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Takane Katayama received his Ph.D. in applied molecular microbiology in 1999. In 2002, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the laboratory led by Prof. Kenji Yamamoto, where he begun research on gut microbes. Over the past decades, his work has focused on the functional analysis of bifidobacterial genes and enzymes involved in the degradation of human milk oligosaccharides and mucin O-glycans. His research has made significant contributions to elucidating how bifidobacteria dominate in the gut of breastfed infants.