Osaka University, International Center for Biotechnology

「UNESCO Biotechnology School in Asia」was officially approved.

Four students in ICBiotech (Japanese course) have successfully presented a defense of their master thesis on Mon. 20.

As a part of International Cooperation Agency's project, ICBiotech accepts 2 reserchers from the project of "Research and Development of Therapeutic Products against Infectious Diseases, especially Dengue Virus Infection".
Term of stay: 20 Feb.2012 - 27 Feb. 2012
Researchers：
Dr.Ms.Anicha Leuungchaichaweng Medical Scientist/ Medical Biotechnolog Center, Department of Medical Sciences Ministry of Public Health
Dr.Mr. Apichai Prachasupsap Medical scientist/ Medical Biotchnology Center, Department of Medical Sciences Ministry of Public Health
Hosting Lab: Fujiyama Lab

Prof. Takuya Nihira, Director of ICBiotech, gave a presentation as a invited speaker at the 3rd General Assembly of the JSPS Alumni Forum of Thailand (JAFT) and JSPS-NRCT RONPAKU Medal Award Ceremony which was held at Siam City Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand.
Title:Research experience between Thailand and Japan with JSPS programs
-http://jsps-th.org/?p=2149

Prof. Takuya Nihira, Director of ICBiotech, gave a presentation as a invited speaker at The 23rd annual Meeting of the Thai Society for Biotechnology which was held at Imperial Queens Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand.
Title:Manipulation of secondary metabolism for obtainingnovel bioactive compounds
-http://www.tsb2011.com/#

Information from JSPS Asian CORE Program titled "Next-Generation Bioproduction Platform leveraging subtropical microbial bioresources";
The following conferences was held in Bangkok, Thailand.
-JSPS YSS2011
Date: Jan. 31, 2012
Venue: Faculty of Science, Mahidol University
-JSPS Joint Symposium2011
Date: Feb. 1, 2012
Venue: Imperial Queen's Park Hotel
For details, please refer the following programs;
-JSPS YSS2011
-JSPS Joint Symposium2011

Takada High School, Mie, visited ICBiotech on Dec.27.

Dr.Soo-Hwan YEO(Fermentation & Food Processing Division, Department of Agro-food Resources National Academy of Agricultural Science, Korea) visited ICBiotech on Dec.22.

7 Investigators of Vietnum goverment(i.e. Ministry of Education and Training、Ministry of Science and Technology, etc) visited ICBiotech on Dec.21.

We had a seminar by Dr. Takao Ohashi, Assistant Professor, Department of ICBiotech, on Dec. 20
Title：Glycoengineering for therapeutic glycoprotein production in yeast.

Dr. Prijambada, Irfan Dwidya (Professor of Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia) visited ICBiotech on Dec.19.

Dr. Raymond L. Rodriguez (Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis) visited ICBiotech and held a seminar on Dec.15.Dr.Rodrigues was a Visiting professor of IBC on 1988.
Title：Diet-Gene Interactions as a Nutridynamical System for Health and Disease Prevention.

Donation for flood affected Thailand, which was donated by labs and related labs of Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, was delivered to the Royal Thai Consulate-General, Osaka, by Prof. Nihira, Director of ICBiotech.

JSPS Asian CORE Program titled "Next-Generation Bioproduction Platform leveraging subtropical microbial bioresources", which is one of the international cooperation project of our center, has received the A levele valuation from the JSPS during the intermediate evaluation period.

Dr. Nguyen Anh TUAN, Rector, and his group from Can Tho University, Vietnam visited ICBiotech on Nov. 8.

Information from JSPS Asian CORE Program titled "Next-Generation Bioproduction Platform leveraging subtropical microbial bioresources";
The following conferences held in Bangkok, Thailand, has been postponed as follows;
-JSPS Asian CORE Program Coordinator Meeting 2011; 30 Jan, 2012
-JSPS Young Scientsts Seminar 2011; 31 Jan, 2012
-JSPS Joint Symposium 2011; 1 Feb, 2012
For details, please refer the following programs;
-JSPS YSS2011
-JSPS Joint Symposium2011

Information from JSPS Asian CORE Program titled "Next-Generation Bioproduction Platform leveraging subtropical microbial bioresources";
The following conferences scheduled to be held in Bangkok will be postponed due to severe floods.
-JSPS Asian CORE Program Coordinator Meeting 2011
-JSPS Young Scientsts Seminar 2011
-JSPS Joint Symposium 2011

We had a seminar by Dr. Dana Ulanova, Research Fellow of ICBiotech, on Oct.17.
Title: Analysis of DeoR-family transcriptional regulators in Streptomyces avermitilits.

