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
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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
– 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
Selected Publications
- 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 Microbiology, 88(13), e00557-22.
- 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 Biotechnology, 105(21), 8059-8072.
- 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 microbiology, 87(15), e00600-21.
- 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 Biotechnology, 104(18), 7915-7925.
- 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 |