Cell Factory Research Team

Main Research Fields :
Engineering
Related Research Fields :
Chemistry / Biology
Keywords :
bioproduction / biorefinery / Synthetic bioengineering
Project :
Metabolic Genome Engineering
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Designing and constructing optimal cell factories for valuable chemical compounds

Team Leader

Akihiko Kondo Ph.D.

Akihiko Kondo

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1988
Ph.D., Department of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
1988
Lecturer, Kyushu Institute of Technology
1993
Assistant professor, Kyushu Institute of Technology
1995
Assistant professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University
2003
Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University (-current)
2012
Team Leader, RIKEN Cell Factory Research Team,RIKEN Biomass Engineering Program
2013
Team Leader, RIKEN Cell Factory Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (-current)
2020
Deputy Director, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (-Current)

CONTACT

RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Cell Factory Research Team

akihiko.kondo

YokohamaAccess
1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045 Japan
#E804 8F East Research Building,

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Outline

Cell Factory Research Team
Cost reduction of raw materials and processes is needed in order to use biomass as an alternative to fossil resources. Our team aims to integrate conventional processes, which are typically complicated and costly, into a bio-process that is innovative, consistent, less costly and energy-saving. This will be achieved by optimizing, in an integrated manner, a plant's capacity to produce and degrade cellulose and the process of microorganisms' degrading and synthesizing biomass.

Subjects

  1. Building cell factories for production of valuable chemicals
  2. Developing in silico tools for designing artificial metabolic pathways
  3. Developing high functional enzymes catalyzing target metabolic reactions
Bioproductions by utilizing soft biomass plant
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