The presentation of doctoral thesis of graduate school of infection control sciences, Kitasato University in 2016 was held. 2016 12/14 December 14, 2016 From our group, Hiro Takada (5th year graduate student) presented his thesis to get Ph.D. Information The research meeting of The Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences in 2016 was held. Assistant prof. Aki SUGAWARA was transferred to the Oshima lab. at Tohoku University.