RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology
Professor Ohno is the Team Leader of the Laboratory for Epithelial Immunobiology.
He also is a Professor of the Department of Supramolecular Biology, Graduate
School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, and of the Department of
Immune Regulation, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Chiba University. He is interested in gut ecosystem, where commensal microbiota
has a huge impact on the host physiology and pathology. He is establishing
multi-omics-based approach to comprehensively understand the host-intestinal
microbiota cross-talk. He is also studying mucosal immunology, especially the
differentiation and function of M cells, a subset of intestinal epithelial
cells, specialized for mucosal antigen uptake, residing in the area of epithelium
covering the gut associated lymphoid follicles
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