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Hiroki ODA (Group Leader)
- Research Area Developmental biology, Cell biology, Evolutionary biology (Evo-Cell-Devo)
- Degree Ph.D.
I am interested in understanding the relationship between the evolution of cell systems and the diversification of animal body plans. To address this issue, I have focused my efforts on investigating the ancestral and derived states of cell-cell junction and the ancestral and derived mechanisms of body pattern formation taking advantages of the insect and spider arthropod models.
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Yasuko AKIYAMA-ODA (Researcher)
- Research Area Developmental biology
- Degree Ph.D.
I am interested in early embryogenesis of animals. Now, my study focuses on periodic stripe formation in the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum.
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Koh Nakagawa (Guest researcher)
- Research Area Molecular genetics
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Masayuki Niwa (Post-graduate student)
- Research Area
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Ren Negishi (Post-graduate student)
- Research Area Developmental Biology
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Jingxuan Liu (Post-graduate student)
- Research Area Cell biology
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Shoko MORI (Research Assistant)
- Research Area
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Akiko NODA (Research Assistant)
- Research Area