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Faculty of Environmental and Symbiotic Sciences
Members

■Division of Ecology and Environmental Resources

1. Current research
2. Courses taught

■Division of Human Habitat

■Division of Food and Health Environment

Division of Ecology and Environmental Resources

Professor OHWADA Kouichi	Ecological and Environmental Studies of Coastal Waters and Tidal Flats Biological and non-Biological Marine Resources; Aquaculture

Professor KOGA Minoru	Development and Application of Analytical Technology for Trace Hazardous Pollutants in Environment Fundamental Chemistry; Laboratory Practice for Environmental and Analytical Chemistry

Professor SHINOHARA Ryota	Behavior of Chemical Substances in Water Environment Environmental Hygiene; Water Environment Management

Professor TSUTSUMI Hiroaki	Environmental Assessment of Enclosed Coastal Seas Biosphere and Environment; Marine Ecology

Professor FUKATSU Kazuhiko	Degradation of Polymers by Active Species Chemical Technology in Daily Life; Environmental Polymeric Materials

Professor MATSUZOE Naotaka	Influence of Light on the Coloring of Plants Human Society and Plant Production; Environment and Natural Resources

Associate Professor INOUE Akio	Forest Ecology and Management Forest Ecology, Forest Environmental Assessment

Associate Professor ZHANG Daizhou	Atmospheric Aerosols, Air Pollutants, Transport and Dispersion Physics I, PhysicsII; Earth Environment; Atmospheric Environment

Associate Professor MELTON Jay	E-Learning; Educational Technology; Writing; Networked-Based Language Teaching; English Basic English I; Basic English II; Basic English III; Basic English IV; Modern English III; Modern English IV; Writing for Graduate Students

Associate Professor LAVIN Richard Steven	Psycholinguistic models of the lexicon; Relationship between reading, writing and the lexicon Basic English 1, 2, 3 & 4; English VII & VIII; Environmental Studies Seminar I (reading)

Division of Human Habitat

Professor OOKA Toshiaki	Principles of Urban Independent Residences Comparative Study on Residential Culture; Residential Planning

Professor KITAHARA Akio	Earthquake-resisting Capacity of Timber Structures, Mitigation of Urban Earthquake Disaster Timber Construction, Building Structure and Construction Systems

Professor NAKAJIMA Kihachiro	Sustainable Utilization of the Stock that Human Habitat in Rural and Moutainous Area Retains Regional Planning; Rural and Mountainous Areas Planning

Professor MURAKAMI Yoshitomo	Cohouging for the Elderly in the Netherlands and Japan Room Composition of Ordinary Private Houses to Answer to Needs According to Aging Introduction to Welfare Environment Theory; Welfare Environment Planning

Associate Professor TSUJIHARA Makihiko	Environmental Design of Semi-outdoor Space, Old Japanese Buildings in Micronesia under the Japanese Mandate Architectural Environmental Engineering, District Environment Conditioning

Associate Professor NISHI Eiko	Public Participation in Urban Planning Comparative Study on Community Planning in Japan, Scandinavian countries, etc

Associate Professor LI Li	Development of Steel-Wood Hybrid Shear Walls for Wooden Framed Structures ; Behavior of Steel-Concrete Composite Beam-Columns Building Technology; Building Materials; Reinforced Concrete Structures

Senior Lecturer HOSOI Akinori	Energy conservation system for air conditioning Natural and cross ventilation system, hybrid ventilation Building facilities engineering Indoor environmental control engineering

Division of Food and Health Environment

Professor ARIZONO Koji	Effects of Environmental Chemicals and Trace Elements for Living Animals Food Safety; Environmental Hygiene

Professor SAKAKIDA Michiharu	Development of Glucose Monitoring System Clinical and Nutritional Study of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism and Nutrition

Professor SUZUKI Isao	Correlation between Bone Metabolism and Exercise Physiology of the Anatomy; Nutritional and Exercise Physiology

Professor FUKUOKA Yoshiyuki	Environmental and Applied Phisiology Environmental Physiology; Health and Sports Science

Professor MINAMI Hisanori	Biochemistry and Immunology of the Intestine Biochemistry; Nutritional Biochemistry

Associate Professor KITANO Naoko	Relation Between Health Condition and Nourishment in Regional Habitants Management of Food Service, Science of Cookery

Associate Professor SHIRATSUCHI Hideki	Current research 1) Flavor as a Quality Factor and Its Evaluation Methods for Foods 2) Physiological Function of Volatile Compounds in Foods 3) Survey of Polyphenolic Compounds in Farm Products with Color and Evaluation of　their Physiological Function. Food Chemistry, Food Analysis, Food Processing, Introduction to Food Science, Laboratory Work of Food Science, Laboratory Work of Food Processing, Food and Environment, Laboratory Work of Chemistry

Associate Professor MATSUSAKI Hiromi	1) Function and application of the physiologically active substances produced by lactic acid bacteria. 2) Biosynthesis of sustainable biopolyesters by genetic engineering. 3) Behavior of Ralstonia solanacearum in Solanum sp. (eggplant). Food Biotechnology, Laboratory Work of Food Biotechnology, Food Microbiology, Food Resource Development, Deteil of Food, Biological and Organic Chemistry, Food and Environment, Laboratory Work of Chemistry

Senior Lecturer AOKI Tomoko	Neurophysiological and biomechanical approach to the understanding of motor and sensory functions in the human hand Health and Sports Science;Lifelong Sports Activity;Life Span Motor Development

Senior Lecturer OOSHITA Yoshiko	Epidemiological study of Eating Attitudes and Psychosocial factors on Japan Cedar Pollinosis Nutritional Education

Senior Lecture TOMOYORI Hiroko	Prevention of atherosclerosis by dietary components

Assistant AKAHOSHI Asuka	Effects of Dietary Ingredients for Human Salivary IgA

Assistant TAKANO Yuu	Basal Metabolic Rate of Female University Students

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