(20th-24th June)A HIHA member, Dr Masaki Mizunuma visited UCLA, and presented the results at 22nd International C.elegans Conference. He discussed progress of our international research collaboration with Dr Keith Blackwell(Professor at Harvard University). Dr Mizunuma also met and discussed progress with Takafumi Ogawa, who is a visiting scientist in Dr.Keith Blakwell's  group from Hiroshima University supported by HIHA and JSPS-funded "Program for Advancing Strategic International Networks to Accelerate the Circulation of Talented Researchers”.