From July 5th to August 4th, 4 undergraduate students Tao Linan, Mo Hongming, Wu Nan and Ni Shengliang from College of Agriculture & Biotechnology participated in 4-week Integrated Biosciences UTokyo-ZJU research training program. During this Summer Internship Program，Each student was assigned to three different laboratories, each of which has different research contents and directions.

The Ohya Yoshikazu Lab that Ni Shengliang stayed in this summer, has a range of research about Saccharomyces cerevisiae. All of this study are about signal transduction, such as signal transduction in yeast mutant, drug targets and autophagy. In the program, with the help of Dr. Suzuki Kuminori and Kawaoka Tatsuya-Senpai, he learned incubating the cells and how to count the fungus under the fluorescence microscope.

Wu Nan and Mo Hongming were in Fujiwara Haruhiko lab, which mainly research Lepidoptera larvae and adult mimicry. In this research project, they focus on the silkworm Wnt1 gene. Wnt1 gene is regulated by ecdysone, which can significantly affect the formation of twin-spots, but the function of related genes such as BZR1, EcR and so on in this pathway had not been studied thoroughly. Therefore, the topic of their project was the specific functional analysis of ecdysone-related genes in the twin-spot markings of the silkworm.

Tao Linan stayed in molecular recognition lab, which mainly research the feeding behavior of crickets in molecular. She analyzed the effect of Neuropeptide F and Myosuppressin, two kinds of neuropeptides, for feeding behavior of crickets. Myosuppressin’s function is found in silkworm, which is suppressing the gut’s motion. NPF, which function is revealed in Drosophila melanogaster, it is promoting feeding behavior, opposite to Myosuppresin. But both these two neuropeptides are not researched in cricket. So In this experiment, she hope to find out these two neuropeptides’s function in cricket.