We had a seminar by Dr. ITO, Michiho, Visiting Assoc. Prof. of ICBiotech, （Assoc. Prof. of Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto Univ.）on Oct.12.
Title:Sustainable Use of Medicinal Plant Resources in Indochina -- Studies on Agarwood through a Combination of Field Surveys and Lab Experiments.

Prof. Sakarindr Bhumiratana, President of KMUTT (Thailand) visited ICBiotech on Oct.4.

Five studesnts in International program of Frontier Biotechnology (English course) were assigned in ICBiotech; 4 to Nihira lab. and 1 to Fujiyama lab.

Information from JSPS Asian CORE Program titled "Next-Generation Bioproduction Platform leveraging subtropical microbial bioresources";
The following conferences will be held in Bangkok, Thailand in October.
-JSPS YSS2011
Date: Oct. 26, 2011
Venue: Faculty of Science, Mahidol University
-JSPS Joint Symposium2011
Date: Oct. 27, 2011
Venue: Imperial Queen's Park Hotel
For details, please refer the following programs;
-JSPS YSS2011
-JSPS Joint Symposium2011

Commencement Ceremony in Biotechnology Course was held. In ICBiotech, five persons recieved their Master's Degree in International program of Frontier Biotechnology (English course) from Osaka University.

This is a seminar inform: we will have a seminar given by Dr. Marasri from KMUTT in Thailand. She joined in our center in this september, and she will kindly give us a semiar.Details of the seminar is as follows:
 Date; Sep. 30th(Fri), 2011, 15:00-
Place; Room C3-531, Memorial Hall in Department of Biotechnology
Title; Microalgal Research @ KMUTT

This is a seminar inform:We will have a seminar given by Assoc. Prof. ITO,Michiho（Kyoto Univ. , Japan）, the Visiting Assoc. Prof. at ICBiotech,Osaka Univ.. We hope your participation.
 Date; Oct. 12th(Wed), 2011, 14:30-16:00
Place; Room C3-531, Memorial Hall in Department of Biotechnology
Language; English
Title;Sustainable Use of Medicinal Plant Resources in Indochina – Studies on Agarwood through a Combination of Field Surveys and Lab Experiments

Presentation meeting by participants in the "Short Stay and Short Visit Program" supported by JASSO was held on Sep. 22.

One Ph.D. student in ICBiotech has successfully defended her doctor thesis on Sep.20.

6 students from Mahidol University, Thailand, KMUTT, Thailand, Can Tho University, Viet Nam and Thai Binh Medical University, Viet Nam is participating in the Short Stay and Short Visit Program supported by JASSO. 2 are staying at Nihira lab and 3 are staying at Fujiyama lab for 3 weeks from 3 September.

5 researchers from Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Bangladesh arrived at ICBiotech and participated in the orientation.
They will do research and have discussion at assigned labs at Osaka U, Tohoku U and Kyushu U until 21 September.

10 researchers from Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam and Bangladesh arrived at ICBiotech and participated in the orientation.
They will do research and have discussion at assigned labs at Osaka U, U of Tokyo, Kyoto U and Kyushu U until 27 August.

Five students in ICBiotech (English course) has successfully presented a defense of his doctor thesis.

Prof. Dr. Anas M. Fauzi, Vice President and Dr. Rinekso Sukmadi, Head of International Collaboration Office, Bogor Agricultural University　(Indonesia) visited the ICBiotech.

Associate Professor Nguyen Thanh Phuong and their group from Can Tho University, Nha Trang Pasteur Institute, Binh Dien Whole Sale Market Campany, Vietnam visited the ICBiotech.

B4 Japanese studesnts were assigned, 5 to Nihira lab., 5 to Fujiyama lab. in ICBiotech.

Two students from Viet Nam & Indonesia in assingned to Nihira Lab. in ICBiotech.
One student from Thailand in FrontierLab@OsakaU assigned to Fujiyama Lab. in ICBiotech.

