First Sino–Canada Workshop on Biomass Transformation and Commercial Opportunities was successfully held at TIB, CAS

First Sino – Canada Workshop on Biomass Transformation and Commercial Opportunities was successfully held at Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology ( TIB ) , CAS from June 2 to June.Organized by China National Center for Biotechnology Development ( CNCBD-MOST ) and TIB , CAS . Prof . Shulin Chen from TIB and Dr . Aleks Patrzykat from NRC were appointed as the chairmen of the workshop .The success of this workshop not only laid a good foundation for the second workshop , but also for the substantial cooperation in the field of biomass between the two countries .

Prof. SUN Yuanxia gave a plenary lecture on “Rare Sugar Symposium 2014 in Kagawa”

Prof . SUN Yuanxia was invited to participate in the “ Rare Sugar Symposium 2014 in Kagawa ” organized by the International Society of Rare Sugar ( ISRS ) in Takamatsu , Japan , on March 29 .Named “ Biosynthesis of rare sugars using multi-enzyme coupling reaction in genetic engineering bacteria ” . The presentation showed the process and method for screening and constructing of engineering bacteria to produce rare sugars ( such as psicose .

Researchers found a novel L-arabinose isomerase from a food-grade microorganism

Professor Richard Clague Gardner visited TIB

Professor Ole Hindsgaul from Danish Carlseberg Laboratory Visited TIB

Three Biologists from Germany visited TIB

Dr. Huifeng Jiang provided a very-high-resolution view of bacteriophage lambda gene expression and identified many unappreciated potential open reading frames

Professor Geoff Webb from Monash University visited TIB

New advances in prediction of caspase and granzyme cleavage targets

Professor Richard Clague from the Royal Academy of Sciences of New Zealand Gardner visits TIB