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Contributors
Michael B. Sano.is.a.PhD.candidate.in.the.joint.School.
of. Biomedical. Engineering. and. Sciences. at. Virginia.
graduate.degrees.in.mathematics.and.electrical.engineering.from.the.University.at.Buffalo.in.2007.and.an.
MS. degree. in. engineering. mechanics. from. Virginia.
Tech.in.2009..He.has.authored.or.coauthored.nine.peerreviewed.publications,.seven.pending.. patents,.and.one.
book.chapter..His.research.interests.are.the.phenomena. that. occur. when. cells. become. polarized. in. the.
presence.of.electric.fields,.with.implications.in.rare.cell.
isolation,.cancer.treatment,.and.tissue.engineering.
Inder Saxena. received. his. PhD. from. Jawaharlal.
Nehru. University. in. 1984.. He. is. a. lecturer. at. the.
University. of. Texas. at. Austin,. where. he. came. in.
1986.and.started.work.on.the.molecular.biology.of.
cellulose. biosynthesis.. He. was. one. of. the. first. to.
identify,.isolate,.and.sequence.the.genes.for.cellulose.
synthesis. from. the. bacterium. Acetobacter xylinum.
(renamed.Gluconacetobacter xylinus)..His.work.on.the.
sequence. analysis. of. cellulose. synthase. and. other.
proteins.led.to.identification.of.conserved.residues.
and.a.sequence.motif.in.enzymes.that.synthesize.not.
only.cellulose.but.also.a.number.of.other.polysaccharides..He.is.on.the.editorial.board.of.the.journal.Cellulose.and.. coedited.the.
book.Cellulose: Molecular and Structural Biology.
Junji Sugiyama. obtained. his. BS. and. MS. degrees. in.
culture.from.the.University.of.Tokyo..The.first.visualization.of.cellulose.crystal.lattices.by.high-resolution.
electron. microscopy. was. conducted. during. his. MS.
. thesis.. He. began. his. study. of. the. crystallography. of.
tion.with.Okano,.at.the.University.of.Tokyo,.and.former. research. director. Chanzy,. at. CERMAV-CNRS,.
Grenoble,.France..One.of.his.many.good.memories.is.
that.he.and.his.. colleagues.succeeded.in.proposing.the.
unit.cells.of.cellulose.allomorphs..More.recently,.as.a.professor.at.the.Research.
Institute.for.Sustainable.Humanosphere,.Kyoto.University,.he.is.continuing.
his. structural. studies. related. to. the. biological. or. biochemical. aspects. of.
. cellulose. synthesis.. He. is. also. a. curator. at. the. Kyoto. University. Xylarium,.
promoting.cooperative.works.in.the.multidisciplinary.fields.of.wood.. sciences.
and.humanity.sciences.
Contributors
Michael B. Sano.is.a.PhD.candidate.in.the.joint.School.
of. Biomedical. Engineering. and. Sciences. at. Virginia.
graduate.degrees.in.mathematics.and.electrical.engineering.from.the.University.at.Buffalo.in.2007.and.an.
MS. degree. in. engineering. mechanics. from. Virginia.
Tech.in.2009..He.has.authored.or.coauthored.nine.peerreviewed.publications,.seven.pending.. patents,.and.one.
book.chapter..His.research.interests.are.the.phenomena. that. occur. when. cells. become. polarized. in. the.
presence.of.electric.fields,.with.implications.in.rare.cell.
isolation,.cancer.treatment,.and.tissue.engineering.
Inder Saxena. received. his. PhD. from. Jawaharlal.
Nehru. University. in. 1984.. He. is. a. lecturer. at. the.
University. of. Texas. at. Austin,. where. he. came. in.
1986.and.started.work.on.the.molecular.biology.of.
cellulose. biosynthesis.. He. was. one. of. the. first. to.
identify,.isolate,.and.sequence.the.genes.for.cellulose.
synthesis. from. the. bacterium. Acetobacter xylinum.
(renamed.Gluconacetobacter xylinus)..His.work.on.the.
sequence. analysis. of. cellulose. synthase. and. other.
proteins.led.to.identification.of.conserved.residues.
and.a.sequence.motif.in.enzymes.that.synthesize.not.
only.cellulose.but.also.a.number.of.other.polysaccharides..He.is.on.the.editorial.board.of.the.journal.Cellulose.and.. coedited.the.
book.Cellulose: Molecular and Structural Biology.
Junji Sugiyama. obtained. his. BS. and. MS. degrees. in.
culture.from.the.University.of.Tokyo..The.first.visualization.of.cellulose.crystal.lattices.by.high-resolution.
electron. microscopy. was. conducted. during. his. MS.
. thesis.. He. began. his. study. of. the. crystallography. of.
tion.with.Okano,.at.the.University.of.Tokyo,.and.former. research. director. Chanzy,. at. CERMAV-CNRS,.
Grenoble,.France..One.of.his.many.good.memories.is.
that.he.and.his.. colleagues.succeeded.in.proposing.the.
unit.cells.of.cellulose.allomorphs..More.recently,.as.a.professor.at.the.Research.
Institute.for.Sustainable.Humanosphere,.Kyoto.University,.he.is.continuing.
his. structural. studies. related. to. the. biological. or. biochemical. aspects. of.
. cellulose. synthesis.. He. is. also. a. curator. at. the. Kyoto. University. Xylarium,.
promoting.cooperative.works.in.the.multidisciplinary.fields.of.wood.. sciences.
and.humanity.sciences.