日本ゲノム編集学会第９回大会 / 9th Annual Meeting of The Japanese Society for Genome Editing

　大阪で開催されたゲノム編集学会に参加しました。確か昨年は海外出張に重なって行けませんでしたし、その前はCOVID-19でオンラインでしたので、随分久しぶりでした。伝統ある会場がかっこよかったです。

　やはりオンサイトですと、ひとまずその場に行けばポスターと発表者がいますし、オンラインよりは得られる情報が多いです。何より違うのが、想定していなかった人との出会いのような気がします。オンラインだと、事前に調べた自分が聞きたい発表を聞き、その発表者と話すだけですが、会場にいると偶然誰かと出くわします。学会中、久しく会っていなかった学生時代の同級生に突然声をかけられたのですが、その人がマスクをしていたこともあって、誰なのか脳の中を検索しまくったこともありましたし、ホテルのエレベーターの中でたまたま一緒になった方ともお話しすることもありました。

　自分のポスター発表も無事にすることができましたし、他の方の発表も勉強になりました。来年は東京で開催とのことですので、参加したいです。

I attended the Annual Meeting of The Japanese Society for Genome Editing held in Osaka. If I remember correctly, I was unable to join the meeting last year due to another overseas conference, and before that a few meetings were online because of COVID-19, so it had been quite a while. The traditional venue in Osaka was cool.

　I think the on-site conference is more informative than the online conference. As long as you go there, you can certainly see the posters and the presenters. Moreover, I think that the biggest difference is that I meet people I wasn't expecting to meet. Online, you just listen to the presentations you want to hear, which you have researched beforehand, and talk to the presenters, but when you are at the conference, you run into someone by chance. During the conference, I was suddenly approached by a classmate from my school days whom I had not seen for a long time. In addition, he was wearing a mask, so I had to search all over my brain to find out who he was, and I also talked to someone who happened to be in the elevator at the hotel.

　I was able to successfully give my poster presentation, and I also learned a lot from other people's presentations. The conference will be held in Tokyo next year, and I would like to participate.