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Seminar
2008.04.28
Kick-off symposium of WPI-IFReC - Immunology and Imaging -
REPORT
Main theme:
- “Immunology and Imaging”
Time, date:
- 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. of March 27 and
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. of March 28, 2008 Opening ceremony
- Greeting
- -Kiyokazu WASHIDA, President, Osaka University
- Greeting and introduction of the logotype of WPI-IFReC
- -Shizuo AKIRA, Director, WPI-IFReC
Presentations:
- Total 21 researchers including 14 principal investigators of WPI-IFReC gave presentations. There were active interactions with attendances through questions and answers at the end of each session.
Concluding remarks:
- Toshio YANAGIDA, Deputy Director, WPI-IFReC
Kick-off Reception of WPI-IFReC was held after the first day of the symposium at Rihga Royal Hotel Osaka.
Chairperson:
- Taroh KINOSHITA, Deputy Director, WPI-IFReC
Opening ceremony:
- Greetings
- -Kiyokazu WASHIDA, President, Osaka University
- -Yasutaka MORIGUCHI, Director General, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- -Iwao MATSUDA, Former Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, Food Safety and Information Technology, and Member of the House of Councilors, National Diet of Japan
Sake Barrel Ceremony “Kagami-biraki”
- Total 18 distinguished guests and director of WPI-IFReC, etc. stood on the platform and then opened the new barrel of Sake together to celebrate the establishment of WPI-IFReC.
Toast:
- Fritz MELCHERS, Principal investigator of WPI-IFReC, and Fellow of Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Congratulatory addresses:
- -Naoki MURATA, Trustee, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- -Ronald GERMAIN, Director, Program in Systems Immunology and Infectious Disease Modeling, National Institutes of Health
Concluding remarks:
- Shizuo AKIRA, Director, WPI-IFReC