BBSRC Council member
Professor Eriko Takano is a member of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Council.
Eriko is Professor of Synthetic Biology at The University of Manchester and director of the BBSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre ‘SYNBIOCHEM’. She is also a visiting professor for Osaka University. She is the deputy head of the Department of Chemistry and the section head of Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry.
Eriko studied pharmacy at Kitasato University, School of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan with Professor Satoshi Omura (2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine). After working as a researcher at the research and development facility of Meiji Seika Kaisha, Yokohama, Japan, she moved to the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, where she obtained her PhD from the University of East Anglia.
Before her arrival in Manchester, she held positions as a Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and as an Assistant Professor (C1) in the Department of Microbiology / Biotechnology, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Eriko is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Eriko’s research interests cover many interdisciplinary facets of microbial engineering biology:
- bioinformatics software development
- pathways assembly
- untargeted metabolomics
- metabolic engineering for fine and speciality chemicals, including natural products
Period of appointment: 1 October 2024 to 31 September 2027.
Last updated: 17 October 2024