Development of platform technologies which facilitate construction of microbial cell factories

Prof. Akihiko Kondo

Kobe University, Japan

Time: 13:00 pm, October 25,2017

Venue: B301, TIB

Brief Introduction of the Speaker:

Prof. Kondo is the Director of Biorefinery Center of　Kobe University,and he is also leading the Biomass Engineering Program at RIKEN as a team leader, member of Science Council Japan. He has developed several biomass pretreatment technologies, cell surface display systems for yeast, bacteria and fungus, metabolic pathway design methods, metabolic analysis technologies, microbial cell factories for production of biofuels and various chemicals from biomass, cyanobacteria for production of starch, oil and chemicals from CO2. He also developed bio-nanoparticles for drug delivery and magnetic nanoparticles for bio-separation and analysis. He has been the project leader of various big research programs of Japan. Especially he launched a big 10 year project “Innovative BioProduction Kobe” as director, which is supported by Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology, Creation of Innovation Centers for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research Areas, MEXT, Japan. in 2010. He has published more than 564 peer reviewed international papers.

He is the editor of the Journal of Biotechnology and editorial board members of 12 journals such as Biotechnology for Biofuels, Bioresource Technology, Microbial Cell Factories, FEMS Yeast Research, Journal of Biological Engineering, Metabolic Engineering Communications, etc.