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Kazuhiro Takemoto
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics,
Kyushu Institute of Thechnology
Elucidation of design principle for environmental adaptation in metabolic networks
Living organisms produce compounds of many types via their metabolisms, which adaptively shape-shift
with changing environment in long evolutionary history. Elucidation of design principle for metabolite
diversity and metabolic pathway is important to understand adaptive evolution and to control life
phenomena. I will propose mathematical models describing metabolic design principles from a viewpoint
of environmental adaptation, and attempt an application to trenchant designs of effective microorganisms.