- We would like to have a seminar of Prof. Busaba Yongsmith （Kasetsart Univ. in Thailand）, the Visiting Professor relating to JSPS program to our International Center for Biotechnology (ICBiotech). Hope your participation.
Date; Mar. 22, 2011 (Tue) at 15:00
Place; Room C3-432, in Department of Biotechnology
Language; English
Title; Value creation of Monascus kaoliang KB9 and its Color Mutants

Vise President, Dr. Nguyen Huynh Minh Quyen from Viet Nam National University; VNU-Hanoi, visits to our ICBiotech to make researches relating to JSPS Asian CORE Program titled "next-genereation bioproduction platform leveraging subtropical microbial bioresoruces", staying for 3 weeks.

-Three students in ICBiotech (Japanese course) have successfully presented a defense of their master thesis.

- Information from JST/JICA program.
*　Dr. Prachasuphap Apichai (Thailand)
Medical Scientist/Medical Biotechnolog Center, Ministry of Public Health
*　Dr.Pitaksajjakul Pannamthip (Thailand)F
Lecturer/Department of Social and Environmental Medicine
and Excellence Center for Antibody Research, Mahidol University
*　Dr.Dhepakson Panadda (Thailand)F
Medical Technologist/Medical Biotechnology Center, Ministry of Public Health
Three researchers visits Fujiyama lab. in our ICBiotech to make researches, staying for 1 month.

- Information from JSPS Asian CORE Program in 2010 titled "Next-Generation Bioproduction Platform leveraging subtropical microbial bioresources";
The 2nd domestic conference in ICBiotech. building was held on January 17th.
Details: Refer to this page JSPS Asian CORE Program

Uploaded Website of Fujiyama laboratory in English.

- We would like to have a seminar of Prof. UEDA, Mitsuyoshi （Kyoto Univ. in Japan）, the Visiting Professor at International Center for Biotechnology (ICBiotech). Hope your participation.
  Date; Dec 14, 2010 (Tue) at 10:00 AM
  Place; Room C3-531, Memorial Hall in Department of Biotechnology
  Language; Japanese
  Title; Tracing the Origin of Evolution at the Molecular Level. (translational)

- Information from JSPS Asian CORE Program in 2010 titled "Next-Generation Bioproduction Platform leveraging subtropical microbial bioresources";
Uploaded the pictures at Hanoi Seminar
Oct 14th: JSPS Asian CORE "The Young Scientist Seminar2010"
Oct 15th: JSPS Asian CORE "Joint Seminar 2010"
Details: Refer to this page JSPS Asian CORE Program

- We would like to have a seminar of Assoc.Prof. ARIOKA, Manabu（Univ. of Tokyo, in Japan）, the Visiting Assoc. Professor at International Center for Biotechnology (ICBiotech). Hope your participation.
  Date; Dec 6, 2010 (Mon) at 2:00 PM
  Place; Room C3-531, Memorial Hall in Department of Biotechnology
  Language; Japanese
  Title; Basic and applied researchs of Aspergillus oryzae

Ms. Mayura Janhom from Mahidol University in Thailand visits ICBiotech to make researches, staying for 2 weeks.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Quyen Dinh Thi from Viet Nam Academy of Science & Technology: VAST, Institute of Biotechnology: IBT, visits to our ICBiotech.

One student from Netherland in FrontierLab@OsakaU assigned to Nihira Lab. in ICBiotech.

One student from Thailand in FrontierLab@OsakaU assigned to Nihira Lab. in ICBiotech.

- Information about a seminar of JSPS Asian CORE Program in 2010 titled "Next-Generation Bioproduction Platform leveraging subtropical microbial bioresources"; Prof. Takuya Nihira acts as a representative and cooperates with Dr. Duong Van Hop (Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology,Viet Nam National University, Hanoi) .
Oct 14th: JSPS Asian CORE "The Young Scientist Seminar2010"
Oct 15th: JSPS Asian CORE "Joint Seminar 2010"
Language: English
Venue: Center for Women & Development in Hanoi, Viet Num
Details: Refer to this page JSPS Asian CORE Program

Two studesnts in International program of Frontier Biotechnology (English course) were assigned, 1 to Fujiyama lab., 1 to Nihira lab. in ICBiotech.

