The 10th NIBB International Practical Course was held from 20th to 29th September, 2018. We received 13 applications and selected a total of nine participants joined the course. Three of them were Japanese and the other six were from the UK, Colombia, Nepal, Korea, China and Taiwan respectively.
　The title of the course was “Genome Editing and Imaging of Fish and Amphibians”. Medaka, Xenopus and iberian ribbed newt were used in this course. The course itself contained segments concerning “Gene knock-out and knock-in by the CRISPR-Cas9 method”, “Imaging analysis using a light-sheet microscope and a confocal microscope”, “Gene expression induction using the IR-LEGO system”, “Cryopreservation of medaka sperm” and “Optomoter response analysis of medaka using large spectrograph and data analysis of the response” among others. 10 open seminars by invited speakers coming from Japan and abroad were held. Dr. Pung-Pung Hwang (Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology (ICOS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Dr. Lazaro Centanin (Centre for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany) and Dr. Takuji Sugiura (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria) were invited to lecture, and they conducted both seminars and course lectures.
　The 11th NIBB International Practical Course co-organized by NIBB and Academia Sinica will be held in Taipei, Taiwan in 2020. To discuss several matters related to the next course, six researchers including Dr. Hwang visited NIBB from ICOS during the course. They visited several laboratories and facilities during their visit and presented their research during the NIBB Special Seminar.
　Moving into the future, we hope that the NIBB International Practical Course will be an opportunity to start as well as advance international collaborations and cooperation at various level. Finally, researchers from abroad need financial support for their travel and living expenses to participate in this course. As such, we realized the necessity of reviewing certain aspects of course administration (such as publicizing the course earlier than before) in order to make it easier for foreign applicants to receive financial support from various funding agencies.
 
On behalf of the organizers
Kiyoshi Naruse (NIBB)
Hajime Ogino (Amphibian Research Center, Hiroshima University)