Fundamental Nursing

Teacher

Professor, Tomoko Hasegawa, MPH, PhD, RN

hasekatz■u-fukui.ac.jp

Professor, Yoshiko Uehara, PhD, RN

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Senior Assistant Professor, Kanae Kitano, PhD, RN

kyoshi■u-fukui.ac.jp

Senior Assistant Professor, Rika Tonami, MSN, RN

ritonami■u-fukui.ac.jp

Assistant Professor, Yoshimi Demura, MSN, RN

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Assistant Professor, Miki Kobayashi, MSN, CN in Palliative Care, PHN,RN

himawari■u-fukui.ac.jp

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Research

Fundamental Nursing is a discipline that forms the foundation of nursing. Students learn the basic concepts of nursing, nursing theories, nursing ethics, nursing work development as a professional, and nursing skills based on scientific evidence.
Our major research interests are: (1) research on end-of-life, (2) research on self-management education, (3) research on nursing management, (4) research on tactile massage, (5) research on family support for COPD patients, and (6) research on oral care to prevent aspiration pneumonia.

Keyword

• nursing education
• nursing diagnosis
• end of life care
• patients with chronic illness
• self-management
• oral care
• tactile massage
• family support

Life Science

Teacher

Associate Professor, Shinji Honda, PhD

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Research

The filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa was used by Beadle and Tatum in 1941 to demonstrate the one-gene-one-enzyme hypothesis and has since been used as a model organism for genetics, developmental biology, and molecular biology. We have recently identified several RNA viruses in N. crassa and have established this fungus as a model system for studying host-virus interactions (Honda et al., Nature Commun., 2020). To take advantage of the model system, we showed that ribonucleic acid (RNA) editing controls the antiviral response. Several filamentous fungi have homologous genes involved in this process, suggesting that this RNA editing system is an evolutionarily conserved antiviral mechanisms (Honda et al., Sneak Peak, 2023).

Honda, S., Eusebio-Cope, A., Miyashita, S., Yokoyama, A., Aulia, A., Shahi, S., Kondo, H., and Suzuki, N. (2020). Establishment of Neurospora crassa as a model organism for fungal virology. Nat Commun 11, 5627. 10.1038/s41467-020-19355-y.
Honda, S., Yokoyama, A., and Suzuki, N. (2023). RNA Editing of Genomic Neighbors Controls Antiviral Response in Fungi. Sneak Peak 10.2139/ssrn.4425943

Keyword

• Neurospora crassa
• filamentous fungi
• mycovirus
• fungal virus
• fungal virology