Akihiko Kondo

This study uses MALDI-TOF mass fingerprints to predict gene ontology annotations in yeast knockouts, identifying new metabolic gene functions.

This study engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae to grow on xylose via oxidative pathways, achieving 1.5 g/L ethylene glycol production and enabling xylose utilization through both Dahms and Weimberg pathways.

The paper shows that low activity of PEP-converting enzymes during darkness maintains glycolytic intermediate levels, facilitating photosynthetic initiation in cyanobacteria.

This paper introduces CloneSelect, a multi-kingdom genetic barcoding system that enables precise isolation of target clones using CRISPR base editing to trigger reporter gene expression.