Report on the 31st annual meeting of the Japanese Association for Developmental and Comparative Immunology (JADCI), September 4-6, 2019, Inamori Center, Kyushu University, Fukuoka (Local Organizer: Shun-ichiro Kawabata, Kyushu University).
The 31st annual meeting of the Japanese Association for Developmental and Comparative Immunology (JADCI) was held with the 30th annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Host Defense Research (JSHDR) on September 4-6, 2019, at Inamori Center of Kyushu University, Fukuoka.
Seventy four scientists and students attended the meeting to discuss the host defense mechanisms of invertebrates and vertebrates. The meeting featured a educational lecture, two special lectures, and two symposiums. In addition, there were seventeen general oral presentations, followed by active discussion.
Special lecture I: Yoichi Hayakawa (Fac. of Agric., Saga Univ.). Molecular mechanism of stress acclimation induction in insects.
Special lecture II: Takema Fukatsu (Natl. Inst. Adv. Indust. Sci. Tech.). Symbiosis, parasitism and sociality: logic and mechanism for discriminating self and non-self.
Educational lecture: Haruhisa Wago (Saitama Medical University College). Music therapy enhancing human immunity by regulating the autonomic nerve system.
Symposium I: “Genome-editing technology for lower vertebrates”
1) Application of genome-editing technology for lower vertebrates. (Masato Kinoshita, Division of Applied Biosciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto Univ.)
2) Genome editing to analyze functions of secondary lymphoid organs in fish. (Hiroaki Suetake, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Fukui Prefectural University)
3) Modulation of the intestinal microbiota by IL-17A/F1 in Japanese medaka, Olyzias latipes. (Jun-ichi Hikima, Fac. of Agr., Univ. Miyazaki)
4) Development of DNA/RNA editing techniques based on PPR protein. (Takahiro Nakamura, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu Univ.)
Symposium II: “Reactive oxygen species/reactive sulfide species for host defense”
1) Reactive oxygen species and host defense on the basis of NADPH oxidases. (Hideki Sumimoto, Department of Biochemistry, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences)
2) Detection and inhibition of oxidized-lipids involved in oxidative stress diseases. (Ken-ichi Yamada, Fac. of Pharm. Sci., Kyushu Univ.)
3) Regulation of cardiac environmental stress response by reactive sulfide species. (Motohiro Nishida,
Grad. Sch. of Pharm. Sci., Kyushu Univ.)
4) Reactive sulfur metabolism, and its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory functions.
(Takaaki Akaike, Department of Environmental Medicine and Molecular Toxicology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University)
General presentations:
17 oral presentations were made over the 3 days.
The winner of the Furuta Young Investigator Award was Ms. Riku Kuma at Kitasato University (Transcriptome analysis of melanomacrophage-center in red seabream Pagrus major).
