My laboratory hosted the symposium during 21-22th August, using Kyushu Univ. Nishijin Plaza as a congress venue. The first day was extremely hot, and the second day was rainy in the morning. Even in such weather, more than 50 people have got together and exchanged very active discussions.
As a chairman of the symposium, I was extremely happy to have a overseas guest speaker, Dr. Claudia Kemper, who gave a special lecture on novel and important functions of properdin and CD46. Also we had a very interesting and inspiring lecture by Dr. Shunichiro Kurata on pathogen recognition by Drosophila immune system. A mini-symposium in the symposium on evolution of the complement system was also fun. In addition, regular oral presentations are all accompanied by very active discussions, making the original time table almost nothing!
Post-conference activities, so-called excursion, are also fantastic with Claudia. Only a hard luck was that access to the volcano mouth of Aso mountain was prohibited because of high level of sulfur oxide, volcanic gas.
I would like to thank all the people who supported the symposium and other activities duing the week: my lab people, all the delegates of the symposium, managers of Nishijin Plaza, secretary of Food Science course, and many others.
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