Event date： 2026.01.14
Registration period： ~ 2025.12.31
Audience Business and community Alums Students Professors and staff
Location Other facility of Kobe U
We are pleased to announce an upcoming seminars, the 3rd KUEB (Kobe University Engineering Biology Project) Premier Seminar, focused on Engineering Biology and related areas across the life sciences. This event will bring together researchers from diverse disciplines. Our goal is to foster meaningful interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration, creating new opportunities for innovation and partnership.
Seminar Details
- Date & Time: January 14 (Wed), 2026 | 13:00 pm-18:10 pm (JST)
- Registration start time: from 12:30
- Format: On-site only (first 300 participants).
No online streaming or archived distribution will be available. - Language: English
- Venue: Convention Hall, Integrated Research Center, Main Building 2F, Kobe University
(Please note that no parking is available. We kindly ask that you use public transportation. For access information, please check here.) - Registration： Please complete your registration via here.
- Registration Period: You may register until December 31(Wed)
- Eligibility: Open to all participants.
- Participation Fee: Free
- Organizer: Advanced Research Hub for Engineering Biology, Institute for Digital Bio Life Science Research Park, Kobe University
- Contact: DBLR(Digital Bio Life Science Research Park) Promotion Office,
Department for Research Management and External Cooperation, Kobe University
ksui-dblr[at]office.kobe-u.ac.jp (Please replace [at] with @ when sending an email.)
Program
| Time | Contents | Speaker |
| 13:00～13:05 | Opening Remarks | Dr. Tomohisa Hasunuma Kobe University |
| 13:05～13:50 | Talk1 Totally?wired: high precision de novo design of bioenergetic protein components | Dr. J. L. Ross Anderson University of Bristol, UK |
| 13:50～14:35 | Talk2 Precision Fermentation for Sustainable and Economic Production of Food Ingredients and Fermented Foods | Dr. Yong-Su Jin University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| 14:35～14:50 | Break | |
| 14:50～15:35 | Talk3 Plant Science × Nanotechnology: Driving Next-Generation Agricultural Innovation | Dr. Daisuke Urano Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, SG |
| 15:35～16:20 | Talk4 Synthetic gene expression control systems in microorganisms | Dr. Sang Woo Seo Seoul National University, Korea |
| 16:20～16:35 | Break | |
| 16:35～17:20 | Talk5 Engineering multi-layered biocomputing circuits and metabolic coupling for controlled and stable bioproduction | Dr. Bingyin Peng University of Queensland, AUS |
| 17:20～18:05 | Talk6 Scalable Electrochemical Technologies for Supplying Reducing Power in Biomanufacturing | Dr. Shuji Nakanishi The University of Osaka |
| 18:05～18:10 | Closing Remarks | Dr. Chiaki Ogino Kobe University |
（Global Innovation Management Office, Institute for Digital Bio Life Science Research Park）
