渡邉先生と耕地情報利用研究室の村瀬先生が中国の長春で開催されたThe 4th International Conference on Black Soils Conservation and Utilization (7/18-23)に出席し、渡邉先生は鉄酸化細菌に関する講演を行いました。また、会議で過去に研究室でポスドクとして研究をしていたJia Zhongjunさん(現在、中国科学院東北地理農業生態研究所教授、写真一番左)と、本研究室で博士学位を取得したLi Yongくん(現在、浙江大学副教授)に再会しました。
Prof. Watanabe and Prof. Murase of the Laboratory of Information Sciences in Agricultural Lands attended The 4th International Conference on Black Soils Conservation and Utilization in Changchun, China, where Dr Watanabe gave a lecture on iron-oxidizing bacteria. At the conference, they met again Prof. Jia Zhongjun (currently Professor at the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, leftmost photo), who had worked as a post-doctoral researcher in our laboratory in the past, and Prof. Li Yong (currently Associate Professor at Zhejiang University), who had obtained his PhD degree in our laboratory.