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Why do plants look the ways they do? How do plants and animals communicate with eath other, even though they can't talk?
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2025.06.01: Associate professor Satoru Nakagami is joining the Sawa Laboratory. Welcome!

2025.05.08: Manuscript "Microfluidic device integrated with a porous membrane for quantitative chemotaxis assay of plant-parasitic nematodes" in collaboration with the group of Prof. Hirotaka Hida (Kobe University) has been published in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics.

2025.05.07: Technical staff Kazuko Onga is joining the Sawa Laboratory. Welcome!

2025.04.01: Post-doctoral researcher Afiifah Machfuudzoh and graduate student Keigo Kameda are joining the Sawa Laboratory. Welcome!

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