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SOCIETY FOR BIOSCIENCE, BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND AGROCHEMISTRY
JAPAN SOCIETY FOR BIOSCIENCE,
BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND
AGROCHEMISTRY
- Focusing on Life, Food, and Environmental Sciences -
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Current Studies in Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry | |
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Academy of Science |
| Agricultural Chemistry is a unique research field arising in Japan and
covers a wide range of bioscience, biotechnology, and agrochemistry, being
based on the study of living things in general and agricultural organisms
in particular. Agricultural Chemistry started in Japan approximately one
century ago. The era started with chemical research dealing simply with
agriculture. Since then, research on general living organisms and their
bio-products along with |
specific organisms in agriculture and agricultural products
has enabled the unique progress due to the wider range of systematic natural
science in Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. Nowadays, research
covering bioscience/ biotechnology in the food and environmental sciences
occupies a central position in modern, sophisticated bioscience and biotechnology
in Japan, which is regarded sufficiently throughout the world as a general
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Fields of Research
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| The study of Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry
is specifically scientific research on life phenomena of plants, animals
and microorganisms, the chemical structures and functions of their bio-products,
and advanced fields, investigated chemically and biologically for basic
to applied use. The comprehensive fields of research are as follows. |
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| Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry
(1) Isolation, structure, and biological activities of naturally occurring substances (2) Metabolism and biosynthesis of biologically active substances (3) Organic synthesis Enzymology (1) Isolation and purification (2) Enzyme kinetics (3) Structure and function (4) Biosynthesis and production (5) Enzyme inhibitors (6) Enzyme engineering (7) Protein engineering Animal Science (1) Human and animal nutrition (2) Metabolism and its regulation (3) Cell technology (4) Genetic engineering (5) Immunological technology Physical and Analytical Chemistry (1) Analysis of living components (2) Biosensors, (3) Immunoassays Biopolymer Science (1) Proteins, (2) Nucleic acids, (3) Polysaccharides, (4) Lipids, (5) Conjugates |
Food Science (1) Chemistry, biochemistry and physiological functions of food constituents (2) Food processing and preservation (3) Food technology (4) Food safety and its analysis (5) Food production and engineering Microbiology (including Virology) (1) Screening, identification and classification (2) Physiology and morphology (3) Genetics and genetic engineering (4) Cell membranes and organelles (5) Metabolism and its regulation (6) Fermentation of metabolites (7) Production of enzymes and single cells (8) Biomass utilization Plant Science (1) Nutrition and soil science (2) Metabolism and its regulation (3) Cell technology (4) Genetic engineering Environmental Science (1) Remediation (2) Monitoring of environment (3) Decomposition of polluting toxic compounds, and bio-remediation technology |
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| Contributions - contributions to industry and society - |
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| Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry investigations have consequently been directed toward human welfare through promoting industrial developments. The research contributions are invaluable to many industries, | particularly in the cognate industries of fermentation, chemistry and biochemistry, medicines and pharmaceuticals, foods and feeds, and agriculture, providing the benefits for practical human needs shown in the tree. |
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Looking forward to
the 21st century
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| In the recent few years, science and technology in the name of new bioscience/new biotechnology have successfully been advanced, it now being possible to elucidate the molecular events of underlying life phenomena. This has enabled sensational facilitation of industrial production for human needs. The development of new basic science and applied techniques has had a great impact on classical chemistry and biology, the necessity for exclusive | originality requiring better skilled technical research being realized. Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry reflect the rapid changes of bioscience/biotechnology, and the food and environmental fields, and progressive research on them is steadily contributing to the enhancement of human welfare in the 21st century. |
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Organizations and Activities
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| The Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry was founded in 1924 as an academic organization called the Agricultural Chemical Society of Japan, with the objective of contributing to scientific, technological and industrial developments. After steady development of the organization and activities, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan officially recognized the society in 1957, and in 1989 the Agricultural Chemical Society of Japanchanged its name to the current | Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. The organization, consisting of researchers, technologists, students and private organizations in various fields of bioscience and biotechnology, celebrated its 70th anniversary in 1994. In order to further promote international activities and to realize funds for international conferences, the society widely stresses the importance of agricultural science. |
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Organization
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| The society has its headquarters in Tokyo, with seven branches in appropriate regions of the country, as shown below. The executive committee, consisting of twenty-three directors headed by a chairman (Dr. Prof. Kenji Mori, Science University of Tokyo, for the 2001-2003 term), fulfills | functions constantly in collaboration with the administrative board at the headquarters. Seven branches in the Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kansai, Chu-Shikoku and Nishi-Nihon districts coordinate activities. | |
Hokkaido branch (Sapporo) http://www.agr.hokudai.ac.jp/jsbba/ Tohoku branch (Morioka) Kanto branch (Tokyo) Chubu branch (Nagoya) Kansai branch (Kyoto) Chu-shikoku branch (Tottori) |
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Membership
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| The Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry
comprises the following members. Honorary members Qualified members with notable achievements in Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. Emeritus members Members who have helped the society. Full members Individuals with academic knowledge of Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry or other relations to the academy. Student members Students of universities, junior and senior colleges, and comparable schools. |
