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Graduate School of Environment, Life, Natural Science and Technology

Okayama University


Laboratory of Animal Nutrition


 

 News & Topics

2024-04-01 The list of lab members has been updated. Two new members have joined from the master's program.
2024-03-25 Seven (one PhD, two MSc, and four BSc) students have been awarded the degrees. Please see the Gallery pages for details. Congratulations.
2024-02-19 Thesis defenses have been finished. Please see the Thesis and Gallery pages for details. You made it!
2024-01-15 The list of lab members has been updated. Three students returned to their home universities after completing overseas internship programs. Please see the Gallery page for memorable shots. See you!
2023-11-03 Mr. TRAN Ding Phong (D1) won the Excellent Presentation Award at International Symposium on Animal Bioscience 2023. Congratulations!
2023-10-27 The new members welcome table tennis game was held at the Fairlane. Singles and doubles winners are in the Gallery page. Great fun!
2023-10-04 The list of lab members has been updated. Six students have newly come and joined. Welcome!
2023-08-22 The MSc defense has been finished. Please see the Thesis and Gallery pages for details. Good for you!
2023-07-15 The gallery page has been updated. Glad to have the return of face-to-face communication.
2023-04-01 The list of lab members has been updated. Four students have newly come and joined. Welcome!
2023-03-24 Eight (three MSc and five BSc) students have been awarded the degrees. Congratulations.
2023-02-16 Thesis defenses have been finished. Please see the Thesis pages for details. Well done!
2022-10-24 Four members participated in the SAE 2022 conference in Ho Chi Minh City. With the help of our lab alumni and Nong Lam University students, we experienced a fanatstic time in Vietnam. Xin cam on.
2022-10-24 The new members welcome volleyball game was held at the Zip arena. Rather than the 3rd year students, … played harder and were more serious about winning. Great fun!
2022-10-02 Four third-year students and two research students have joined as new members. Hello!
2022-08-18 The Ph.D. defense has been finished. Please see the Thesis and Gallery pages for details. Well done!
2022-06-01 Our lab has been featured in a magazine focusing on the production veterinary medicine, "Journal of Clinical Veterinary Medicine." Like!
2022-04-01 The list of lab members has been updated. It includes international students who will come and join soon due to eased entry restrictions. Exciting!
2022-03-25 Five (one Ph.D., two MSc, and two BSc) students have been awarded the degrees. They will be outstanding in their respective places. Go for it!
2022-03-25 Mr. HOU JianJian (D3) won the Best Presentation Award for Young Scientists at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Japanese Grassland Science Society. Good for you!
2022-02-17 Thesis defenses have been finished. Please see the Thesis and Gallery pages for details. Awesome!
2021-12-01 One international student has joined as a new member. Hello!
2021-11-03 Ms. TERAOKA Mao (M1) won the Excellent Presentation Award at International Symposium on Animal Bioscience 2021. Congratulations!
2021-10-25 Ms. NISHIJIMA Aoi (M2) won the Student Encouragement Award at the 53rd Meeting of the Japan Society of Nutrition and Food Science, Chugoku-Shikoku Branch. Congratulations!
2021-10-07 The new members welcome badminton tournament was held. The champion was Tsuruta and Yamaguchi pair. Great!
2021-10-01 Five third-year students have joined as new members. Welcome!
2021-09-28 Our A2 milk project was featured in the Dairy Industry News. Wow!
2021-09-25 Laboratory homepage has been updated.
Our department will hold an international symposium on Wednesday, November 3rd. Please visit the website. Attention!
2021-09-24 Two students graduated. Congraturations!
2021-09-15 Mr. HOU JianJian (D3) won the English Presentation Award at the 129th Meeting of the Japanese Society of Animal Science. Congratulations!

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 Mission, Vision & Values

Nutrition is the study of a series of biological processes necessary for life. The goal of nutrition study is to improve human health and quality of life. Animal nutrition is a field that has been expanded to include animals. In our laboratory, we are doing research using a variety of animals, i.e., model animals, food-producing animals (livestock), wild animals, and companion animals. The research using model animals aims to clarify biochemical and physiological mechanisms associated with nutrition and metabolism. The members working on the projects use model animals and cultured cells for functional analyses of food. Several students work on food processing and its control. They are examining the characteristics of microorganisms involved in fermentation to improve the safety and value of food and feed. Our goal is to solve problems in the industries, clarify the functions of food and feed, and achieve technological innovation related to nutrition, metabolism, and health.

 

 Recruitment for new members

Would you do research together?
We will welcome new members who want to pursue challenging projects and topics. Those who love learning, playing, and eating will fit our laboratory atmosphere. All members have different research themes, but we should help and stimulate each other to do greater-scale research.
If you are in Japan, you are advised to come to our laboratory to talk with our faculty and students, see our experiments, and get a feel for the atmosphere. If you are overseas, we are able to talk online.

 Prof. NISHINO Naoki:
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    Room 2104, 1st floor, Bldg. No. 2, Faculty of Agriculture

 Assoc. Prof. TSURUTA Takeshi:
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    Room 2122, 1st floor, Bldg. No. 2, Faculty of Agriculture
Graduate School Entrance Examination
For details on the entrance examination for the Master's Course (Master's Program), please see the application guideline on the Graduate School website.










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