- Intenational Collaboration Program of Graduate School for Faculty Development; http://www.icpgsfd-osaka-u.jp/en/index.html
Assistant Prof. Hiroshi Kinoshita in Nihira lab. in ICBiotech. attended to "Overseas FD Program 4th." ;
California State University, Fullerton; 2010 Sep.20-Oct.3

Commencement Ceremony in Biotechnology Course was held.
In ICBiotech, three persons recieved their Ph.D. and one person in International program of Frontier Biotechnology (English course) recived his Master's Degree from OSAKA University.

On September 1st, Dr. Takao OHASHI was assigned to Fujiyama laboratory in our International Center for Biotechnology as an assistant professor.

As a visiting researcher to Harashima lab. for JSPS Asian CORE Program, Dr. Chuenchit Boonchird from Mahidol University in Thailand visits our ICBiotech. , staying for 5 days.

Related: Entrance Exam. of Graduate School of Engineering in OSAKA univ.

Related: 2010 Osaka University Explanatory Sessions -- "Open Campus"

One student in ICBiotech (English course) has successfully presented a defense of his doctor thesis.

Three Japanese graduate students in ICBiotech gave their presentation of the results of their studies in 2010 KAIST（Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) - Osaka University Graduate Students Symposium

- We would like to have a seminar of the Visiting Professors at International Center for Biotechnology (ICBiotech).

Date: JUL 13th 2010 (Tue) at 3:00 PM
Place: Room C3-531, Memorial Hall in Department of Biotechnology
Language: English
Title:
Streptomyces antibiotic production: from regulation and metabolomics to synthetic biology
Speakers:
1. Eriko Takano
Assistant Professor
Rosalind Franklin Fellow Microbial Physiology University of Groningen
2. Prof. Dr. Rainer Breitling
SULSA Professor of Systems Biology, University of Glasgow
Honorary Professor of Computational Systems Biology, University of Groningen

-One student in ICBiotech (English course) has successfully presented a defense of her doctor thesis.

Sorry for the belated note,
-Three students in ICBiotech (Japanes1e course) have successfully presented a defense of their doctor thesis.

Presidnt, Dr. Supachai Samappito and their group from Mahasarakham University in Thailand visits our ICBiotech.

"UNESCO Conference on Capacity-Building in Life Science" in Manila appears in Newsletter on the website of PSM (Philippine Society for Microbiology).
See: http://www.philsocmicro.com/node/34

Ms. Pattra Charnchai from Mahidol University in Thailand visits ICBiotech to make researches, staying for 2 weeks.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sukathida Ubol from Mahidol University visits our ICBiotech.

Engr. Ermie M. Bacarra (Chief, Human Resources and Institutional
Development Division,Philippine Council for Advanced Science and
Technology Research and Development (PCASTRD), Department of Science and Technology (DOST)) visits our ICBiotech.

B4 Japanese studesnts were assigned, 4 to Fujiyama lab., 5 to Nihira lab. in ICBiotech.

Ten members (3 for Fujiyama lab. and 7 for Nihira lab.) in ICBiotech gave their presentation of the results of their studies in Annual Meeting of JSBBA, Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry, in University of Tokyo.

Three Japanese graduate students in ICBiotech (2 for Fujiyama lab. and 1 for Nihira lab.) gave their presentation of the results of their studies in King Mongkut's University in Thailand.

Sorry for the belated note,
-Three students in ICBiotech (Japanes1e course) have successfully presented a defense of their doctor thesis.

Mr. NGUYEN HUNG LONG, Ministry of health, Vietnam FOOD Administration, visits to our ICBiotech.

Dr. Nuttanan Sinchaipanid and Prof. Ampol Mitrevej from Mahidol Univ. in Thailand visits our ICBiotech.

Ms. Ousana Boonlucksanawong from Mahidol University in Thailand visits ICBiotech to make researches, staying for 2 weeks.

- We would like to have a seminar for Asian young researchers in the Asian CORE program titled "Asian CORE Mini-Symposium 2010 on Bioproduction Platform Leveraging Subtropical Microbial Bioresources"

-Four students in ICBiotech (Japanese course) have successfully presented a defense of their master thesis.