Microbial Resources and Systematics
Online ISSN : 2759-2006
Print ISSN : 1342-4041
Volume 30, Issue 2
Displaying 1-15 of 15 articles from this issue
  • Ken-ichiro Suzuki, Junta Sugiyama
    2014 Volume 30 Issue 2 Pages 77-83
    Published: 2014
    Released on J-STAGE: January 17, 2025
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    Dr. Kazuo Komagata, Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo, was awarded the Japan Academy Duke of Edinburgh Prize in July 2014, which is awarded once every two years to a Japanese scientist with outstanding achievements in the area of wildlife protection and species preservation by the suggestion of His Royal Highness the Prince Philp since 1988. Prof. Komagata is the fourteenth recipient of the Prize with the title of “Studies on taxonomy of bacteria and establishment and management of culture collections”.

    Dr. Komagata has been studying such diverse microorganisms spanning 6 decades from the viewpoint of their taxonomy and actively introducing and developing new techniques and knowledge and promoting the field. His outstanding achievements are especially shown in his studies of Gram-negative bacteria which decompose artificial environment-polluting organic compounds and a group of actinobacteria, formerly called “coryneform” bacteria including those producing amino acids which are of industrial importance. Based on these achievements, he was a recipient of “The Van Niel International Prize” in 1999 and “The Bergey Medal” in 2006.

    In addition, Dr. Komagata has contributed to the establishment and management of microbial culture collections which preserve and supply reference materials and have important roles not only in fundamental sciences but also in industrial utilization providing an infrastructure for the microbiology community. For his contribution to international cooperation, he was elected as an executive board member of the World Federation for Culture Collections.

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  • ─A transfer and exchange system of microbes for microbial resource centres for non-commercial purposes according to the CBD and the Nagoya Protocol─
    Katsuhiko Ando, Tae Eun Jin, Rie Funabiki, Linhuan Wu, Honglada Thoetk ...
    2014 Volume 30 Issue 2 Pages 85-96
    Published: 2014
    Released on J-STAGE: January 17, 2025
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

    The Asian Consortium for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Microbial Resources (ACM) was established in 2004. Currently 23 organisations in 13 countries (Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) are members of the ACM. The objective of the ACM is to promote collaboration among governments and public organisations in Asian countries for enhancing conservation and sustainable use of microbial resources in Asia. Having recognized the importance of Microbial Resource Centres (MRCs) in the development of microbiology, a new scheme titled the ‘Network of International Exchange of Microbes under the ACM (NIEMA)’ has been developed by the Task Force of Management of Material Transfer (MMT-TF) in the ACM. This scheme proposes a legitimate and streamlined way of transferring and utilizing microbial resources in line with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (NP).

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