MEMBER
All staffs in this laboratory also participate in educational courses for graduate students in the Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life sciences.
Staff
Professor Makoto NISHIYAMA, Ph.D.
- Makoto Nishiyama received his B.Sc. (1984), M.Sc. (1986), and Ph.D. (1991) degrees from The University of Tokyo. He was appointed Assistant Professor at The University of Tokyo in 1988, and promoted to Associate Professor in 1994 and to Professor in 2003 at the Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo. He has been studying structure, function, and regulation of enzymes involved in amino acid biosynthesis.
Associate Professor Saori KOSONO, Ph.D.
- Saori Kosono received the Bachelor (1991), Master (1993), and Ph.D. (1996) degrees (Biotechnology) from Osaka University. She was a Special Postdoctoral Researcher at RIKEN in 1996, and appointed to Research Scientist in 1997 and Senior Research Scientist in 2005. She was appointed to Project Associate Professor in 2012 and Associate Professor in 2019 at the Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo. She has been studying molecular microbiology, especially focused on protein lysine acylation in bacteria.
Assistant Professor Ayako YOSHIDA, Ph.D.
- Ayako Yoshida received her B.Sc. (2006), M.Sc. (2008), and Ph.D. (2011) degrees from The University of Tokyo. She has been studying structure, function, and regulation of metabolic enzymes involved in amino acid and (short-chain) fatty acid metabolism.
Project Researcher
Makoto HIDAKA, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yoshitaka BESSHO, Ph.D.
Daisuke YOSHIDOME, Ph.D.
Researcher, Graduate, Undergraduate
Contract researcher
Yusuke ITO
D3
Daichi KANKI
D2
Yuta HAYASHI
D1
Toka MIYANAGA
Wenyuan SHI
M2
Mayu SHIOIRI
Makoto NAGAOKA
Takayuki HARADA
M1
Taisei UEHARA
Teruaki SATO
Hayata MIYAIRI
Xinyue ZHANG
Yan CAO
B4
Kaito UEDA
Hodaka TANABE
Ryuichi NIWA
Experimental Trainee
Tomohiro HARADA