[Registration]
Onsite registration is available on the 2nd floor of the Conference Center (Registration Desk 1), and on the 1st floor of the Exhibition Hall (Registration Desk 2).
Residents of Japan who register in advance will receive a badge by postal mail in late November. Please wear your badge when entering the meeting site. There is no need to visit a Registration desk.
Overseas residents who have registered in advance should go first to the General Information Desk on the 2nd floor of the Conference Center (Registration Desk 1) to pick up your badge.

[Registration Desks]

Desk	Location	Hours	Services
Registration Desk 1	2nd Floor, ConferenceCenter	8:00-16:00 (-12:00 on Sat., Dec. 12)	Onsite registration, general information, society membership, lodging information, other information
Registration Desk 2	1st Floor, Exhibition Hall	8:00-17:30 (-14:00 on Sat., Dec. 12)	Onsite registration only

[On-site Registration Fees]

Regular Member	Student Member	Non-Member	Undergraduate Student
¥10,000	¥6,000	¥13,000 (*Program booklet included)	Free with student ID card (*Does not apply to graduate students)

[Name Badge]
Please wear the name badge showing your name and affiliation at all times during the Annual Meeting. Entry to the meeting without a name badge is strictly prohibited (except to the public lectures on Saturday, December 12).

[Abstracts]
Abstracts will be published online only, and will not be available on paper or disc.
Registered participants may browse, search and download the abstracts on the annual meeting website, using the furnished password and user identification.
Internet terminals will be available at the meeting site (Basement 1 of the Conference Center, and 1st floor of the Exhibition Hall). Participants may also use their own computers to access the abstracts through the wireless network at the meeting site.
The abstracts can also be searched and browsed from a mobile phone. Please note that the large quantity of data transmitted to your mobile phone might result in high packet charges. We strongly recommend that you sign up in advance for flat-rate packet service with your phone service provider.

[Program Booklet]
The program booklet will be delivered to Society members together with Bulletin Vol. 94 in mid-November. For non-members, the program booklet is included in the registration fee and will be provided together with your name badge, delivered to residents of Japan in mid-November, or picked up by overseas residents onsite at the General Information Desk. (Those registering onsite will receive the program booklet at the time of registration.) Non-members may purchase the program booklet, while the supply lasts, at Registration Desk 1 (¥3,000 each).

[Dues Payment, New Memberships]
Society members who have not paid current annual dues are asked to pay at the MBSJ Desk located next to Registration Desk 1 (Conference Center, 2nd floor). New memberships are also available.

The number of lunches available at the Biotechnology Seminars is limited. To receive lunch service, you must obtain a lunch ticket in exchange for one of the ticket coupons attached to your name badge.
Please observe the following procedures.

[Issuance of Lunch Tickets]
Lunch tickets will be issued at the Biotechnology Seminar Desk.

[Biotechnology Seminar Desk] Location: Registration Desk 2 (Exhibition Hall, 1st floor) Hours: 8:00-11:00 daily during the meeting period (Tickets issued for same-day seminar only)

*Note: Lunch tickets are provided courtesy of the companies and groups who co-sponsor the Biotechnology Seminars.
The number of available lunches will vary each day. Tickets are issued on a first-come, first-serve basis.

[Time Limit for Lunch Tickets]
Luncheon tickets are not valid later than 12:00.
The morning symposium is scheduled to end at 11:30. Holders of lunch tickets should arrive at the Biotechnology Seminar no later than the starting time of 12:00. Please be aware that if you arrive at the Biotechnology Seminar after 12:00, your ticket will not be valid and your lunch reservation may be transferred to a seminar participant who does not have a ticket.

[Attending a Biotechnology Seminar after the Close of Ticket Issuance]
You may attend a Biotechnology Seminar by presenting your ticket coupon for that day’s luncheon at the seminar room. However, you will not receive lunch.

[Poster Presentations and Discussers]
Taking advantage of the vast meeting space that can accommodate 1,000 posters each day, we are putting importance on the poster sessions. Each free presenter (non-invited presenter) is asked to provide a poster presentation and designate a principal investigator as the discusser, to stimulate active questioning and discussion. The names of the discussers will be posted on the meeting website as they are chosen.

[Late-Breaking Abstracts]
Late-breaking abstracts, received after the deadline for abstract submission but no later than November 6, will be presented only as poster presentations.

