Science Café
About Science Café
Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (JSBBA) has hosted a gathering called a Science Café since October 2006. The purpose of this is to make people understand that learning “science” can be fun. It is also intended to strengthen the relationship between scientists and the society by providing opportunities for them to connect and interact with others.
JSBBA’s Science Café is not a lecture or a symposium. It is an opportunity through which experts in the field of agricultural chemistry and ordinary citizens can interactively and freely exchange their opinion on scientific topics in an atmosphere like a café.
The number of participants is limited to 25 to 30 each time. The participants can discuss any topic related to science by asking scientists varied questions and by having conversations.
JSBBA will continue hosting the Science Café on various themes such as food, environment, health, and biotechnology throughout Japan. We hope that you will positively participate in the Café.
Contents of the Science Café in the past
| No | Date | Place | Title & Lecturer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 131st | 1/30/2020 | Fukuoka | Nourish your healthy body and mind by taking advantage of the new power of amino acids ! Shigeki Furuya |
| 130th | 11/30/2019 | Tokyo | Mechanism of taste sensation Yoshiro Ishimaru |
| 129th | 11/29/2019 | Nagoya | Health benefits of eating meat Toshiya Hayashi |
| 128th | 11/15/2019 | Sapporo | The Extra Senses Mari Sato |
| 127th | 10/6/2019 | Akita | Ingredient rice and taste of Japanese sake. Katsumi Hashizume |
| 126th | 6/29/2019 | Okayama | Microbial metal biotechnology: Biological treatment of acid mine drainage Akihiko Ishikawa |
| 125th | 4/13/2019 | Kyoto | Collagen peptides: good effect or no effect Kenji Sato |
| 124th | 2/6/2019 | Fukuoka | Pay attension to food poisoning even in cold season Takahisa Miyamoto（Co-sponsored with Fukuoka City Science Museum） |
| 123rd | 2/5/2019 | Mie | Why did goats eat a letter? Shuichi Karita |
| 122nd | 1/11/2019 | Fukuoka | Profitable beef science Takafumi Gotoh（Co-sponsored with Fukuoka City Science Museum） |
| 121st | 11/17/2018 | Hirosaki | Parasites with the view point of evolution Kimitoshi Sakamoto |
| 120th | 11/10/2018 | Tokyo | 7 years from the nuclear power plant accident; farm products safety Keitaro Tanoi （Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 119th | 11/9/2018 | Sapporo | A latest classification method for mushroom and yeasts – mass spectrometric analysis Akihiro Yamaguchi（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 118th | 10/27/2018 | Fujisawa | A science of taste Motoko Wakabayashi |
| 117th | 10/20/2018 | Sendai | How to learn about gene and genome Michiei Otou and Hiroshi Yoneyama |
| 116th | 9/29/2018 | Matsue | Mechanism of body color change of grasshoppers Takahiro Shiotsuki |
| 115th | 8/4/2018 | Sapporo | Milk fermentation Kenji Fukuda |
| 114th | 6/24/2018 | Nagoya | Enteric bacteria helping survival of wild animal Kazunari Ushida |
| 113th | 6/2/2018 | Hiroshima | Let's learn science of alcoholic beverage at "MASSAN's" hometawn Hanae Izu and Tokichi Miyakawa |
| 112th | 3/3/2018 | Wakayama | "SAKE"; fermentation, microorganisms, and health Hisashi Ashida |
| 111th | 2/24/2018 | Kyoto | Potency of "Eggs"! Hajime Hatta |
| 110th | 2/22/2018 | Fukuoka | Lactic acid bacterium isolated at Caspian Sea Katsumi Doi and Kaname Fujii |
| 109th | 2/10/2018 | Tokyo | "Koji" imparting "WASHOKU" taste Junichi Maruyama（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 108th | 2/4/2018 | Toyama | Biotechnology supporting our lives Makoto Hibi, Naoya Oku, and Hiroshi Toda |
| 107th | 12/2/2017 | Fukushima | Learn and enjoy "Bio" Makoto Homma, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, and Yoshiyuki Sugeno |
| 106th | 11/25/2017 | Sapporo | Researches of sugar chains Hiroki Shimzu（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 105th | 11/18/2017 | Fukui | Microorganisms interacting with foods Chitose Maruyama |
| 104th | 10/13/2017 | Matsuyama | To gain in health by eating Mandarin orange Satoshi Okuyama and Takuya Sugawara Sponsored with Science Council of Japan, Subcommittee on Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry |
