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
Assist. Prof. Dr. Fumi FUKADA
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
Lectures: Environmental Stress Response Systems
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