Deep Tissue Imaging
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/infchb/

Biomaterials
Science

Assistant Professor

Professor

NAKAMURA Kiminori

Assistant Professor

YOKOI Yuki

Specially Appointed
Assistant Professor

TAKEMI Shota

molecular machine, motor protein, photochromic compound, azobenzene,
liquid crystal, self-organization, inter-molecular interaction, organic
synthesis, nano bio-machine, single molecular measurement, chirality
http://tamaoki.es.hokudai.ac.jp/english/index.html

innate immunity, antimicrobial peptide, mucosal immunity, intestinal
epithelial cell, Paneth cell, alpha-defensin, stem cell, intestinal microbiota,
intestinal environment, inflammatory bowel disease, lifestyle diseases,
mental health, aging, cancer, allergy, food and medicine, preventive
medicine, therapeutics
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/infsig/english/

Functional
Cellular Science

Lecturer

KITAMURA Akira

Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Fluorescence Cross Correlation
Spectroscopy, single molecule detection, neurodegenerative disease, ALS,
glaucoma, molecular interaction, Live cell imaging, proteostasis, protein
aggregation, C. elegans
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/infmcd/English/top_eng.html

Transdisciplinary Life Science Course, Division of Life Science
FieldsFunctional andRegulatory Life
Science

Biomolecular
Adaptation
Science(Inter-field
Cooperation withAIST)

Frontier
Biomaterials
Science
Inter-Field
Cooperation with
National Institutefor Material
Science (NIMS)

Supervisors

Research Topics

Professor
Professor

NISHIMURA Shin-Ichiro
HINOU Hiroshi

Visiting Professor
Visiting Professor

KOMATSU Yasuo
KONDO Hidemasa

Visiting Associate
Professor

HIRANO Yu

Visiting Associate
Professor

YAMAZAKI Tomohiko

Chemical biology, Medicinal chemistry, Glycomedicine, Automatedglycosynthesis, Glycomics, Glycotyping, Glycobiology, Biomarker
discovery, Dynamic epitope, Glycopeptide, Antibody drug,
Glycoconjugates probe, Microarray, Mass Spectrometry
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/g4/index.html

Antifreeze protein, Ice-binding function, Snow mold fungi, Gene
expression, Protein crystallography, Biodiversity, Cell-preservation
peptide, 3D molecular structure, Gene detection, Nucleic acid drugs,
Functional DNA/RNA, Molecular detection, Cell-function evaluation,
Electrochemistry
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/g_renkei/top_e.html
https://unit.aist.go.jp/bpri/bpri-bimo/research1.html

Nanomedicine, nanobiotechnology, protein engineering, nucleic acidbased drug, adjuvant, DNA aptamer, biosensor, immune system,
nanoparticle, DNA delivery
https://life.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/en/tl/lab/frontier-biomaterials-science
https://www.nims.go.jp/eng/research/group/medical-softmatter/index.html
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Biosystems Science Course, Division of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsHigher Order
Cellular Functions

Professor

FUJITA Tomomichi

Assistant Professor

Marcel Pascal BeierResearch Topics
plant, evolutionary development, stem cell, cell polarity, cell cycle, cellproliferation and differentiation, environmental stress, mechanical stress,
abscisic acid, moss, space utilization science, terraforming,
Physcomitrium patens, Arabidopsis thaliana
https://keitai1.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/en.html/

Associate Professor

NARAMOTO Satoshi(1) Molecular mechanisms of polar auxin transport, (2) Evolutionary
process of polar auxin transport, (3) Roles of auxin in the morphologicaldiversification of land plants, (4) Adaptation to envirionmental stress, (5)Evolution of symbiosis and leaf morphology
https://keitai1.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/en.html/

Associate Professor

WATAHIKI Masaaki

auxin, feedback gene regulation, live imaging, plant morphogenesis
http://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/watahiki/mkwhp/index.html

