We are pleased to announce that the CDB Symposium 2010 will be held as follows:

Title: CDB Symposium 2010 “Frontiers in Organogenesis”
Date: March 23 (Tue.) - 25 (Thu.), 2010
Venue: RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan
Application and Abstract submission deadline: Monday, December 21, 2009
URL: http://www.cdb.riken.jp/sympo2010/

The RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) was established in April 2000 in Kobe, Japan to promote research into the fundamental mechanisms of animal development and regeneration. To keep pace with advances and identify future directions in these rapidly evolving fields, the CDB inaugurated a program of annual symposia in 2003 covering diverse aspects of developmental biology and regeneration, and aimed at promoting the free and timely exchange of research achievements.

The three-day 2010 symposium is entitled "Frontiers in Organogenesis" and will bring together leading scientists in this field from Japan and around the world. We believe that holding an intensive symposium on organogenesis featuring talks by eminent scientists will be both timely and meaningful, as the focus of this field is rapidly shifting from conventional differentiation controls to more complex and dynamic mechanisms of tissue formation.

Application for participation is now open. We ask all participants to make their application from the symposium website. (Deadline: Monday, December 21, 2009). We encourage the submission of abstracts for the poster session and a limited number of travel fellowships for graduate students and post-docs traveling to Japan are available. For more details about the symposium, please visit our website (http://www.cdb.riken.jp/sympo2010/)

We look forward to welcoming you to the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan.

Sincerely,
Cliff Tabin (Harvard Medical School), Shigeru Kuratani (RIKEN CDB), Yoshiki Sasai (RIKEN CDB)

Contact:
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB)
CDB Symposium 2010 Secretariat
Research Promotion Division
2-2-3, Minatojima minami-machi, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0047, Japan
TEL：+81-78-306-3010
FAX：+81-78-306-3039
E-MAIL：sympo2010@cdb.riken.jp