The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society

The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society (JEMS42) was held on November 29 and 30, 2013, at the Okayama Convention Center in Okayama. The venue is two minutes walk from the Okayama Station. The main theme of JEMS42 was “Mutation and evolution: where do we come from and where are we going?” The number of attendants was approximately 300. One day before the meeting, the Editorial Board Meeting, the Administrative Board Meeting, the Council Meeting, and three subgroup meetings were held at Shujitsu University. The subgroups were the Mammalian Mutagenicity Study Group (MMS), the Bacterial Mutagenicity Study Group (BMS), and the Environmental Epigenomics Study Group (EGG).