Overview
Faculty and Department Pamphlets
Graduate School and Major Pamphlet
Organization
The Department of Biological Sciences consists of three types of chairs: core chairs, cooperative chairs, and cooperative concurrent chairs. Unlike ordinary single-department graduate schools, this graduate school spans two campuses in the Toyonaka and Suita areas and an off-campus research institute (see Location). With such a geographical spread, information and human interactions among research groups are important in this department. Our department creates a dense network of information and people to support a wide variety of research.
History
Department of Biology, from its establishment to the present
The history of life science education and research at Osaka University began with the establishment of the Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science. The Department of Biology was established at the time of the establishment of the new university system, with the aim of creating a place for education and research in the new biological sciences, which were developing in the boundary area with chemistry and physics. The following is a chronological history of the subsequent development of the Department of Biology.
- May 1949
- Establishment of the Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science
- 1953
- Establishment of the Department of Biochemistry and Physiology in the Graduate School
- 1956
- Initiation of the Institute for Protein Research as an affiliated facility of the Faculty of Science
- 1958
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Initiation of the Institute for Protein Research as a national joint-use research institute
Many research groups joined as core courses of the Department of Biological Sciences
- 1996
- The Department of Biological Sciences was reorganized as a new department consisting of faculty members of the former Department of Biology of the Faculty of Science (including faculty members of the former Department of Biology of the Faculty of Liberal Arts) and faculty members of the attached research institute
- 2006
- Two courses, Biological Sciences and Life Sciences, were established in the Department of Biological Sciences, and the number of students was increased to 55
Annual report
Publication of Annual Report
The Department of Biology* publishes an annual report of its activities each year. Some of the older years are retained for reference. Articles on various activities are listed by year (from April of the indicated year to March of the following year), and papers are listed by year (from January to December of the following year), since it is difficult to specify the month of publication.
*Department of Biology refers to the core department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, and the jointly managed group of departments that have been transferred to other graduate schools using the core department as a mother department.