(2011.04.02)

東日本大震災で被災した研究者への支援
Annual Northwest Developmental Biology Conference
at the Friday Harbor Labs参加者からのお見舞い

未曾有の大惨事の対応で、お忙しいところを誠に恐縮ですが、Annual Northwest Developmental Biology Conference at the Friday Harbor Labs参加者から、日本の友人、同僚へのお見舞いが届きました。

また、今朝、未明に三崎臨海実験所のグリーンハウスが焼失とのことです。幸い人的損失は無かったとのことですが、同所では最も古い木造建築で、文化財に指定され博物館に変える計画が進行中でした。
おそらく、地震による電気系統のトラブルが原因では無いかと思いますが、被災地のみならず強い余震をお感じになった会員諸氏のお宅では、安全の確認を充分に行ってください。

星　元紀（会員）

Dear Ghen,

In these two attachments I am sending a message of encouragement from the many developmental biologists who are having their annual Northwest Developmental Biology Conference at the Friday Harbor Labs.  We all are intensely concerned with the terrible events that are occurring in Japan, and all of us want to tell our Japanese colleagues so.  I don't know how to spread our concern to our many Japanese friends, and hope you may have email addresses of individuals, developmental societies and universities and can forward the attachments to them, or to as many as is convenient. 

The pictures we see daily of these events are beyond understanding, and now to have the horrible potential of the danger from the nuclear plants is simply too much to bear.  Helen and I visited Sendai when our dear friend and colleague, Shigeki Mizuno, lived there, so I have a personal concern for the place.  Shigeki, sadly, has died, and I don;t know whether his wife, Rin,still lives there. 

I hope that you, personally, are safe. 

Arthur

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Update 2011.04.02