School of Medicine- Course Introduction

Biology

Departments of Liberal Arts (General Arts Program)

本講座では、医学部1年生へ生物学の教育を行うと共に、以下の研究を2名の教員で行っています。

To truly understand the human body, it is necessary to know how vertebrates have evolved, but many mysteries remain about the early appearance and evolutionary process of vertebrates' shapes. The earliest vertebrates to appear on Earth were primitive jawless fish called agnathomorphs, of which only lampreys and hagfish survive today. By comparing the developmental process of the brains and sensory organs of these two species with other vertebrates, we are trying to clarify the appearance and evolutionary process of early vertebrates (Associate Professor Sugawara, Biology).