Bio-Functional Design Project

This Bio-Functional Design Project aims to understand the design of living organisms constitutively, and is not restricted to any particular organism, but rather conducts research on a phenomenon-based basis. For this reason, we study not only major model organisms such as bacteria and rats, but also organisms that have not been studied very much in the past, such as slime molds, ants, and spiders. Our research approach combines both experimental and computational (wet and dry) methods. Specifically, we combine experimental processing such as field sampling, culturing, nucleic acid extraction, and genome engineering with informatics processing such as a simulation, genome analysis, sequence analysis, and image analysis.

Project HP URL：https://www.nkono.org/
Publication

1. Front Ecol Evol, 10: 915517.(2022)
2. Biol Open. 11(3).(2022)
3. Zoological Lett. 7(1):11.(2021)
4. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 118(31).(2021)
5. Open Biol. 11(12):210242.(2021)
6. Scientific Reports 10(1):15721.(2020)
7. Communications Biology 2:148.(2019)
8. Develop Growth Differ. 61(5):316-326.(2019)
9. Scientific Reports 10;9(1):8380.(2019)
10. Bio-protocol 9(15): e3329.(2019)

Nobuaki Kono
Associate Professor

Hironori IWAI　
IAB Staff

Natsuki Osaka
Staff