JSPS Ikushi Prize| Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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Third (FY2012) JSPS Ikushi Prize Awardees

**- Research Areas -**
(Humanities and Social Sciences) (Science, Mathematics and Engineering) (Biological and Medical Sciences)

(Biological and Medical Sciences)

OKUDA, Satohiro
	Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University Study of the mechanism of pollen tube guidance by identification of attractant peptide LUREs and their receptors

KATAYAMA, Kota
	Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology FTIR Study of Primate Color Visual Pigments

KATO, Hideaki
	School of Science, The University of Tokyo X-ray crystallographic analysis of a light-gated cation channel,channelrhodopsin

KODA, Keiko
	Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University Ecological studies to conserve the endangered lycaenid butterflies living in Satoyama

SATO, Yuya
	Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo Elucidation of the relation between oxygen, electron, and life, through the metabolism of an evolutionarily-ancient bacterium

TOHYAMA, Shugo
	School of Medicine, Keio University Distinct Metabolic Flow Enables Large-Scale Purification of Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes

TOMINAGA, Akiyoshi
	The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University Investigation of the molecular bases of advanced symbiotic nitrogen fixation activity in leguminous plants and rhizobium, and the application to crop