Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Major in Science and Technology for Health Care and Medicine,
School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo

Tsuge laboratory is actively promoting the creation of eco-friendly polymers. For contributing to establish a sustainable human society, we produce the biopolymers with high performance and high function by recombinant bacteria from renewable carbon sources. Furthermore, we elucidate the biodegradation mechanism of biopolymers by enzymes and three-dimensional structure of biopolymers and these depolymerases. The aim of this laboratory is to establish a new scientific filed "Development of production system of eco-friendly materials". ■Research Topics■ 1. Metabolic and evolutionary engineering for biosynthesis of biopolyester 2. Optimization of production systems for biopoyesters 3. Structural and functional analyses of polyester-degrading enzymes 4. Crystal and surface structures of biodegradable polymers ■Staff■ Takeharu TSUGE (Professor) Hideki ABE (Visiting Professor) Yuki MIYAHARA (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor) Zihan QIE (Researcher) Phimthong KHAMJAPO (Researcher) ■Member (2026)■ D2 Makoto KOBAYASHI D2 Chuandong CHEN D1 Ganbileg Davaajav D1 Antoine McIntosh M2 Jiaxi GU M2 Yoshihiro MIYACHI M2 Teppei MOGI M1 Nathan Chumkhot M1 Shunta YOSHIDA M1 M1 M1 B4 Taiki OGAWA B4 ■Publication■ ●Profile ●Publication list ■Address■ Tsuge laboratory, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo, J2-47, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan Room No. J2-605 ●How to access?? ■Tel & Fax■ Tel: +81-45-924-5420 / Fax: +81-45-924-5426 Copyright © 2010. Tsuge Laboratory. All Rights Reserved. Go to Japanese page