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

Professor Juergen Wiegel gives a presentation at TIB

Juergen Wiegel was invited to visit Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology(TIB)on May 23th.Juergen Wiegel was a professor of microbiology in the University of Georgia. He also served as editor of many famous journals. His research focus on two major fields:(1)The diversity of anaerobic thermophilic bacteria。 “Everything is everywhere:but,the environment selects”(Lourens Baas Becking,1934).Professor Wiegel quoted the famous theory as the beginning of his presentation. The report entitled“Biogeography and Biogeochemisity of Thermoanaerobacter uzonensis(T. After the report,the participants had a lively discussion about the T.

The head of Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, visited Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology

Han de Winde and his co-workers,the international cooperative project applied jointly by the Kluyver Center and the TIB has been approved by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research(NWO).Prof. Han de Winde and his colleagues,accompanied by Prof. Yin Li,visited the construction site of the R&D building. They highly praised the construction speed. De Winde at provisional working place of the institute. He hoped to be able to further understand Tianjin Institute of Biotechnology,strengthen the exchanges and contacts between the staff,and on the basis of the existing cooperation project,extend the cooperatations with the TIB more deeply.

Dr. Eric C. Roos, CTO of Holland DSM Corp., and his coworkers visited TIB

,and his three colleagues visited Tianjin Institute of Biotechnology and the construction site of the R&D building. Zhiyong Huang,head of Department of Research Administration of the TIB welcomed the guests and conversed intensively with Dr. The two sides exchanged opinions on the progress in establishing a joint laboratory. Roos,CTO of Holland DSM Corp,will strengthen the cooperation of two sides in biotechnological area and speed up the establishment of joint laboratory.

Donald Gerson –an expert of fermentation engineering- paid Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology a visit

He has been serving as senior consultant of biotechnology sector of U.S, responsible for the establishment,construction and operation of bioproduction facilities. Donald Gerson listened carefully to the introduction of the overall design and plan of our fermentation pilot-plant and the selected pilot-apparatuses,and put forward invaluable opinions. Gerson visited the construction site,accompanied by Prof. Wenxia Jiang who is in charge of the construction of the fermentation pilot-plant. As a senior bioproduct expert,the valuable suggestions put forward by Dr.

Dr. Xican Zhu gave an academic presentation at the TIB

On the afternoon of July 23th,2009,Dr. He is now the Product Manager of GE Healthcare Life Sciences,China. Corresponding employees of GE,scientists and graduate students of TIB attended the meeting The title of this report is“To deal with the H1N1 promptly–Wave bio-reactor”.Dr. Zhu had shown the brand-new research results in the functional biology area,presenting the process of mutagenesis of virus to vaccine in 60 days,the cost-effective technology of producing supercoiled plasmid,MDCK flu vaccine cell culture,et al. The presentation,having lively pictures and well written explanations,was highly accepted by the researchers at the TIB.

Guests from Applikon Inc.(Netherland) and Hua Yue Group paid a visit to Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology (TIB), Chinese Academy of Sciences.

(Netherland)and Hua Yue Group paid a visit to Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology(TIB),Chinese Academy of Sciences At the invitation of Prof. Lin Luo had visited the provisional office and lab area of TIB accompanied by Prof. Lin Luo introduced the apparatuses for cell culture and microbial fermentation,respectively. Ping Zheng,expressing the desire to cooperate with the TIB. Both sides agreed tostrengthen the relationship and establish the cooperation.