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- We held the 2nd SDGs Research Grant FY2023 Debriefing Session.
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We held the 2nd SDGs Research Grant FY2023 Debriefing Session.
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Report on the 2nd
SDGs Research Grant FY2023 Debriefing Session
On June 27 (Thurs.), the second debriefing session to report the results of the research and educational grants we conducted in FY2023 was held in Room 102 of Inter-Faculty Building 1.
【Date and Time】 Thursday, June 27, 16:40-18:10 (JST)
【Target】 Ocha-dai students, faculty and staff (Unofficial participants were welcomed.)
【Venue】 Room 102, Inter-Faculty Building 1 (共通講義棟1号館102室) *face-to-face
【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）
＜Record of the Event＞
In the first report, Associate Prof. Makoto Shimizu, Faculty of Human Life and Environmental Science, through his meticulous gene expression analysis, confirmed a new metabolic improvement effect of β-conglycinin in soy protein, suggesting that the utilization of plant-based products is an important path for protein, which is feared to collapse in demand and supply in the near future.
In the second report, Prof. Tomohiro Uemura, Faculty of Science, explained the process of analyzing the intracellular membrane traffic that regulates tissue regeneration at the molecular and cellular levels in order to further clarify the mechanism of cell wall reconstruction necessary for the practical application of the previous finding that tobacco stems can be grafted with other plant species.
In the third report, Prof. Satoshi Shimada, Faculty of Science, presented a study on the high methane gas yield of red algae, in which university teachers and TAs (university students) engaged high school students in experiments, and the results of psychometric measurements by questionnaires and interviews showed that teachers and TAs (students) contributed different aspects to the psychology of learning among female high school students.
In the fourth report, Prof. Toshihiro Kondo, Faculty of Science, pointed out that lithium-ion air batteries, which have a theoretical capacity 10 times greater than conventional batteries, are indispensable as high-capacity storage batteries for a future in which renewable energy can be used all the time around the world. He reported on the findings obtained through X-ray technology to elucidate the electrode reaction mechanism, which is vital for early commercialization.
The conference was closed on a high note with a lively Q&A session among participant/presenter faculty members. We would like to express our gratitude again to all the participants and to the presenting professors. Thank you very much.
（inside the venue）
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. (Applications for this year have been closed. Thank you for your many applications.)
Please also see the report on the 1st SDGs Research Grant FY2023 Debriefing Session held on June 12. (The page is here.)
