Taichi OGUCHI, Ph.D.


Assistant Professor
Tsukuba Plant Innovation Reseaerch Center, T-PIRC
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of Tsukuba

Reseaech and education areas

Transgenic engineering of forestry trees in environmental stress tolerance, biomass production, improving of biomass utilization, etc.

Evaluation of transgenic plants in the confined field/ semi-confined screen house

Plant environmental response modeling using statistics and computational science

Environmental risk assessment of transgenic plants

Food safety of transgenic plants

GMO analysis on food staff



In vitro culture and propagaion of Eucalyptus trees


Salt-tolerant evaluation of transgenic Eucalyptus harboring McRBP, a novel solt tolerant gene derived from ice plant, in semi-confined screen house
(Tran, Oguchi et al., 2019, modified)


Transcriptional enhancement of a bacterial choline oxidase A gene improves the glycine betaine production and salinity stress tolerance of Eucalyptus camaldulensis trees
(Tran, Oguchi et al., 2018, modified)



Confined feild trial and environmental risk assessment of trasgenic Eucalyptus harboring a bacterial choline oxidase A gene
(Oguchi et al., 2014, modified)

Field evaluation of transgenic Popluar harboring, an Arabidopsis garactinol synthase gene, AtGolS2.
Shikakura, Oguchi et al., 2022, modified)


Predictive model for low-temperature damage to eucalyptus using small-scale field data.
Chubachi, Oguchi et al., 2023, modified)



Design of lignocellulose plant biomass improving enzymatic sacchalization by the fusion enzyme of laccase and cellulose-binding-domain
(Figure is shown Arabidopsis data; Iiyoshi, Oguchi et al., 2017, modified)


Multiplex PCR method for simultaneous qualitative detection and distinguish method of 8 events of GM maize
(Onishi, Oguchi et al., 2005, modified)

Publications (a part)

Also see Google Scholar and TRIOS

Education

Mar. 1997 Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, BSc in Agr

Mar. 1999 University of Tsukuba, MS in Biosystem

Mar. 2004 University of Tsukuba, PhD in Science

Positions held

Apr. 2004 - Oct. 2008  Postdoc in GMO detection Unit/ National Food Research Inst. [Curr. NARO]

Nov. 2008 - Mar. 2010  Postdoc in Izawa Lab/ National Inst of Agribiological Sciences [Curr. NARO]

Apr. 2010 - Assistant Prof in Gene Research Center/ University of Tsukuba

Award

May 2011 Incentive award by Japanese Society of Food Hygiene and Safety
(R&D of multiplex PCR methods for detection of GM maize in food staffs)

contact

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We also welcome consultations on joint research projects.

oguchi.taichi.ge(at)u.tsukuba.ac.jp