日本再生医療学会総会@横浜 / Congress of the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine @ Yokohama

　今年も再生医療学会に参加しました。今年は口頭発表にも採択していただいたので、無事にしてきました。多くのインプットをもらうことができて、とても良い機会になりました。発表した内容は論文として投稿しているので、早く発表できると良いのですが。留学先のGladstone InstitutesのPresidentである、Deepakと久し振りにお会いして話せたのも良かったです。

　ただ、毎日横浜まで通うのはやはり大変でした。これくらいの距離を毎日通勤される方も沢山いらっしゃるので、贅沢な話ではあるのですが。学会というと、大抵近くのホテルに泊まって通うか、都内でもっと近くの会場のことが多いので。横浜は絶妙な距離です。と言いながら、今年は分生もまたここですね。

　今年は、大会長の中村先生が慶應ということもあってか、学会のポスターが慶應マーク入りで福沢諭吉に北里柴三郎、懇親会の出し物が慶應大学の応援団？とチアリーダーによる学会の応援、と非常に慶應色を強く感じさせてくれました。私は出身ではないのですが、少しだけ雰囲気を味わえたのかもしれません。

I participated in the Congress of the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine this year again. This year I was accepted to give an oral presentation, which I did successfully. It was a great opportunity for me to get a lot of input. We have just submitted the data of my presentation as a paper, so hopefully we will be able to publish it soon. It was also good to meet and talk with Deepak, the president of Gladstone Institutes, where I did my postdoc, for the first time in a while.

　However, it was still tough to commute to Yokohama every day. I know there are many people who commute this distance every day, so I know I am a bit spoiled. When it comes to academic conferences, I usually stay at a nearby hotel or go to a closer venue in Tokyo. Yokohama is an exquisite distance. Havng said that, this year, the Molecular Biology Society of Japan meeting this year is also here again.

　This year, perhaps because the conference chairman, Dr. Nakamura, is a Keio professor, the posters for the conference were decorated with the Keio logo, with Yukichi Fukuzawa and Shibasaburo Kitasato, and the entertainment at the reception was a Keio University cheer leading squad and cheerleaders cheering for the conference, giving the event a strong Keio flavor. Although I am not from Keio University, I may have been able to taste that flavor.