2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Understanding How The Environment Shapes Mutualism
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19K06795
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| Research Institution | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University |
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Principal Investigator |
Denton Jai 沖縄科学技術大学院大学, ゲノム・遺伝子制御システム科学ユニット, 研究員 (10795389)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | Mutualism / Synthetic Biology / Population Dynamics / Yeast |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The project has rapidly proceeded and several key milestones have been achieved.
1. The first paper from this project has been provisionally accepted in the journal mSystems. This work began as a pilot study and thanks to the generous KAKENHI support developed into, what we hope, will be a well cited Japan/Germany collaborative study.
2. The development of a functioning 4-strain yeast mutualism system has been completed. This required the development of several new yeast strains. These strains grow by cooperating with each other. Moreover, numerous growth tests on this new system have been performed. We will use this system (and hope others will too) to study the evolution of complex cooperation dynamics.
3. We have started to draft the next paper from this work describing the 4-strain system and using it to investigate the process co-evolution. As it stands, the 4-strain system has behaved as expected and in a manner consistent with computer-based modelling. Due to this we hope that the produced work is a wide interest.
This project was supported by a research intern from the UK. The student made considerable process towards the development of a related yeast system that we hope will also be published soon.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
We've been lucky to have rapidly developed the novel yeast strains. This process is sometimes be more complex than initially planned but strains functions as expected.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Over the next 6 months we will submit our next publication, initially, to the journal eLife. We will continue to further develop our yeast system to facilitate greater dynamic modelling.
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| Causes of Carryover |
We had hoped that the publication that was just accepted would have been paid for in the previous year.
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Research Products
(1 results)
