The Graduate School of Biosphere Science participated in the Agribusiness Creation Fair held at the Tokyo Big Sight on 14-16 December, 2016.   This annual fair represents a good opportunity to communicate and conduct exchanges on the new developments and research achievements between the University and companies.   The Hiroshima University booth introduced recent research themes such as:

“Production of safe products, eggs and milk by utilizing antimicrobial peptides.”
“Control of calf growth using blue light”
“Development of anti-norovirus disinfectant using astringent persimmon extract”
“Application of DNA markers for quality assurance of marine products”
“Development of new immobilization technology of non-symbiotic bacteria on plant seed surfaces”

At the Agribusiness Creation Fair, the Graduate School was represented by Dr. Naoki Isobe of the Laboratory of Animal Histophysiology and Dr. Toshihisa Sugino of the Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feeding.