The Joint Meeting of 45th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists & the 64th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Cell Biology will be held May 28-31， 2012 at the Kobe International Conference Center and the Kobe Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Kobe， Japan.

The Joint Young Scientist Session on the 28th will be held in Japanese only.

The joint meeting of the JSDB and the JSCB is organized every five years， and the 2012 meeting is the third such event.

The deadline for pre-registration is 17:00 (Japanese Standard time) Friday， April 13， 2012.