[Meet the Symposists]
Making our meeting more international is a key theme this year, and each day's symposium will include invited speakers abroad, mainly junior principal investigators. Yet the limited time available for the symposium will provide little opportunity for participants to interact with the speakers who have come from overseas.
Therefore we have added a "Meet the Symposists" feature to the meeting, with a special booth set up in the poster and exhibition area in the Exhibition Hall. On the first, second and third days of the meeting, during the poster presentation and discussion period (16:00-19:00), the symposists from the day's symposium will gather at the "Meet the Symposists" booth. Don't miss these opportunities to speak directly with symposists from overseas as well as prominent Japanese researchers.

[Mixers]
To encourage lively discussion in the poster area, a mixer will be held each day during the poster presentation/discussion period (16:00-19:00 each day, except 13:15-16:15 on Dec. 12). During the mixers, low-malt beer and soft drinks will be available to meeting participants at special discount prices. We look forward to relaxed and wide-ranging chats during the mixers.

[Exhibition of Equipment, Reagents and Books]
A wide array of products of interest to molecular biologists will be displayed at numerous booths in the poster and exhibition area in the Exhibition Hall.
Those who wish to attend the exhibition only should follow the meeting registration procedure.

Exhibition Hours: Dec. 9-12 (Wed.-Sat.), 10:00-19:00
Location: Exhibition Hall

[Snacks and Beverages]
Snacks and beverages may be purchased throughout the meeting in the poster and exhibition area in the Exhibition Hall.

[Bulletin Board]
There will be no paging at the meeting site, with the exception of emergency messages. To make contact with other participants, please post and check messages on the bulletin board located across from Registration Desk 1, on the 2nd floor of the Conference Center.

[Cloakrooms and Lockers]
The cloakrooms in the Conference Center and the Exhibition Hall will store bags and coats. Precious items will not be accepted. Storage is at the owner's risk. The Society accepts no responsibility for any damage to a computer or other item left at the cloakroom.

Cloakroom	Location	Hours of Operation
Cloakroom 1	ConferenceCenter, 1st floor	8:00-19:30 (-16:30 on Sat. Dec. 12)
Cloakroom 2	Poster and exhibition area (Exhibition Hall, 1st floor)	8:00-19:30 (-16:30 on Sat. Dec. 12)

Coin lockers are located on the first and second floors of the ConferenceCenter, and on the first and second floors of the Exhibition Hall.

[Internet Access]
Participants are invited to browse and search the online meeting program on the Internet terminals at the locations below.
(*Please note that printers are not available.)

InternetCenter	Location	Hours of Operation
InternetCenter 1	ConferenceCenter, Basement 1	8:30-19:00 (-16:15 on Sat. Dec. 12)
InternetCenter 2	Poster and exhibition area (Exhibition Hall, 1st floor)	8:30-19:00 (-16:15 on Sat. Dec. 12)

A wireless network will be in operation at the meeting site, allowing Internet access from your own computer.

[Travel Desk]
The Nippon Travel Agency desk near Registration Desk 1 (Conference Center, 2nd floor) can assist with same-day accommodations and other travel needs.

[Parking]
There is a parking facility in Pacifico Yokohama, the meeting site. The charge is ¥260 per half-hour or ¥520 per hour. As parking space is limited, participants are encouraged to travel to the meeting on public transportation.

[Cash Terminal]
Residents of Japan must pay the registration fee in cash. (Overseas residents may pay by credit card, at Registration Desk 1 only.) A cash terminal (ATM) is installed in the convenience store on the 1st floor of the Exhibition Hall.

[Business Center (Delivery, Copy and Fax Service)]
The Business Center is on the 2nd floor of the Exhibition Hall. It offers commercial services for parcel delivery (Yamato, Nittsu), copying, faxing, and computer output. There is also a Business Corner with coin-operated copy and fax machines on the 1st floor of the Conference Center.

[Convenience Store]
A convenience store is located on the 1st floor of the Exhibition Hall. Bread products, bento meals, beverages and some daily necessities are available, as well as parcel delivery service (Nittsu) and a cash terminal (ATM).

[Photography / Recording]
No use of cameras, video recorders, pordesk phones or other devices for image or sound recording is permitted at the meeting site, or either in the Conference Center or in the Exhibition Hall.

[Mobile Phones]
Talking on mobile phones is not permitted at the meeting site. Please keep the ringer of your phone turned off at all times.

[Smoking]
The entire meeting site is a smoke-free zone, with the exception of designated smoking areas located on the 1st, 3rd and 5th floors of the Conference Center, and on the 1st and 2nd floors of the Exhibition Hall.