2002 Annual Meeting of CrSJ

The Annual Meeting 2002 and General Assembly of the Crystallographic Society of Japan was held in Tokyo, Japan, in December 2002. It was attended by 423 people and included 2 symposiums, 82 oral presentations and 145 poster presentations covering all aspects of crystallography, and industrial exhibition.

The two symposiums were on "Recent development on the crystallographic studies on the structures of crystals and their functions" and "Recent development of the structural biology in the genome era by crystallography". The lectures "Carbon nano tube:The Science and application" (S. Iijima, Meijyo U.), "Determination of the structure of molecular crystals on the level of the electron densities using X-ray powder diffraction method" (E. Nishibori, Nagoya U.), "Control of the structure of the organic superconductor by uni-axial compression" (T. Kondo, U. Tokyo), "Crystal structure of molecule-based chiral magnet-structure near magnetic phase transition point" (K. Inoue, IMS) were included in the former symposium. And "Structural biology of biological machineries" (M. Tanokura, U. Tokyo), "Promotion of protein 3000 project, and protein crystallography of the near future" (T. Tsukihara, Osaka U.), "High-throughput technology of RIKEN Highthroughput Factory at the SPring-8" (M. Miyano, RIKEN), "X-ray crystallography in genomic drug discovery" (T. Hata, Sankyo Co., Ltd.) were in the latter.

At the annual CrSJ Awards Ceremony, the S. Nishikawa Award was presented to M. Tanaka (Tohoku U.), Research Awards were given to T. Ishikawa (RIKEN) and Y. Sugawara(Kitazato U.);and the Young Crystallographer Awards went to A. Kita(Kyoto U.)and Y. Takahashi (JSPS). A full detail of the meeting program can be viewed at CrSJ home page.

Sumio Iijima (honorary member of CrSJ)

Awardees of 2002 Annual Meeting and president of CrSJ A. Kita, M. Tanaka, N. Yasuoka (president), T. Ishikawa, Y. Sugawara, Y. Takahashi