![]() | KURIHARA ShinDepartment of Science and Technology on Food Safety Associate Professor |
I was born in 1978 in Ayabe City, Kyoto Japan.
I would like to elucidate the genetic functions of commensal bacteria in the human intestine and use the findings to optimize the metabolites of intestinal bacteria in order to improve the intestinal environment and extend human healthy life span. We are also analyzing the prebiotic utilization capacity of intestinal bacteria by cultivating them and at the same time identifying the genes involved in their utilization, and developing next-generation prebiotics that selectively grow only useful intestinal bacteria.