Department of Biofunctional Chemistry

The department’s research focuses on Agricultural Chemistry, which is interdisciplinary research field encompassing bioscience, biotechnology, and agrochemistry. The study of Agricultural Chemistry includes fundamental investigations on life phenomena of plants, animals, microorganisms, and the chemical structures and functions of their bio-products and also advanced fields for applying our discoveries in ways that improve human society. ◆To academic staff list ◆To Research areas web site Applied Natural Product Chemistry 【Academic staff】 Prof. KIYOTA Hiromasa Assoc. Prof. IZUMI Minoru 【keyword】Synthetic Organic Chemistry / Natural Product Chemistry / Glycoscience Chemistry of Bioactive Compounds 【Academic staff】 Prof. KANZAKI Hiroshi Prof. NITODA Teruhiko 【keyword】Search and Production of Useful Bioactive Compounds Using Cells or Enzymes / Search for Natural Bioactive Compounds Functional Glycobiochemistry 【Academic staff】 Prof. KIMURA Yoshinobu Assoc. Prof. MAEDA Megumi 【keyword】Functional Analysis and Application of Bioactive Glycoconjugates / Immunomodulatory Effects on Antigenic N-glycans of Plant Glycoproteins Applied Enzyme Chemistry 【Academic staff】 Assoc. Prof. MORIYA Hisao Assoc. Prof. NEMOTO Michiko 【keyword】Application of Microbial Enzymes for Biosensor and Diagnosis / Systems Biology of Eukaryotic Microorganisms / Understanding and application of microbial function Food Biochemistry 【Academic staff】 Prof. NAKAMURA Yoshimasa Asst. Prof. NAKAMURA Toshiyuki 【keyword】Food Chemical Biology (Biological and physiological functions of food phytochemicals) / Functional Mehcanism and Bioavailability of Food Factors Chemistry of Bio-signalling 【Academic staff】 Prof. MURATA Yoshiyuki Assoc. Prof. MUNEMASA Shintaro 【keyword】Elucidation of Mechanisms of Response and Tolerance to Environmental Stresses in Plants / Elucidation of Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Environmental Stress Responses in Plants Microbial Function 【Academic staff】 Prof. TAMURA Takashi Assoc. Prof. KANAO Tadayoshi 【keyword】Application of Microbial Enzymes for Bioenergy Development / Analysis of the mechanism for sulfur metabilism in acidophilic bacteria