次田メモリアル・レクチャーズ開催にあたって

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We received sad news on May 31st, 2007, that Dr. Akira Tsugita who had been playing a leading role of proteomics research globally since its very early stage passed away. Dr. Tsugita became a first Japanese committee member of the international HUPO, when it was established in 2002. At the same time, he established JHUPO and became a first Chairman of JHUPO. Since then, he had devoted much efforts to the development of the JHUPO. It is attributed to his efforts that the JHUPO has evolved such that we can hold a successful 6th JHUPO conference this year. The Tsugita Memorial Lectures are organized in this JHUPO conference to appreciate his great contribution to the JHUPO. In this Lectures, Dr.Hosokawa who had conducted many collaborative works with Dr. Tsugita will talk about his footprint from the early days of molecular biology to the present days through the evolution of the proteomics. Drs. Kunisawa and Takamoto, both of whom studied molecular biology under him will talk about the front-end of the bio database research and the structure proteomics.