The Society for Biotechnology, Japan

We are pleased to announce that 6 papers have been chosen for the 2011 Excellent Paper Award of the Society for Biotechnology, Japan.

Those papers were selected from all articles published in the volumes of 109 and 110 of the Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering in 2010 or in the volume 88 of  Seibutsu-kogaku Kaishi, based on their outstanding quality in both presentation and scientific contribution and the impact on the field of biotechnology.

• Improvement of isopropanol production by metabolically engineered Escherichia coli using gas stripping: JBB vol.110, no. 6, p. 696-701, 2010
  …Kentaro Inokuma, James C. Liao, Masahiro Okamoto and Taizo Hanai
  (Kyushu University, University of California)
   
•  Bioethanol production from ball milled bagasse using an on-site produced fungal enzyme cocktail and xylose-fermenting Pichia stipitis: JBB vol.110, no. 1, p. 18-25, 2010　
  … Benchaporn Buaban, Hiroyuki Inoue, Shinichi Yano, Sutipa Tanapongpipat, Vasimon Ruanglek, Verawat Champreda, Rath Pichyangkura, Sirirat Rengpipat and Lily Eurwilaichitr
  (Chulalongkorn University; BIOTEC, Thailand; AIST, Japan)
   
• Differential importance of trehalose accumulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in response to various environmental stresses JBB vol.109, no. 3, p. 262-266, 2010　
  …Siraje Arif Mahmud, Takashi Hirasawa and Hiroshi Shimizu
  (Osaka University)
   
• High-throughput screening of DNA binding sites for transcription factor AmyR from Aspergillus nidulans using DNA beads display system: JBB vol.109, no. 6, p. 519-525, 2010　
  …Takaaki Kojima, Yoko Hashimoto, Masashi Kato, Tetsuo Kobayashi and Hideo Nakano
  (Nagoya University)
   
• New monitoring approach for metabolic dynamics in microbial ecosystems using stable-isotope-labeling technologies: JBB vol.110, no. 1, p. 87-93, 2010
  …Yasuhiro Date, Yumiko Nakanishi, Shinji Fukuda, Tamotsu Kato, Satoshi Tsuneda, Hiroshi Ohno and Jun Kikuchi　
  (Waseda University, RIKEN Plant Science Center, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Yokohama City University, Nagoya University)
   
• Onset timing of transient gene expression depends on cell division: JBB vol.109, no. 1, p. 62-66, 2010
  …Kazumi Hakamada, Satoshi Fujita, and Jun Miyake
  (The University of Tokyo, Research Institute for Cell Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
   

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