Research

Current research topics

Elucidation of molecular mechanisms of lipid synthesis involved in infection and proliferation of pathogenic fungi that cause infectious diseases.

Identification of virulence factors of pathogenic fungi and elucidation of their function mechanisms.

Elucidation of the role of the circadian rhythm in human allergic diseases.

Investigation an efficient induction of immune tolerance in a food allergy model

Circadian dysregulation in an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) model

Circadian control in keratinocytes and its change upon fungus infection

Bacterial stimuli-caused circadian dysregulation in intestinal epithelial cells

Investigation of compounds that reset the circadian disrupted immune molecular rhythms

Identification of target proteins for novel antifungal drug by using genomic information

Functional analysis of exogeneous drug efflux pumps by using yeast protein expression system

Development of microbial fuel cells.

etc.