About us

　Secondary metabolites found in plants and microorganisms have a variety of chemical structures and various biological activities derived from these chemical structural diversity. Therefore, many secondary metabolites (natural products) are used as medicines, pesticides or drug candidates.
　In our laboratory, we aim to search for new natural products, new medicinal seeds, and new agrochemical seeds by combining the following four research pillars.

・Construction of screening system related to medicine and agriculture (ex. J. Nat. Med. 2024)
・Development of methods to activate cryptic or silent gene clusters in microorganisms (ex. J. Nat. Med. 2018, Org. Lett. 2018)
・Search for new natural products and bioactive natural products from our plants & microorganisms collections or pathogenic microorganisms
・Analysis of molecular mechanisms of new bioactive natural products and Analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters of new natural products
　
　The students in our laboratory are expected to grow as researchers with both organic chemistry and biological perspectives through their research.

Members

・Faculty member
　Assist. Prof.
　Yasumasa Hara, Ph.D.
　ORCiD, researchmap

・Students
　-graduate-
　1st year master’s student
　　Yuka Tarui
　　Tsubasa Horiuchi
　　Miu Mori

　-undergraduate-
　4th year student
　　Ai Kanagawa
　　Mio Kuwahara
　　So Yoshida
　3rd year student
　　Yume Okawa
　　Mao Kameda
　　Riko Nakasone

Publications

Please see this page

Recruitment

　We are seeking the postdoctoral researchers and graduate students from Japan and abroad who have the basic skills to determine the chemical structure of natural products.
　 Please contact us by email, if you have an interest in our research.
　Contact to
　Assist. Prof. Yasumasa HARA
　hara.yasumasa[at]kagawa-u.ac.jp
　　Please send e-mail replacing [at] with @.