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Jirasin Koonthongkaew, Lecturer, Ph.D.

Jirasin Koonthongkaew, Lecturer, Ph.D.

Education

2022 Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (MONBUSHO scholarship, Japanese Government, Japan)
2019 Master’s degree in Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (MONBUSHO scholarship, Japanese Government, Japan)
2017 B.Sc. in Microbiology (a gold medal award and a first-class honors degree), Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Training

Research Interest

– Beneficial and value-added compounds from microorganisms
– Higher alcohol and amino acid production from yeast
– Alternative energy/green energy from microorganisms
– Yeast strain development for brewing and fermentation industries
– Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology of yeast
– Biochemical and metabolic engineering for biotechnological application

Publications

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Selected Publications

  1. Koonthongkaew, J., Ploysongsri, N., Toyokawa, Y., Ruangpornvisuti, V. and Takagi, H. (2022). Improvement of Fusel Alcohol Production by Engineering of the Yeast Branched-Chain Amino Acid Aminotransaminase. Applied and Environmental Microbiology88(13), e00557-22.
  2. Toyokawa, Y., Koonthongkaew, J. and Takagi, H. (2021). An overview of branched-chain amino acid aminotransferases: functional differences between mitochondrial and cytosolic isozymes in yeast and human. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology105(21), 8059-8072.
  3. Isogai, S., Matsushita, T., Imanishi, H., Koonthongkaew, J., Toyokawa, Y., Nishimura, A., Yi, X., Kazlauskas, R. and Takagi, H. (2021). High-Level Production of Lysine in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Rational Design of Homocitrate Synthase. Applied and environmental microbiology87(15), e00600-21.
  4. Koonthongkaew, J., Toyokawa, Y., Ohashi, M., Large, C.R., Dunham, M.J. and Takagi, H. (2020). Effect of the Ala234Asp replacement in mitochondrial branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase on the production of BCAAs and fusel alcohols in yeast. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology104(18), 7915-7925.
  5. Large, C.R., Hanson, N., Tsouris, A., Abou Saada, O., Koonthongkaew, J., Toyokawa, Y., Schmidlin, T., Moreno-Habel, D.A., McConnellogue, H., Preiss, R., Takagi, H. and Dunham, M.J. (2020). Genomic stability and adaptation of beer brewing yeasts during serial repitching in the brewery. BioRxiv.

Grants, Awards and Recognition

2021 15th International Congress on Yeasts (ICY15) meets the 30th International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology (ICYGMB30), Vienna, Austria
2020 Study abroad at University of Califonia, Davis (UCD), USA
2019 The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ2019), Fukuoka, Japan
2018 Internship at Gekkeikan Sake Company, Ltd., Kyoto, Japan