漆原先生
連絡ありがとうございます。知人から数日前に前田み 
ね子先生の訃報を聞き及びました。みね子先生とは数 
回しかお話しする機会が無かったものの、漆原研に在 
籍の頃から、細胞性粘菌の女性研究者の大先輩として 
親しみを抱いておりました。みね子先生のご冥福を心 
よりお祈り致します。前田靖男先生の連絡先を存じま 
せんので直接お悔やみをお伝えする事が出来ません 
が、先生がお会いする機会がありましたら是非ともよ 
ろしくお伝え下さい。
漆原先生もお体気をつけてお過ごし下さい。
飯島

On Aug 16, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Hideko Urushihara wrote:

> Dear Dicty people
>
> We were informed of a sad news.
> Dr. Mineko Maeda, a Japanese pioneering Dicty researcher,
> died on 13th of August. She devoted her scientific life
> mainly in Osaka University to study cell differentiation in
> Dictyostelium. Also, she actively participated in the
> Dictyostelium cDNA Project. She had been so powerful and
> cheerful that we hardly realized that she had had health
> problems. Since Mineko had many oversea friends, I would
> like to share the memories of Mineko with those people. Dr.
> Yasuo Maeda, her husband, says that she told him that she
> had enjoyed her life and had nothing to regret. That is what
> Mineko was.
>
> Hideko urushihara