| 103rd | 9/30/2017 | Sendai | 1, "KOJI" and yeast utilized for "SAKE" brewing. 2, Behind-the-scene story of the development of local beer Katsuya Gomi and Mitsuru Tanigawa |
| 102nd | 9/28/2017 | Nagoya | Nutrition and exercise for health Yoshiharu Shimomura |
| 101st | 8/27/2017 | Sapporo | "TOKACHI" foundation's approach to cooperate with industry, government, and schools Hideyuki Nagasawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 100th | 3/26/2017 | Kagawa | Carbohydrates and rare sugars Tomoya Shintani |
| 99th | 2/26/2017 | Kanazawa | Understand food mysteries by science Yuuji Honda, Takashi Koyanagi, Osamu Nakayachi, and Shin Kurihara |
| 98th | 1/28/2017 | Naha | "KOJI" utilized for traditional and fermentative foods in Okinawa Shinjiro Tachibana |
| 97th | 12/10/2016 | Kyoto | Miracle poweres of microorganisms close to us Hiroya Yurimoto |
| 96th | 11/26/2016 | Kobe | Get healthy by eating black soybean Hitoshi Ashida |
| 95th | 11/25/2016 | Nagoya | Chemistry related to our lives – mysterious abilities of enzymes- Tamio Mase |
| 94th | 10/29/2016 | Iwate | Science of yeast utilized for "SAKE" brewing Yuichi Yonekura and Hitoshi Shimoi |
| 93rd | 10/16/2016 | Akita | Regional vitalization by traditional vegetables Yuko Yoshizawa and Seiko Yoshio |
| 92nd | 9/24/2016 | Tokyo | Mechanism sensing deliciousness of food Takumi Misaka and Taku Nishikawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 91st | 9/3/2016 | Sapporo | How to utilize biomass? Taichi Takasuka and Satoshi ishizuka（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 90th | 9/3/2016 | Hakodate | Pigments in foods function well in our body Masashi Hosokawa and Hideyuki Kurihara |
| 89th | 4/23/2016 | Tokyo | Wonderful gifts from microorganisms Tomohisa Kuzuyama and Taku Nishikawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 88th | 2/13/2016 | Kyoto | From petroleum to biomass～plastic and bio-ethanol from wood Takashi Watanabe |
| 87th | 2/6/2016 | Oita | "KOJI" and the latest biotechnology Masatoshi Goto and Tsuyoshi Maruo |
| 86th | 12/12/2015 | Kyoto | Fatty acids contribute to deliciousness Shigenobu Matsumura |
| 85th | 12/5/2015 | Obihiro | Various fatty acids Mikio Kinoshita |
| 84th | 11/1/2015 | Fujisawa | Plants save Earth – plant science under ultimate environments Isao Hasegawa |
| 83rd | 10/18/2015 | Akita | Regional vitalization by traditional vegetables Yuko Yoshizawa and Seiko Yoshio |
| 82nd | 10/17/2015 | Yamagata | Science of Yamagata regional foods Toshihiko Koseki, Azumi Yamagishi, and Takaharu Kozakai |
| 81st | 8/22/2015 | Fukui | Proteins and enzymes working here and there Takafumi Ito |
| 80th | 6/5/2015 | Fukuoka | Invisible hard worker ～microorganisms producing "SAKE" Genta Kobayashi |
| 79th | 5/8/2015 | Tokushima | Tokushima regional biotechnology; "SAKE", indigo dyeing, and bioresources Kazuo Matsuura, Noriko Ariuchi, and Itarou Nagao |
| 78th | 4/18/2015 | Tokyo | Why do pearls shine brightly Michio Suzuki and Taku Nishikawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 77th | 3/6/2015 | Tottori | Science of red snow crab Yukitoshi Kodani |
| 76th | 2/21/2015 | Sendai | Delicious foods have their own reasons Toshiharu Nagai and Tomoyuki Fujii |
| 75th | 12/13/2014 | Osaka | Stories about development of antianemic drug Masaya Nagao |
| 74th | 11/28/2014 | Nagoya | Fermentation is a modern alchemy -Invisible microorganisms enrich human lives Masashi Kato and Tohru Yoshimura |
| 73rd | 11/22/2014 | Kyoto | Let's feel attractiveness of yeast! Hiroshi Takagi |
| 72nd | 11/15/2014 | Sendai | Foods and their safeties Manami Monobe, Teruo Miyazawa, and Yutaka Konishi |
| 71st | 10/18/2014 | Fujisawa | Think relationship between nutrition and the body Taiichirou Seki and Hitomi Kumagai |
| 70th | 10/4/2014 | Kawasaki | Genome analysis – technological revolution and near future Masafumi Yohda and Naoto Tonouchi（Co-sponsored withAjinomoto Co., Inc.） |
| 69th | 9/6/2014 | Sapporo | Micro-organisms being with human Teruo Sone（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 68th | 5/17/2014 | Tokyo | "Pheromone" and "memory of lost love" Aki Ejima and Taku Nishikawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 67th | 11/16/2013 | Nagoya | Mysterious light of a firefly Yuichi Oba |
