List of Supervisors and Research Fields
As of September 1, 2024
Master's Course

Transdisciplinary Life Science Course, Division of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsBioinformationand MolecularScienceProfessor

OSE Toyoyuki

Assistant Professor

INABA Satomi

Associate Professor

UEHARA Ryota

Assistant Professor

ISHIHARA Sumire

Associate Professor

NAKAOKA Shinji

Assistant Professor

YAMAGUCHI Ryo

Professor

MONDE Kenji

Associate Professor

TANIGUCHI Tohru

Specially Appointed
Associate Professor

YUYAMA Kohei

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, molecular biology,
cell culture, mouse model, transcriptome, mathematical modeling,
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, MedicinalChemistry, Organic Probe Synthesis, Deep Tissue Imaging, Extracellularvesicle
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/infchb/Biomaterials
ScienceAssistant Professor

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

Transdisciplinary Life Science Course, Division of Life Science
FieldsSupervisors

Research Topics

Professor

NAKAMURA Kiminori

Assistant Professor

YOKOI Yuki

Specially AppointedAssistant Professor

TAKEMI Shota

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

Functional andRegulatory LifeScience

BiomolecularAdaptation
Science(Inter-field
Cooperation withAIST)

Associate Professor

KITAMURA Akira

Professor

NISHIMURA Shin-Ichiro

Professor

HINOU Hiroshi

Assistant Professor

YOKOI Yasuhiro

Visiting Professor

KOMATSU Yasuo

Visiting Professor

KONDO Hidemasa

Visiting AssociateProfessor

HIRANO Yu

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

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

Antifreeze protein, Ice-binding function, Snow mold fungi, Geneexpression, 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/English/index.html

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List of Supervisors and Research Fields
As of September 1, 2024
Master's Course

Biosystems Science Course, Division of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsProfessor

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://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/keitai1/en/

Higher Order
Associate Professor
Cellular Functions

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://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/keitai1/en/

Associate Professor

WATAHIKI Masaaki

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

Professor
Assistant Professor

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

Associate Professor

ITO Hidetaka

Associate Professor

SATO Takeo

Assiatant Professor

TAKAGI JunpeiProfessor

CHIBA Yukako

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

FieldsProfessor

OGAWA Hiroto

Assistant Professor

FUKUTOMI Matasaburo

Professor

WADA Kazuhiro

Assistant Professor

TOJI Noriyuki

Professor

SOMA Masayo

Associate Professor

TAKEUCHI Yuichi

Associate Professor

TANAKA Nobuaki

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

NISHINO Hiroshi
Michael Schleyer

Research Topics
brain, neuroscience, electrophysiology, imaging, information processing,neural circuit, coding, sensorimotor integration, insect,elctric fish, electrosensory system, electric communication, corollarydischarge.
https://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~hogawa/English/
https://researchmap.jp/matalab?lang=envocal 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

Lecturer

TSUNEMATSU Tomomi

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, sensoryprocessing, 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

Dream, sleep, genetically engineered mice, electrophysiology, opticalimaging, optogenetics and programming.
https://www2.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/faculty/en/researcher/tomomitsunematsu

Biosystems Science Course, Division of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsResearch Topics

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

Professor

KATSU Yoshinao

Professor

KUROIWA Asato

Assistant Professor

MIZUSHIMA Shusei

Specially Appointed
Assistant Professor

YOSHIDA Ikuya

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

sex determination, sex chromosome, X chromosome inactivation,
fertilization, evolution, the spiny rat, chicken, quail, mousehttps://sites.google.com/site/kuroiwagroup/home

Reproductive andDevelopmental
Sciencestranscription, epigenetics, gene regulation, long noncoding RNA,
multifunctional genome, reproduction, testis, ovary, pituitary,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

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List of Supervisors and Research Fields
As of September 1, 2024
Master's Course

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science Course, Division of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsBiochemistry

RNA Biology

Immunology

Biomolecular Science

Natural Products
Chemistry

Fine Synthetic
Chemistry

Synthetic Natural
Products Chemistry

Professor

KIHARA Akio

Associate Professor

SASSA Takayuki

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

NAGANUMA Tatsuro
JOJIMA KeisukeProfessor

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

Professor

KUROKI Kimiko

Assistant Professor

KITA Shunsuke

Professor

WAKIMOTO Toshiyuki

Associate Professor

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

Professor

NAGATOMO Masanori

Associate Professor
Assistant Professor

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,
signal transduction
http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/eisei/

immunology, infectious disease, cell surface receptor, X-ray
crystallography, cryo electron microscopy,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, structure-activity relationship, molecular targets,biosynthesis, drug leads, bioprobes
http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/tennen/index.html

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

total synthesis, functional analysis, biologically active natural products,
synthetic chemistry, organic synthesis, organic chemistry, structureactivity relationship, ion channel, anticancer, antimicrobial, densely
WATANABE Mizuki
functionalized molecules, drug leads, computational chemistry, flow
reaction, radical reaction
SHIMAKAWA Tsukasa
https://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/tengo_105/home-en/Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science Course, Division of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsProfessor
Molecular Catalysis

Pharmacology

Molecular Design ofPharmaceutics(InnovativeNanomedicine)

