-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Thanks for the acceptance of my visit on July 20(Fri)-- Toru YAO/RIKEN Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:21:12 +0200 From: Martin Kuiper <makui@psb.UGent.be> To: yao <yao@riken.jp> CC: Dirk Inze <dirk.inze@psb.UGent.be>, Yves Van de Peer <yves.vandepeer@psb.ugent.be>, Hilde Diegenant <hidie@psb.UGent.be> References: <02AE15DCD9DADE47925138968C2B9D371F2586@hermes.psb.UGent.be> <20070601082057.95A7.YAO@riken.jp> <20070614085953.8949.YAO@riken.jp> Dear Prof. Yao, You proposal is fine, I will be happy to host you. I propose that we organise two presentations for that morning (Kuiper, Van de Peer), and a tour through the laboratory. You should already know that there are not too many people working that day, as it is the period of the 'Ghent Festival', a local holiday. Many of us, however, still work. Kind regards, Martin Kuiper -----Original Message----- From: yao [mailto:yao@riken.jp] Sent: donderdag 14 juni 2007 1:20 To: yao Cc: Dirk Inze; Martin Kuiper; Yves Van de Peer; Hilde Diegenant Subject: Re: Thanks for the acceptance of my visit on July 20(Fri)-- Toru YAO/RIKEN Dear Prof.Dirk Inze and Prof.Martin Kuiper; I would like to confirm the time span to visit both of you on July 20 (Fri). I will be free whole day of July 20 by staying at a hotel in Brussell from 18 to 21. I think I will be able to arrive at Ghent around 9:30am of Friday. I don't want to disurbe so much your valuable time, so how about the time span from 10:00am to 12:00am of the day ? (Still I will be free in the afternoon, if you could introduce some persons on animal or microbial systems biology, I would most appreciate.) Looking for hearing from you. With best regards, Toru YAO Advisor, RIKEN On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:15:45 +0900 yao <yao@riken.jp> wrote:

Dear Prof. Dirk Inze;

Thank you very much for your quick reply on the acceptance of my visit in July.

I will visit you on July 20(Fri).

Dear Prof. Martin Kuiper;

As Prof.Inze introduced you, I am very happy to visit you on July 20(Fri).

I am very much interested with the Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, and would like to hear your activities and prospects in these fields.

If possible, please introduce some appropriate persons of these fields on animals or model organisms.

I also wanat to visit experimental sites.

I will be free whole day of July 20, but I don't want to disturbe so much your valuable time. Please arrange for separate short time spans.

I will stay at a hotel in Brussell from 19 to 21.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

With best regards, Toru YAO

On Thu, 31 May 2007 12:45:40 +0200 "Dirk Inze" <dirk.inze@psb.UGent.be> wrote:

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Dear Prof Yao, I also enjoyed our brief meeting in RIKEN PSC. You are

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most welcome to visit VIB-Plant Systems Biology on both Thursday 19th and Friday 20th July. My senior colleague, Prof Martin Kuiper, head of the computational biology group, will be in charge of you visit. Please establish direct contacts with Dr Kuiper (makui@psb.ugent.be). Both Prof Yves Van de Peer (head of the bioinformatics group) and myself are not available on Thursday but we will be able to meet and discuss with you on Friday. I look forward to meet you in July in Ghent.

With kind regards Dirk Inze -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- -- Prof.Dr.Dirk Inze Science Director VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, UGent

Technologiepark 927 9052 Ghent, Belgium tel: +32-9-331.38.06 fax: +32-9-331.38.09 dirk.inze@psb.ugent.be http://www.psb.ugent.be -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- --

-----Original Message----- From: yao [mailto:yao@riken.jp] Sent: donderdag 31 mei 2007 11:46 To: diinz@psb.UGent.be Subject: My visit you in July-- Toru YAO/RIKEN

Dear Prof.Dirk Inze;

It was a good meeting with you at RIKEN here the day before yesterday on May 28.

As I said at that time, I would like to visit you at Gent either on July 20(Fri) or 19(Thu), if you were acceptable.

I am sorry that my available dates are only above two days. I will attend to the ISMB/ECCB in Viena on 21-25 July, and leave Japan on July 18 to arrive at Brussell in the evening on July 18.

My purpose of this visit is to hear your activities and pespectives on the Systems Biology of Plants.

If possible, please introduce the persons on the Systems Bilogy of Animals or Model Organisms.

Let me introduce briefly myself. I am working as the advisor on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at Genomic Sciences Center of RIKEN for nine years from 1998. Recently, I am very much interested with the progress of the Systems Bilogy in various fields not only for the analyses of fundamental biological processes, but also for the applications to medical, environmental fields.

I have been talking with Drs.Shinozaki,Saito,Matsui,Deguchi,Seki et al on this problem several times.

Anyway, would you please find a short time for me and recommend some other appropriate persons ?

Looking forward to hearing from you by return.

With best regards, Toru YAO yao@riken.jp 81-45-503-9295 RIKEN Yokohama

I will attach my papers and intro.

-- yao <yao@postman.riken.go.jp>

-- yao <yao@postman.riken.go.jp> -- Yves Van de Peer, PhD. Professor in Bioinformatics and Genome Biology Group Leader Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, UGent Ghent University Technologiepark 927 B-9052 Ghent Belgium Phone: +32 (0)9 331 3807 Cell Phone: +32 (0)476 560 091 Fax: +32 (0)9 331 3809 email: yves.vandepeer@psb.ugent.be http://www.psb.ugent.be/bioinformatics/