Research topics for three programs (Extremophiles Research Program, Cooperative Research Project for Extremophiles and Deep Subsurface Extremophiles Research Program) of Extremobiosphere Research Center in last 5 years, 2004-2008.

Abstract

Extremobiosphere Research Center (XBR) have been challenging to discover not only basic studies for Marine Microbiology, Biology and Ecosystems, but also their application studies for contributing to develop our society and economy. Then we have obtained many creative scientific results, and useful biomaterials cooperation with the industrial companies. In this article, the research topics of three programs, Extremophiles Research Program, Cooperative Research Project for Extremophiles and Deep Subsurface Extremophiles Research Program, were introduced and their summaries were described. The detailed report of those three programs results was published separately with this report, in the book “Research Report of Extremobiosphere Research Center (March, 2009, JAMSTEC)”. By the way, the report of another program of XBR, Marine Biology and Ecology Research Program, was published in JAMSTEC-R Vol. 9, number 1.