E-mail address:sakaki(Please add @affrc.go.jp behind. )
Telephone: 029-838-8061
Job title
Senior Researcher
Resume
- April 1992: Joined Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
- October 1992: Researcher, Biotechnology Development Division, National Institute of Food Research
- January 2001: Supervisor, Food Industry Policy Division, General Food Policy Bureau
- April 2003: Senior Researcher, Applied Microbiology Division, National Institute of Food Research
- April 2006: Current post
- May 2004-March 2006: Visiting Scientist, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA
Specialty
Genetic Engineering
Research themes
- Development of technologies for production of rare sugars using microbial metabolic engineering
- Development of technologies for ethanol production from pentose sugars derived from lignocellulosic biomass
Research achievements (mainly research papers)
- Sakakibara, Y., Saha, B. C. and Taylor, P., Microbial production of xylitol from L-arabinose by metabolically engineered Escherichia coli., J. Biosci. Bioeng. 107 (5): 506-511 (2009)
- Sakakibara, Y., Microbial production of xylitol., Food Industry 52 (10): 59-64 (2009) (in Japanese)
- Sakakibara, Y. and Saha, B. C., Isolation of an operon involved in xylitol metabolism from a xylitol-utilizing Pantoea ananatis mutant., J. Biosci. Bioeng. 106 (4): 337-344 (2008)
- Saha, B. C., Sakakibara Y. and Cotta, M. A., Production of d-arabitol by a newly isolated Zygosaccharomyces rouxii. J. Ind. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 34 (7): 519-523 (2007)
Society membership
Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry, Society for Biotechnology, Japan
Posted on November 18, 2008
