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Insect Food Science Lab
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The lab develops food, feed, and pharmaceuticals using insect factories and genetic technology.
AboutAbout the lab
Sustainable food and pharmaceuticals from insect factories and genetic technology
The Insect Food Science Lab studies the development of sustainable food, feed, and pharmaceuticals using insect factories and genetic technology.
Using genetic recombination and genome editing, the lab aims to raise the value of insects and put them to practical use as resources for food and feed.
The lab is also developing technologies that use insects to produce new functional substances, such as biopeptides and oral vaccines.
The lab is working to apply these technologies to food security and pharmaceuticals.
Key terms
- Insect factory
- A system that uses insects to produce large amounts of recombinant proteins and other substances
- Genome editing
- A technology that rewrites targeted parts of an organism's genetic information (genome)
- Oral vaccine
- A vaccine taken by mouth rather than by injection
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to develop sustainable food, feed, and pharmaceuticals using insect factories and genetic technology. It is developing technologies that use insects to produce new functional substances, such as biopeptides and oral vaccines.
*Illustrative imageAdding High Value to Insects
This research aims to raise the nutritional value of insects using genetic recombination and genome editing. The lab also works on producing biopeptides and antimicrobial and medicinal proteins in insects.
*Illustrative imageInsects as Food and Feed Resources
Insect factories are used to produce recombinant proteins in large quantities. The lab promotes the use of insects as food and livestock feed.
*Illustrative imageOral Vaccines and Feed Additives
The lab aims to establish technology for producing oral vaccines using silkworms. It also works on a new type of Cordyceps to improve livestock health.
MembersFaculty
The Insect Food Science Lab consists of faculty members and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorJae Man Lee
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Cricket Shelter Modular Edible Insect Farm IMG” Mary Mark Ockerbloom / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Adding High Value to Insects: “Bombyx mori Morus Zetarra marugatze zuhaitzean1” Gorkaazk / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Insects as Food and Feed Resources: “Tenebrio molitor MHNT” Didier Descouens / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Oral Vaccines and Feed Additives: “Chicken feed made from farm products” MakaLeanne / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Insect DX Lab): “Aid to the identification of insects (Plate ) Percosoma sculcipenne (cropped)” Waterhouse, Charles Owen / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Insect Industry Creation Lab): “CSIRO ScienceImage 11069 Equipment at the NCRIS Reombinant Protein Production Facility” Morgan Brown, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Microbial Control of Insect Pests Lab): “Beetle Beauveria cf 2026 Südpfalz” InsektenDoku / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Insect Natural Enemies Lab): “Ladybug eating aphids. ( )” DAVID S. FERRY III from PLANT CITY,FL., U.S.A. / CC0 (cropped)
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