Member Account Access
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Branches and Affiliations
The Society encourages moves to set up national or regional branches. The following are examples of active brances of the Society. Japan Branch The Japanese Society for Carotenoid Research has actively been continuouly publishing the journal "CAROTENOID SCIENCE." Volume 13 will be published in this year. The 23rd Annual Meeting was held in Sendai, September 2009. The committee consists of Hideki Hashimoto, Michiaki Murakoshi, Eiji Yamashita and Wataru Miki. (Text updated December, 2009.) CARIG At its meeting in April, 1997 the U. S. Carotenoid Research Interactive Group (CARIG) voted to associate with The International Carotenoid Society. Members of CARIG were offered membership of The International Society until 1999. Phyllis Bowen represents CARIG on the committee of The International Society. SAARC Umesh Goswami of Gauhati University, India, is communicating with workers in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka (the SAARC countires: South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation) and coordinating discussions to set up a SAARC Branch of The Society. Other Localities In other countries or regions it may be worthwhile to have local correspondents or representatives to facilitate communications in that area. This is under consideration.
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Upcoming Conferences
The next Conference on Food Pigments will be held in Budapest, 20-24 June, 2010.
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Macular Carotenoids & AMD, 2011
A conference for macular carotenoid researchers, exploring up-to-date and evidence-based hypotheses and the supporting research data into the role of the macular carotenoids in age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Downing College, University of Cambridge, UK 12 – 15 July 2011. Click to visit the conference website: http://suzy-howes.co.uk/macularcarotenoids/index.html
The 16th International Symposium on Carotenoids will be held in July 2011 in the World Heritage city of Krakow, Poland. Professor Kazimierz Strzalka at the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University will be hosting this Symposium. Professor Strzalka and the local organizing committee will be creating a web site dedicated to the 2011 Symposium in the upcoming months
