Faculty and Researchers
Biology and Life Sciences
Zoology
An introduction to faculty staff members and laboratories in the Zoology.
Note: Information on the laboratories is current as of the 2023 academic year. There may be changes to this information in the 2024 academic year.
KAGAWA Nao
- Position
- Professor
- Laboratory
- Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics
Fish Physiology, Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
What controls the wide range of behaviors we see in animals? Focusing on the genes that develop in the brain, the center of behavior, fish are used to conduct research into the mechanisms that control behavior.
MORIYAMA Ryutaro
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Laboratory
- Laboratory of Environmental Physiology
Reproductive Biology, Physiology, Neuroendocrinology
Organisms have adopted characteristics suitable to their habitat so that they can survive individually and so that their species can carry on. Research is conducted into the mechanisms of how factors such as changes in nutritional conditions and internal and external stress control reproductive functions.