Thank you for joining us at the 59^th Annual Meeting of Primates Studies!

The announcement of the award winners of the 59^th PRIMATES Conference.

The 59^th annual conference was held in JMC in Janauary 31^st and February 1^st in 2015. There were 108 participants in total. There were 64 presentations (30 orals and 34 posters), We are pleased to announce the award winners as follows:

The Best Oral Presentation Grand Prize  
Keiko Tsubokawa

The Best Poster Presentation Grand Prize  
Hikaru Wakamori

The Best Oral Presentation Award  
Takashi Hayakawa
Momoe Hirokawa
Lira Yu

The Best Poster Presentation Award  
Satomi Ito
Akemi Hirakuri
Naoto Kimura

https://sites.google.com/site/primateskenkyukai59/home/award

The following is the evaluation panel for the award:
Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Chair，JMC General Director
Gen'ichi Idani, Vice-chair, JMC Zoo Director
Tomo Takano, member, Chief Curator
Rie Akami, member, Deputy-Chief Curator
Yuta Shintaku, member, Curator
Koshiro Watanuki, member, Curator

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We would like to invite you to the 59^th annual meeting of Primates Studies hosted by Japan Monkey Centre (JMC). The annual meeting of Primates Studies has been in symposium-style with a specific theme since the 30^th annual meeting in 1985, at the time of the birth of Primate Society of Japan. From April 2014, Japan Monkey Centre (JMC) became a ‘Public Interest Incorporated Foundation’. To mark our new endeavor, we would like to go back to the original and hold this year's annual meeting in conference-style.

The main missions of Japan Monkey Centre (JMC) are to promote research, conservation, environmental education on nonhuman primates as well as zoo installation in the light of animal welfare. This year’s annual meeting will offer a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion by having speakers from the various fields including primatology, conservation biology, wildlife biology, museology, and zoo science .

The annual meeting welcomes your attendance, with/without presentation. We are looking forward to presentations related to research, education, conservation and welfare in primatology.

Date

Saturday January 31^st (10:00AM) - Sunday February 1^st, 2015

A get-together party is scheduled on Saturday evening

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Venue

Visitor Center and Seminar House @ Japan Monkey Centre (JMC)

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Program

Download Program (PDF Format)

Presentation styles

1. Oral: 15 minutes talk (12 minutes presentation + 3 minutes questions & answers)
2. Poster: Core time will be assigned on Saturday evening.

The presentations can be given in either Japanese or English. Please download the form (Word file) to submit the abstract

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Eligibility for participation

The participant must be a member of "Tomo-no-kai membership". For those who are not, please visit the website to apply for membership.

How to register

To give a presentation, please register from here and submit the abstract. To participate (no presentation), please register from here . You can register by telephone or fax. Please check ‘Contact’ below.

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Deadline

   The deadline for pre-registration has passed.
Registration for presentation:
   Wednesday January 7^th, 2015
Registration without presentation/Application for membership:
  Saturday January 24^th, 2015

Fees

Participation fee: 500 yen
Get-together party fee: 3,000 yen (2,000 yen for students) Free

Please pay the fees in cash at the registration desk in the venue.

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Contact

Organizer of annual meeting of Primates Studies
Japam Monkey Centre (JMC)
Kanrin 26 Inuyama Aichi Japan 484-0081
TEL: 0568-61-2327
FAX: 0568-62-6823
Email:
Contact personnel: Yuta Shintaku

Organizer: Japan Monkey Centre (JMC)
Co-organizer: Leading Graduate Program in Primatology and Wildlife Science, Kyoto University