Session proposals were sought from November 1, 2011 to January 17, 2012 for the 90th Anniversary Meeting.

  • 1. Commitment to quality and technology in brewing (by the SBJ Headquarters)
    ♦ Organizers: Masaaki Sakaguchi (Suntory Holdings Ltd.), Yoji Hata (Gekkeikan Sake Co., Ltd.), Akira Nishimura (Hakutsuru Sake Brewing Co., Ltd.), Nami Goto (NRIB)
     
  • 2. Biomass-town project for sustainable society (by the SBJ Headquarters)  
    ♦ Organizers: Atsuhiko Shinmyo (NAIST), Kenji Kida (Kumamoto Univ.), Kenji Inagaki (Okayama Univ.)
     
  • 3. R&D towards fruitful symbiosis between academia and industries—What is expected of students ?  (by the SBJ Headquarters)  
    ♦ Organizers: Kenzo Yanagi (Suntory Holdings Ltd.), Katsuyuki Kawatsura (Asahi Breweries Ltd.), Motohiro Hino (Astellas Pharma Inc.), Masaaki Sakaguchi (Suntory Holdings Ltd.)
     
  • 4. The cutting edges of cultivation and downstream processes (by the SBJ Headquarters)  
    ♦ Organizers: Teruyuki Nagamune (Univ. of Tokyo), Kazuhiko Matsui (Ajinomoto Co., Inc.), Yoichi Ishikawa (Biott Co.,Ltd.), Hideo Sakuma (B.E. Marubishi Co., Ltd.)
     
  • 5. Industrial applications of animal cell culture technologies—their progress and awaiting solutions—
    ♦ Organizers: Eiji Nagamori (Osaka Univ.), Ryuji Kato (Nagoya Univ.), Kazunori Shimizu (Kyoto Univ.), Kana Yanagihara (NIBIO)
     
  • 6. Development of new food functions focusing on D-amino acids:　its current conditions and prospects
    ♦ Organizers: Toshihisa Ohshima (Kyushu Univ.)
     
  • 7. Designable biointerface
    ♦ Organizers: Katsutoshi Hori (Nagoya Univ.), Noriho Kamiya (Kyushu Univ.)
     
  • 8. Let’s learn novel stress adaptation mechanisms from eukaryotic microbes and its application to fermentation foods
    ♦ Organizers: Hiroshi Kitagaki (Saga Univ.), Hiroshi Takagi (NAIST)
     
  • 9. The innovative treatment strategy for biofilm infection
    ♦ Organizers: Tsukasa Ikeda (Utsunomiya Univ.), Satoshi Tsuneda (Waseda Univ.)
     
  • 10. Thermotolerant microorganisms leading to high-temperature fermentation
    ♦ Organizers: Kazunobu Matsushita (Yamaguchi Univ.)
     
  • 11. Prospect for future studies on non-conventional yeasts
    ♦ Organizers: Kazuo Masaki (NRIB), Hiroaki Takaku (Niigata Univ. Pharm. Appl. Life Sci.)
     
  • 12. Roles of various bio-diesel fuel in a post fossil fuel age
    ♦ Organizers: Shin'ichiro Kajiyama (Kinki Univ.), Suguru Tsuchimoto (Osaka Univ.)
     
  • 13. A new concept from Japan: Unifying "e-Bio" and "carbox fixation" with high energy efficiency
    ♦ Organizers: Masaharu Ishii (Univ. of Tokyo), Yasuyoshi Sakai (Kyoto Univ.), Kenji Kano (Kyoto Univ.)
     
  • 14. Advanced microbial culture technology for realizing production enhancement
    ♦ Organizers: Junichi Horiuchi (Kitami Inst. Technol.), Michimasa Kishimoto (Kyoto Inst.Technol.)
     
  • 15. Bioremediation—Key technology for reinvigoration of Japan’s economy—
    ♦ Organizers: Masao Fukuda (Nagaoka Univ. Technol.)
     
  • 16. The state-of-art R&D in stem cell biomanufacturing
    ♦ Organizers: Masahiro Kino-oka (Osaka Univ.), Yasuyuki Sakai (Univ. of Tokyo), Hiroshi Kurosawa (Yamanashi Univ.)