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What is your hot research topic?

To understand the mechanism of the bacterial flagellar motor and signal transduction of chemotaxis in E. coli.

Have you had any breakthroughs or significant research progress in the last 5 years?

What kind of background do your lab members have？

Most of the graduate students are from the School of Engineering Science. Others are from outside the university.

Do you collaborate with other institutions and universities?

We are in collaboration with Sandy Parkinson’s Lab at the University of Utah regarding chemotaxis. We are also collaborating with researchers at Oxford University.

What kind of careers do your Lab's alumni go on to?

Academia researchers, pharmaceutical company researchers, venture company entrepreneurs, and others.

How do you develop your research?

Although Escherichia coli is a bacterium, it has all the molecules and functions necessary to maintain a living system. Many of the proteins related to chemotaxis and motor functions have been identified in E. coli. Therefore, we use E. coli cells to reveal how, when, how many of, and with which other molecules these proteins function in a single cell.