Outline,Introduction of CFAI

概要

The Center for Food and Agricultural Immunology (CFAI) was established in the Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, on April 1, 2015, and has been launched the second fi ve-year period from April 2020 taken over the fi rst period. CFAI consists of the following 4 divisions: ‘Agricultural Immunology’, ‘Safety and Function Evaluation’, ‘Cooperation with Society’ and ‘Research and Administration’. The mission of CFAI is to create an intellectual and technical basis for drug-independent health promotion and food safety systems in agriculture. We hope to do this based on interdisciplinary research on the agricultural immunology of plants, livestock as well as fish and shellfish. CFAI has international collaborations with UC Davis and Texas A&M University in the US, Wageningen University and Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Yangzhou University in China and CERELA-CONICET in Argentina. CFAI has also established links with the Food and Agricultural Immunology Network (FAIN) in the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Core-to-Core Program, A Advanced Research Networks entitled Establishment of international agricultural immunology research-core for a quantum improvement in food safety, including above organizations. A key aim of CFAI is global professional developments in these areas. In order to achieve our mission, we are especially keen to promote research exchange of young researchers and graduate students in the leading international academias.

　CFAI will now hold an international virtual symposium entitled “New Insights on Animal Science” in the Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University on November 22nd, 2020 as an important event in the Core-to-Core Program. This symposium mainly consists of the topics from selected young scientists and PhD students in Yangzhou University and Tohoku University. Through this symposium, I hope that CFAI will be able to develop further the theoretical foundations of animal science by including participants whose specialties include all fi elds of sciences.

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