Laboratory of Biomolecular Chemistry - Faculty and Graduate School of Engineering Hokkaido University・Faculty of Engineering

Associate Professor Tajima gave a lecture titled "Nanocellulose made by sugar beet and microorganisms will change the world," at the Agri-Seeds Seminar "Plant-derived New Materials from Hokkaido: From Seeds Development to Commercialization" held on September 12 (Tuesday) in the conference room on the 19th floor of the Hoku-Noh Building. Many people attended the lecture. The event was attended by many people and provided a very good opportunity to learn about the efforts currently being made in the laboratory.

The 75th SBJ Meeting was held in Nagoya, Japan, on September 3-5. Kaneko (M1) gave an oral presentation.

We participated in the Young Polymer Meeting & Summer Uni held at Jozankei Onsen Shikanoyu. At the Young Scientists' Meeting, Research Scientist Takayama, M1 students Kawabata, Maeda, and Tanaka, and B4 student Ishido gave poster presentations.

group photo

Thanks to all B4s for your hard work on the graduate school entrance exam!

The 13th SPSJ International Polymer Conference (IPC 2023) held at Sapporo Convention Center on July 19-21 held at the Sapporo Convention Center from July 19 to 21. From our laboratory, D3 Kugo and D1 Hamidah made a presentation.

On July 19, Associate Professor Tajima gave a lecture entitled "Development and Utilization of Completely Recyclable New Material Using Sugar Beans (Cellulose Nanofiber Produced by Microorganisms)" at a meeting of the Japan Society of Food and Agriculture held in the 19th floor conference room of the Hoku-Noh Bldg.

We visited the Laboratory of Nippon Beet Sugar Co., Ltd. to conduct culture experiments for efficient production of NFBC.

We exhibited at Pharmalabo EXPO Tokyo held at Tokyo Big Sight from July 5 to 7.

Kawabata (M1) received the Best Poster Award at the 72nd SPSJ Annual Meeting. Congratulations!

Associate Professor Kose of the Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, who used to be a postdoctoral fellow, and his student, Mrs. Hirano, visited our laboratory. From June 5 to 8, Mrs. Hirano conducted NFBC sheeting and tensile test experiments in our laboratory. To welcome them, we had the first Genghis Khan party this year.

The 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (Takasaki) was held on May 24 and 25. From our laboratory, Dr. Tajima, Dr. Kugo (D3), Dr. Hamida (D1), Dr. Hoshino (M2), Dr. Kaneko (M1), and Dr. Kawabata (M1) gave poster presentations. Thank you for your hard work.

Softball tournament was held and we lost 2-6, but had a great time!



We had a great time🥎

Experiments were conducted in the AIKI RIOTECH

Experiments were conducted in the laboratory of Kazuyoshi Murata at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences.