Kyoto University Graduate School of Life Sciences
Biodynamic Research Center
Research Center for Dynamic Living Systems

Mission

In recent years, the life sciences have been dominated by the reductionist approach, which aims to elucidate the function of each molecule comprising the life. Of course, it is still important to study individual molecular functions in detail and, in fact, new molecular functions and associated novel biological phenomena are becoming clearer every day. At the same time, however, it is also extremely important to integrate the vast amount of knowledge that has been accumulated and to elucidate common operating principles. This research area known as theoretical biology, mathematical biology, or systems biology, needs the development of technologies, such as imaging and omics, that can provide the experimental data that form the basis of these theoretical studies. New techniques are also awaited to prove the new biological phenomena that could be predicted by the theoretical approaches. With this in mind, Graduate Schools of Medicine, Biostudies, Informatics, and Science have been collaborating to project named Research of Dynamic Living Systems, supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2012-2016. In order to further develop this fusion research, we have decided to inaugurate the Research Center for Dynamics Living Systems affiliated with the Graduate School of Life Sciences in 2018. The center will aim to achieve a systematic understanding of biological phenomena through the collaboration of researchers in both theoretical and experimental fields, with state-of-the-art microscopy as its pillar.