2023.01.24
岡田節人基金 ISDB海外派遣報告書 Elzava Yuslimatin Mujizah（大阪大学）
大阪大学大学院 理学研究科
Elzava Yuslimatin Mujizah（D3）
Elzava Yuslimatin Mujizah（D3）
The 19th International Society of Developmental Biology (ISDB) is a huge meeting for developmental biologists that are held every 4 years. The meeting was supposed to take place last year in 2021 but due to CoViD-19 restrictions, it was delayed until 2022 and it still is in the same venue, Portugal. The ISDB 2022 is my third international meeting during my stay in Japan, but this meeting took a lot of courage to apply because apart from one of the biggest meetings for developmental biologists, ISDB 2022 also has numerous distinguished speakers from roughly all around the world. Around half of the speakers are young researchers (most of them are professors, associate professors, assistant professors, or researchers and a few postdocs) also delivered their new findings.
I applied for poster presentation and along with hundreds of participants, we gathered in Algarve, southern Portugal and had an offline meeting for the first time since pandemic hit. The oral presentation sessions were amusing, each day there was 1 keynote speaker to start the conference. On the first day of the conference, Dr. Marianne Bronner awarded Ross G. Harrison Medal, an award which is known to give recognition to scientist with significant contribution in developmental biology field. The poster presentation sessions were divided into 2 groups (1.5 hours for each group), odd and even numbers group. Me and the other odd numbered participant did the presentation first on October 17th and even numbers participated on the next day. I did the presentation almost non-stop throughout the entire session and was lucky to make new friends with students and postdocs from Spain, Colombia, UK, France, Ukraine, China, Poland, India, Italy, etc. It was such a warm atmosphere.
Joining an international meeting event like this is always a refreshing experience since it brings new things to the table. Also, the fact that I can connect with other PhD students who are on the same journey as well builds a network with experienced scientists. Finally, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists (JSDB) for giving me an opportunity to participate in the 19th ISDB through the 14th Tokindo S. Okada travel grant.
I applied for poster presentation and along with hundreds of participants, we gathered in Algarve, southern Portugal and had an offline meeting for the first time since pandemic hit. The oral presentation sessions were amusing, each day there was 1 keynote speaker to start the conference. On the first day of the conference, Dr. Marianne Bronner awarded Ross G. Harrison Medal, an award which is known to give recognition to scientist with significant contribution in developmental biology field. The poster presentation sessions were divided into 2 groups (1.5 hours for each group), odd and even numbers group. Me and the other odd numbered participant did the presentation first on October 17th and even numbers participated on the next day. I did the presentation almost non-stop throughout the entire session and was lucky to make new friends with students and postdocs from Spain, Colombia, UK, France, Ukraine, China, Poland, India, Italy, etc. It was such a warm atmosphere.
Joining an international meeting event like this is always a refreshing experience since it brings new things to the table. Also, the fact that I can connect with other PhD students who are on the same journey as well builds a network with experienced scientists. Finally, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists (JSDB) for giving me an opportunity to participate in the 19th ISDB through the 14th Tokindo S. Okada travel grant.
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