Genomic breeding of oleaginous microorganisms for provision of new health foods, pharmaceuticals and sustainable bioenergy

email: aki@  

We aim to characterize the mechanism for the biosynthesis of bioactive compounds and their regulatory system in Streptomyces species.  Isolation of new metabolites and characterization of biosynthetic enzymes are also studied in our laboratory.

email: karakawa@  

Marine Biotechnology: Development of new technologies using marine bacterial metagenome to produce useful materials. Biomineralization: Removal and recovery of heavy and minor metals and rare earth elements from seawater and marine algal biomass.

email: okamuray@  

Studies on structures and functions of lipid metabolic enzymes. Genome breeding of oleaginous microorganisms to produce various functional lipids.

email: kwatanabe@