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Program

◆Thursday, November 5, 2015
time Title Name Affiliation
12:00 - 13:00 Registration
13:00 - 13:10 Welcome Message Tadashi Yamamoto
Session 1 Biology and gene regulationChair: Tadashi Yamamoto
13:10 - 13:40 Translational control of cancer and autism Nahum Sonenberg McGill University
13:40 - 14:00 Identification of a sleep regulatory circuit and implications for the function and evolution of REM sleep Yu Hayashi University of Tsukuba
14:00 - 14:25 Oscillatory control of neural stem cells Ryoichiro Kageyama Kyoto University
14:25 - 14:35 Break
Session 2 Cellular moduleChair: Masasuke Yoshida
14:35 - 15:05 The role of kinetochores in chromosome segregation and feedback control of cell division Andrea Musacchio Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
15:05 - 15:25 Transport toward the center of the cell: structure & mechanism of cytoplasmic dynein Takahide Kon Osaka University
15:25 - 15:50 Proton pumping mechanism coupled with electron transfer of bovine cytochrome c oxidase Tomitake Tsukihara University of Hyogo
15:50 - 16:10 Molecular mechanism of V1 rotary motor Takeshi Murata Chiba University
16:10 - 16:20 Break
Session 3 In vivo function and structureChair: Keiji Tanaka
16:20 - 16:50 Broad Neutralization of Influenza Viruses and Implications for a Universal Vaccine and Therapy Ian A. Wilson Scripps Research Institute
16:50 - 17:15 Structural study of TLR8 sensing single stranded RNA in innate immune system Toshiyuki Shimizu The University of Tokyo
17:15 - 17:35 Structural insight into multitasking molecular chaperone Trigger Factor Tomohide Saio Hokkaido University
17:35 - 18:00 Structural Basis of Bacterial Multidrug Efflux Pumps and Development of Pump Inhibitors Akihito Yamaguchi Osaka University, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Sciences
18:00 - 18:10 Break
18:10 - 20:50 Poster session & Reception (Toast, Closing)
◆Friday, November 6, 2015
time Title Name Affiliation
9:00 - 10:00 Registration
Session 4 Biological dynamicsChair: Tetsu Akiyama
10:00 - 10:30 Systems medicine - from molecules to patients Ursula Klingmuller The German Cancer Research Center
10:30 - 10:50 Generating diverse organ buds from stem cells Takanori Takebe Yokohama City University
10:50 - 11:15 Temporal Coding and Transomic Analysis of Insulin Action Shinya Kuroda The University of Tokyo
11:15 - 13:00 On Own for Lunch & Poster Viewing (Chair & Invitees: Lunch at restaurant "Camellia")
Session 5 State-of-the-art biological technologiesChair: Junichi Takagi
13:00 - 13:30 Structures of TRP ion channels by single particle cryo-EM Yifan Cheng University of California, San Francisco
13:30 - 13:55 Direct Visualization of Protein Molecules in Dynamic Action by High-speed Atomic Force Microscopy Toshio Ando Kanazawa University
13:55 - 14:15 Novel arrayed lipid bilayer chamber system for highly sensitive analysis of membrane transporters Rikiya Watanabe The University of Tokyo
14:15 - 14:40 Probing the biological dynamics using Zero-Mode Waveguides Sotaro Uemura The University of Tokyo
14:40 - 14:50 Break
Session 6 State-of-the-art biological technologies and biological dynamicsChair: Hiroki Ueda
14:50 - 15:20 Development and Applications of CRISPR-Cas9 for Genome Editing Feng Zhang Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
15:20 - 15:40 Carrying skeletal elements by novel type of cells enables the self-organizing construction of 4D skeleton of sponges Noriko Funayama Kyoto University
15:40 - 16:05 Roles of the tight junction (TJ)-apical complex in epithelial morphogenetic dynamics Sachiko Tsukita Osaka University
16:05 - 16:25 A synthetic approach to understanding protein molecules Nobuyasu Koga Institute for Molecular Science
16:25 - 16:30 Closing remarks Yoshiko Shirokizawa JST