On behalf of the organizing committee of the NIBB (National Institute for Basic Biology) Conference, I am glad to announce that we will hold the 55th NIBB Conference under the title of Frontiers of Plant Science in the 21st Century on September 13 to 15, 2008 at the Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan. It is a joint conference with the Arabidopsis Workshop Japan 2008.

The NIBB Conference is an international conference started on 1977, organized by professors of NIBB every year under a title of timely important topic of basic biology. The Arabidopsis workshop Japan started in 1990 at NIBB aiming to promote plant science using Arabidopsis as a model, and has been held annually. The organizing committee aimed to promote and inspire researchers and students through intensive discussion on their research achievements and results as well as their idea and future prospects of Plant science.

The conference is sponsored by NIBB, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Japan Plant Science Foundation of The Botanical Society of Japan, Arabidopsis Workshop and two grants of Grant-in-Aid for Creative Scientific Research received by K. Okada and by H. Tsukaya.

The organizing committee is looking forward to welcoming you to Okazaki and is intending to provide you with an exciting and unforgettable scientific experience.

Best regards,

Kiyotaka Okada
Chair of the organizing committee

◆ Organizing Committee
Kiyotaka Okada (NIBB)
Hirokazu Tsukaya (Univ. Tokyo / NIBB)
Mikio Nishimura (NIBB)
Mitsuyasu Hasebe (NIBB)
Takahiro Yamaguchi (NIBB)

◆ Panel Discussion Organizing Group ( Graduate Course Students )
Organizing Chair
Tsuyoshi Aoyama (NIBB / Sokendai)

Discussion Chair
Seiji Takeda (NAIST)
Christian Breuer (RIKEN Plant Sci. Center)

Shino Goto (NIBB / Sokendai)
Yasunori Ichihashi (Univ. Tokyo / NIBB)
Hokuto Nakayama (Univ. Tokyo / NIBB)
Toshiaki Tameshige (Kyoto Univ. / NIBB)
Kouichi Toyokura (Kyoto Univ. / NIBB)