Frontier Research on Chemical Communications

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Project Leader: Hideaki Kakeya
(Professor, Kyoto University)

Welcome to the official website for the “Frontier Research on Chemical Communications”, Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, a MEXT Grant-in-Aid Project for FY2017-2021

Many natural products have served as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and their leads because of the structural and biological diversity. However, essential roles of natural products as chemical communication molecules among microbes, animals, plants, et cetera have not been fully elucidated. Integrated understanding of various kinds of chemical communications could therefore accelerate functional regulation by utilizing chemical communication molecules.
This research project aims at not only developing innovative high-order analysis platforms, but also at clarifying essential roles of natural products as chemical communication molecules in the natural environment, leading to development of useful chemical tools as well as pharmaceuticals/agrochemicals leads. In addition, this research project would contribute to the advancement in medical, agricultural, and food sciences, as well as open up a new discipline, “Molecular Sociology”, which would focus on the frontiers in chemical communications in a variety of biological species.