**Meet the editor**

Dr. Tomohisa Ogawa is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Tohoku University in Japan. Dr. Ogawa is active in the research fields of Applied Biochemistry (Protein engineering), Molecular biology (Molecular evolution) and Structural biochemistry (Biochemistry). He has published a number of various review and origi-

nal papers in renowned journals.

**Section 1**

**Basic Technology**
