Research Topics

FY2024 the 7th I²CNER Seminar
  • Ito Campus
FY2024 the 8th I²CNER Seminar
  • Off Campus
Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar #171: A Challenge to the Smart Greenhouse Agriculture: Visualizing Environmental and Plant Eco-physiological Information and Crop-localized Environmental Control
  • Off Campus
Unlocking the ‘black box’: scientists reveal AI’s hidden thoughtsResearchers introduce a new method to assess how deep neural networks interpret information, ensuring its reliability and robustness for real-world applications.

Associate Professor Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas
Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering

Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar #170: Trends in drug-resistant bacteria and countermeasures
  • Off Campus
Better environmental performance boosts profits and cuts costsThrough a study of 8,547 companies across 34 countries, Kyushu University researchers revealed that disclosing and addressing environmental concerns leads to stronger financial performance.

Professor Hidemichi Fujii
Faculty of Economics

Close-up! Kyushu U Making a mark on the world with research on organic materials
Close encounters between distant DNA regions cause bursts of gene activityResearchers inch closer to understanding how close spatial proximity between regions of DNA promotes and stabilizes transcriptional bursts.

Professor Hiroshi Ochiai
Medical Institute of Bioregulation

AI beats experts in predicting future quality of “mini-organs”Organoids, sometimes known as “mini-organs”, are crucial for regenerative medicine, drug discovery and basic research. Now, deep-learning models can predict if they are developing properly.

Professor Hirohiko Niioka
Data-Driven Innovation Initiative

Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar #169: Female Sex Hormone Estrogen as a Regulatory Factor in Skeletal Muscle Differentiation and Regeneration
  • Off Campus
Rescheduled event【December 19, 2024】Announcement of the 105th Science Cafe @ Fukuoka
  • Off Campus
Dynamics of structural transformation for liquid crystalline blue phasesResearchers explore the transformation dynamics of cubic liquid crystals using direct simulation and machine learning, offering new possibilities for advanced materials development

Professor Jun-ichi Fukuda
Faculty of Science

A fear of insects overpowered by a curiosity of the unknown in the fight against vector-borne diseasesDiscover the Research: Article 6 – Ryosuke Fujita, Faculty of Agriculture
Listening to the past: How medieval pilgrims found faith in the roaring seaA new study of medieval texts shows how the open sea’s soundscapes served as trials of faith and windows into human interaction with nature.

Associate Professor Britton Elliott Brooks
Faculty of Languages and Cultures

Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar #168: Prototype design of tools and containers for portable health clinic services in Bangladesh
  • Off Campus
Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar #167: Thinking about Fat “Rust”
  • Off Campus
Associate Professor Hironori Hayashi's research awarded National Geographic Society grant for freshwater conservation
Building roots in glass, a bio-inspired approach to creating 3D microvascular networks using plants and fungKyushu University researchers develop new method for building complex 3D microfluidic networks in glass by growing plant roots and fungal hyphae in silica nanoparticles

Professor Fujio Tsumori
Faculty of Engineering

Developing an antibody to combat age-related muscle atrophyUtilizing rat muscle culture, researchers developed an antibody that prevents the age induced dysfunction of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), a critical protein for skeletal muscle development, regeneration, and repair

Professor Ryuichi Tatsumi
Faculty of Agriculture

WPI-SKCM² and WPI-I²CNER Joint Research Symposium
  • Ito Campus
  • Off Campus