Division of Mucosal Symbiosis

We aim to clarify the interplay between gut microorganisms and host epithelia and immune cells, and work on the development of new therapeutic approaches for infectious diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases, metabolic diseases, cancer and neurological diseases. We also aim at the development of new technology to optimize the vaccine effect by identifying the intestinal microbes which contribute to activation of host immunity and clarifying the mechanism of activation of immune cells by these microbes.