Bioengineering collaboration: Kobe-Minho Joint Seminar

On May 24, Kobe University Engineering Biology Research Center (EGBRC) organized an academic seminar with a research team from Minho University in Portugal (Minho) at Kobe University. The seminar’s purpose was to explore bioengineering research collaboration between the two universities. Two researchers from both EGBRC and Minho gave presentations and participants including EGBRC researchers and students engaged in an active discussion.

After the seminar, the EGBRC arranged a lab tour for Minho researchers including to Kobe University integrated research center, where the various EGBRC research facilities are located.

Since its establishment in 2018 as the only Japanese research center in the field, the EGBRC has been at the cutting edge of bioengineering research in the country and has established an international network with over 10 overseas institutions including Minho. In recognition of its achievement, the EGBRC’s international research project was selected as one of Kobe University’s international research flagships in 2022 and granted a Kobe University Strategic International Collaborative Research Grant (Type B: Fostering Joint Research) for three years.

The EGBRC aims to create an international innovation hub for bioengineering with overseas partners through industry-university-government collaboration.

Seminar Program
13:00-13:45	Dr. Carlos Costa (Minho) “Biotechnological production of resveratrol and lactones”
13:45-14:30	Prof. Lucília Domingues (Minho) “Microbial cell factories development for sustainable biorefineries”
14:30-14:40	Break
14:40-15:20	Dr. Takahiro Bamba (Kobe) “Production of 1,2,4-butanetriol from xylose by Saccharomyces cerevisiae through Femetabolic engineering”
15:20-16:00	Dr. Ryo Nasuno (Kobe) “Nitric Oxide in Yeast -Signal or Stress-”