Molecular Imaging

ClinicalPharmaceutics &Therapeutics

Molecular andCellular Medicine

URAGUCHI

Research Topics
Daisuke

Associate Professor

ASANO Keisuke

Assistant Professor

ZHAO Qiang

Professor

MINAMI Masabumi

Associate ProfessorAssociate Professor

AMANO Taiju
KIMURA Iku

Specially AppointedAssistant Professor

KATAGIRI ChiakiProfessor

YAMADA Yuma

Associate Professor

NAKAMURA Takashi

Assistant Professor

SATO Yusuke

Professor

HARASHIMA Hideyoshi

Specially AppointedAssistant Professor

Mahmoud Abu Bakr
Ahmed YOUNISProfessor

YAMADA Yuma

Associate Professor

NAKAMURA Takashi

Assistant Professor

SATO Yusuke

Professor

OGAWA Mikako

Associate Professor

IEDA Naoya

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

NAKAJIMA Kohei
HARADA Mei

Professor

KOBAYASHI Masaki

Lecturer

NARUMI Katsuya

Assistant Professor

OKAMOTO Keisuke

Professor

OHNISHI Shunsuke

Lecturer
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor

OKUBO Naoto
MAEHARA Osamu
TSUGE Atsushi

Molecular Catalysis, Organic Synthesis, Mechanistic Analysis

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

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/

Mesenchymal stem cells, Cell therapy, Regenerative medicine, Kampomedicine

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science Course, Division of Life Science
Supervisors

FieldsResearch Topics

Professor

SUGAWARA Mitsuru

Associate Professor

TAKEKUMA Yoh

Lecturer
Lecturer

KASHIWAGI Hitoshi
SATO Yuki

Assistant Professor

NASHIMOTO ShunsukeProfessor

ICHIKAWA Satoshi

Lecturer

KATSUYAMA Akira

Assistant Professor

YAMAMOTO Kazuki

Professor

MAENAKA Katsumi

Associate Professor

TARU Hidenori

Specially Appointed
Lecturer

NOMURA Takao

Assistant Professor

SUMI MasatoSpecially Appointed
Assistant Professor

Hisham DOKAINISH

Genome Biology

Associate Professor

OHTA Shinya

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

Microbial Oncology

Associate Professor

KAMIYA Naoko

Helicobacter pylori , cagA , gastric carcinogenesis

Pharmacokinetics

Center for Researchand Education on
Drug Discovery(Synthetic DrugDiscovery）

Center for Researchand Education on
Drug Discovery(Biologics and DrugDevelopment）

Molecular Cell Biology

AssociateProfessor
Assistant Professor

OKAZAKI Tomohiko
MORIMOTO Nao

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

organic 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, middle molecules, drug discovery, chemical library screening,
cryo electron microscopy, disease models, in silico screening, intractablediseasehttp://japanese-apricot.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/

Our research goal is to understand how cells integrate numerous external
and internal signals into meaningful biological outputs by focusing on (1)post-translational modifications and logistics of proteins, or (2) interorganelle communications. In addition, we are also studying (3) theinteractions 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 acomplex world. https://www.igm.hokudai.ac.jp/molcell/en/

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List of Supervisors and Research Fields
As of September 1, 2024
Master's Course

Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life ScienceSupervisors

FieldsProfessor

GONG Jian Ping

Associate Professor

NAKAJIMA Tasuku

Associate Professor

NONOYAMA Takayuki

Associate Professor

INDEI Tsutomu

Assistant Professor

LI Xueyu

ProfessorKUROKAWA Takayuki

Assisitant Professor

YASUI Tomoki

Professor

IJIRO Kuniharu

Associate Professor

MITOMO Hideyuki

Assistant Professor

YONAMINE Yusuke

Specially AppointedAssistant Professor

NAKAMURA Satoshi

Research Topics

Soft & wet matter, polymer gel, double network gel, gel more durable thanmetal, self-healing gel, self-growing gel, bonding gel, thermal tougheninggel, 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/

Soft Matter
Materials Science

Associate Professor

LI Xiang

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, moleculardynamics, light scattering, X-ray scattering, neutron scattering, Raman
spectroscopy, rheology, polymer synthesis, polymer physics
https://www.xiangli-lab.com/enDivision of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science
Supervisors

Fields

Associate Professor

KIKUKAWA Takashi

Assistant Professor

TSUKAMOTO Takashi

Professor

AIZAWA Tomoyasu

Assistant Professor

ARAI Tatsuya

Professor

HAGA Hisashi

Assistant Professor

ISHIHARA Seiichiro

Professor

NAKAGAKI Toshiyuki

Associate Professor

NISHIGAMI Yukinori

Assistant Professor

OHMURA Takuya

Research Topics

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

BiomolecularSoft Matter
protein science, structural biology, protein engineering, nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR), metabolome, biomarker research, gut microbiota,
biological defense, innate immunity, antimicrobial peptides, allergen,cytokines, microbiological control
https://altair.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/g5/english.php

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

Soft Matter
Biophysics

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
https://pel.es.hokudai.ac.jp/

Associate Professor

TSUDA Masumi

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

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/Soft Matter
Medical Science

Associate Professor

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