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Insect Industry Creation Lab
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A lab that uses insect-based biotechnology to produce and discover useful substances.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating useful substances with "biotechnology × insects."
Based on "biotechnology × insects," the Insect Industry Creation Lab works on analyzing insect components, isolating active ingredients, and efficiently producing useful substances (mainly recombinant proteins).
The technological foundation is a recombinant protein production system, mainly using the silkworm-baculovirus expression system.
The lab conducts research on protein design, improvement and functional modification of silkworms (the hosts that carry out production), and industrialization (real-world application).
Key terms
- Recombinant protein
- A target protein produced by a host organism or cells into which a gene has been introduced
- Silkworm-baculovirus expression system
- A method in which silkworms are infected with a baculovirus so that they produce a target protein
- Virus-like particle
- A particle that mimics the structure of a virus shell but has no genome. It is studied as a vaccine candidate
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Protein functions are expected to be applied in pharmaceuticals and materials, and biotechnology for producing and processing proteins efficiently is being studied. Using the silkworm-baculovirus expression system as its technological base, this lab conducts research on protein design, silkworm improvement, efficient production and functional demonstration of useful proteins, functional modification, and industrialization.
*Illustrative imageVaccine antigens produced in silkworms
The lab produces vaccine antigens with the silkworm-baculovirus expression system and examines their activity and their ability to induce an immune response. A paper has also been published on a vaccine taken by eating pupae that express a norovirus antigen.
*Illustrative imageFunctional modification of recombinant proteins
This research modifies the functions of recombinant proteins produced in silkworms. It approaches the topic from angles such as virus-like particles, antigen display, protein cross-linking, and protein stability.
*Illustrative imageSearching for functional ingredients derived from insects
The lab explores the functionality of ingredients derived from insects and from the microorganisms that parasitize or live in symbiosis with them, investigating how they act and how to increase their added value.
MembersFaculty
The Insect Industry Creation Lab consists of faculty members and master's students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorNorihisa Uehara
- Tenure-Track Assistant ProfessorAkitsu Masuda
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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: “CSIRO ScienceImage 11069 Equipment at the NCRIS Reombinant Protein Production Facility” Morgan Brown, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Vaccine antigens produced in silkworms: “-Silkworm Pupa Food-0622” Superbass / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Functional modification of recombinant proteins: “CSIRO ScienceImage 10928 NCRIS Recombinant Protein Production Facility 01” Morgan Brown, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Searching for functional ingredients derived from insects: “Giant silk moth (Adelowalkeria tristygma)” Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Insect Food Science Lab): “Cricket Shelter Modular Edible Insect Farm IMG” Mary Mark Ockerbloom / 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 (Microbial Control of Insect Pests Lab): “Beetle Beauveria cf 2026 Südpfalz” InsektenDoku / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Medical Entomology Lab): “Adult deer tick(cropped)” Photo by Scott Bauer. (USDA ARS) / Public domain (cropped)
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