Osaka University, International Center for Biotechnology

One Ph. D. candidate in ICBiotech had an oral presentation. Photo

Assoc. Prof. (Lecturer) MISAKI Ryo received the Incitement Award of the Japanese Association for Animal Cell Technology (2019).
Subject: "Establishment and application of glycosylation pathway-modified mammalian cells"   Photo

Two graduate students in ICBiotech（English course）have successfully presented a defense of their master thesis.   Photos

Osaka University conferred an honorary degree to Dr. Rodriguez of the University of California, Davis (Collaborative professor of ICBiotech) on June 16, 2021.
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The Ambassador Party from Embassy of the republic of Indonesia in Tokyo Japan visited ICBiotech.   Photos

Joint Symposium titled "Development of Green Technology for a Sustainable Society" with Universitas Brawijaya was held onlie.        Details   Photo

Instead of the welcome party, we sent the welcome gifts to Ms. Araki and Ms. Itadani who joined from April.   Photo

"ICBiotech Exchange Agreements" is updated.

"Organization" - "Center Staff" is updated.

New students were assigned to ICBiotech. One M1 student and seven B4 students and to Fujiyama laboratory and three M1 students and six B4 students to Honda laboratory.

Ms. ARAKI Megumi joined as an administrative official and Ms. ITADANI Akiko joined as a technical assistant at Fujiyama Lab. We are happy to have them at ICBiotech.

Ms. MATSUMOTO Reiko (Administrative Official) retired on March 31. We are very grateful for her cooperation.

We sent the farewell gift and the bouquet to Ms. MATSUMOTO who will retire at the end of this month.   Photos

Aachen-Osaka Online Joint Symposium 2021 Day 2 was held.        Details   Photo

Eight students in ICBiotech (Japanese course) have successfully defended their Master's thesis.   Photos

"About ICBiotech" is updated.

Aachen-Osaka Online Joint Symposium 2021 Day 1 was held.        Details   Photo

Mini-symposium titled "Development of biopharmaceuticals using animal cell culture" was held online with the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand.        Details   Photo

Associate Professor KOJIMA Nobuhiko (Yokohama City University, Guest Associate Professor of ICBiotech) held a seminar entitled "Designs for multicellular spheroids".

"Publication"-"Annual Report of ICBiotech" is updated.

Mini-symposium titled "Thailand-Japan mini symposium colloquium #2 Diverse biotechnologies based on marine and terrestrial organisms" was held online with the Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand.        Details   Photo

Alumni Dr. Konstantin B. Konstantinov received the 2020 Osaka University Global Alumni Fellow.   Photo

"Organization" - "Guest/Visiting Professors" is updated.

An online workshop entitled "Fermentation technologies in Japan -their contribution to sustainable society-" was held with a support from JST SAKURA Science Plan. More than 120 participants from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao, Malaysia, Mongolia, and Taiwan, joined the workshop.  Photos

A mini symposium "Thailand-Japan mini symposium colloquium #1 Biodiesel production by oleaginous yeasts" was held. A group of Thai researchers from the Department of Science, Kasetsart University, with Prof. Savitree Limtong (Osaka University Alumni Fellow) as a core member, participated.   Details   Photos

Professor UMENO Daisuke (Chiba University, Guest Professor of ICBiotech) held a seminar entitled "A simple and versatile strategy to engrave information-processing functions on proteins".   Photos

"ICBiotech Exchange Agreements" is updated.

THE 4th JOINT SYMPOSIUM OF OSAKA UNIVERSITY WITH HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF BRUNEI DARUSSALAM was held online. Prof. Dr. FUJIYAMA Kazuhito (Director of ICBiotech) and Prof. Dr. HONDA Kohsuke introduced their researches to the post graduate students of UBD, UNISSA and UTB.
UBD; UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
UNISSA; UNIVERSITI ISLAM SULTAN SHARIF ALI
UTB; UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI BRUNEI               Photo