Doctoral Programs

We welcome international students to join this 3-years Doctoral Course aimed at solving climate changes, food, water and/or other biological resources shortage-related problems, by conducting research-oriented work in the laboratory, as well as field work on arid or semi-arid lands.

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The chief aim of the Doctoral Program in Biological Sciences is to train good scientists and professionals who have research ability and scholarship to achieve creative study. The core of the Biological Sciences Doctoral Program is basic biology.

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The common tasks of the Earth Evolution Sciences program are to decode the co-evolutional history of the earth,life and the environment from the birth of our planet up to present, and to forecast quantitatively the relation between geosphere and biosphere. In order to achieve these goals,the program is organized into six ordinary fields and one cooperative graduate school system with National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

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The global environment is recognized as the common heritage of humankind and all life is dependent upon it. In the 21st century, the fate of the global environment has a critical issue in both in developed and developing countries throughout the world. To sustain the global environment, they are crucial not only to produce carbon-neutral/renewable energy resources as the countermeasures for global warming, but also to develop the effective technique and management policy for conserving the high-quality water resources. As the former target, biodiesel produced from microalgae has called forth interest of economic and scientific actors, and the appropriate management of landscapes and water purification systems are essential for the latter target. This program aims at tackling both targets parallelly and harmonizely to show the promising scenario for sustainable global and local societies.

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This program aims to conduct leading education and research in the clarification of functions in organisms and the development of their functions. Recent bioscience and biotechnology have mainly been focused on the molecular biology of genes. Based on this, we need to understand static and dynamic behavior of cells more precisely with a biochemical and molecular levels and develop the methods to utilize these functions. Moreover, we will have to develop materials related to our everyday lives that make use of the properties of biological resources. Given this situation, in order to train students to be active researchers in the fields of bioscience and biotechnology in the new era, the program is structured in a fusion of two principal major fields; Biochemistry of Cell Functions and Engineering Science of Biological Functions. Education and research guidance is carried out based on an interdisciplinary curriculum that includes biology, chemistry and engineering.

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The International Agricultural Sciences is a multidisciplinary doctoral program focusing on agricultural topics deal with appropriate technology and sciences for sustainable development, biosphere resource science and technology, life science and bioengineering, and bioindustrial sciences.

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Creating a new product to reduce smoke inhalation from cooking stoves in the recently independent Southeast Asian nation of East Timor is not what most people would expect in postgraduate course. But that’s exactly what Kouta Niizuma did during his overseas placement when he signed up for the PhD Program in Human Biology (HBP) at the University of Tsukuba.

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