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. 2021 Dec 23;48(9-10):kuab082.
doi: 10.1093/jimb/kuab082.

Introduction and commentaries for the special issue: "Arnold L. Demain-A life lived"

Richard H Baltz  1 , Erick J Vandamme  2 , Joan W Bennett  3 , Spiros N Agathos  4 , Sergio Sánchez  5 , Hiroyuki Osada  6 , Zixin Deng  7 , Ramon Gonzalez  8
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Introduction and commentaries for the special issue: "Arnold L. Demain-A life lived"

Richard H Baltz et al. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol. .
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Arny's army—meeting III at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, July 8–9,1999.
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Arny presenting his closing lecture at Ghent University.
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Arny's note ca.1979. Arny's handwritten note left on Spiros Agathos's desk after discussing the potential link between in vivo enzyme instability and energy metabolism in antibiotic-producing microorganisms.
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Arny's lab 1978. Pictured, row 1 from left (L) to right (R): Jacqueline M. Piret (USA), Avishay (“Avi”) Stark (Israel), Wei-Shou Hu (Taiwan); row 2 from L to R: Yasuro Kawabata (Japan), Ashwin Mahdia (India), Agnès Lemarchand (née Poirier, France), Yosuke Sawada (Japan), unknown student; row 3 from L to R: Arny Demain, Emmanuel Denenu (Nigeria), Molly Crowley (USA), Nadine A. Solomon (née Hunt, USA); row 4 from L to R: Clifford Behmer (USA), Spiros N. Agathos (Greece), and James (“Jim”) Townsend (USA).
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Shanghai Arny's army 2005. A subset from the 1970s. Standing from left to right: Spiros N. Agathos, Avi Stark, Jacqueline M. Piret, Stephen W. Drew, Randy Greasham, Song Hae Bok, Nadine A. Solomon, and Prakash Masurekar. Sitting: Arny Demain.
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MIT Arny's army 2007. A 3-day symposium, the 6th edition in the “Arny's army and friends” series took place in Cambridge, MA, in August 2007 to pay tribute to Arny's 80th birthday.
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The Belgian contingent—Arny Demain's Doctorate Honoris Causa at Ghent University with Erick Vandamme—as his promotor—and Spiros Agathos, March 19, 1999.
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Arny with editorial board members of the Journal of Antibiotics at the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS2011) in Sapporo, Japan. Front row: Hisayo Ito, Julian E. Davies, Arnold L. Demain, Satoshi Ōmura, and Gerard D. Wright; middle row: Yoshikazu Takahashi; rear row: Kazuro Shiomi, Hiroshi Tomoda, Hiroyuki Osada, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Yoshida, and Kunimoto Hotta.
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Microbial breeding workshop in Spoleto, Italy, 1984. Several members of GIM-IC participated in the workshop as lecturers. These included Maria Alacevic and Giuseppe Sermonti, row 2, positions 2 and 4 from the left; James Shapiro and Arny Demain, row 3, positions 1 and 4; Eric Cundliffe and Richard Baltz, row 4, positions 2 and 4; Juan Martin and Rolf Hütter, row 5, positions 1 and 2. Other lecturers included Charles Thompson, row 1, position 6; Tobias Kieser, row 2, position 9. Other lecturers not identified included C. Bruni, E. Di Mauro, B. Hall, T. Nilsson-Tillgren, and P. Niederberger.
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The 10th International Symposium on Biology of Actinomycetes (ISBA-10), Beijing, 1997. The International Advisory Committee and local Program Committee members. From left to right: row 1—Jianping Wu, Wensi Xu, Michael Goodfellow, Wolfgang Piepersburg, Keith Chater, Ruisheng Jiao, Arnold Demain, Satoshi Ōmura, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kunimoto Hotta; row 2—Richard Baltz, Zhihen Liu, Boaquan Zhu, Xiufen Zhao, Yongle Chen, Yiquang Wang, not identified, Huarong Tan, Guangsheng Chen, and Yuanrong Chen; row 3—Guoping Zhao, Dakang Song, Zixin Deng, Zhiping Zhang, and Rongguang Shao.
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