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Marine Microbiology Lab (Marine Bioengineering Division)
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The lab studies how microorganisms live in the sea and aims to put their abilities to use in areas such as energy.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding marine microbes and putting their abilities to use
The Marine Microbiology Lab aims to understand how microorganisms living in marine environments live (their physiology and ecology) and to carry out applied research that makes use of their characteristics.
The lab works on applying marine microorganisms to the production of clean energy and the degradation of plastics.
The lab also investigates the physiology, ecology, and diversity of microorganisms living in a variety of marine environments, and searches for microorganisms that reduce nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas.
Key terms
- Physiology and ecology
- How an organism lives in its environment, including how it obtains energy and how it multiplies
- Metabolic engineering
- A method of changing the flow of chemical reactions inside a microorganism through genetic manipulation, so that it produces more of a target substance
- Community structure analysis
- Investigating which kinds of microorganisms are present in a given place, and in what proportions
NewsLab news
Review article on sea cucumbers and their symbiotic microbes published in Current Microbiology
Review article on developing Vibrio as a tool for green transformation (GX) published in Current Microbiology
Student wins Excellent Poster Award at the 20th Genome Microbiology Society meeting
Paper summarizing the lab's results published in Current Microbiology
Student wins Young Researcher Encouragement Award at the 56th Vibrio Symposium
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to understand the physiology and ecology of microorganisms living in marine environments and to carry out applied research that makes use of their characteristics. It works on bioengineering, such as biofuel production using marine bacteria, and on the ecology of marine microbes.
*Illustrative imageBioengineering with marine bacteria
The lab uses marine microorganisms for research such as producing biofuels. Its listed keywords also include carotenoid production, metabolic engineering, and global warming countermeasures.
*Illustrative imageEcology of marine microbes
The lab aims to understand the physiology, ecology, and diversity of microorganisms living in a variety of marine environments. Its listed keywords are community structure analysis, taxonomy, microbial biogeography, stress response, and microbial behavior.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Marine Microbiology Lab consist of faculty and undergraduate students.
- ProfessorTomoo Sawabe
- Assistant ProfessorSayaka Mino
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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: “Vibrio parahaemolyticus TCBS” Matthias M. / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Bioengineering with marine bacteria: “Pg166 bioreactor” Genome Management Information System, Oak Ridge National Laboratory / Public domain (cropped)
- Ecology of marine microbes: “Lost City (hydrothermal field)02” National Science Foundation (University of Washington/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) / Public domain (cropped)
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