Prof. Jurgen Rohr from University of Kentucky visited TIB

Prof . Jurgen Rohr from University of Kentucky visited TIB at the invitation of Prof . Tao Liu on Octorber 17 .Prof . Jibin Sun , the Deputy Director-General of TIB , on behalf of CAS , issued the certificate of CAS Visiting Professorship to Prof . Jurgen Rohr . Thereafter .Introduction to Prof . Jurgen Rohr : Prof . Jurgen Rohr now is the full Professor at the College of Pharmacy of the University of Kentucky in 2002 , and is the Director of the Division of Drug Discovery since.

Scientists developed a bioinformatics tool for accurate prediction of protein crystallization propensity

Structure biology always faces the multi-step failures in the experimental process of three-dimensional structure determination by X-ray crystallography , including sequence cloning , protein material production , purification .Melbourne Australia . They have recently developed a powerful bioinformatics tool termed as PredPPCrys ( See the accompanying Figure for a schematic illustration of the PredPPCrys approach ) for propensity analysis of the five major experimental steps involved in successful protein crystallization .

Biosynthesis of Rare Sugars Through Constructing a Recombination Pathway in an Engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum

Rare sugars have various biological functions and have been used as food additives , cancer cell suppressors and building blocks for anticancer and antiviral drugs .Because of rare existence of rare sugars in nature , microbial and enzymatic transformations have been developed for synthesis of rare sugars .After additional optimization of expression level of genes in the pathway and of the fermentation conditions , the engineered strain exhibited high efficiency for rare ketoses production .

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