The 2
nd meeting for NIBB-COS Heidelberg International Collaborations was held on 25
th June 2021. This meeting was organized in conjunction with COS Heidelberg in Germany. During the Lecture Series held during this program, two researchers from both institutes gave a presentation on the theme of “Stem Cell”; Dr. Tomomi Tsubouchi from the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Dr. Sergio P. Acebrón from COS Heidelberg. Fifty-eight members from NIBB and 32 from COS Heidelberg (both totals included post-docs and students) participated in this event, and lively discussions took place.
We used the video chat tool, Spatial Chat, as an online meeting platform to facilitate the event’s social meetup, and principal investigators, researchers, and students from both institutes were thus able to meet and have lively exchanges. By manipulating the specially assigned icon given to each of them, participants were able to freely join any discussions they chose to partake in with no limitations on the number of people involved. Consequently, the event was highly praised.
During the 2
nd meeting, several discussions on new collaborative research were put forward, and as a result, ties between NIBB and COS seemed to have deepened. Some participants suggested that the exchange of young researchers and students from both institutes would be considered, and that a poster session would be held at the meeting. In light of these comments, we are preparing to hold a poster session for the next meeting on the Spatial Chat platform.
Kiyoshi Tatematsu (Research Enhancement Strategy Office)
