Micorobial Genome

Chlamydia, AAB, 

and more

 

  We have been working on analyses of genome, which is a set of whole genes within each organism, using a variety of microbes, including yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe), Archaea (Sulfolobus solfataricus and Pyrococcus horikoshii), obligate intracellular pathogenic bacteria (Rickettsia japonica and Chlamydia pneumoniae), acetic acid bacteria (Acetobacter and Gluconacetobacter species), a Brassicaceae-plant pathogen, Plasmodiophora brassicae​.

 

  On the basis of genome analyses using these microbes, we are atempting to clarify the issues below,

(1) genome evolution of microbes, expecially, intracellular bacteira,

(2) how the microbes adapt to harmful environments by luck or by system, 

(3) host-paracite interaction, 

(4) how to overcome the infectious deseases,

(5) how to design the genomes to built better microbes for fermentation.