East Asia Regional Biometric Conference 2007 (EAR-BC’07)

On behalf of the Organizing and Scientific Programme Committee, it is a great pleasure to invite you to attend the first Regional Conference of East Asia Regions of the International Biometric Society. It will bring participants from East Asia Regions working in academic institutions, regulatory agencies, and industry together to present new research on the latest advances in biometry, biostatistics and bioinformatics. One of the aim of the conference is to allow participants from East Asia countries as well as different parts of the world to exchange ideas and to establish long-term collaborative relationships. These sessions included prominent representatives from a range of different disciplines in these fields. Three-day conference includes invited sessions, contributed sessions and poster presentations.
In December, Tokyo is usually sunny but somewhat cold. The winter nights are always illuminated with Christmas display. We hope you enjoy staying in Tokyo and also a plenty of the intellectual conversations at conference.
Important Dates
1 September 2007 Call for Abstracts and Registration
30 October 2007 Deadline for submission of abstracts
15 November 2007 Final dates for early registration

Call for Abstracts
All participants are invited to submit abstracts for both contributed papers and posters. Authors should indicate whether it is intended as an oral presentation or as a poster presentation. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 30 October 2007.
Abstracts should be submitted via online abstract submission system (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jbs/index_e.html)
All correspondence regarding the abstracts will be sent to the corresponding author. Authors will be informed of the acceptance of abstracts by 1st November 2007. The abstract should be written in English and must not exceed 400 words (including references). The title must not exceed 30 words. The whole abstract including first author name, co-author names (maximum 10 persons), institution names, title, and abstract text must not exceed 600 words in total. The Tables and Figures can not be included in the abstract. Letters must be 12 characters per inch. 10 characters per inch can be used for references. Single or one-and-a-half spacing must be used. For author(s) name(s), initial(s) or first name should precede the family name. Omit degrees, street address and postcode. Please note that presenters of abstracts are not automatically registered for the conference. Abstracts and registration for the conference are handled separately.
Registration and Accommodation
Registration by E-mail will be available in September.
Information on hotel accommodation will also be shown soon.
General Information
Conference Secretariat
Yoko Nezu
E-mail: [email protected]
Department of Technology Assessment and Biostatistics,
National Institute of Public Health
2-3-6 Minami, Wako-shi, Saitama-ken, 351-0197, Japan
Tel: +81 48 458 6223 Fax: +81 48 469 3875
Registration Office
Chikuma Hamada
Treasurer, Organizing and Scientific Programme Committee
E-mail: [email protected]
Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science,
1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
Tel: +81 35 228 8712 Fax: +81 35 213 1341

Scientific Communication
Tosiya Sato
Scientific Programme Chair, Organizing and Scientific Programme Committee
E-mail: [email protected]
Department of Biostatistics, Kyoto University School of Public Health,
Yoshida Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Conference Venue
The University of Tokyo Yayoi Auditorium Ichijo Hall
Department of Agriculture, University of Tokyo
1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan
Tel. +81 3 5841 8205
Website: http://www.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp/yayoi/index.html
http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jbs/EARBC07First(July3)r.pdf