Special issue on the Asian Congress on Biotechnology 2011

Abstract

The Asian Congress on Biotechnology 2011 (ACB-2011), was held on May 12, 2011 in Shanghai. The theme forACB-2011is“Biotechnology forBetterLife”.ACB-2011 aimstoprovide aforum forbiotechnologistsand biochemicalengineers from Asia and other regions of the world, in which people could exchange ideas and findings inbiotechnology research and development, share the experiences in advancing biotechnological development orbusiness adventure, and then enhance further research and business cooperation.In light of this tenet, this special issue contains 17 research papers selected from several countries of Asia Pacificincluding China, Russia, America, Japan, Indonesia, India, Malaysia and Thailand.Our world is facing various challenges including environmental deterioration, energy crisis, shortage of naturalresources, and imbalances in social and economic development. Life sciences and biochemical engineering areexpected to play an important role in addressing those problems to meet the remaining and emerging needs of oursociety.This special issue covers a wide range of the hottest research topics in biochemical science and bioengineering,involving in selective breeding strains for amino acid production, biological pretreatment, clean renewable energymining, heavy metal biosorption and treatment and novel biosensor exploitation based on immunology etc. Thesecntting-edge research works, which although do not cover the full scope of studies in biochemical science andbioengineering due to page limitations, can still provide readers with brief track references to facilitate thedevelopment of new technologies in these fields.During the organizing of this special issue, we got invaluable help from many scientists. They provided carefulpeer-reviews on the selected papers with many useful comments and suggestions, which help to enhance thequality of the papers for authors. Without the help of these peer-reviewers, this special issue is not possible to bepublished.Finally,astheGuestEditor,Iwouldliketotakethisopportunitytoexpressmyhighappreciatetoallofthepeople—all the authors and co-authors and reviewers, for their contributions and consistent support to this special issue.Bang-Ce YE, Ph.D, Professor, Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory of BioreactorEngineering, East China University of Science and Technology. His research interestsconcentrate in analytical biotechnology and systems biotechnology. He has published over50 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, such as Angewandte Chemie InternationalEdition, Journal of the American Chemical Society,the Proceedings of the National Academy ofSciences of the United States of America, Chemical Communications, Analytical Chemistry,Applied and Environmental Microbiology.