Activity report

Our lab members YU FANGTING (M2), XU CHANG (M2), and WU ZHENGHAO (M2), successfully graduated from University of Tsukuba. Congratulations! We welcomed a new addition to our lab, WANG SITONG (research student), and together we held a farewell and welcome party.

At the 14th Japan-China Graduate Student Forum, AN GUANGQI（D2）、ZHANG HONGJIAN（D1）、YU FANGTING（M2）、XU CHANG (M2）、WU ZHENGHAO（M1）、YANG JINGWEI (M1)、Mizuno Rika（M1） in our lab gave their oral presentations. For all 142 presenters, GUANGQI AN won the Gold Award, XU CHANG and WU ZHENGHAO won the Silver Award, Mizuno Rika won the Bronze Award. Congratulations!

An interview with AN GUANGQI (D2), a student of our laboratory, was published in the Voices of International Students section of TSUKUBA JOURNAL (STUDENTS).

Our lab member AN GUANGQI（D2）and ZHU YUNXIN who had been a member of our lab until last year participated in poster presentation at the Water and Environment Technology (WET) Conference 2024.And ZHU YUNXIN won the best presentation award.

The environmental engineering course briefing session was held for Agro-biological Resource Sciences students at University of Tsukuba. Sensei and lab members introduced the research contents at the session. The students actively participated and were interested in the presented research, curriculum, and campus life.

We went to cherry blossom viewing for the first time in several years. Additionally, TIAN JIAXU (research student) and WEI WEN (research student) have joined the laboratory. We deepened our friendship while eating lunch under the cherry blossoms.

We are pleased to announce that two of our students, Morinaga Hikaru(M2) and Kenta Kobori (M2), received their master's degrees. Congratulations! In addition, SUN XIANG will　be employed as a postdoctoral researcher at Kumamoto University. We also welcomed Ms. Rika Mizuno (M1), who will join us this spring. We congratulate all the members on their new beginning.

[East Japan Branch] The 12th Japan Society for Biotechnology East Japan Branch Colloquium "Frontiers of Microbial Metabolic Engineering Research" was held at the University of Tsukuba Tokyo Campus, Bunkyo School Building on February 29, 2024. This colloquium focused on metabolic engineering in a broad sense and related new technologies, and some specialist in this field gave their introduction. All the participants exchanged and shared information on the latest research trends in this field. In addition, a poster session was held and our lab member AN GUANGQI and YANG JINGWEI gave their research presentation in this colloquium.

We held a year-end party of Yang lab at the University and everyone had a good time together. Especially, the students （Ayaka oshii ，Haruka Kume and Shun Oshiro）who newly joined Yang lab this year. Everyone gave a variety of wonderful performance.