MinMido PJ results report

The “Everyone’s Euglena Project” (MinMido PJ) Initiated in 2019 Seeking new strains of euglena, we launched a citizen-participation research project where people from all over Japan sent us water samples. The collection of water samples was conducted over three years, from 2019 to 2021. This article presents a comprehensive summary of the samples collected so far! Participants and Total Number of Samples in the MinMido PJ Table 1: Summary of MinMido PJ from 2019-2021 YearParticipantsApplicationsArrived SamplesTotal Samples2019High School Students17 schools13 schools207

How is Everyone’s Euglena Analyzed? – Part 1: Cultivation

How are the euglena samples, collected and sent by people from various places, analyzed in the laboratory of the Microalgal Production Control Technology Research Team? The procedure is divided into four main steps: Cultivating the samples sent to us, Isolating them using a cell sorter, Reading the DNA sequence of each cultivated euglena candidate, and Comparing the read DNA sequences. In this article, we will introduce the cultivation of the samples sent to us. The first hurdle: Can it be cultivated? Our research team is on the hunt for euglena that mig

How is Everyone’s Euglena Analyzed? – Part 2: Isolation

How are the euglena samples, collected and sent by people from various places, analyzed in the laboratory of the Microalgal Production Control Technology Research Team? The procedure is divided into four main steps: Cultivating the samples sent to us, Isolating them using a cell sorter, Reading the DNA sequence of each isolated strain, and Comparing the read DNA sequences. In this article, we will introduce the isolation using a cell sorter. Euglena Cultivation and Isolation Figure 1: Cultivation and Isolation (Modified from Reference 1) While the “euglena candidates” that survived under stringent

How is Everyone’s Euglena Analyzed? – Part 3: Reading the DNA Sequence

How are the euglena samples, collected and sent by people from various places, analyzed in the laboratory of the Microalgal Production Control Technology Research Team? The procedure is divided into four main steps: Cultivating the samples sent to us, Isolating them using a cell sorter, Reading the DNA sequence of each cultivated euglena candidate, and Comparing the read DNA sequences. In this article, we will introduce the reading of the DNA sequence of each euglena candidate. How Do We Determine Something is “Euglena”? We humans classify various organisms by naming them. Euglena, especially Eugl

How is Everyone’s Euglena Analyzed? – Part 4: Comparing the Read DNA

How are the euglena samples, collected and sent by people from various places, analyzed in the laboratory of the Microalgal Production Control Technology Research Team? The procedure is divided into four main steps: Cultivating the samples sent to us, Isolating them using a cell sorter, Reading the DNA sequence of each cultivated euglena candidate, and Comparing the read DNA sequences. In this article, we will introduce the comparison of the read DNA sequences. Expressing Feature Comparisons with a Phylogenetic Tree Figure 1: Clip features and phy

Everyone’s Euglena Project (MinMido PJ)

Discovering a New Potential in the World: Seeking New Applications for Euglena! Hello everyone, I’m Kengo Suzuki from the RIKEN Institute. I encountered Euglena during my time at the University of Tokyo, and for over 15 years, I have been researching the potential of Euglena, a microorganism that has the power to change the world. In pursuit of implementing “Health for Earth and People” with Euglena, I founded a venture company called Euglena Co. Ltd. while in university. We’ve been cultivating Euglena on Ishigaki Island and selling Euglena-based foods and cosmetics. Throughout this