Japanese🌸 Thank you for your visit to the homepage of Maki Teramoto's deep seawater laboratory. We are mainly researching marine bacteria including deep ocean residents using molecular biological techniques. Deep seawater and organisms inhabiting the seep seawater region used for the sampling are mainly piped up by Kochi Prefectural Deep Seawater Laboratory & Aqua Farm (Muroto, Kochi). We conduct basic and applied research toward innovation as well as just for curiosity for nature. 🌸
Research Activities
An environment used to be the sea bed is being investigated.
By ecological studies, we obtain information on microbes characteristic of or important for the surrounding environment and utilize their beneficial ability.
Recent Topics
- Plastic-degrading environments. A marine "superstar" Alcanivorax shown to degrade PP in mesopelagic water! This paper just opened!
- Bacteria attached on mesopelagic creatures A novel genus in Actinomycetes, from a mesopelagic squid, established
We are members of the plastic recycle project (Kamakura city x Keio Uni.; ↑）.
We explore mainly for marine bacteria, as bacteria are so diverse and are thus supposed to show various functions. We utilize the microbes including their genetic resources.
Recent Topics
- ・Plastic-degrading bacteria.
- ・Marine bacteria producing bioactive compounds such as antibiotics. A novel signal compound in bacteria could have been found in this Lab!?
- ・Bacteria producing fatty acid derived compounds, which substitute petroleum,
Construction of useful microbes.
We design and construct useful microbes with genetic modifications. The useful microbes created will be bacteria, archaea, plant cells etc.
Recent Topics
✿ We've found a novel petroleum-oil-producing bacterium. Using its genetic resources, we are working "eco-friendly petroleum mass-producing project" at the moment. ✿
Messages
Aug. 2024 Special presentation at chemistry research meeting for plastic recycling at Chiba (Sorry, in Japanese)
Jul. 2024 Special lecture at Keio Uni. ✏️
Apr. 2024 An article introducing this Lab on Uni's web page (Sorry, in Japanese)
🔔 Winter vacation 🔔
Nov. 2023 Day trip 🚌 with paper making experience to Niyodo liver, together with foreign visitors to Kochi Uni.
Nov. 2023 Open campus & Home coming day at Monobe campus. Had fun with red cows, underwater drone etc.
Oct. 2023 Went to Shikoku Karst to collect bacteria ⛰️ Also, had great views.
Oct. 2023 Presented a seminar on oil-degrading bacteria and so on at Fuji film-Wako webinar (in Japanese).
Oct. 2023 Welcomed two B3 students.
Sep. 2023 Biodegradation of PP has been clearly shown for the first time! A marine "superstar" Alcanivorax could be the important degrader in marine environments. Done by Koike-san, et al. Just accepted. In press.
🌻 Summer vacation 🌻
Apr. 2023 Joined a plastic recycle project in Kamakura city directed by Keio Uni.
Apr. 2023 Went to Ryugado cave to obtain novel bacteria. Many thanks to Ryugado preservation foundation for cooperation!
Apr. 2023 Welcomed a B4 student.
Jan. 2023 Oota-san visited Prof. Miyamoto's Lab in Keio Uni. for plastic biodegradation research.
Jan. 2023 A novel actinomycete from a squid living in mesopelagic water! Miyanishi-san et al. established a new genus in actinomycetes.
Thank you for your interest in our recent research paper on PP degraders in sea 🌎 ✿ (╹◡╹)✿ Lab staff