The abstracts will be published exactly as submitted. It is the responsibility of the submitting author to supply the abstract with accuracy of content, spelling and presentation.
  • Character count limit (including spaces)
    Abstract: 4,270 letters　
    Title: 200 letters
    Author information (names and affiliation abbreviations): 280 letters
     
  • Title of presentation
    Avoid any abbreviation in the title. Do not put a period at the end.
    (Only first letter capital and lowercase for the rest, except for words normally capitalized as proper nouns)

    e.g.) Heat-shock transformation of <i>Escherichia coli</i>
     

  • Author names
    Enter surname of each author first, followed by first name and middle name (if any), for the indexing purpose, with only the first letter capitalized.

    e.g.) Seibutsu Taro
     

  • Affiliation abbreviation
    Abbreviate all authors’ affiliations. ⇒pdfAbbreviation List
     

    Division of Biotechnology and Macromolecular Chemistry →Div. Biotechnol. Macromol. Chem.
    Department of Biotechnology →Dept. Biotechnol.,
    Graduate School of Engineering →Grad. Sch. Eng.
    University of Tsukuba → Univ. Tsukuba
    Company Limited → Co., Ltd.
    Corporation → Corp.

     

  • Keywords
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    If you cannot find any appropriate key word, select “Others” in the list and type into the provided field.
     

    • Type in lower-case letter, except for words normally capitalized as a proper noun.
    • Use only English one-byte characters for keywords.

      e.g.) lactic acid, biomass, <i>Aspergillus oryzae</i>, alpha-amylase
       

  • Speaker’s email address
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  • Remarks
    Specify special characters (if any) so that non standard characters can be printed correctly in the Meeting Abstracts.