Professor

NAKANO Ryohei Thomas

Assistant Professor

Tomohisa Shimasaki

Associate Professor

ITO Hidetaka

Associate Professor

SATO Takeo

Assiatant Professor

TAKAGI Junpei

Associate Professor

CHIBA Yukako

Plant and Microbial Molecular Ecology. Plant microbiota, plant-microbe
interactions, growth-defense tradeoff. Plant and microbial molecular
genetics, biochemistry, microbiota profiling, metagenomics, Arabidopsis
thaliana, mlti-omics, advanced bioinformatics.
https://rtnakanolab.com/

plants, epigenetics, transposon, environmental stress
https://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/Cellfunction_Structure3/

Environmental
Life Scienceenvironmental adaptation, ubiquitin signal, nutrient metabolism, signaltransduction, nutrient stress, plant immunity, proteomics
http://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/CSF2-web/enmRNA stability, stress response, arabidopsis
https://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~yukako/

Biosystems Science Course, Division of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsResearch Topics

brain, neuroscience, electrophysiology, imaging, information processing,neural circuit, coding, sensorimotor integration, insect
https://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~hogawa/English/

Professor

OGAWA Hiroto

Professor

WADA Kazuhiro

Assistant Professor

TOJI Noriyuki

Associate Professor

SOMA Masayo

Associate Professor

TAKEUCHI Yuichi

Associate Professor

TANAKA Nobuaki

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

NISHINO Hiroshi
Michael Schleyer

Lecturer

TSUNEMATSU Tomomi

Dream, sleep, genetically engineered mice, electrophysiology, opticalimaging, optogenetics and programming.
https://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/tsunematsu/

Professor

KATSU Yoshinao

endocrinology, steroid hormone, nuclear receptor, evolution, endocrine
disruptor
https://www.repdev-katsu.jp/index.html

Professor

KUROIWA Asato

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

YOSHIDA Ikuya
MIZUSHIMA Shusei

Associate Professor

KITADA Kazuhiro

model animals, human deaseases, genome modification, gene function,
mouse, rat
https://sites.google.com/site/kitadalab/

Associate Professor

KOTANI Tomoya

oocyte, embryonic development, maternal factor, real-time imaging,zebrafish, mouse

Professor

KIMURA Atsushi

Assistant Professor

FUJIMORI Chika

Associate Professor

OGIWARA Katsueki

vocal learning, critical period, epigenetics, neural activated gene,
songbird, neuroethology, genome, behaviour, DNA methylation,
stuttering （http://www.wada-lab.org/)

behavior, cognition, communication, bird song, learning, life history
http://www.lfsci.hokudai.ac.jp/search/system/soma.html

Behavior and
System Control

Reproductive andDevelopmental
Sciences

Laterality, Intraspecific polymorphism, Learning, Phenotypic plasticity,
Neural circuits, Development of behavior, Evolution, Gene expression
http://www.neuroecology-takeuchi.com/english.html

Drosophila melanogaster, insect, cephalopod, pygmy squid, sensory
processing, learning and memory, decision making, neurophysiology,
neuroanatomy, genetics, optogenetics, behavioral studies, pest control,
biomimetics, dopamine
https://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/grp/tanaka/lab/index.html
https://www.es.hokudai.ac.jp/labo/nishino/research_english.html
https://www.schleyerlab.com/

sex determination, sex chromosome, X chromosome inactivation,
fertilization, evolution, the spiny rat, chicken, quail, mousehttps://sites.google.com/site/kuroiwagroup/hometranscription, epigenetics, gene regulation, long noncoding RNA,
multifunctional genome, reproduction, spermatogenesis, protease
https://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~akimura/Molecular/Welcome.APK.html

ovary, ovulation, follicle selection, endocrine regulation, mouse, zebrafish,
medakahttps://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~kogi/Reproductive2/Welcome.html

List of Faculty Members, Graduate School of Life Science(As of September 1, 2023)
Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science Course, Division of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsBiochemistry

RNA Biology

Immunology

Biomolecular
ScienceNatural Products
Chemistry

Fine Synthetic
Chemistry

Synthetic andIndustrial
Chemistry

Professor

KIHARA Akio

Associate Professor

SASSA Takayuki

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

OHNO Yusuke
NAGANUMA Tatsuro

Professor

NAKAGAWA Shinichi

Lecturer

MAITA Hiroshi

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

YOKOI Saori
KURIHARA Misuzu

Professor

MATSUDA Tadashi

Associate Professor

MUROMOTO Ryuta

Assistant Professor

KITAI Yuichi

Professor

MAENAKA Katsumi

Associate Professor

KUROKI Kimiko

Assistant Professor

KITA Shunsuke

Professor

WAKIMOTO Toshiyuki

Lecturer

MATSUDA Kenichi

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

YOSHIMURA Aya
URIA Agustinus

Professor

SATO Yoshihiro

Associate Professor

OONISHI Yoshihiro

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

MORISAKI Kazuhiro
NAKAMURA Kento

Associate Professor

YOSHINO Tatsuhiko

Research Topics

lipid, barrier function, ceramide, metabolism
http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/seika/index.html

noncoding RNA, epigenetics, nuclear structures, RNA processing
https://sites.google.com/site/hokudairnabiologyj/homehost defense, immunity, inflammation, infection, cytokine, oncogenesis, signaltransduction
http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/eisei/

immunology, infectious disease, cell surface receptor, X-ray crystallography, protein
engineering, biologics, drug discovery, chemical library screening, in silico screening,
virology, microbiology
http://convallaria.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/bunshi/

bioactive natural products, isolation, structure elucidation, stereochemistry, structureactivity relationship, molecular targets, biosynthesis, drug leads, bioprobes
http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/tennen/index.html

organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry, transition-metal catalysis, asymmetriccatalysis, natural product synthesis, utilization of gaseous molecules, green chemistry
http://hokudaigouka.main.jp/

synthetic organic chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, bimetallic cooperative catalysis,
natural product synthesis, oligosaccharide synthesis based on new glycosidation method
http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/yakuzou/

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science Course, Division of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsOrganic Chemistry
for Drug
Development

Associate Professor

Professor
Molecular
Catalysis

Pharmacology

Molecular Designof Pharmaceutics(Innovative
Nanomedicine)

Molecular Imaging

ClinicalPharmaceutics &Therapeutics

Research Topics

WATANABE Mizuki

URAGUCHI

medicinal chemistry: drug design
http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/yuuki/index.html

Daisuke

Associate Professor

ASANO Keisuke

Assistant Professor

ZHAO Qiang

Professor

MINAMI Masabumi

Associate Professor
Associate Professor

AMANO Taiju
TAKEUCHI Yuichi

Specially Appointed
Assistant Professor
Specially Appointed
Assistant Professor

MICHELE Chan

Molecular Catalysis, Organic Synthesis, Mechanistic Analysis

neuropharmacology, electrophysiology, emotion, pain, addiction, BBB
http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/yakuri/index.html

KATAGIRI Chiaki

Professor

YAMADA Yuma

Associate Professor

NAKAMURA Takashi

Assistant Professor

SATO Yusuke

Professor

HARASHIMA Hideyoshi

Specially Appointed
Assistant Professor

Mahmoud Abu Bakr Ahmed
YOUNIS

Professor

YAMADA Yuma

Associate Professor

NAKAMURA Takashi

Assistant Professor

SATO Yusuke

Professor

OGAWA Mikako

Associate Professor

IEDA Naoya

Assistant Professor

NAKAJIMA Kohei

Professor

KOBAYASHI Masaki

Lecturer

NARUMI Katsuya

Assistant Professor

FURUGEN Ayako

drug delivery system, organelle-targeting, nanomedicine, gene delivery, siRNA delivery,
intracellular trafficking, imaging, vaccine, cancer therapy
http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/yakusetu/index.html

vascular-targeted drug delivery, nanomedicine, active targeting, tumor, liver, adipose
tissue, specific ligand
http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/mirai/

molecular imaging, imaging probe, PET, optical imaging, MRI
http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/bunseki/index.html

transporter, clinical research, cancer pharmacotherapy
http://rinshoyakuzaigaku.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science Course, Division of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsMolecular andCellular Medicine

