Kaoru Yoshida

With the advance in science and technology, our life has been modernized to be cleaner and more convenient, while the existing natural energy resource has been rapidly consumed, hitting close to the bottom, and an excessive amount of carbon dioxide has been emitted to the atmosphere, causing the problem of global warming. In order to sustain our civilized society and the entire nature, the production of alternative energy and the improvement of carbon fixation are the important issues to be resolved today.
In a multidisciplinary research field covering computer science to molecular biology, I have studied how the life is programmed from its birth to its death at the molecular level so that it can adjust to the change in the environment. I am currently interested in the sugar metabolism and carbon fixation mechanism of microorganisms and plants, regarding a life as carbon storage and the nature, including the food chain and the parasitic/symbiotic complex, as a carbon cycle. My research goal is to elucidate these molecular mechanisms, to apply them to the production of bioenergy and the enhancement of carbon fixation, and to develop a new biological system integrating them.