International Symposium on Metallomics 2007 (ISM 2007)

Invitation to ISM 2007

Haraguchi, Hiroki
Chairman of ISM 2007　

　　The Organizing Committee of the International Symposium on Metallomics 2007 (ISM 2007) cordially invites you to participate the first international symposium on metallomics, held in Nagoya, Japan, from November 28 (Wed) to December 1 (Sat), 2007.
　　The aim of symposium is to allow the scientists from the world to get together and to discuss the present status and future perspectives concerned with the research on metals in biology.  In order to achieve the better understandings of roles, functions and regulation of metals in biological systems, it is highly expected to conduct metallomics research in cooperation with many scientists from a variety of fields, such as chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, and pharmacy, as well as nutrition/food/ environment/agriculture/toxicology/public hygiene etc.  It is also desired that metallomics will be developed in hyphenation and cooperation with genomics and proteomics, which may help to stimulate the progress of metallomics as comprehensive science for biological systems.
　　I hope to arrange an interesting scientific program and to organize the symposium that will stimulate information exchange and mutual cooperation of scientists who are interested in this newly emerging scientific field.