- Institute for SDGs Promotion
- Notification of the 2nd SDGs Research Grant FY2023 Debriefing Session on June 27, 2024.
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Notification of the 2nd SDGs Research Grant FY2023 Debriefing Session on June 27, 2024.
2024年5月14日更新
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Notification of the 2nd SDGs Research Grant FY2023
Debriefing Session
Institute for SDGs Promotion provides research grants for individual research, joint research with researchers inside and outside the university, and joint research with companies and other institutions, with the aim of discovering research that will lead the university's SDGs studies and revitalizing research activities that contribute to the SDGs.
We are pleased to announce that we will hold the 2nd session to report the results of the research and educational grants we conducted in FY2023. We look forward to the participation of all students, faculty and staff. Please spread this event to those on campus in your area.
This final time will be presemted by Associate Professor Makoto Shimizu (Faculty of Human Life and Environmental Science), Professor Tomohiro Uemura (Faculty of Science), Professor Satoshi Shimada (Faculty of Science), Professor Toshihiro Kondo (Faculty of Science). Each professor will have approximately 20 minutes to present a 15-minute report, followed by a 5-minute Q&A session.
＜The 2nd SDGs Research Grant FY2023 Debriefing Session＞
【Date and Time】 Thursday, June 27, 16:40-18:10 (JST)
【Venue】 Room 102, Inter-Faculty Building 1 (共通講義棟1号館102室) *face-to-face *Please note that the venue is different from the first session.
【Title of Study, Reporter】
1st Report："Research on the Functionality of Soy Protein for Value-Added Improvement of Vegetable Protein"
（Associate Professor Makoto Shimizu； Food Factors and Functions, Division of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Human Life and Environmental Science）
2nd Report："Toward the creation of yield- and disease-resistant plants based on organelle dynamics at the grafting boundary"
（Professor Tomohiro Uemura； Plant cell biology, Division of Biology, Faculty of Science）
3rd Report： "Educational Effectiveness of Climate Change Research in Collaboration with High School Students: Through a Study on the High Yield of Bromoform in the Red Alga Kagikenori"
（Professor Satoshi Shimada； Plant Systematics and Evolution, Division of Biology, Faculty of Science）
4th Report： "Operando tracing of electrode reaction in lithium-air batteries by X-ray technique"
（Professor Toshihiro Kondo； Nano Electrochemistry, Division of Chemistry, Faculty of Science）
【Application】
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【Program Overview】
1st Report
Title： Research on the Functionality of Soy Protein for Value-Added Improvement of Vegetable Protein
Researcher： Makoto Shimizu
Outline： Soybeans are rich in protein and are known as the “meat of the field". Soybeans are also known to contain a variety of functional components, including soy isoflavones. In our super-aging society, adequate protein intake is required to prevent the elderly from requiring nursing support and care. On the other hand, it is assumed that a protein crisis (collapse of protein demand and supply) will occur around 2025-2030 due to global population growth and rising living standards. To solve these social issues, it is considered important to strengthen the added value of vegetable protein and promote the consumption of vegetable protein products. We have previously reported the regulatory mechanism of the ameliorative effect of soy protein β-conglycinin on energy metabolism. In this study, we attempted to elucidate new metabolic pathways that could be regulated by β-conglycinin intake by conducting experiments using comprehensive gene expression analysis. In this presentation, we will report our findings in relation to the anti-obesity hormone FGF21.
2nd Report
Title： Toward the creation of yield- and disease-resistant plants based on organelle dynamics at the grafting boundary
Researcher： Tomohiro Uemura
Outline： The “grafting” of two plants together is a very important agricultural technique, and was generally thought to be possible only between closely related plants of the same family. Notaguchi (Kyoto University) and his colleagues discovered that “any combination of plants can be grafted by means of tobacco stems” (Notaguchi et al. Science, 2020). However, the key to the perfection and practical application of this technology is the understanding and improvement of the mechanism by which the cell wall at the graft boundary is reconstructed and tissue regeneration is fully achieved. We aimed to perfect the technology by unraveling the intracellular membrane traffic that substantially regulates cell wall remodeling at grafting interfaces at the molecular and cellular levels using a group of organelle markers and imaging techniques constructed by our group in model plants.
3rd Report
Title： Educational Effectiveness of Climate Change Research in Collaboration with High School Students: Through a Study on the High Yield of Bromoform in the Red Alga Kagikenori
Researcher： Satoshi Shimada
Outline： We aimed to develop a method which would accomplish SDG 4 “Quality Education” at the university which has affiliated schools with well-enhanced education policies. Through our research on the high bromoform yield of the red alga Kagikenori, we verified the educational effects on the high school students with who we co-worked in the study of countermeasures against climate change. The three third-year students of Ochanomizu University Senior High School conducted the experiment with university faculty member, Prof. Shimada during their secound high school year, 2022. On the other hand, the three second-year students of Ochanomizu University Senior High School conducted experiments with the third-year university student (TAs: Teaching Assistants) in 2023. A questionnaire survey with 16 questions that could be answered on a scale of 1-5 which considered a collection of psychometric scales, and a face-to-face individual semi-structured interview with interiew guide which defined questions were conducted to both of three high school students: the first three who spent with the professor and the second three who spent with TAs in each experiment. In this presentation, we will report on the effective and efficient roles of teachers and TAs for high school students.
4th Report
Title： Operando tracing of electrode reaction in lithium-air batteries by X-ray technique
Researcher：Toshihiro Kondo
Outline： High-capacity storage batteries are essential to achieve Goal 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) of the SDGs, which is to make clean renewable energy available to everyone on the planet, anytime, anywhere. However, the capacity of current lithium-ion batteries is no longer enough to respond to the needs, and therefore it is required to develop new high-capacity storage batteries. In this study, we report on the results of our attempt to trace operands using X-ray technology in order to elucidate the mechanisms of electrode reactions at the anode, cathode, and both electrodes, whose mystery has been a challenge toward the early commercialization of lithium-air batteries with a theoretical capacity 10 times greater than that of lithium-ion batteries, and to obtain guidelines for realizing the future's practical application.
Please refer to the application guidelines (click here) for this year's SDGs Research Grant by Insitute for SDGs Promotion.
