Pioneering Human Health by Applying Operand Techniques on Unutilized Biological Resources-derived Substances

  • SDG2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
  • SDG3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
  • SDG7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
  • SDG14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Yoshikazu Ohya
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
Department of Integrated Sciences Professor
Unutilized biological resources-derived substances, including microalga products, are screened by using medaka and mice to see if they have any neuronal cell activation activity. In order to clarify their mode of action at the cellular level, we use advanced operand techniques such as raster image cross correlation spectroscopy and morphological profiling. This enables us to develop safer substances that can potentially act as anti-stress and anti-aging ingredients. As our ultimate goal, we are establishing a guideline for new candidate compounds through elucidating their mode of action and making their practical application in the medical and food fields.
Need for development of new functional components to be healthy
Pioneering human health by applying operand technique on unutilized biological resources-derived substances

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Research collaborators

- Shigeyuki Kawano
- Ken-ichi Tominaga

Related publications

- Jeff S. Piotrowski,Hiroki Okada,Fachuang Lu,Sheena C. Li, Li Hinchman, Ashish Ranjan, Damon L. Smith, Alan J. Higbee, Arne Ulbrich, Joshua J. Coon, Raamesh Deshpande, Yury V. Bukhman, Sean McIlwain, Irene M. Ong, Chad L. Myers, Charles Boone, Robert Landick, John Ralph, Mehdi Kabbage and Yoshikazu Ohya, “Plant-derived antifungal agent poacic acid targets β-1,3-glucan”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 112(12): E1490-E1497, 2015.
- Shinsuke Ohnuki, Satoru Nogami, Shuhei Ota, Koichi Watanabe, Shigeyuki Kawano and Yoshikazu Ohya, “Image-based monitoring system for green algal Haematococcus pluvialis (Chlorophyceae) cells during culture”, Plant Cell Physiology, 54(11), pp. 1917-1929, 2013.

Related patents

- Patent application 2014-549862, International patent application PCT/JP2013/081894 (2013/11/27)

Contact

  • Yoshikazu Ohya
  • Email: ohya[at]k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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