化学工学会　バイオ部会　会員各位

　AFOB（Asian Federation of Biotechnology）は，アジア地域におけるバイオテクノロジー関連研究者の相互理解・協力を促進するために，2008年に設立された団体です。
　本年6月には，上海において第1回のアジアバイオテクノロジー会議（ACB）を開 催しております。現在，AFOBの会長は吉田敏臣先生で，事務局長は，韓国のJung-Keug Park教授です。
化学工学会バイオ部会では，AFOB設立時から，アジア諸国との国際的な連携と いう視点から，その運営に積極的に関与してきたところです。
　そのAFOBでは，ABD（Asian Biotechnology Directory）というアジアのバイオ研究者のデータベースの作成にも力を入れていますが，下記のPark教授からのメールにもある通り，日本からのABDへの登録件数は伸び悩んでいるのが現状です。
　バイオ部会会員の皆様におかれましても，このような活動の趣旨に賛同できるようであれば，是非，ABDへの個人登録をされますよう御紹介申し上げます。
　登録作業は，下記にある通りの手順で5分もあれば終了することができるかと存じます。全ての項目の入力をする必要もありませんので，取り敢えずは，名前と所属だ けでもご登録頂ければと存じます。ABDに登録することによって，AFOBの個人会員として認められ，ABDを利用する ことも可能になります。（会費は不要です）
　何卒，宜しく御検討下さいますようお願い申し上げます。

Dear AFOB Japanese Executive Board Members

AFOB (Asian Federation of Biotechnology) has been established by the representatives of Asian countries, including China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam participated in IBS (International Biotechnology Symposium), which was held in Dalian, China on the 12-17th October 2008. Decisions have been made to invite Prof. Toshiomi Yoshida from Japan as the President and Prof. Jung-Keug Park from Korea as the Secretary General, and to have the headquarter office in Korea. AFOB will systematically construct and support the structural foundation for the cooperation among Asian countries in the field of Biotechnology. In addition, ACB (Asian Congress on Biotechnology, the term APBioChEC will be changed to ACB from 2011) and YABEC will be organized and operated under the guidance of AFOB.

ABD (Asian Biotechnology Directory)
It has been decided that individual members of AFOB, established on the 15th October 2008, will commence from the registered members of ABD. Website for ABD has been opend for years. By the way Japanese registration numbers are stagnant. To attract more registration please encourage Japanese Biotechnology engineers and students to register ABD. http://www.afob.org/

Instruction for the registration at ABD (Asian Biotechnology Directory)

If you are an already-registered member of ABD, ID and password will be informed from AFOB. Then, please connect to the homepage provided and click ‘My page Person.’ And login and verify/amend your personal details. ID and password are amendable, and if you wish to rectify the details and then use it, you may do so as you are pleased. From the homepage, it is possible to search each member according to the respective countries, and in the future, it is expected that additional services will be available such as the >company search. Please encourage your colleagues to register at >ABD. ABD registration is open to all Biotechnology researchers as well as student members.

If you have not been registered yet, To be a member of AFOB. please connect to the homepage provided and register. ABD registration is open to all Biotechnology researchers and student members. Please connect to http://www.afob.org, then click ‘Registration Individual’ on the left to input your personal detailed information. When you enter your personal details and click the submission button, the input information will be delivered to the system administrator and then the registration will be completed after the approval from the system administrator. When all the input information has been correctly entered, you will receive a ‘registration complete’ e-mail from the system administrator, and then you may confirm your personal details whether they have been correctly entered using the search function. From the homepage, it is possible to search each member according to the respective countries, and in the future, it is expected that additional services will be available such as the company search. and FYI, registration dee is free yet.

Thank you for your cooperation in advance.

Sincerely,

Jung-Keug Park
Asian Federation of Biotechnology

Secretary General