The 2nd ANRRC (Asian Network of Research Resource Centers) meeting

The 2nd ANRRC (Asian Network of Research Resource Centers) Meeting in Tsukuba, Japan

Date	Oct. 28(Thursday)-29(Friday), 2010
Venue	RIKEN BioResource Center 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan
Host	RIKEN BioResource Center

News

• Nov. 2, 2010
  Report updated. (English/Japanese)
• Nov. 1, 2010
  Special Thanks to all participants for making the 2nd ANRRC Meeting such a Great success !!!
• Oct. 1, 2010
  Admission Closed!!We have over capacity.We hope that we will have another opportunity to gather in the future.Thank you very much for your kind understanding.
• Sep. 17, 2010
  Program updated.
• Jun. 10, 2010
  Website opened.

Report of the 2nd ANRRC Meeting (November 2,2010)

The second meeting of the Asian Network of Research Resource Centers (ANRRC) was held on October 28 and 29, 2010 at the RIKEN BioResources Center (BRC). The ANRRC was established to make scientific, technological and innovative contributions for the development of bioresources in Asia.

Meeting participants consisted of 124 specialists from institutes maintaining bioresources in thirteen countries, who reported on the facilities in their own countries and formulated a new charter that included ANRRC's goal and future direction.

Charter (Full Text) (PDF 129kB)

LEE Yeonhee, director of the Korean Network of Research Resource Centers (KNRRC) was appointed as president of ANRRC. DONG Xiuzhu, director of the Biological Resources Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Science (IMCAS) and OBATA Yuichi, director of RIKEN BRC were appointed as vice-president.

The third meeting of ANRRC is scheduled to be hosted by IMCAS, with Beijing as the venue.

The new charter is summarized as follows.

Goal

The goal of the ANRRC is to facilitate the access to the research resources to improve the welfare of Asian people by promoting the sciences, technologies, and innovations in Asia.

Principles

• Facilitate the use of the research resources, and sharing the research resources and the work among Asian institutions, across national boundaries and barriers.
• Ensure the freedom of academic use of the research resources and of publications of research results using the research resources, and the protection of intellectual property rights of the developers.
• Work cooperatively to secure access to, and utilization of, available resources, services, and expertise in all aspects of collection, archiving, management, and distribution of the research resources.
• Achieve common approaches to insure efficient, effective, and economical access to the research resources and services by the research resource centers.
• Commit to cooperative, standardized approaches to selection, archiving, protection, safe management, and distribution of the research resources.
• Establish a common baseline standard of operation as regards quality control and environmental management.

Program

Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010

• 8:45 a.m. Bus Departure from the Ohkura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba

9:25 a.m. - 4:25 p.m.

Report from each Institute

• 9:25 a.m. - 9:35 a.m.
  Opening Remarks by OBATA Yuichi, RIKEN BRC
• 9:35 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
  Report from Azerbaijan by BABAYEV Rovshan Ramiz, Research Institute of Soil of Academy of Science
• 10:00 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.
  Report from China by HUANG Li, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 10:25 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
  Report from India by SHARMA Shyam Kumar, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University
• 10:50 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.
  Break
• 11:10 a.m. - 11:35 a.m.
  Report from Indonesia by JULISTIONO Heddy, Division of Microbiology, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
• 11:35 a.m. - 0:00 p.m.
  Report from Korea by LEE Yeonhee, Korea National Research Resource Center
• 0:00 p.m. - 0:25 p.m.
  Report from Malaysia by AHMAD Bin Abu Hassan, School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains
• 0:25 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
  Lunch Meeting
• 1:30 p.m. - 1:55 p.m.
  Report from Mongolia by BATSUKH Buyanchimeg, Plant Protection Research Institute of Mongolia
• 1:55 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
  Report from Japan by KOHARA Yuji, National Institute of Genetics
• 2:20 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
  Report from Singapore by TAN Soo Yong, Singhealth Tissue Repository
• 2:45 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.
  Break
• 3:05 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
  Report from Thailand by CHUNHAMETHA Suwanee, BIOTEC Culture Collection
• 3:30 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.
  Report from Vietnam by TRAN The Bach, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources

4:00 p.m. - 5:35 p.m.

Laboratory Tour in RIKEN BRC

Experimantal Animal Division by YOSHIKI Atsushi
Experimental Plant Division by KOBAYASHI Masatomo
Cell Engineering Division by NAKAMURA Yukio

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

General Discussion (with buffet style dinner)

at Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba

Friday, Oct. 29, 2010

• 8:20 a.m. Bus Departure from the Ohkura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba

9:00 a.m. - 0:00 p.m

Each Resource Session

Microbe, chaired by OHKUMA Moriya, RIKEN BRC
Algae, chaired by KASAI Fumie, National Institute of Environmental Studies
Plant, chaired KOBAYASHI Masatomo, RIKEN BRC
Human Specimen, chaired by NAKAMURA Yukio, RIKEN BRC
Animal, Insect and Fish, chaired by YOSHIKI Atsushi, RIKEN BRC

