Plant Lipid Research Team
- Main Research Fields :
- Biology
- Related Research Fields :
- Engineering / Agricultural Sciences / Environmental Science / Plant molecular biology/Plant physiology / Molecular biology / Cell biology
- Keywords :
- Plant lipid metabolism / Plant lipid signaling / Plant growth regulation / Functional lipidomics / Metabolic engineering
- Project :
- Metabolic Genome Engineering
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A lipidomic approach to addressing plant growth and development
Team Leader
Yuki Nakamura D.Sci.
- 2007
- D.Sci., Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 2007
- JSPS Research Fellow, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore
- 2010
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany
- 2011
- Assistant Research Fellow / Assistant Professor, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- 2014
- EMBO Young Investigator, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Germany
- 2015
- Associate Research Fellow / Associate Professor, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- 2020
- Research Fellow / Professor, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (-current)
- 2020
- Visiting Professor, Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan (-current)
- 2021
- Team Leader, Plant Lipid Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (-current)
CONTACT
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Plant Lipid Research Team
yuki.nakamura.yf
Related Links
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Plant Lipid Research Team
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Outline
We are investigating how lipids control plant growth and development. Lipids play diverse roles in energy storage, cellular membrane integrity and signal transduction. Under the concept of “Spatiotemporal (4-D) lipidomics”, we precisely address the molecular dynamics of lipid metabolism and underlying mechanism in growth control. Our basic research will form the basis of knowledge-based metabolic engineering strategy to efficiently convert photosynthetic assimilates into industrially valuable lipids, which contributes to the development of carbon-neutral society.Subjects
- Lipid-mediated mechanism in plant growth and developmental control
- Physiological significance of molecular diversity in the membrane lipid profiles
- Spatiotemporal (4-D) lipidomics -An effort to address the subcellular dynamics of plant lipid metabolism at spatiotemporal resolution-
- Utilization of photosynthetic assimilates through the lipid metabolic engineering
- Visual abstract of Plant Lipid Research Team
