Seiichi Taguchi
Hokkaido University, Japan
Biography
Professor Seiichi TAGUCHI has completed his PhD from The University of Tokyo and was promoted to be professor of the Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, in 2004. In 1997, he visited to join as research scientist at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Immune System, Luis-Pasteur University. After that, he joined Polymer Chemistry Laboratory of RIKEN as a senior research scientist and firstly introduced modern approaches such as enzyme evolution to biotechnological production of polyhydroxyalkanates. His current main research focuses on the creation of novel biological catalysts that can be adapted to the desired environment or biosystem. He has published more than 150 papers in reputed journals.