Greetings
| Japanese |
It only matters if you are understood
Joint Meeting of The 45th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists & The 64th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Cell Biology
President: Yoshiko Takahashi (Kyoto Univ.)
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May 28 (Mon) － May 31 (Thu), 2012 ※May 28 (Mon) Joint Young Scientist Session (in Japanese) Kobe International Conference Center The Kobe Chamber of Commerce and Industry |
Perhaps some of you may have had the following experience: Day after day spent reading through countless numbers of journals and papers. One day you decide to attend a symposium in a different area from your own in high spirits, motivated to learn something interesting, but walk away afterward, disappointed at not having understood anything that was going on.
Along with the flourishing of the life sciences, we have also seen a move toward further specialization and subdivisions of various research areas, leading to the present prevalence of talks on narrowly focused topics. The close relationship we have built with living organisms and cells, in our quest to uncover the nature of life, has of late become a more business-like association. In face of these times, I have attempted to create a program that contemplates, “What makes life science interesting?” out of the belief that developmental biologists and cell biologists should be able to understand each other.
The JSDB-JSCB joint meetings began in 2002, the idea of which was proposed by then society presidents Dr. Masatoshi Takeichi (JSDB) and Dr. Nobutaka Hirokawa (JSCB). Since then, our joint meeting has been held every five years, and the 2012 meeting is our third such event. Until the last meeting, the programs were organized by the two appointed meeting chairs, one from each society, who organized the programs from the standpoint of their respective societies. This time, however, there is only one organizing chairperson, who has been tasked with setting out a clear concept for the joint meeting.
For this JSDB-JSCB meeting, I placed top priority on organizing a program that can only be put together in a joint meeting setting. As a result, the program has been set up in a way that sessions of developmental biology are intermingled with those of cell biology, and all of the participants have no choice but to listen to talks of both areas. Therefore, to the speakers (and poster presenters), the aim of this meeting is not about how much you can talk about your research, but rather, how well you can get your audience to understand your research.
As the chair of this joint meeting, it would give me great pleasure if this meeting serves as a springboard to inspire new ideas and lead to innovative developments in your research.
「わかってもらってナンボ！」～大会長からのメッセージ～
第45回日本発生生物学会（JSDB）/ 第64回日本細胞生物学会（JSCB）
合同大会大会長：高橋 淑子（京大・院理・生物科学）
会期：2012年5月28日（月）～31日（木）（28日（月）は若手ジョイントセッション（日本語））
会場：神戸国際会議場、神戸商工会議所
おびただしい数のジャーナルや論文チェックに追われる日々。「学会でオモロイこと見つけたろぉ！」と、普段は勉強しない分野のシンポジウムに意気揚々と参加したものの、悲しいかな、なんのことやらさっぱりわからん・・・という経験をした人は私だけではないでしょう。
生命科学の隆盛と共に、各分野の専門化と細分化が進み、なにかとマニアックな発表が幅をきかせる時代。生命の本質を問うために生き物や細胞と付き合っていたつもりが、いつのまにやら「ビジネス的」な空気に翻弄されている感もあります。このような時代において、今回の合同大会では、発生生物学者と細胞生物学者はお互い理解し合えるはずという信念の元に、「生命科学のおもしろさを問う」企画に挑戦しました。
JSDB-JSCB合同大会は、当時の学会長竹市雅俊先生（JSDB）と廣川信隆先生（JSCB）による発案のもと、2002年に始まりました。以来5年ごとに開催されており、今回が3回目です。前回までは２名の大会長が、それぞれの学会を代表する立場で企画されましたが、今回の大会長は１人であり、合同大会のコンセプトを明確に打ち出すことが求められています。
今大会では、「合同大会でなければ出来ないこと」を最優先に考えました。結果、“コテコテ”の発生生物学と細胞生物学をランダムに組合せ、会場にいる聴衆はそのどちらも聞かざるを得ない状況をセットアップしました。発表者の方々は（ポスター発表も含めて）、自分の研究を「喋ってナンボ」でなく、「相手にわかってもらってナンボ」ですので、よろしくお願いします。
この合同大会が、皆様に新しいアイデアをひらめかせ、新たな研究の発展に繋がるきっかけになれば、大会長として大きな喜びです。