21st Annual Meeting of JADCI

During 3-5 August, the 21st Annual Meeting of Japanese Association for Developmental and Comparative Immunology was held in Nihon University, Fujisawa Campus, chaired by Dr. Teruyuki Nakanishi. We had 36 oral presentations of original researches, a special lecture by Dr. Nakayama on T-cell differentiation and maintenance, and six talks in a symposium on lymphocyte evolution, with about 100 attendants. As I was serving as a secretary general and treasurer, I spent busy times during the meeting to prepare executive and general meetings, but at the same time, really enjoyed the activity. I met many researchers working on quite interesting topics, having sound discussions. Also we gained a number of new members of this association, especially youths. I hope that JADCI grows further and the field of comparative immunology attracts more scientists.
I believe we are now on the right track.
Personally, I enjoyed to drink and talk with Oriol from UPENN and Drs. Jung, Hikima, and Otani, who are all young leading scientists working hard and sincerely on fish immunology.
As in the previous symposium in Gyeongsang National University, students and other stuff were devotedly working for the meeting. It was quite impressive. Thank you for those services, to all.