Graduate School of Science and Engineering Student Receives Student Presentation Award at the 7th Annual Conference on Molecular Robotics

Mr. Koichiro Akiyama, a master's student at Graduate School of Science and Engineering, received the Student Presentation Award at the 7th Annual Conference on Molecular Robotics.

Molecular robotics is a new academic field that aims to create robot-like systems using molecules as components.
Akiyama's group has shown that these can be used as micro-sized motors by encapsulating the removed membranes of the microorganism Chlamydomonas and its axonemes in liposomes, which are artificial lipid membrane vesicles.

Molecular robotics research is expected to have a variety of applications, including molecular robots for simultaneous diagnosis and drug administration, environmental monitoring, food tracing, and health monitoring, such as in the microscopic lethal sphere. This research is expected to contribute to the control of the movement of molecular robots that move in vivo in a microscopic death zone-like environment.

Awardees
Koichiro Akiyama (1st year, Master's course, Major in Frontier Bioscience)

Academic Society
The 7th Annual Conference on Molecular Robotics

Date of Award
March 14, 2024

Name of Award
Student Presentation Award

Title of Awarded Paper
Fabrication of Biohybrid Molecular Robots by Combining Chlamydomonas Decorticating Cells and Isolated Axonemes with Giant Liposomes

Co-author
Masato Hayashi (Teaching Assistant, Department of Frontier Bioscience and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Bioscience), Tomoyuki Kaneko (Professor, Major in Frontier Bioscience)