	Microbe	Algae	Plant	Bio Bank	Animal/Insect/Fish
Chair	OHKUMA Moriya (RIKEN BRC)	KASAI Fumie (NIES)	KOBAYASHI Masatomo (RIKEN BRC)	NAKAMURA Yukio (RIKEN BRC)	YOSHIKI Atsuhi (RIKEN BRC)
Co-Chair	DONG Xiuzhu (IM-CAS)	Susan I. Blackburn (SCIRO)	Deok Chun YANG (Ginseng Bank)	SUN Menghong (Fudan University)	TUNGTRONGCHITR, Anchalee (Thailand)
9:00 a.m.	DONG Xiuzhu (China)	Song Lirong (China)	Masatomo KOBAYASHI (Japan)	SUN, Menghong (China)	MITANI Shohei (Japan)
9:20 a.m.	CHEN Wenli (China)	Mohan Chandra Kalita (India)	Tohru ARIIZUMI （Japan)	ENG, Chon Boon (Singapore)	TUNGTRONGCHITR, Anchalee (Thailand)
9:40 a.m.	Taesoo LEE (Korea)	Susan I. Blackburn(Australia）	Nazareno, Eric Saludo (Philippines)	Sirima Pattamadilok (Thailand)	NARUSE Kiyoshi (Japan)
10:00 a.m.	Hideko URUSHIHARA (Japan)	Aparat Mahakhant（Thailand）	Hak-Tae LIM (Korea)	Jane Carpenter (Australia)	Hitoshi OKAMOTO (Japan)
10:20 a.m.	SUZUKI Ken-ichiro（Japan)	KASAI, Fumie （Japan)	Jae-Hoon KIM (Korea)	BORA, Utpal (India)	KURAMOTO Takashi (Japan）
10:40 a.m.	OHKUMA Moriya （Japan)	Discussion	Makoto KUSABA （Japan)	MASUI Tohru Japan)	Inho Choi (Korea)
11:00 a.m.	Discussion	Discussion	Deok Chun YANG (Korea)	Yukio NAKAMURA (Japan)	YOSHIKI Atsuhi (Japan)
11:20 a.m.	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion
11:40 a.m.	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion

0:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Final Session

2:20 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Laboratory Tour in NIAS: National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences

3:20 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Laboratory Tour in NIES: National Institute of Environmental Studies

How to Access

Hotel Information

We reserved the hotels for participants. The hotels are near from the bus terminal "Tsukuba Center". On Oct. 28 and 29, the buses chartered by the RIKEN carry you amog the RIKEN BRC and the hotels

"Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba"[Photo Guide (PDF 1.22MB)]

"Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba Epochal"[Photo Guide (PDF 1.66MB)]

"Gakuen Sakurai Hotel"[Photo Guide (PDF 1.7MB)]

From the Airport to Tsukuba Center

If you would like to go to the Tsukuba Center from the airports, we recommend you using the airport buses. The airport buses take you the Tsukuba Center directly (not transfer) from each airport. At the airport, please buy the ticket by yourself.

• From Narita Airport to Tsukuba Center: JPY2,540 [More Information(PDF 90.5KB)]
• From Haneda Airport to Tsukuba Center: JPY1,800
• From Ibaraki Airport to Tsukuba Center: JPY1,000

From Tsukuba Center to the Airport

If you would like to go to the Airport from Tsukuba Center, we recommend as the follows:

From Tsukuba Center to Narita Airport [More Information(PDF 90.5KB)]

We recommend the bus from Tsukuba Center. Please reserve by yourself at following website and buy the ticket at the Tsukuba Center (fee: JPY2,540 cash only).

You can board the bus without reservation n the ONLY case of seats available. The seats are not always available, so we recommend the reservation.

Timetable

Departure from Tsukuba Center	Arrival at the Narita Airport Terminal 2	Arrival at the Narita Airport Terminal 2
6:00 a.m.	7:40 a.m.	7:45 a.m.
6:40 a.m.	8:40 a.m.	8:45 a.m.
8:50 a.m.	10:25 a.m.	10:30 a.m.
10:40 a.m.	0:15 p.m.	0:20 p.m.
0:20 p.m.	1:55 p.m.	2:00 p.m.
1:35 p.m.	3:10 p.m.	3:15 p.m.
2:35 p.m.	4:10 p.m.	4:15 p.m.
3:50 p.m.	5:25 p.m.	5:30 p.m.
5:35 p.m.	7:10 p.m.	7:15 p.m.

From Tsukuba Center to Haneda Airport

We recommend the bus from Tsukuba Center (fee: JPY1,800, cash only). Timetable

Departure from Tsukuba Center	Arrival at the Haneda Airport Terminal 2	Arrival at the Haneda Airport Terminal 1
4:40 a.m.	6:17 a.m.	6:22 a.m.
5:30 a.m.	7:07 a.m.	7:12 a.m.
6:40 a.m.	8:37 a.m.	8:42 a.m.
8:00 a.m.	9:57 a.m.	10:02 a.m.
9:30 a.m.	11:27 a.m.	11:32 a.m.
11:00 a.m.	0:57 p.m.	1:02 p.m.
0:30 p.m.	2:07 p.m.	2:12 p.m.
2:00 p.m.	3:37 p.m.	3:42 p.m.
3:00 p.m.	4:37 p.m.	4:42 p.m.
4:00 p.m.	5:37 p.m.	5:42 p.m.
5:25 p.m.	7:02 p.m.	7:07 p.m.
6:25 p.m.	7:52 p.m.	7:57 p.m.

From Tsukuba Center to Ibaraki Airport

We recommend the bus from Tsukuba Center (fee: JPY1,000, cash only). Timetable

Departure from Tsukuba Center	Arrival at the Ibaraki Airport
8:30 a.m.	9:30 a.m.

* The service in 10:30 will abolish in Oct. 16.

Contact

ANRRC Office, RIKEN BioResource Center
Adress: 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan
E-mail: ANRRC-RIKENBCR [at] riken.jp

Link

China

Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS)

Japan

RIKEN BioResource Center (RIKEN BRC)
National BioResource Project (NBRP)