JBB Editorial Board
Editor in chief
Akira Ito
Department of Chemical Systems Engineering
School of Engineering
Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan
Phone: 81-52-789-3374
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Deputy Editor-in Chief
Taiki Futagami
Education and Research Center for Fermentation Studies
Faculty of Agriculture
Kagoshima University, Japan
Editorial board
Yoshiteru Aoi
Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life
Hiroshima University, Japan
Virendra Bisaria
Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, India
Lars Blank
Insitute of Applied Microbiology
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Jo-Shu Chang
Department of Chemical Engineering
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Howard Chase
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Cambridge, UK
I-Ming Chu
Department of Chemical Engineering
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Hiroyuki Futamata
Faculty of Engineering/ Institute of Green Science and Technology
Shizuoka University, Japan
Hidehiko Hirakawa
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Wei-Shou Hu
Biotechnology Institute
Stem Cell Institute
University of Minnesota, USA
Takeshi Ikeda
Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life
Hiroshima University, Japan
Shu Ishikawa
Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation
Kobe University, Japan
Muneyoshi Kanai
Brewing Microbiology Division
National Research Institute of Brewing, Japan
Ryuji Kato
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Nagoya University, Japan
Yoshinori Kawabe
Department of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Kyushu University, Japan
Mee-Hae Kim
Department of Biotechnology
Graduate School of Engineering
Osaka University, Japan
Takaaki Kojima
Department of Agrobiological Resources
Faculty of Agriculture
Meijo University, Japan
Sang Yup Lee
BioProcess Engineering Research Center (BPERC)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
South Korea
Chitose Maruyama
Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Fukui Prefectural University, Japan
Ken'ichiro Matsumoto
Division of Applied Chemistry
Faculty of Engineering
Hokkaido University, Japan
Kazunori Nakashima
Division of Sustainable Resources Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Hokkaido University, Japan
Michiko Nemoto
Department of Agriculture
Faculty of Environmental and Life Science
Okayama University, Japan
Seiichi Ohta
Institute of Engineering Innovation
School of Engineering
University of Tokyo, Japan
Kenji Okano
Department of Life Science and Biotechnology
Faculty of Chemistry, Materials and Bioengineering
Kansai University, Japan
Watanalai Panbangred
Department of Biotechnology
Faculty of Science
Mahidol University, Thailand
Chit Laa Poh
Faculty of Science
Sunway University, Malaysia
Andreas Schmid
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany
Francesco Secundo
Institute of Chemistry of Molecular Recognition
Italian National Research Council, CNR, Italy
Takahisa Tajima
Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life
Hiroshima University, Japan
Seiji Takahashi
Department of Biomolecular Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering
Tohoku University, Japan
Shino Yamasaki
Department of Life Science and Biotechnology
Faculty of Chemistry, Materials and Bioengineering
Kansai University, Japan
Oskar Zelder
R&D Amino acids & Enzymes
Research Biotechnology
BASF SE, Germany
Chong Zhang
Department of Chemical Engineering
Tsinghua University, P.R. China
Jian Jiang Zhong
College of Life Science & Biotechnology
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China