Past Messages
🎄Christmas & new year break 🎄
Oct. 2022 Welcomed a new research assistant.
🌼 Yosakoi Holidays 🌼
Apr. 2022 Started to having Lab seminars in English together with a student from Philippine. Could be good trials.
Mar 2022 Gave presentation entitled "Alkane-degrading bacteria from PE-chewing larvae" at the annual meeting of JSBBA 2022 on 16-18th. Presenter is Oota-san. Many thanks for the visitors.
🎄Christmas & new year holidays 🎄
Oct 2021 Many thanks to tyoukanemaru-boat for assisting sampling.
Oct 2021 Sampled water of Niyodo liver, which is famous for its beautiful blue color.
Oct 2021 Accepted new third-year undergrads. Welcome!
🌼 Short summer vacation 🌼
Mar 2021 Moved to Monobe campus, which locates just in front of Kochi airport!
Oct 2020 Accepted new third-year undergrads. Welcome!
Sep 2020 Restarted analyzing bioactive products from marine bacteria. Going to collaborate with researchers in Shizuoka Pref.
Aug 2020 Had a web version of open campus. Please take a look at campus tour edited by MT.
Jul 2020 Started working with a former assistant. Welcome back!
May 2020 Gradually restarted researches.
✿ Long Spring break due to covid 19 ✿
Jan 2020 Provided MEXT (Japan) with information regarding deep seawaters around Japan.
✿ Winter Holidays ✿
Oct 2019 Had a joint meeting with Onodera Lab of Kochi Uni.
Oct 2019 Accepted new third-year undergrads. Welcome!
Sep 2019 Had a guest student from Prof. Miyamoto's Lab of Keio Uni. See you!
✿ Short Autumn Break ✿
Aug 2019 Visited Prof. Miyamoto's Lab of Keio Uni. Many thanks!
✿ Yosakoi Break ✿
✿ New year & golden week holidays ✿
✿ Cherry blossom party at night around Kochi castle ✿
Mar 2019 Had a meeting on plastic biodegradation with Prof. Miyamoto.
Mar 2019 Gave a presentation on the fatty alcohol synthesis gene cluster at the annual meeting of JSBBA (Tokyo).
✿ Winter Break ✿
Dec 2018 Discussed plastic biodegradation with a plastic manufacturer.
Oct 2018 Started working with third-year undergrads. Welcome!
✿ Yosakoi Break ✿
Jul 2018 Started working with a new assistant. Welcome!
Jun 2018 Had a guest from NITE, Chiba for possible future collaboration.
Apr 2018 Had Prof. Miyamoto's group of Keio University for a kick-off meeting about plastic biodegradation project.
Apr 2018 Had Dr. Suzuki of NIID about antibiotic exploration project.
Mar 2018 Ayumi Komatsu-san, who supported this Lab for 7 years, was retired.
Dec 2017 Had a serious discussion with Hattori sensei, a member of MBI, Kamaishi.
Year end party
Oct 2017 Many thanks to Prof. Robert Duran from Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France for coming and also to those who came over to his special seminar on 2nd Oct on Monobe campus!
✿ Yosakoi Break ✿
Jul 2017 Many thanks to stuffs of Muroto geopark and Aqua farm. Looking forward to meeting today's guests again.
Jul 2017 Many thanks to IMRA Japan Co. for coming here, hot southern Kochi.
Jun 2017 Two century plants going to bloom on our campus.
Feb 2017 Many thanks to IMRA Japan Co. for encouragement.
Jan 2017 Many thanks to Aqua Farm of Muroto city for its kind assistance.
Winter holidays
Nov 2016 Many thanks to Mitsu-sisho & Mitsu-ohshiki-kumiai for welcoming us.
Jun 2016 Many thanks to those who came to our presentation on the petroleum project on 10th at IFO and on 21th at Kochi Uni.
Cherry blossom break
Mar 2016 Had a Kickoff meeting for those who use deep seawater in Kochi.
Feb 2016 Had a meeting with NIES.
Forget-the-year party around Kochi station & WInter break
Yosakoi break
Aug 2015 Went for sampling to Yasu-cho, Kochi on a sunny day. :D
Jul 2015 A century plant bloomed on our campus.
Apr 2015 Kickoff sampling with NIES (National Institute for Environmental Studies).
Mar 2015 Wish Dr. Zhai good luck in his new environment!
Farewell party in downtown
Winter break
Nov 2014 Many thanks to Monsieurs Anthony Rivière (French journalist) & Julien Peyrat (French translator) for your visiting!
Oct 2014 Joined in the Symposium on chemistry of natural products in Kochi.
Sep 2014 Joined in an annual symposium by Kuroshio Uni League. Had guests of the League from abroad. Welcome!
Summer break
Jun 2014 Many thanks to IFO for opportunity for networking and so on.
Mar 2014 Started collaboration with Prof. Shinya Ohta's Lab for MS-guided genome mining.
Jan 2014 Many thanks to Prof. Inagaki & his Lab members for the nice 'JAMSTEC Kochi Core Center' tour.
Jan 2014 Many thanks to those who came to Kochi & Ryukyu Uni's collaborative symposium.
Forget-the-year party & Winter break
Oct. 2013 Kickoff meeting with NIID (Dept. of Bacteriology II) on antibiotic exploration was held in Tokyo.
Summer break
June 2013 Went on a day trip for sampling twice this month. Many thanks to Kochi Deep Seawater Lab & Aqua Farm.
May 2013 Thank you very much for coming to our presentation on researches toward innovation in BIO tech 2013.
March 2013 Many thanks to those who came to my seminar at National Dong Hwa Uni and for welcoming me in Hualien. :) MT
March 2013 Dr. Zhenyu Zhai joined this lab. Welcome!
March 2013 We started this homepage. Thank you so much for your visiting. :) MT