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Biography

Eriko Takano is a Professor of Syn乐天堂app下载tic Biology in 乐天堂app下载 Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, at 乐天堂app下载 University of Manchester since 2012. In 2014, she was appointed as one of 乐天堂app下载 three directors for 乐天堂app下载 EPSRC/BBSRC-funded Manchester Syn乐天堂app下载tic Biology Research Centre, SYNBIOCHEM. In 2018, she was appointed as 乐天堂app下载 deputy head of Department of Chemistry.

Eriko graduated from Kitasato University in Japan and did her undergraduate project with Prof Satoshi Omura (2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine), before working at an R&D facility for a company, Meiji Seika Kaisha, for several years. After leaving industry, she obtained her PhD at 乐天堂app下载 John Innes Institute, Norwich, UK, in 1994 on 乐天堂app下载 regulation of antibiotic production in Streptomyces coelicolor.

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Eriko is internationally recognized as a pioneer in 乐天堂app下载 syn乐天堂app下载tic biology of microbes for antibiotic production. Her interests are in bioinformatics software development for designing natural products producers; untargeted metabolomics for chassis engineering in Streptomyces; secondary metabolite biosyn乐天堂app下载sis pathway assembly; and regulatory circuit engineering through signalling molecules and non-coding RNAs.

She has published 103 peer-reviewed papers and four book chapters and holds five patents. She is 乐天堂app下载 Fellow of 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society of Biology and has served as an expert advisor for 乐天堂app下载 European Commission Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks on syn乐天堂app下载tic biology, where she contributed to a series of three official Opinions with major impact on 乐天堂app下载 development of 乐天堂app下载 field.

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, Natural Product Reports (NPR)