| 66th | 11/16/2013 | Fukuoka | A small factory in plant cell Ken Matsuoka, Takahiro Nakamura, and Noriyuki Igura |
| 65th | 11/15/2013 | Kochi | Water・Food・SAKE Tohru Asano and Shinji Nagata |
| 64th | 11/7/2013 | Osaka | Various powers of plants Toshiya Muranaka |
| 63rd | 11/3/2013 | Kochi | "Goi" tea -a fermented tea in "SHIKOKU" island Masao Oishi and Tomoko Shimomura |
| 62nd | 11/2/2013 | Tokyo | Biotechnology in Japan from SAKE brewing to drug development Kenji Ueda and Hitomi Kumagai |
| 61st | 10/13/2013 | Akita | Offense and defense between insects and plants uncovered by chemical eyes Kouji Noge and Shigeru Tamogami |
| 60th | 9/28/2013 | Kyoto | Look at microorganism's world useful for our lives Jun Ogawa |
| 59th | 8/3/2013 | Sapporo | Plastics made by miccroorganisms; How to make and use? Kenichiro Matsumoto（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 58th | 5/11/2013 | Tokyo | Molecular mechanism of feeding behavior of insects Shinji Nagata and Taku Nishikawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 57th | 3/20/2013 | Sapporo | Preservation of milk Haruto Kumura and Teruo Sone（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 56th | 1/12/2013 | Sendai | To feel familiar to emergency foods Hideo Ito, Naoki Shouji, Miyuki Kouriki |
| 55th | 11/24/2012 | Nagoya | Inexact biological clock, food, and metabolic syndrome Hiroaki Oda |
| 54th | 11/21/2012 | Kobe | What is osteoporosis? To keep healthy bone Hideyuki Inui |
| 53rd | 10/27/2012 | Hirosaki | Understanding abilities of microorganisms Akio Tonouchi |
| 52nd | 9/20/2012 | Kurashiki | Indigo dyeing and science Toshio Manabe |
| 51st | 9/8/2012 | Kobe | Recycling of waste by microorganisms Kunihiko Watanabe |
| 50th | 8/25/2012 | Sapporo | Chemistry reveals plant strategy to survive Hideyuki Matsuura and Kosaku Takahashi（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 49th | 8/4/2012 | Tokyo | Understanding physical mechanism of human by researches of small insects Ryusuke Niwa and Taku Nishikawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 48h | 6/2/2012 | Fukuoka | 1, Functions of foods. 2, Foods leading to satiation. 3, Organically grown baby leaves. Koji Yamada, Rika nagamine, and Yousuke Mizukami |
| 47th | 4/21/2012 | Tokyo | What and how do plants eat? Toru Fujiwara and Taku Nishikawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 46th | 2/28/2012 | Kyoto | Vegetables are friend or foe? Akira Murakami |
| 45th | 2/18/2012 | Kyoto | Biomass as unused resources Toshiaki Umezawa and Masanobu Higashiyama（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 44th | 2/12/2012 | Fukuoka | Powers of microorganisms Kaoru Takekawa,kenji Sakai, and Yoshinori Katakura |
| 43rd | 1/22/2012 | Yamaguchi | Making the best use of soybean Kazuko Shimada and Kenji Matsui |
| 42nd | 12/18/2011 | Yamaguchi | Luxury grocery items; usefulness and important point Hitoshi Aoshima and Kenji Matsui |
| 41st | 12/3/2011 | Fukui | Drugs taken by human and chimpanzee Hajime Ohigashi and Yoichi Kurokawa |
| 40th | 11/26/2011 | Tokyo | Newly developed production system by microorganisms Yasuo Onishi and Taku Nishikawa |
| 39th | 11/5/2011 | Iwaki | Microorganisms producing drugs Taichi Manome, Yongpil kim, and Haruo Tanaka |
| 38th | 10/22/2011 | Nagoya | How to brew tasty beer and science of health Eiichi Osanai and Toshiharu Shimomura |
| 37th | 8/20/2011 | Sapporo | Substantial food and health Wataru Saburi and Haruhide Mori（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 36th | 7/9/2011 | Tokyo | Odors and pheromones Kazushige Touhara and Yuko Hashimoto（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 35th | 2/26/2011 | Tokyo | Microspaces where drugs act ～invitation to chemical biology～ Minoru Yoshida and Taku Nishikawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 34th | 2/23/2011 | Kyoto | Creation of a blue rose Noriko Nakamura |
| 33rd | 2/5/2011 | Kyoto | Beautifully colored lives – fragrance and bitterness of beer Kazufumi Yazaki and Shigeko Segawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 32rd | 12/15/2010 | Fukuoka | Chemically synthesized pesticides and biological agrochemicals Eiichi Kuwano, Masami Kuwano, Hiromichi Yoshikawa, and Naotaka Yamada |