Organization members Organizations and institutions, i.e. enterprises, industrial laboratories, universities, public examination centers, research centers, and libraries, concerned with Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. Sustaining members Sponsoring organizations or individuals supporting the aims of the society. Foreign members Foreign readers of the society journal with close connections to Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. At the end of March 1999, the membership totalled more than thirteen thousand, including about four hundred foreigners representing thirty countries. |
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Meetings
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| Conferences and meetings are held throughout the nation. The society holds an annual meeting of three or four days duration each spring in a main university town, presenting two thousand original papers and attracting up to five thousand five hundred participants. These meetings have become some of the largest national conferences on the chemical and biological fields. The society occasionally holds "Kagaku to Seibutsu" (Bioscience & Biotechnology) symposia. All the lectures are given by invited speakers who are selected from amongst those challenging the new frontiers of Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. The society has often worked together with the Chemical Society of Japan, the | Japan Biochemical Society, and other related societies in Japan, to sponsor a number of national and international conferences on scientific subjects of mutual interest. Furthermore, the regional branches throughout the year hold general meetings, regular meetings, symposia, citizen's fora, and lecture meetings. Two or three branches occasionally cooperate and hold joint meetings. The wide fields of academy and technology enable us to appreciate up-to-date information on Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry and connected fields. The meeting summaries and lecture abstracts are published in the society's journal, Nippon Nogeikagaku Kaishi. | |
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Funds
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| The society provides funds for seminars, symposia, and lecture
meetings on Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry and related fields
presented by members or foreign scientists with the following objectives: (1) Teachers, students, and researchers from universities and private organizations are able to participate. |
(2) The spread of specialized knowledge on Bioscience, Biotechnology,
and Agrochemistry and related fields. (3) To promote and encourage young scientists for future development. Funds are also available for members' creative plans throughout the year. |
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Awards
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| The Society has been awarding the following four prizes
annually. The first goes to those who have made the greatest academic
achievements in the fields of Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry,
and the second to those who have made the most outstanding contributions
to the development of these fields during their careers. The Japan Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry Society Award Awarded to members with honorable research achievements in the fields of Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. The Japan Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry Society Senior Scientist Award Awarded to members especially distinguished in the development of Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. The Japan Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry Society Award for Achievement in Technological Research Awarded to members with technical achievements of practical use in the fields of Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. The Japan Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry Society Award for the Encouragement of Young Scientists Awarded to members under 40 years old with honorable research contributions, with the expectation of future progress in extending Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. |
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Publications
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Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry An English periodical consisting of research papers and reviews dealing with life phenomena of animals, plants, and microorganisms, the structures and systems for their production, adding further details, from basic to applied. This periodical does not overlap the society's Kagaku to Seibutsu. |
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Kagaku to Seibutsu As a Members' Journal, (Kagaku to Seibutsu) serves to connect the Association with its members as well as maintain links between the members themselves. The Journal covers issues not only from agricultural chemistry but also from a wide range of natural sciences, and features them in different sections including Outlooks, General Overview, Technology, Courses, and Roundtable Discussions. Research papers related to agricultural chemistry are also featured. The Journal is also for sale to non-members at bookstores and other locations. Information on the Association's events, as well as relevant lectures, symposia, workshops, excursion tours and other events is made available to our members in the form of "Announcements to Members." |
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Current Studies in Bioscience, Biotechnology, |
| Microbiology - Gene and gene engineering | |
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| Mammalian Science - Nutrition in humans and livestock | |
<<Photo>> Intestinal epithelium involved in the absorption of nutrients. |
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| Enzymology - Protein engineering | |
Modification of enzyme functions by protein engineering. |
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| Bioorganic Chemistry - Bioactive substances | |
Analysis of ecdysone, an insect hormone, regulating molting and metamorphosis. |
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| Environmental Science - Bioremediation/ genetically modified foods | |
Analysis and regulation of factors responsible for environmental deterioration.
Creation of novel crops or foods by means of biotechnology. |
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| Food Science - Physiology of taste | |
Analysis of taste receptors transforming chemical signals into taste
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Screening
and molecular breeding of microbes for the production of useful compounds.
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"Welcome!"
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Members of the society have the following
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Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology,
and Agrochemistry Office
Gakkai Center Building, Yayoi 2-4-16, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032 Japan Tel. 03-3811-8789 Fax. 03-3815-1920 |
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