Educational background
Ph.D. (Animal Science), Nagoya University
Key words for education
Animal physiology, animal morphology, livestock physiology
Sample courses
Animal Production Science, Animal Life Science, Food and Nutrition
Features of my courses
Instructors from the Faculty of Agriculture, including myself, are in charge of the three classes mentioned above, which form part of the Applied Animal Science course. We use an English biology textbook that focuses on animals and their basic biology as a resource for our lectures. These foundational classes form the basis for more advanced and detailed lectures on Applied Animal Science in Japanese and are therefore specifically designed for students who intend to graduate from the Faculty of Agriculture via the Matching Track program.
Key words for research
Birds, sex differentiation, osmoregulatory mechanism, gene expression, embryogenesis, endocrine
Key publications and conference presentations
- Mizushima S, Takagi S, Ono T, Atsumi Y, Tsukada A, Saito N, Sasanami T, Okabe M, Shimada K. (2010). Novel method of gene transfer in birds: intracytoplasmic sperm injection for green fluorescent protein expression in quail blastoderms. Biology of Reproduction. 83, 965-969.
- Yoshimura K, Kinoshita K, Mizutani M, Matsuda Y, Saito N. (2012) Inheritance and developmental pattern of cerebral hernia in the crested polish chicken. Journal of Experimental Zoology Mol Dev Evol. 318B, 613-620.
- Aste N, Sakamoto E, Kagami M, Saito N. (2013) Vasotocin-mRNA expression is sensitive to testosterone and oestradiol in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in female Japanese quail. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 25, 811-825.
- Saito N, Hirayama H, Yoshimura K, Atsumi Y, Mizutani M, Kinoshita K, Fujiwara A, Namikawa T. (2017) The muscular dystrophic chicken is hypernatremic, British Poultry Science, 58, 506-511.
- Socha JK, Saito N, Wolak D, Sechman A, Hrabia A. (2018) Expression of aquaporin 4 in the chicken oviduct following tamoxifen treatment. Reproduction of domestic Animal, 53, 1339-1346.
What I like about Discovery
Unlike other faculties, the Discovery Program has fewer boundaries dictating what students should study. As a result, it is an exceptionally diverse program, attracting Japanese and international students from different backgrounds to pursue their varied interests by allowing them to design their own curriculum and learn collaboratively.
