Retrospect of the 3rd CSI/JSI/KAI Joint Symposium on Immunology
Source：KAI
2013-11-10
The 3rd CSI/JSI/KAI (the Chinese Society for Immunology/the Japanese Society for Immunology/the Korea Association for Immunology) Joint Symposium on Immunology has been held on December 1-3, 2013 at POSTECH Biotech Center, Pohang College, Pohang city, Korea. 7 representatives from CSI, 8 from JSI and 9 from KAI have given speeches on the cutting edge and recent advancement of immunology.
Representatives from CSI include Prof. Fu Gao (Institute of microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Prof. Xiaolong Liu (Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Prof. Bo Huang (Department of Immunology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences), Prof. Yu Zhang (Medical School, Peking University), Prof. Hai Qi (Medical School, Tsinghua University), Prof. Xiaofeng Qin (School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-San University), and Prof. Haiyan Liu (Suzhou University).
The symposium is composed of four sections, including: innate immunity and infectious diseases; immunotherapy and immune regulation; metabolic diseases and inflammation; and the biology of T cells and mucosal immunity.
Drs. Yong-Joon Kim, Eui-Cheol Shin and You-Me Kim from KAI, and Drs. Fu Gao and Haiyan Liu from CSI gave speeches on innate immunity and infectious diseases; Drs. Inpyo Choi, Gou Young Koh and Seong Hoe Park from KAI, Drs. Bo Huang and Xiaofeng Qin, and Drs. Toshinori Nakayama and Motomu Shimaoka from JSI gave speeches on immunotherapy and immune regulation; Drs. Myung-Shik Lee and Yoon Keun Kim from KAI, Drs. Satoko Arai, Satoshi Nishimura, Keiji Hirota and Wooseok Seo from JSI gave speeches on metabolic diseases and inflammation; Dr. Charles Surh from KAI, Drs. Kiyoshi Hirahara and Jun Kunisawa from JSI, and Drs. Xiaolong Liu, Yu Zhang and Hai Qi from CSI gave speeches on the biology of T cells and mucosal immunity.
Highlights of this meeting were summarized as follows. Firstly, the speeches focused in the field of immunity on metabolic diseases and inflammation, especially on intestinal flora and tumor immunity, and these topics represent and reflect the direction and research hotspots of immunology. Secondly, most of the representatives from JSI (6 from 8) are young immunologists with age of 30s, and their work focused on intestinal flora and mucosal immunity, and showed their much potential to perform excellent immunological research. Moreover, it was found that two of these young Japanese immunologists did not go outside for oversea training, but their English was also very good, marking a strong developing trend of immunological researches in Japan. Thirdly, 3 representatives from KAI reported their work on intestinal flora, in particularly Prof. Charles Surh has successfully made the laboratory platform on Germ-free mice and food antigen-free mice. In summary, Japanese immunologists have shown great potentials of the research on the intestinal flora and mucosal immunity. Korean immunologists also showed considerable potential. For example, the work by Prof. Gou Young Koh on the visualization of lymph vessels was very impressive, and Prof. Yoon Keun Kim’s work, showing that vesicles from intestinal flora are the cause of the allergic diseases such as asthma, also made great impression to all participants. Chinese immunologists showed great potentials on tumor immunology, especially for the work by Prof. Bo Huang on tumor cell-derived mircoparticles.
This symposium is not only a platform for communication and exchange ideas among immunologists from the three countries, but also the platform for promoting understanding each other and friendship. Moreover, the representatives from CSI have noticed the gap between immunological research in China and the research in Japan or Korea. How to construct new platform and system for immunological research to accelerate the whole scientific levels is still a great challenge faced by Chinese immunologists.
Representatives from CSI include Prof. Fu Gao (Institute of microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Prof. Xiaolong Liu (Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Prof. Bo Huang (Department of Immunology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences), Prof. Yu Zhang (Medical School, Peking University), Prof. Hai Qi (Medical School, Tsinghua University), Prof. Xiaofeng Qin (School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-San University), and Prof. Haiyan Liu (Suzhou University).
The symposium is composed of four sections, including: innate immunity and infectious diseases; immunotherapy and immune regulation; metabolic diseases and inflammation; and the biology of T cells and mucosal immunity.
Drs. Yong-Joon Kim, Eui-Cheol Shin and You-Me Kim from KAI, and Drs. Fu Gao and Haiyan Liu from CSI gave speeches on innate immunity and infectious diseases; Drs. Inpyo Choi, Gou Young Koh and Seong Hoe Park from KAI, Drs. Bo Huang and Xiaofeng Qin, and Drs. Toshinori Nakayama and Motomu Shimaoka from JSI gave speeches on immunotherapy and immune regulation; Drs. Myung-Shik Lee and Yoon Keun Kim from KAI, Drs. Satoko Arai, Satoshi Nishimura, Keiji Hirota and Wooseok Seo from JSI gave speeches on metabolic diseases and inflammation; Dr. Charles Surh from KAI, Drs. Kiyoshi Hirahara and Jun Kunisawa from JSI, and Drs. Xiaolong Liu, Yu Zhang and Hai Qi from CSI gave speeches on the biology of T cells and mucosal immunity.
Highlights of this meeting were summarized as follows. Firstly, the speeches focused in the field of immunity on metabolic diseases and inflammation, especially on intestinal flora and tumor immunity, and these topics represent and reflect the direction and research hotspots of immunology. Secondly, most of the representatives from JSI (6 from 8) are young immunologists with age of 30s, and their work focused on intestinal flora and mucosal immunity, and showed their much potential to perform excellent immunological research. Moreover, it was found that two of these young Japanese immunologists did not go outside for oversea training, but their English was also very good, marking a strong developing trend of immunological researches in Japan. Thirdly, 3 representatives from KAI reported their work on intestinal flora, in particularly Prof. Charles Surh has successfully made the laboratory platform on Germ-free mice and food antigen-free mice. In summary, Japanese immunologists have shown great potentials of the research on the intestinal flora and mucosal immunity. Korean immunologists also showed considerable potential. For example, the work by Prof. Gou Young Koh on the visualization of lymph vessels was very impressive, and Prof. Yoon Keun Kim’s work, showing that vesicles from intestinal flora are the cause of the allergic diseases such as asthma, also made great impression to all participants. Chinese immunologists showed great potentials on tumor immunology, especially for the work by Prof. Bo Huang on tumor cell-derived mircoparticles.
This symposium is not only a platform for communication and exchange ideas among immunologists from the three countries, but also the platform for promoting understanding each other and friendship. Moreover, the representatives from CSI have noticed the gap between immunological research in China and the research in Japan or Korea. How to construct new platform and system for immunological research to accelerate the whole scientific levels is still a great challenge faced by Chinese immunologists.
