To Biological Sciences Departmental Homepage »
The Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, offers a variety of graduate programs including lectures on a wide range of current biology, research training and advanced seminars focusing on specific topics. The programs are guided by researchers at the Department of Biological Sciences, Institute for Protein Research, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Research Institute of Microbial Diseases, Genome Information Research Center, Frontier Biosciences, and three affiliated institutes outside the university.
The Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, was reorganized in 1996 by combining two departments, Physiology and Biochemistry, both of which had been founded in 1953. As a result of reorganization and together with the cooperation of three institutes outside the university, the research conducted at the department covers a wide range of the research fields of current biology and life sciences, which have been rapidly expanding.
When the Department of Biology for undergraduate studies started with three lobaratories in 1949, two of them were protein chemistry (Professors Akabori and Okunuki) and one for biophysical cell biology (Professor Kamiya). The department was different from other biology, zoology and/or botany departments at that time. We follow this unique tradition in a modernized way and are always aiming at developing new research fields in biology, especially in "supramolecular biology" which might surpass ordinary molecular biology and ultimately elucidate the life and living organisms at the atomic and supramolecular levels. To pursue this task, we welcome students who have backgrounds other than biology, such as chemistry and physics. Of course, we also welcome students with a solid background in biology. New research fields will be established in this kind of amalgamating atmosphere.
Postgraduate students enrolled in the Master and/or Doctoral programs are requested to conduct their own researches in the laboratories to be conferred with their degrees. The research is supervised by one of the supervisors of the Graduate School. In the doctor course, two advisors in addition to the supervisor will guide your research.
For detailed information of research topics, see the following pages and http://www.bio.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp/index.html.
