Cell Factory Research Team

Main Research Fields :: Engineering
Related Research Fields :: Chemistry / Biology
Keywords :: bioproduction / biorefinery / Synthetic bioengineering
Project :: Metabolic Genome Engineering

Designing and constructing optimal cell factories for valuable chemical compounds

Team Leader

Akihiko Kondo Ph.D.

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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)

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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,

Outline

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

Building cell factories for production of valuable chemicals
Developing in silico tools for designing artificial metabolic pathways
Developing high functional enzymes catalyzing target metabolic reactions

Bioproductions by utilizing soft biomass plant

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