Background
- Education
- Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
Bachelor of Engineering at the Department of Biological Science and Technology
- Publications
- Vincent J.J. Martin, Yasuo Yoshikuni, Jay D. Keasling, The in vivo synthesis of plant sesquiterapenes by Escherichia coli, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Volume75, Issue 5, Date: 5th December 2001, Pages: 497-503
- K. Kinkead Reiling, Yasuo Yoshikuni, Vincent J.J. Martin, Jack Newman, Jörg Bohlmann, Jay D. Keasling, Mono and diterpene production in Escherichia coli, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Volume 87, Issue 2, Date: 20 July 2004, Pages: 200-212
- Yasuo Yoshikuni, Vincent J.J. Martin, Thomas E. Ferrin, and Jay D. Keasling, Engineering cotton (+)-delta-cadinene synthase to an altered function: Germacrene D-4-ol Synthase, Chemistry & Biology, Volume 13, Issue 1, Date: January 2006, Pages: 91-98.
- Yasuo Yoshikuni, Thomas E. Ferrin, and Jay D. Keasling, Designed divergent evolution of enzyme function, Nature 440, Date: 20 April 2006, Pages: 1078-1082, This article is featured in News and Views; Mark P Styczynski, Curt R Fischer and Gregory N Stephanopoulos, Molecular Systems Biology 2, Date: 2 May 2006, The intelligent design of evolution and David E Cane, Nature Chemical Biology 2, Date: 1 Apr 2006, Pages: 179-180, How to evolve a silk purse from a sow's ear
- Y. Yoshikuni and J. D. Keasling, 2007, "Pathway engineering by designed divergent evolution." Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages: 233-239
- Presentations
- (Oral) Yasuo Yoshikuni, Kinkead Reiling, Jack Newman, Vincent Martin, Jay D. Keasling: Mono and Diterpene Production in E. coli: DXP-based Geranyl and Geranylgeranyl Diphosphate Biosynthetic Pathways, AICHE, Nov, 2003
- (Poster) Yasuo Yoshikuni and Jay D. Keasling, Protein engineering of cotton (+)-delta-cadinene synthase to novel function, Terpnet, Apr, 20-23, 2005
- (Oral) Yasuo Yoshikuni and Jay D. Keasling, Designed divergent evolution of enzyme function, Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry, March, 2006
- (Poster) Yasuo Yoshikuni and Jay D. Keasling, Designed divergent evolution of enzyme function, Society for Industrial Microbiology, Aug, 2006
- (Oral) Yasuo Yoshikuni and Jay D. Keasling, Designed divergent evolution of enzyme function, ACS, Sep, 2006
- Honors
- Japanese Scholarship Foundation Scholarship 1997-2001
- University Award for the Highest Honor Undergraduate Student “Kodama Science Memorial Award”, 2001
- 2006 Best Student Abstract Award (Society for Industrial Microbiology)
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