-Event- TERMIS 2nd World Congress Data: 8/31/2009-9/3/2009 Location: SouthKorea
The 2nd World Congress of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) in conjunction with 2009 Seoul Stem Cell Symposium will be held August 31- September 3， 2009 in Seoul， Korea. This 2nd World Congress follows the first meeting held in Pittsburgh in 2006， and will continue to be held every three years.
The main slogan of this congress is "Science and Technology for Patients". The program of this meeting will be stimulating with a focus on breaking scientific developments and current issues from foremost opinion leaders.
Opening date for TERMIS 2nd World Congress abstract submissions: February 1， 2009 Deadline for Submission: March 15， 2009 Deadline for early registration: May 31， 2009
-Event- Building the Body Plan: How Cell Adhesion， Signaling and Cytoskeletal Regulation Shape Morphogenesis Data: 9/21/2009-9/23/2009 Location: Japan
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)， Japan Society for Cell Biology (JSCB)， and RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) will join together to organize the meeting "Building the Body Plan: How cell adhesion， signaling and cytoskeletal regulation shape morphogenesis". This joint meeting will be held September 21-23， 2009 at the Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto， Japan.
The meeting will allow graduate students and postdocs to interact with leaders in the field from around the world in an intimate setting.Topics (subject to change) will include Cell Junction Formation and Dynamics， Specialized Cell Junctions， Signaling via Cell Contacts， Contact-Dependent Regulation of Cell Polarity and Shape， Epithelial Remodeling， Cell Migration for Morphogenesis， and Neural Morphogenesis and Axon Recognition.
