An interview with Shinichi Aizawa: President of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists. Interview by Eva Amsen.

摘要

We have about 700 participants at every annual meeting. In recent years, during my term as president, we've been putting strong emphasis on increasing the participation of other countries in the Asia-Pacific area. An Asia-Pacific Developmental Biology Network (APDBN) was launched about six years ago under the leadership of the former JSDB president Dr Masatoshi Takeichi (CDB Director), and we now hold the annual JSDB meeting as a joint meeting with the APDBN. Dr VrjayRaghavan of the National Centre for Biological Sciences in . Bangalore, India, is now chair of the network. This year, about 140 participants from other countries in Asia attended our annual meeting, and our meeting is becoming one of the hub meetings for the Asia-Pacific district. As a result, the official language of our annual meeting is not Japanese anymore, it's English.