Information for Participants

This meeting will be held on-site. No online distribution of any programs during and after the meeting will be available.

INDEX

1. On-site Participation

Participants who registered online

Log into your account of Confit, the online conference system, and download your meeting badge and the receipt of the registration fee. You can log into the system with your email address and password you set. Badge holders are available near the Registration Desk.

Participants who register on-site

Please come to the registration desk, pay the registration fee below and receive a meeting badge.
Participants without wearing their meeting badges will not be allowed to enter the meeting site.

＜On-Site Registration Fees (Late Registration) ＞

Member:JPY 14,000
Doctoral Student *:JPY 3,000
Undergraduate and Master’s Degree Student*:Free
Non-member:JPY 17,000
Doctoral Student, Non-member*:JPY 7,000
Undergraduate and Master’s Student, Non-member*:Free

*All of students are required to show their student ID.
*We accept cash only.

＜Registration Desk opening hours＞

January 17 (Wed)　7：45 - 18：00
January 18 (Thu)  8：00 - 18：00
January 19 (Fri)   8：00 - 15：00

Honorary members / Meritorious members

Please come to the JSI Secretariat Desk at Entrance Lobby, 1F.

2. Application and Annual Membership Fee

You can join the JSI (the Japanese Society for Immunology) at the JSI desk on the meeting site. You can also pay your membership fees at the JSI desk.

【Annual Membership Fee】
(Domestic)

MemberJPY 11,000
Doctoral Student*JPY3,000
Undergraduate and Master’s Degree Student*Free

(Overseas)

MemberJPY 12,000
Dctoral Student*JPY 4,000
Undergraduate and Master’s Degree Student*Free

(Application fee)

Member, Doctoral StudentJPY 1,000
Undergraduate and Master’s Degree Student*Free

* All of students are required to show their student ID.
* First Authors (Presenting authors) must be JSI members: Regular, Student, Meritorious or Honorary members. However, foreign-registered authors residing outside Japan are excluded.

3. Meeting Program / Proceedings (Abstracts)

The digital version of Meeting Program will be available on the meeting website and the printed version of  Meeting Program will be distributed to all participants on the meeting site.

Proceedings (abstracts) as a PDF file will be available on the website for JSI members. You need your membership ID and password to login to this website.

If you completed the payment of 2023 annual membership fee, but you cannot login to the website for JSI members, please contact the JSI secretariat.

If you are not a JSI member, you can purchase ID and password to login to the website for JPY 5,000 through the meeting website in advance or the JSI Secretariat Desk on the meeting site.

4. Awards Ceremony & Lectures

Ceremonies: Wednesday, January 17, 14:15-14:25, Room A (Convention Hall A)

  • JSI Award Ceremony
  • JSI Human Immunology Research Award Ceremony
  • JSI Women Immunologist Award Ceremony
  • JSI Young Investigator Award Ceremony
  • International Immunology Outstanding Merit Award Ceremony

Lectures: Wednesday, January 17, 14：25-15：15, Room A (Convention Hall A)
Lectures below will be held after the above Ceremonies.

  • JSI Award Lecture
  • JSI Human Immunology Research Award Lecture
  • JSI Women Immunologist Award Lecture

5. Programs

The 52nd JSI meeting will have following programs.

Overview Talk

Overview talks held prior to each symposium are kind of educational lectures and especially for students or those who are not specialized in the topics.

Symposia

International symposia on 15 topics （S01-S15）will be held by both domestic and overseas immunologists. The program committee appointed chairs of symposia and left selection of speakers to the discretion of those chairs.

Some symposia will be conducted concurrently. Chairs decide how they lead their sessions and presentation time of each speaker.

JSA-JSI Joint Symposium

The symposium will be held jointly with Japanese Society of Allergology.　Refer to the program page for detailed information.

JCR-JSI Joint Symposium

The symposium will be held jointly with Japan College of Rheumatology.　Refer to the program page for detailed information.

Afternoon Seminars

Those seminars are held aimed at building platforms for developing Immunologists who are responsible for the next generation in close collaborations with cooperative companies. Those are elaborate seminars unique to the companies.

Workshop (Oral presentations and Poster)

All regular papers are to be presented at Poster session. Some of selected regular papers are to be presented at Workshop as well.

Technical Seminars, Clinical Seminars, Evening Seminar

Technical Seminars will be held during the lunch time and evening time (as Evening Seminar). And, Clinical Seminars will be held during the lunch time.

Please refer to “6. Luncheon Seminar Ticket” for more information regarding Luncheon seminars.
Language of each seminar can be found on “At a Glance” of the program page of our website.

Technical Seminars, Evening Seminar

Those seminars aim to promote interaction between basic research, application research and development research through introducing experimental methods with latest life science related regents, technologies, machines and equipment, or latest equipment for researching allergy, immunological diseases, cancer, and infectious disease.

Clinical Seminars

Those seminars aim to introduce developments of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunological and infectious diseases caused by pharmaceutical and biological products.

6. Seminar Ticket (Technical Seminars, Clinical Seminars, Evening Seminar)

A box lunch will be served for those has a Seminar Ticket at Technical and Clinical Seminars, evening seminar. Please kindly note that number of tickets are limited. Tickets will be distributed as below:

Seminar Ticket Desk

One ticket for one person on a day (except Evening Seminar). Ticket distribution is on the first come, first served basis. We are not able to distribute more than one ticket to one person on a day.

Location：Entrance Lobby, 1F
Time: OPEN-11:30 (After 11:30, you may receive a ticket in front of each session room if tickets are still available)

Receiving a box lunch

Redeem a ticket to receive a box lunch. You can receive it from 15 minutes before seminars begin in front of each seminar room.

*Starting time for receiving may be changed depending on previous seminar’s ending time.

＜IMPORTANT＞

  • Please arrive at the seminar rooms before the start time. If you do not show up in the room by the start time, your box lunch will be provided to another attendee who does not have a ticket.
  • You can attend those seminars without tickets, however, a box lunch will not be served. 

7. Commercial Exhibition – Exhibition of Machineries and Reagents

Exhibitions of machineries and reagents will be held. There will be a resting space and drink service in the exhibition space.

If you collect stamps by visiting exhibition booths, you can get gifts provided by exhibitors. You have a chance to win a special gift. Look forward to your participation in the stamp tally.

8. Get Together Party

Date and Time:January 18, 18:45-20:45
Venue:The New Otani Makuhari
Fee:Member and Non-member JPY4,000　Student and Student Non-member JPY1,000
Registration desk:Entrance Lobby, 1F

The number of participants is limited. We recommend you register as early as possible.

9. Internet access

Free Wi-Fi is available in the venue. The SSID and password to use Wi-Fi will be displayed in the venue.

10. Photographing and recording

Photographing and recording are prohibited in all sessions. However, photographing and recording by those who have obtained permission from the JSI may be granted.