Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to inform you that JSDB will hold a joint meeting with the Asia-Pacific Developmental Biology Network (APDBN) in Kyoto on June 20-23, 2010.
In developing the meeting proposal, the program committee analyzed programs of past JSDB meetings and other conferences on developmental biology, and discussed current trends and future directions of developmental biology. Our policy for the 2010 meeting has been to highlight the following:

1.	Acquisition of function, homeostasis, and regeneration of organs
2.	Multidisciplinary approaches, including mathematical sciences and engineering
3.	Expanding perspectives among developmental biologists toward medical science (e.g., regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, and congenital pathologies), agriculture, and connections to the global environment.

And, while we are honoring recent discoveries that have been made with the help of conventional embryological and molecular approaches, as well as concepts established in the past, we continue to be forward looking and driven to push the boundaries of a whole spectrum of scientific fields focused on the phenomena of life.

Since 2008, the official language of the JSDB annual meeting is English, and many researchers from other countries, the Asia-Pacific region in particular, have come to participate. We expect an attendance of about 800 people from more than 10 countries at this JSDB-APDBN meeting. This meeting is therefore expected to become a very important international forum for discussing the latest results in developmental biology. To encourage the participation of young researchers from the Asia-Pacific region, a number of travel fellowships to the annual meeting will be provided by the JSDB.

Look forward to seeing you at Kyoto!

With best regards,

Tadashi Uemura
Organizer of the 2010 JSDB-APDBN meeting

Venue

Kyoto International Conference Center (6/21 - 23)
Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan
Phone: 81-75-705-1234  Fax: 81-75-705-1100
URL: http://www.icckyoto.or.jp/en/index.html

Official Language

English will be the official conference language, and no simultaneous translation will be provided. The Satellite Workshops and Public lectures will be held in Japanese.

Others

Upon your arrival at Kyoto International Conference Center on June 21 (Mon) morning, please note the following: To participants who have already had their meeting certificates, please fill in your name and affiliation, pick up the name-card holders and the list of program changes, and proceed directly to the conference rooms. Those who are registering on-site, please visit our registration desk. See you soon!

Because of few restaurants very close to the center, lunch boxes plus tea are available (¥1,000) when morning sessions are over. In luncheon seminars on 21 and 23, a limited number of free lunch boxes will be provided by sponsors.

VISA If you need to apply for a visa to enter Japan, please make your flight arrangements as soon as possible, fill in the attached "Information sheet for visa(doc28kb,pdf157kb)," and send it to us by e-mail [jsdb2010@jsdb.jp] with a photocopy of your passport at your earliest convenience. Please note that it is recommended that you send us the required document and information sooner, as the approval of visa may sometime require 1 month or longer.

Oral Presentations

 We generally recommend that speakers use their own PCs for their presentations. Please come to your session room at least 30 min prior to your presentation. For Macintosh computers and certain kinds of Windows computers, please provide your own adapter for connecting your computer to the projector. If you do not have your own PC, we will make PCs available in the conference rooms. We can accept data from flash memory or CD-ROM, but are unable to guarantee device compatibility. Slide projectors or overhead projectors will not be available.

Hot Topics: 12 min. presentation and 3 min. discussion.
Satellite Workshops: 12 min. presentation and 3 min. discussion.

Poster Presentations

	Poster size: 120 cm (width) x 150 cm (height)
	Setup: June 21st  9:00 - 13:00 (all posters)
	Presentation times:	Odd-numbered, June 21st, 16:45 - 18:45
		Even-numbered, June 22nd, 16:45 - 18:45
	Takedown by June 23rd, ～17:00 (all posters)

	*	Please leave a 20 x 20 cm blank space at the top left corner for the organizing committee to indicate your poster number.
	*	During your assigned poster presentation time, please remain in the vicinity of your poster for explanation.
	*	Best Presentation Awards will be given for the top 30. Awards will be selected by the JSDB organizer of the 2010 meeting, and will be announced at the Reception on Tuesday June 22nd.

Chairpersons

All chairpersons are requested to come to their assigned session rooms at least 30 min prior to the start of the session they will be chairing.

JSDB 2010 in Kyoto
Home page : http://www.jsdb.jp/jsdb/kaisai/jsdb2010/index.html


If you need a visa to enter Japan, please let us know (jsdb2010@jsdb.jp) and attach a copy of your passport to the email.

Chairperson:
Tadashi Uemura	(Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
Members:
Kiyokazu Agata	(Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
Osamu Chisaka	(Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
King Chow	(Department of Biology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Peter Currie	(Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University)
Noriko Funayama	(Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
Takeshi Inoue	(Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
Makoto Ishibashi	(Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine)
Ryoichiro Kageyama	(Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)
Mineko Kengaku	(Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University)
Taeko Kobayashi	(Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)
Takashi Miura	(Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine)
Toshiyuki Ohtsuka	(Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)
Yutaka Satou	(Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
Atsuko Sehara	(Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University)
Chisa Shukunami	(Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University)
Hirofumi Suemori	(Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University)
Takashi Tada	(Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University)
Tadao Usui	(Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
K. VijayRaghavan	(National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Bon-Chu Chung	(Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica)