Collaboration work with Dr. Kenji Fukushima at Colorado Univ. Graduate students are welcome to join.

To investigate the origin and evolution of digestive enzymes, we isolated digestive enzymes in digestive fluid of Drosera adelae, Cephalotus forliculus, Nepethes alata, and Sarracenia purpurea and analyzed their corrsponding genes. Graduate students who are interested in the secretion mechanisms and evolution of the enzymes are welcome to join.

1. Development of carnivorous pitcher leaves of Sarracenia purpurea
2. Evolution of digestive enzymes
3. Molecular Mechanisms of Memory of Dionaea muscipula leaves
   (link to "Mechanisms and evolution of plant movement")
4. Molecular mechanisms of plasticity in Cephalotus follicularis
5. Genome analysis of Drosera spatulata and development and evolution of tentacles, and homology between Drosera and Dionaea traps.
6. Development and evolution of Nepenthes pitcher leaves