Okayama University and the Bio-oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution (BRAIN) of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) held a workshop in Tokyo on July 14 to introduce base research and present research proposals supporting their initiatives.

It was held as a selected research site under the Project to Boost Innovative Technology Creation (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries). Director Yuriko Murakami, BRAIN's fundamental research leader, explained the project outline and her expectations toward the research site.
As a representative of Okayama University, a base research organization, University Research Administrator Norito Satoh, who serves as the consortium program manager, spoke on the formation of strategies to create innovative technology across separate fields and the need to support the organizations involved.

In the workshop, Professor Takashi Sera of the Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, who serves as a base research representative, outlined the base's research. Presentations of research proposals supporting base research were given, and the nature of progress in interdisciplinary research was actively discussed by the approximately 100 researchers and people involved in business attending.

The Workshop Program: http://www.naro.affrc.go.jp/brain/ibunyakyodo/news/2014/053183.html