JAMSTEC > Institute for Extra-cutting-edge Science and Technology Avant-garde Research (X-star) > Super-cutting-edge Grand and Advanced Research (SUGAR) Program > Achievements
Achievements
- 2010
- Proving the occurrence of electrical current generation across the Black Smoker Chimney (2010)
- 2009
- Challenging an armored monster eScaly-Footf gastropod (2009)
- Establishing a new record for organism's maximum proliferation temperature and discovering unusually heavy isotopic methane compositions (2008)(2009)
- Elucidation of geological, geochemical and microbiological interaction in the global deep-sea hydrothermal systems (1999-2009)
- 2007
- The most dreaded pathogensf ancestor, gthe previously unknownh deep-sea Epsilon proteobacteria, were cultivated and characterized comprehensively, and their genomes were determined for the first time in the world (2003-2007)
- 2006
- The worldfs first elucidation of genetic diversity and biogeography in unknown functional groups of microorganisms in subseafloor sediments of the East Pacific Continental Margins (2006)
- Proposing the Earth-Life interactive system gUltraH3 Linkage Hypothesish that supported the oldest ecosystem on Earth (2006)
- 2004
- Discovery of the oldest survivor of ecosystem on Earth in the deepest part of the active hydrothermal field in Indian Ocean (2004)