Faculty | School of Agriculture | Undergraduate Schools

ABO Mitsuru

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Analytical chemistry studies of environmental stressors and environmental stress responses.

ARAYA Hiroshi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Isolation of a variety of biologically active substances produced by living organisms, and elucidation of their structures and bioactivities.

ASANUMA Narito

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Analysis and fermentation control of the genetic regulatory mechanism of microbial metabolism.

FUJIE Takeshi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Economic Analysis of Agricultural and Resourse Issues.

FUJIWARA Shunrokuro

Title: Professor

Field: Farms

Research Themes: Recycling of biomass wastes. Composting of food wastes.

HAMAMOTO Makiko

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Analyses of novel bioactive substances by marine yeasts for health maintenance and improvement, and the novel functional genes of fission yeast.

HANDA Takashi

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Conservation and breeding of flower genetic resources. Evaluation and utilization of floral fragrance.

HARIGAYA Toshio

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Histological and molecular studies of prolactin gene expression mechanism and prolactin-producing cells in various tissues.

HASHIGUCHI Takuya

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Positioning and evaluation of the spreading process of agricultural policy in post-war Japan, particularly, developmental trends and economic background of the policy for less-favored area.

HATTORI Toshihiro

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Study of land use planning in urban shrinking area.

HAYASE Fumitaka

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Chemical analysis of Maillard reaction. Physiological effect of the products of Maillard reaction. Study of the aroma of meat when heated.

HIROMASA Yukio

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Study of economic / non-economic effects of agricultural policy -the analysis of regional and environmental issues-.

HIWATASHI Sayuri

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: English literature from the 17th century to the modern era.

HONJO Yasuhiro

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Regional revitalization by the collaboration between a university student and the local community.

ICHIDA Tomoko

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Sociological study of environment, local communities and resources.

IKEDA Takashi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Study of the response of horticultural crops to environment using such methods as environment control and control systems in nutriculture and water physiology.

IKEGAMI Akihide

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Study of agriculture and economic development in China.

IMAI Katsu

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Photosynthesis and dry matter production of crop plants. Global environmental change and crop production. Development of new crops.

ISHIZUKI Yoshinori

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Study of agriculture and agriculture-related industries in advanced countries.

ITO Yoshikazu

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Farms

Research Themes: Research on high-quality, high-yield production techniques for horticultural crops in greenhouses and plant factories, with the focus placed on plant cultivation and management techniques.

ITOYAMA Kyo

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Verification of survival strategies of insects using physiological and molecular biological methods. Development of new comprehensive pest control technology.

IWASAKI Naoto

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Analysis of productivity of fruit trees under global-scale environmental changes.

KAKU Hanae

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Study of mechanisms of MAMPs recognition and signaling transduction of plant immunity.

KANNO Hirotsugu

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Study of effective utilization of productive green areas in the suburbs of cities. Ongoing study of the urbanization of a farming community in Jinghong, Yunnan, China.

KANO Akihiko

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Biomechanical examination of aging changes in jumping movements.

KATO Yukio

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Molecular biology of pituitary organogenesis and hormone gene expression regulated by temporal and spatial network of transcription factors.

KATOH Masahiko

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Understanding behavior of element, such as nutrients and heavy metal or metalloid, in surface and subsurface soil in order to contribute to urban environment preservation and food production.

KAWABATA Hiroaki

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Study on molecular mechanism of nutrient absorption in the small intestine and on peptide excreted into urine from a metabolism and nutrition viewpoint.

KAWAGUCHI Maiko

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Studies on mechanisms responsible for effects of environmental factors in brain function of animals.

KAWAKAMI Naoto

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Molecular genetics of plant responses to environment.Regulation mechanism of seed dormancy and germination in response to temperature.

KAWAMURA Shiro

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Properties of nitrate reduction of soy rhizobium, particularly nitrate reductase, and antioxidative peptides.

KAWANO Natsuko

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Basic mechanisms of reproduction biology focusing on sperm function:capacitation/decapacitation, survival in females and membrane fusion with oocyte.

KITO Keiji

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Quantitative proteomics using mass spectrometry and budding yeast to reveal mechanisms for adaptation of cellular metabolism, response to various stresses, and ageing process.

KOJIMA Michihiko

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Study of the water utilization systems comprising torrent intakes and off-stream reservoirs. Environmental hydraulic design for steep slope channels.

KOKETSU Yuzo

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Risk factors for breeding disorders among pigs. Farm management and productivity. Reproductive capacity and productivity from the viewpoint of biostatistics.

KURAMOTO Noboru

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Biological research on the conservation of endangered species in Satoyama. Citizen science in urban ecosystem. Preservation of the landscape of the Izu Islands.

KUSHIRO Tetsuo

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Biosynthetic studies on plant and microbial natural products.

KUWATA Shigeru

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Plant improvement via genetic modification. Analysis of gene function of plant viruses.

LISA DAIANNE VOGT

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

MAEDA Michihisa

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Evolution of bacterial genomes. Elucidation of molecular mechanisms of adaptation to environmental changes. Development of environmentally-friendly technologies using bacterial systems.

MARUBASHI Wataru

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Genetic, cytological, and physiological elucidation of programmed cell death in the process of plant embryogenesis and reproduction.

