Biofrontier Sciences

Introduction

Education and research designed to give students interested in the biology of cold zone life forms a greater understanding of humanity’s relationship with the natural world and a means of leveraging bioproduction to improve quality of life through the integrated study of diverse life processes related to leading edge bioscience and biotechnology

Research Projects

• Developmental Control
• Cold-adaptation Biology
• Systems Thermobiology
• Molecular Genetics of Cellular Response and Signaling
• Virus Research of Temperate Fruit Crops
• Function of bioagents from entomoresource and insect biotechnology

Academic Staff

Name Position	Research field Keywords	Profile
HARASAWA， Ryo Professor	Veterinary microbiology mycoplasma, pestivirus, hemoplasma, anaplasma
ITO， Kikukatsu Professor	Biochemistry, Plant physiology, Bioenergetics thermogenic plants, mitochondria, futile cycle
SUZUKI， Koichi Professor	Insect physiology, Insect biotechnology entomoresource, diapause, bioagent, insect growth regulator
TSUTSUMI， Ken-ichi Professor	Molecular genetics, Cell biology cold tolerance, dormancy, cell proliferation, DNA replication, traditional medicine
UEMURA， Matsuo Professor	Plant molecular physiology, Cryobiology abiotic stress, cold adaptation, freezing injury, membrane biology
YOSHIKAWA， Nobuyuki Professor	Plant pathology, Plant virology plant virus, virus disease, fruit tree, apple
GORYO， Masanobu Associate professor	Veterinary pathology, Avian pathology domestic animal, infectious diseases, host-parasite relationship
ISOGAI， Masamichi Associate professor	Phytopathology, Plant virus blueberry viruses, black currant viruses, aronia viruses
KAWAMURA， Yukio Associate professor	Plant stress physiology, Cryobiology low temperature injury, low temperature tolerance
SAITOH， Yasushi Associate professor	Molecular biology, Cell biology cell proliferation, RNAi, junc DNA, chromatin, rice seed development
AN， Ying Lecture	Insect physiology, Insect biotechnology entomoresouce, diapause, immune system, morphology
RAHMAN， Abidur Assistant professor	Plant molecular physiology, Hormone biology auxin, ethylene, cell cytoskeleton, abiotic stress, protein trafficking