Sustainable Biotechnology Project

Research Outline

“Sustainable biotechnology” is a technology that utilizes the power of living organisms for the sustainable development of human societies. We are focused on developing bioprocesses that use electricity-generating microbes for producing hydrogen, a clean energy, from food wastes. We conduct citizen-participatory research, by collaborating with junior and senior high school students, to find “super bugs” with excellent electricity-generating capacities.

Future Vision

We aim to realize sustainable Earth Systems so that living organisms will share and “efficiently” utilize the limited resources on our planet. For this aim, we expect that resource-recycling processes, such as the use of power-generating microorganisms, will be established and used widely in the future.