{"id":10713,"date":"2026-06-29T16:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/?post_type=news_events&#038;p=10713"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:41:24","slug":"shoei-ito_droplet_award","status":"publish","type":"news_events","link":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/en\/news_events\/news\/2026\/shoei-ito_droplet_award\/","title":{"rendered":"ELSI student Shohei Ito won the DROPLET2026 Judges&#8217; Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-009_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-009_1.png 467w, https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-009_1-234x300.png 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shohei Ito<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nShohei Ito won the Judges&#8217; Award at the DROPLET2026 held from 4 to 5 June 2026 for his poster presentation. Ito is a 3rd-year doctoral student at ELSI and co-supervised by Associate Professor Kosuke Fujishima and Specially Appointed Associate Professor Naohiro Terasaka.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe selection of the Judges\u2019 Award was made by On-Chip Biotechnologies, the organiser of this event. His poster presentation title was \u2018Detection of Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase Activity Using a Reconfigurable Cell-Free Protein Synthesis System and Microdroplets.\u2019<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2018I have been conducting my research with the goal of winning a conference award while pursuing my doctoral degree. I am happy to have received this award. I will continue my research as I work toward earning my Ph.D.,\u2019 commented Ito.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-009-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-009-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-009-2-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10711,"template":"","news_events_cat":[7],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_events\/10713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news_events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_events_cat?post=10713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}