Active Enzyme Molecule 2014

Active Enzyme Molecule 2014, an international conference, was held December 17-20, 2014 in Toyama, Japan.
This conference was hosted by ERATO Asano Active Enzyme Molecule Project, Japanese Society of Enzyme Engineering, and The Society of Biocatalysis Japan.
In this conference, the latest studies on enzymes in fundamental research, industrial application, and diagnostic application were presented.
More than 200 participants attended this conference from all over the world, and discussed cutting edge research results shown in 20 invited lectures, 20 oral presentations and 76 poster presentations animatedly.
All participants welcomed the successful this conference.
Prof. Yasuhisa Asano, Research Director of Asano Active Enzyme Molecule Project, contributed as Conference Chair, and our project had the special session of ERATO Asano Active Enzyme Molecule Project Progress Report in the afternoon of 18th.
This conference official website is here.

The program is available here.

Opening Remark

Research Director, Prof. Yasuhisa Asano
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Keynote

Prof. Nicholas J. Turner
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ERATO Asano Active Enzyme Molecule Project Progress Report

Project coordinator, Dr. Isobe	Dr. Yasukawa Newly evolved R-stereoselective amine oxidase applicable to a chiral (S)-amine synthesis
Dr. Ishida Plants and animals are valuable bioresources for exploring novel enzymes	Dr. Dadashipour Hydroxynitrile lyase from a millipede as a valuable tool for white biotechnology: purification, characterization and recombinant expression
Dr. Kameya New enzymatic and microbial methods for selective assay of amino acid	Dr. Matsui Soluble expression in Escherichia coli of heterologous enzymes by mutagenesis
Dr. Nakano Endeavors to bridge a gap between wet and dry science in enzyme engineering

PosterSession

76 poster presentations


Dr. Metzner Enantioselective aldoxime dehydratases – Synthetic proof and in silico studies	Dr. Matsui Heterologous expression of L-lysine ε-oxidase by directed evolution using a fusion reporter method
Dr. Kameya Application of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase for selective determination of amino acids

Other poster presentations of our project
·Project coordinator Dr.Isobe Characterization of L-lysine decarboxylase/oxidase from Burkholderia sp. AIU 395 and its application to assay of L-lysine
·Dr.Nakano Application of INTMSAlign to design functional sequences of S-selective hydroxynitrile lyase
·Dr.Okazaki Structural study of an alkaline D-stereospecific endopeptidase from Bacillus cereus DF4-B
·Dr.Yamaguchi Biocatalytic synthesis of (R)-mandelic acid from L-phenylalanine using a combination of plant cytochrome P450s and bacterial nitrilase
·Dr.Yamamoto Efficient production of lumichrome by Microbacterium sp. TPU3598
·Mr.Kawahara Improvement of the stereoselectivity and catalytic efficiency by mutagenesis in hydroxynitrile lyase from Baliospermum montanum

Banquet

At ANA Crowne Plaza Toyama

	Emcee, Mr. Kawahara
Toast! Sake, 尾仲(Onaka) by Toyama prefectural university yeast

The traditional dance and fork song called "Kokiriko" and The folk instrument called "Sasara" in Gokayama, Toyama.