Pharmacokinetics

Advanced
Prevention andResearch
Laboratory for
Dementia

Center for
Research and
Education on Drug
Discovery(Synthetic Drug
Discovery）

Professor

OHNISHI Shunsuke

Lecturer
Assistant Professor

OKUBO Naoto
MAEHARA Osamu

Professor

SUGAWARA Mitsuru

Associate Professor

TAKEKUMA Yoh

Lecturer
Lecturer

KASHIWAGI Hitoshi
SATO Yuki

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

NASHIMOTO Shunsuke
KATO Izumi

Associate Professor

TARU Hidenori

Visiting Associate
Professor

HATA Saori

Professor

ICHIKAWA Satoshi

Associate Professor

YAKUSHIJI Fumika

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

KATSUYAMA Akira
YAMAMOTO Kazuki

Professor

MAENAKA Katsumi

Center for
Research and
Education on Drug
Discovery(Biologics andDrug
Development）

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

SUMI Masato
Pablo GUILLEN

Specially Appointed
Assistant Professor

Hisham DOKAINISH

Genome Biology

Associate Professor

OHTA Shinya

Research Topics

Mesenchymal stem cells, Cell therapy, Regenerative medicine, Kampo medicine

pharmacokinetics, transporter, drug metabolism, pharmaceutics
https://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/lab_17.html

neuroscience, cell biology, genetics, synapse, protein trafficking, vesicular trafficking,neurodegenerative diseasesorganic synthesis, natural products, drug discovery, chemical library screening, in silico
screening, intractable disease, chemical biology
https://japanese-apricot.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/gouseiiyaku/index.php

biologics, drug discovery, chemical library screening, in silico screening, intractablediseasehttps://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/soyaku/

genome, chromatin, aging, cellular senescence, cancer, human, yeast model, genomics,
proteomics, microscopy, biochemistry
https://www.igm.hokudai.ac.jp/3dgenome/ja/index.html

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science Course, Division of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsMicrobial
Oncology

Molecular Cell
Biology

Associate Professor

Associate
Professor
Assistant Professor

KAMIYA Naoko

OKAZAKI Tomohiko
MORIMOTO Nao

Research Topics

Helicobacter pylori , cagA , gastric carcinogenesis

Our research goal is to understand how cells integrate numerous external and internalsignals into meaningful biological outputs by focusing on (1) post-translational
modifications and logistics of proteins, or (2) inter-organelle communications. In
addition, we are also studying (3) the interactions between immune and nervous systems
and (4) neuroethology using Drosophila. Through these studies, we wish to discover thesophisticated (crazy cool) systems of living organisms for surviving in a complex world.
https://www.igm.hokudai.ac.jp/molcell/en/

List of Faculty Members, Graduate School of Life Science(As of September 1, 2023)
Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsProfessor

GONG Jian Ping

Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor

NAKAJIMA Tasuku
NONOYAMA Takayuki
INDEI Tsutomu

Assistant Professor

LI Xueyu

Professor

KUROKAWA Takayuki

Professor

IJIRO Kuniharu

Associate Professor

MITOMO Hideyuki

Assistant Professor

YONAMINE Yusuke

Specially Appointed
Assistant Professor

NAKAMURA Satoshi

Soft Matter
Materials Science

Associate Professor

LI Xiang

Professor

DEMURA Makoto

Associate Professor

KIKUKAWA Takashi

Assistant Professor

TSUKAMOTO Takashi

Research Topics

Soft & wet matter, polymer gel, double network gel, gel more durable thanmetal, self-healing gel, self-growing gel, bonding gel, thermal toughening
gel, low friction gel, super lubricating gel, color changing gel, Sea glue gel,artificial cartilage, cell scaffold gel(1) https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/g2/index_e.html(2) https://life.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/fa/lab/soft-matter-collaborativeresearch-unit

Polymer gel, Double network gel, Friction of gel, Artificial cartilage, Cell
culture substrate, Soft composite material, Adsorption and adhesion,
Donnan potential
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/tsl/

Self-organization, self-assembly, functional device, biosensor, DNA,
protein, biomolecule, cell, molecular recognition, drug delivery system,
vaccine, gold nanoparticle, surface plasmon, stimuli- responsivity, capsule
https://chem.es.hokudai.ac.jp/en/

Polymer solution, polymer gel, rubber, nanostructure, molecular dynamics,
light scattering, X-ray scattering, neutron scattering, Raman spectroscopy,rheology, polymer synthesis, polymer physics
https://www.xiangli-lab.com/en

Photoactive proteins, photobiology, rhodopsin, optogenetics, laboratory
evolution, membrane protein, ion pump, membrane transport, transporter,
flash photolysis
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/infana/

BiomolecularSoft Matter

Professor

AIZAWA Tomoyasu

protein science, structural biology, protein engineering, NMR,
metabolome, biomarker research, biological defense, innate immunity,
antimicrobial peptides, allergen, cytokines, microbiological control
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/g5/

Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsProfessor

HAGA Hisashi

Assistant Professor

ISHIHARA Seiichiro

Professor

NAKAGAKI Toshiyuki

Associate Professor

SATO Katsuhiko

Assistant Professor

NISHIGAMI Yukinori

Soft Matter
Biophysics

Research Topics

Cell Mechanics, Collective Cell Behavior,3D Morphogenesis, Cancer
Invasion, Atomic Force Microscopy
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/g3/

ciliate, amoeba, slime mold, protozoa, nematode, live cell imaging,field work, evolutionary ecology, biomechanics, locomotion,
memory and learning, mathematical modeling, computer
simulation, nonlinear dynamics, active soft matter, BelousovZhabotinski reaction, pattern formation, scaling theory, network ofbiochemical reactions
http://pel.es.hokudai.ac.jp/index-en.html

TSUDA Masumi

biomaterial, cancer stem cell, molecular targeted therapy, regenerative
medicine, cartilage regeneration, neuroregeneration
http://patho2.med.hokudai.ac.jp

Lecturer

ONODERA Tomohiro

Orthopaedic Surgery, Joint Surgery, Regenerative Medicine,Musculoskeletal System, Animal Model, Scaffold, Cartilage, Bone,
Meniscus, Biomaterials, Soft Matter, Clinical Application, Translational
Research
http://www.hokudaiseikei.jp/

Visiting Professor

NAKANISHI Takashi

Visiting Associate
Professor

UEKI Takeshi

Associate Professor
Soft Matter
Medical Science

Functional Soft
MatterInter-Field
Cooperation with
National Institutefor Materials
Science (NIMS)

molecular liquid, ionic liquid, polymer gel, block copolymer, stimuliresponsive materials, optoelectronic function, self-assembly, dynamic
biomimetics, sensor, actuator
https://www.nims.go.jp/funct_mol_g/en/index.html

List of Faculty Members, Graduate School of Life Science(As of September 1, 2023)
Division of Clinical Pharmacy, Graduate School of Life Science
FieldsDepartment ofClinicalPharmaceutics

Department ofPharmacotherapy& Clinical
Informatics

Supervisors

Research Keywords (lower case)

Professor

KOBAYASHI Masaki

Lecturer

NARUMI Katsuyatransporter, clinical research【Laboratory of Clinical Pharmaceutics & Therapeutics】
http://rinshoyakuzaigaku.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/

Professor

OGAWA Mikako

molecular imaging, imaging probe, PET, optical imaging, MRI, Theranostics

Professor

SUGAWARA Mitsuru

Associate Professor

TAKEKUMA Yoh

Lecturer
Lecturer

KASHIWAGI Hitoshi
SATO Yuki

Professor

YAMADA Yuma

Professor

OHNISHI Shunsuke

Lecturer

OKUBO Naotopharmacokinetics, transporter, drug metabolism, pharmaceutics【Laboratory of Pharmacokinetics】
http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/lab_17.html

gene delivery, nanotechnology, liposome, vaccine, intracellular trafficking【Laboratory for Molecular Design of Pharmaceutics】
http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/yakusetu/index.html

Mesenchymal stem cells, Cell therapy, Regenerative medicine, Kampo medicine【Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Medicine】
https://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/byoutai/index.html