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Atsushi Usami, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomolecular
Engineering at Nagoya University, Japan Do you want to promote your event,
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Science knows no borders, and we work with
microbiologists across the work to ensure the
best research gets underway. Ph.D candidate
Atsushi Usami is a microbiologist performing
research in the Department of Biomolecular
Engineering at Nagoya University, Japan.
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He has been awarded a Congress Attendance
Grant to help him attend FEMS2019 this July (7-
11) in Glasgow, Scotland.
We interviewed Atsushi Usami to gain an insight
into his research, what working as a scientist is
like in Japan, and to gain his thoughts on our
upcoming Congress:
What are you currently working on in
your research, and what is your field of
microbiology?
”My research is the bioproduction of high-
value-added compounds by metabolic
engineering.”
What aspects of FEMS2019 in Glasgow are
you looking forward to?
”I will be honoured to attend FEMS2019 with
the FEMS congress grant. I’m confident that
all programs and discussion between various
microbiological specialties ranging from
basic research to applied will be a valuable
experience for me. In particular, I am looking
forward to topics on Biotechnology/Synthetic
biology/Systems Biology, because these are my
research interest. Also, I would like to discuss
science while drinking Scotch whisky!”
Job of the month
Postdoc in Evolutionary Synthetic
Microbiology: Spain
Final application date: 20.06.2019
Institution: Centre for Plant Biotechnology and
Genomics (CBGP)
Location: Madrid, Spain
Contact: Dr Alejandro Couce
We are seeking to appoint a highly-motivated
Postdoctoral Researcher to investigate how the
conflict between robustness and plasticity drives
microbial evolution. The successful candidate will
construct a variety of synthetic systems involving
different levels of organisation (from operons to
multi-strain consortia), which s/he will then subject
to high-throughput fitness assays and evolve-and-
resequence experiments.
Opportunities Board >
Event of the month
Six Key Topics
in Microbiology 2019
Read an essential collection of papers showcasing
high-quality content from across the five FEMS
Journals, which together provide an overview of
current research trends in microbiology:
Antimicrobial Resistance
Environmental Microbiology
Pathogenicity & Virulence
Biotechnology & Synthetic Biology
Microbiomes
Food Microbiology
7th Conference on
Yeasts & Filamentous Fungi
24-27 June 2019 |Milan, Italy
The EFB and the organisers of PYFF7 are delighted to
invite you to Milan to attend the 7th Conference on
Physiology of Yeast and Filamentous Fungi.
The aim of the PYFF series is to bring together a strong
interdisciplinary cohort of researchers, at all stages
of their careers, who share an interest in applied
and basic aspects of the physiology of yeasts and
filamentous fungi.
PYFF7 will be hosted by the University of Milano-
Bicocca (UNIMIB).
Find out more about this event >
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MAY 2019