Lab. list
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Syllabus of each Lecture is here.
Atmospheric Stress Unit
Plant Light Acclimation Research Group
Prof. Dr. Wataru SAKAMOTO
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ryo MATSUSHIMA
Lectures: Model Plant Genetics and Breeding, Plant Physiology and Genetics
Keywords: Photosynthesis; Organelle structure and development; Chloroplast; Light
Group of Environmental Response Systems
Prof. Dr. Takashi HIRAYAMA
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Izumi MORI
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yoko IKEDA
Lectures: Environmental Stress Response Systems, Advanced Signaling Mechanisms, Plant Molecular Cell Physiology
Keywords: Environment; Stress response; Phytohormones; Signal transduction
Group of Functional Biomolecular Discovery
Assoc.Prof. Dr. Manabu SUGIMOTO
Assist. Prof. Dr. Kazuhide RIKIISHI
Lectures: Model Plant Genetics and Breeding, Physiology of Environmental Responses, Plant Genome Regulation, Molecular Biology in Environmental Adaptation, Plant Cellular Biochemistry, Plant Cytomolecular Biochemistry, Advanced Biomacromolecular Science
Keywords: Rice; Wheat; Transposon mutagenesis; Crop; Mineral stress
Soil Stress Unit
Group of Plant Stress Physiology
Prof. Dr. Jian Feng Ma
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Naoki YAMAJI
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Namiki MITANI
Assist. Prof. Dr. Kengo YOKOSHO
Lectures: Plant Stress Physiology, Plant Stress Physiology, Plant Stress Molecular Biology
Keywords: Mineral stress; Nutrition; Transport; Crop
Group of Plant Molecular Physiology
Professor Dr. Maki KATSUHARA
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Takayuki SASAKI
Assist. Prof. Dr. Shigeko UTSUGI
Lectures: Physiology of Environmental Responses, Plant Physiology and Function
Keywords: Aquaporins; Salt stress; Water transport; Aluminum stress; Malate transporter; Acidic soil
Biotic Stress Unit
Group of Plant-Microbe Interactions
Prof. Dr. Nobuhiro SUZUKI
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hideki KONDO
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kiwamu HYODO
Lecture: Plant-Microbe/Insect Interactions, Advanced Molecular Virology, Applied Plant Virology, Applied Plant-Environmental Microbiology
Keywords: Virus; Biological control; Fungal pathogens; Methylobacterium; Virus evolution and systematics
Group of Plant-Insect Interactions
Prof. Dr. Ivan GALIS
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tomonori SHINYA
Lectures: Plant Genetics and Biotic Stress Science, Topics in Plant-Insect Interactions
Keywords: Plant defense mechanisms; Direct and indirect defense; Insect herbivores
Group of Plant Environmental Microbiology
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akio TANI
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shoko UEKI
Lecture: Plant-Microbe/Insect Interactions, Advanced Molecular Virology, Applied Plant Virology, Applied Plant-Environmental Microbiology
Keywords: Virus; Biological control; Fungal pathogens; Methylobacterium; Virus evolution and systematics
Plant Immune Design Group
Prof. Dr. Yoji KAWANO
Lecture: Plant-Pathogen Interactions
Keywords: Rice, Signaling, plant immunity
Genetic resources unit
Group of Genome Diversity
Prof. Dr. Kazuhiro SATO
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daisuke SAISHO
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hiroshi HISANO
Lecture: Plant Diversity Genetics, Diversity Analysis of Plant Genomes
Keywords: Barley; Database; Genome diversity; World barley seed collection
Group of Wild Plant Science
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hajime IKEDA
Assist. Prof. Dr. Jun YAMASHITA
Keywords: Wild plant; Database; Evolution; Adaptation; Resources
Applied genomics unit
Group of Genetic Resources and Functions
Prof. Dr. Shin TAKETA
Lecture: Plant Genome Research, Functional Analyses of Plant Genetic Resources
Keywords: Morphogenesis; Domestication; Barley; Crop
Group of Integrated Genomic Breeding
Prof. Dr. Toshio YAMAMOTO
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kiyotaka NAGAKI
Assist. Prof. Dr. Tomoyuki FURUTA
Lectures: Analytical Molecular Cytogenetics
Keywords: Centromere; Artificial chromosome; Nucleus; Chromatin
RECTOR program
RECTOR program
Prof. Dr. Michael Hippler
Assist. Prof. Dr. Shin-Ichiro Ozawa