Biochemistry

The course covers various aspects of biosynthesis and bioenergetics.  The course provides students with important information relevant to understanding the living cell as a chemical reactor, focusing on the chemistry of biosynthesis and bioenergetics underpinning this. The chemistry of key metabolic functions including energy-generating processes such as glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, respiration, photosynthesis as well as aspects regarding control of metabolic flux in the cell are looked at in detail. The course includes a detailed look at information flow and molecular machinery of the cell.

A research project that assigns students to expert professors in their proposed research topic. The course takes the students' research capabilities to a more professional level. This can be most closely compared to what is called a supervised research project in the USA.

This course studies the fundamentals and recent progress in the research fields of molecular biology, cell biology, and physiology with plants, animals, and microbes as well as chemistry of biologically active natural products. More than ten Professors and Associate Professors will give lectures weekly to introduce their specific research fields.

The goal of this class is to obtain the background knowledge concerning life science for agricultural and industrial applications as well as the basic principles of biochemistry and biotechnology.

This course emphasizes hands-on laboratory experience and teaches students research background, relevant theories, and basic laboratory techniques relevant to their field of study. Students formulate a research plan, implement it by conducting experiment-based research, and convey the results in scholarly presentations. Students submit a written research report at the end of the course.

The Individual Research Training Senior (IRT Senior) Course is an advanced course of the Individual Research Training B (IRT B) course in the Tohoku University Junior Year Program in English (JYPE) in the spring semester. Though short-term international exchange students are not degree candidates at Tohoku University, a similar experience is offered by special arrangement. Students are required to submit: an abstract concerning the results of their IRT Senior project, a paper (A4, 20-30 pages) on their research at the end of the exchange term, and an oral presentation on the results of their IRT Senior project near the end of the　term.

This course provides an introduction to fundamental bioinformatics. Topics include biological databases, sequence alignment (pairwise and multiple), phylogeny, genomics, next generation sequencing, expression analysis, RNA-seq, RNA structure, and systems biology. 

This course provides an overview of the main aspects of biochemistry by relating molecular interactions to their effects on the organism as a whole. Topics include metabolism, glycolysis and gluconeogenesis, the citric acid cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, the light reactions of photosynthesis, the Calvin cycle and the pentose phosphate pathway, glycogen metabolism, fatty acid metabolism, protein turnover and amino acid catabolism, biosynthesis of amino acids, nucleotide biosynthesis, the biosynthesis of membrane lipids and steroids, and integration of metabolism.

Students research a self-chosen topic and develop an extended research essay under the direct tutelage of an appointed mentor. Students engage in conversation with teachers who are experts in the subject being studied. These tutorials allow students to develop their own ideas under the direct supervision of a tutor.