MATSUSHITA Hiroyuki

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: A study of gender (cultural gender difference) representation in Japanese literature.

MCTAGGART, Iain

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Common Subjects across Departments

Research Themes: Agriculture in English. Study of greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient management in agri-environmental ecosystems.

MIZOGUCHI Yasushi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Exploration and functional analysis of genes related to animal's productive traits using genomic technology.

MOTOKI Satoru

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: We aim to clarify the physiological and ecological characteristics of different vegetables, and to develop stable production techniques and cropping type usable on actual vegetable farms.

MURAKAMI Shuichirou

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Isolation of microorganisms that produce useful enzymes. Development of repression systems for greenhouse gas emission from agricultural fields by microorganisms.

NAGASHIMA Hiroshi

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Basic research on the somatic cell cloning of the pig and production of genetically modified animals.

NAKABAYASHI Kazushige

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Study of the methods of nutriculture (hydroponic culture) and plant nutritional diagnosis.

NAKAJIMA Harushi

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Study of cell-surface protein of mold.

NAKAJIMA Shinsaku

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Agri-Food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Economic studies of food business, market design for farmland consolidation.

NAKAMURA Takahiro

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Understanding the physiological mechanism of biological clocks.

NAKAMURA Takashi

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Study of the structural changes of protein and starch in food. Analysis of the structure formation and rupture of multi-component food gel. Study of composite of food materials.

NOBORIO Kosuke

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Mass and energy transfer in the soil-crop-atmosphere continuum for seeking proper management practices to mitigate environmental loads.

ODAGIRI Tokumi

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Political-economic analysis of rural policy, the study of local governance.

OGURA Nobuo

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Integrated control of plant wilt diseases. Elucidation of the characteristics of biological control materials and the development of application technology of these materials.

OHGANE Jun

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Effective use of genomic functions in animals based on epigenetics.

OKA Michitaro

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Empirical study of the role of regional institutions in the economical use of common resources, and on the formation of institutions.

OKABE Katsumi

Title: Professor

Field: Farms

Research Themes: Research into methods for combining enclosed seedling production systems and nutriculture systems to produce delicious and highly nutritional vegetables with high efficiency.

OOE Tetsuo

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Distribution issues of food and agricultural and livestock products within and outside Japan.

OSADA Kurando

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Metaphysics and ethics in modern Western culture with a focus on Kant / modern life, medical ethics, and environmental ethics.

OSADA Kyoichi

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Study of food components that modulate lipid metabolism, safety of functional food components, and toxicity of oxidized lipids.

OSANAI Takashi

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Metabolic engineering, microalgae, primary metabolism

OSATO Shuichi

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Department of Agriculture

Research Themes: Verification of plant pathology using molecular biology.

OUCHI Masatoshi

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Sociological study of food and eating.

OZAKI Hiroshi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Mechanism of actions of liposome-releasing factors. Signaling mechanism by heat-stable enterotoxins. Settlement mechanism of rumen microbes.

OZAWA Kiyoshi

Title: Professor

Field: Farms

Research Themes: Development of technologies for controlling ground temperature and air temperature and raising crop yield, by changing the shape of the surface of the ground and covering the crops with thin cloths.

SAKURA Akio

Title: Professor

Field: Farms

Research Themes: Practical training on a farm. Cultivation of organic farming.

SAKUYAMA Takumi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Public choice analysis of Japan's agricultural trade policy and multilateral/regional/bilateral trade agreements. Political-economy of agricultural trade policy, including quantitative and qualitative analysis of free trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific-Partnership Agreement.

SASAKI Yasuko

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Studies of lactic acid bacteria involved in fermented food such as yoghurt, etc.

SHIMONAGA Yuki

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Study of religious poetry in the Old English period (up to the 11th century), history of English language, and philology.

SHIMOTANI Kazuyuki

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: English literature and criticism, especially theories of taste in 18th century Britain.

SUGIYAMA Tamizi

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Isolation, stucture determination and synthesis of bioactive nucleosides. Development of micro-analysis method about plant hormones using GC / MS

SUZUKI Hiromi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Molecular evolution, transcriptional regulation mechanism, relationship of protein structure, functions, and amino acid seguences.

TAGA Tsuneo

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Causal attributions of the wrestling-match outcomes.

TAKASE Tomoko

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: History of 18th century French drama. Culture in French-speaking countries. Education in the French language.

TAKEMOTO Tamotsu

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy

Research Themes: Empirical study of the utilization and management of regional resources and principles of the farm management.

TAKENAKA Asako

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Research Themes: Transport, metabolism and function of dietary vitamin E and proteins.

TAMAKI Masahiko

Title: Professor

Field: Farms

Research Themes: Practical realization of new crop cultivation methods that improve crop growth and quality. Development of a new agricultural form that can heal and be enjoyed by people, that is, "agriculture to show, agriculture to heal".

TAMIYA Masaharu

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: English and American literature (particularly literature in the American Renaissance and contemporary American literature). Shakespeare and culture.

TOMURA Hideaki

Title: Professor

Field: Department of Life Sciences

Research Themes: Elucidation of the signal transduction mechanisms of new biological regulatory systems via receptors of hormones and other physiologically active substances in animals.

TSUBOTA Kunio