JS Chiao Professor J. S. Chiao(Jui-Sheng Jiao), 9/13/1918 - 12/22/2009, one of the leading microbiologists in the world, from the Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology of the Chinese Academia of Sciences, and an honorable member of the American Society for Microbiology, died at 15:50 on December 22, 2009 in the East China Hospital in Shanghai, China, at the age of 91.