Congress was finished successfully.

I would like to thank you for the fascinating contribution you gave to our ISG/JAGG/SOMED meeting in June 2017. We are extremely grateful for this opportunity of having all of you with us in Tokyo. We hope you also enjoyed our meeting and look forward to having a chance to work together again in not too distant future.
Again, thank you for your valuable contribution to our congress.

Kindest regards,

Tatsuo Ichinohe, MD, PhD
Department of Hematology and Oncology,
Research Institute for Radiation Biology
and Medicine, Hiroshima University
ISG President


We appreciate you very much for your participation in the joint Congress of the 19th International Symposium on Gnotobiology (ISG), the 50th Congress of Japanese Association of Germfree Life and Gnotobiology (JAGG) and the 39th Congress of the Society for Microbial Ecology and Disease (SOMED) in Tokyo on 7th to 10th June 2017 at the Tokyo Garden Palace. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of you for your great contribution in the meeting. We look forward to seeing you again in the next ISG 2020 in Chicago, next annual meeting of JAGG 2018 in Osaka and the next SOMED 2018 in Budapest.

Best wishes

Shigeru Kamiya, MD, PhD
Department of Infectious Diseases,
Kyorin University School of Medicine
JAGG, SOMED Congress President


Next congress,

The president of the 20th ISG in 2020, Professor Betty Theriault


The president of the 40th SOMED in 2018, Professor Alojz Bomba