| 31st | 10/23/2010 | Tokyo | Mechanisms of conditioning our bodies and recycles of proteins Hiroyuki Sorimachi and Taku Nishikawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 30th | 8/7/2010 | Saporo | The reason why dietary fibers benefit us Hiroshi Hara and Satoshi Ishizuka（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 29th | 7/17/2010 | Nagoya | Why are microorganisms uninvolved in "Biological Diversity" Haruhiko Masaki（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 28th | 7/4/2010 | Tsuruoka | Let's cook food containing silk Kazuko Hirao,Toshiyuki Enda, and Kiharu Igarashi |
| 27th | 6/26/2010 | Tokyo | Biomineralization Hiromichi Nagasawa and Taku Nishikawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 26th | 3/13/2010 | Nagoya | Vitamins ～Chemical reaction in our bodies～ Tohru Yoshimura and Tetsuya Kurachi（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 25th | 2/27/2010 | Kyoto | The truth of metabolic syndrome Teruo Kawata |
| 24th | 2/20/2010 | Tokyo | Health is made from a relationship between genome and nutrition Hisanori Kato and Manabu Yoshikawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 23rd | 1/22/2010 | Kyoto | Science of "SAKE" Yoji Hata |
| 22nd | 10/24/2009 | Tokyo | Fragrance of foods revealed by chemical eyes Kikue Kubota and manabu Yoshikawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 21th | 9/3/2009 | Matsue | Coenzyme Q10 effective for beauty and anti-aging Makoto Kawamukai and Tomohiro Kaino |
| 20th | 8/30/2009 | Fukuoka | Science of food and health Hirofumi Tachibana, Masao Sato, Toshiro Matsui, and Koji Yamada |
| 19th | 8/1/2009 | Sapporo | Microorganisms support plants Yasuyuki Hashidoko and Makiko Maeda（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 18th | 6/27/2009 | Morioka | Development of noodle making method and "MORIOKA-REIMEN" Ryo Toyama and Makoto Miura |
| 17th | 1/31/2009 | Tokyo | Mystery of taste ”Neoculin”, a taste-modifying protein Keiko Abe and manabu Yoshikawa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 16th | 12/13/2008 | Kyoto | ABC transporter keeping healthy condition Kazumitsu Ueda and Koh Nagata（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 15th | 12/6/2008 | Nagoya | Microorganisms interacted with our lives Tetsuya Kobayashi and Tetsuya Kurachi（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 14th | 9/19/2008 | Hiroshima | Collaboration between agricultural chemistry and music Muneharu Esaka and Chihoko Ishihara |
| 13th | 9/4/2008 | Matsue | Mystery of yeast～brewing SAKE and bioethanol Haruyuki Iefuji |
| 12th | 6/28/2008 | Tokyo | Biomass is a key to solve environmental problem in the 21st century? Yasuo Igarashi（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 11th | 5/31/2008 | Sendai | Fermentation is a traditional biotechnology in Japan Kenya Hashimoto and Shinji Kumagai |
| 10th | 5/24/2008 | Kyoto | Unexpected insects revealed by chemical eyes Naoki Mori（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 9th | 3/15/2008 | Tokyo | Genetically modified crops～an application for hay fever relief Fumio Takaiwa（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 8th | 11/10/2007 | Tokyo | Search for treasure buried under soil Akira Endo（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 7th | 9/1/2007 | Kyoto | Carbon cycle and global environment by microorganisms Yasuyoshi Sakai（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 6th | 7/28/2007 | Tokyo | What is life? Shinichi Fukuoka（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 5th | 6/1/2007 | Hiroshima | Science of firefly glow Naoki Kajiyama |
| 4th | 4/21/2007 | Kyoto | Science of taste of "Kyo-ryori" Tohru Fusjiki（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 3rd | 3/17/2007 | Tokyo | "KOJI" utilized for a long time Katsuhiko Kitamoto（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 2nd | 1/20/2007 | Tokyo | Mystery of insect pheromone and its application for ecological pesticides Kenji Mori（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
| 1st | 10/21/2006 | Tokyo | Food and digestive organ Makoto Shimizu（Co-sponsored with SANSEIDO BOOKSTORE LTD） |
