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Cell Function Development Engineering Lab
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The lab explores new ways to use microorganisms through cell culture technology.
AboutAbout the lab
The future possibilities opened up by cell functions.
The Cell Function Development Engineering Lab studies the functions of microbial cells, photosynthetic cells, and plant cells from the standpoint of cell culture engineering.
The lab works on expanding functions that cells already show and on developing functions that have not yet been brought out, aiming to use them for producing useful substances, environmental remediation, and more.
Motivated by the problem that humans use only a small fraction of microorganisms, the lab works on developing new ways to use them.
Key terms
- Cell culture engineering
- A field that studies the methods and conditions for growing cells from an engineering perspective.
- Useful substances
- Substances that are useful in people's lives, such as pharmaceuticals and foods.
- Symbiosis
- A relationship in which multiple organisms help each other and live together by dividing roles.
NewsLab news
A doctoral student received the Outstanding Presentation Award at the Student Presentation and Discussion Meeting of the East Japan Branch of the Society for Biotechnology, Japan
Research on a co-culture system of intestine-mimicking epithelium and microorganisms was selected as a Topic at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Biotechnology, Japan
An undergraduate student received the Outstanding Graduation Research Award from the College of Agro-Biological Resource Sciences, University of Tsukuba
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research in cell culture engineering, working with microbial cells, photosynthetic cells, and plant cells to expand cell functions and to develop functions that have not yet been brought out. It aims to use the functions obtained for producing useful substances, environmental remediation, and more.
*Illustrative imageNew uses for unused microorganisms
Humans use only about 1% of the microorganisms on Earth, and most of the rest remain unused. The lab aims to develop new ways of using microorganisms (cells) that can solve this problem.
*Illustrative imageMimicking symbiotic relationships between cells
The lab's research is based on the idea that by listening closely to the interactions between organisms in nature and imitating them, it may be possible to create new artificial symbiotic relationships. The lab believes this could make it possible to produce useful substances that a single cell cannot make and to detoxify poisons that are hard to break down.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Cell Function Development Engineering Lab consist of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students in the doctoral and master's programs, undergraduate students of the College of Agro-Biological Resource Sciences, and research students and short-term exchange students.As of 2024
- ProfessorHideki Aoyagi
- Assistant ProfessorMasato Takahashi
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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: “Small cell culture flat flask” Lilly_M / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- New uses for unused microorganisms: “Microbial culture flasks-set” Lilly_M / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Mimicking symbiotic relationships between cells: “Lichen growth forms” Bwiltz / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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