9:00- 9:05  Remarks by Mr. Michiaki Ohkubo, Director, Department of International Affairs, JST

9:05- 9:15  Remarks from Mtro. Juan Carlos Romero Hicks, Director General, CONACYT

9:15- 9:20  Remarks from UNAM

9:20- 9:25  Remarks from Embajador Masaaki Ono, Ambassador of Japan to Mexico, Japanese Embassy in Mexico

9:30- 9:40  By Prof. Gozoh Tsujimoto, Kyoto University

09:40-10:05  "Angiostasis and Angiogenesis Regulated by Angiopoietin-1/TIE2 Receptor System"
By Dr. Shigetomo Fukuhara, Section Chief, Department of Structural Analysis, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute

10:05-10:10  Q&A

10:10-10:35  "Alpha-1-Adrenoceptor Phosphorylation and Desenstization"
By Prof. J. Adolfo García-Sáinz, Professor and Director, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

10:35-10:40  Q&A

10:45-11:10  "Free Fatty Acid Receptor GPR120: Function and Pharmacology"
By Prof. Gozoh Tsujimoto, Professor, Department of Genomic Drug Discovery Science, Graduate School of Pharmaceutial Sciences Kyoto University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University

11:10-11:15  Q&A

11:15-11:40  "Protein Kinase C Modulates WNT Signalling in Colon Tumoral Cell Lines"
By Prof. Martha Robles-Flores, Professor, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

11:40-11:45  Q&A

11:45-13:00  Lunch Break

13:00-13:25  "Molecular Components Supporting Ryanodine Receptor-Mediated Ca²⁺ Release: Roles of Junctophilin and Tric Channel in Cardiac Ca²⁺ Release"
By Prof. Hiroshi Takeshima, Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry Graduate School of Pharmaceutial Sciences, Kyoto University

13:25-13:30  Q&A

13:30-13:55  "Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors for RHO Gtpases in Endothelial Cells: Critical Transducers of Angiogenic Signals"
By Dr. José Vázquez-Prado, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Depto. de Farmacología, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN)

13:55-14:00  Q&A

14:00-14:20  Coffee Break

14:20-14:45  "Pharmacogenomics and Therapeutic Target Validation of Cardiovascular Disease Models"
By Prof. Toshio Tanaka, Professor, Department of Pharmacology Graduate school of Medicine Faculity of Medicine, Mie University

14:45-14:50  Q&A

14:50-15:15  "The CD43 Molecule as a Potential Therapeutic Target"
By Dr. Yvonne Rosenstein, Researcher, Depto. de Medicina Molecular y Bioprocesos, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

15:15-15:20  Q&A

15:20-15:30  Coffee Break

15:30-15:55  "Analysis of AVP Functions via V1A and V1B AVP Receptors with Knockout Mice"
By Dr. Akito Tanoue, Director, Department of Pharmacology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development (NRICHD)

15:55-16:00  Q&A

16:00-16:25  "Mechanobiology and its Clinical Applications"
By Prof. Keiji Naruse, Professor and Chair of Physiology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences

16:25-16:30  Q&A

16:30-16:55  "Fc Receptor Signaling in Phagocytic Leukocytes"
By Dr. Carlos Rosales, Associate Professor, Departamento de Inmunología Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

16:55-17:00  Q&A

9:30- 9:40  By Prof. Keiichi Namba, Osaka University

09:40-10:05  "Two functionally distinct Type III secretion systems for Salmonella pathogenesis"
By Prof. Tomoko Yamamoto, Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University

10:05-10:10  Q&A

10:10-10:35  "The Dot/Icm Type IV secretion system and effector proteins: essential players in Legionella infection"
By Dr. Hiroki Nagai, Associate Professor, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University

10:35-10:40  Q&A

10:40-11:05  "Mechanisms participating in the biogenesis of the type III secretion system of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli"
By Prof. Bertha González Pedrajo, Assistant Professor, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

11:05-11:10  Q&A

11:10-11:35  "Molecular Mechanism of Bacterial Flagellar Protein Export"
By Dr. Tohru Minamino, Assistant professor, Graduate school of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University

11:35-11:40  Q&A

11:40-13:00  Lunch Break

13:00-13:25  "Mechanisms controlling the expression of the locus of enterocyte effacement genes in attaching and effacing pathogens"
By Dr. José Luis Puente, Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

13:25-13:30  Q&A

13:30-13:55  "It takes two to tango: gene conversion in the Rhizobium genome"
By Dr. David Romero, Professor in Molecular Genetics (Investigador Titular "C"), tenured. Head of the Program on Genome Engineering., Center of Genomic Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

13:55-14:00  Q&A

14:00-14:25  "Criticality, robustness and evolvability in genetic regulatory networks"
By Prof. Maximino Aldana, Professor of Physics, Institute of Physical Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

14:25-14:30  Q&A

14:30-14:50  Coffee Break

14:50-15:15  "Chemotactic and structural studies in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides"
By Prof. Georges Dreyfus, Professor, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

15:15-15:20  Q&A

15:20-15:45  "Receptor localization and signaling in bacterial chemotaxis"
By Prof. Ikuro Kawagishi, Professor, Department of Frontier Bioscience, Faculty of Engineering, Hosei University

15:45-15:50  Q&A

15:50-16:15  "Short fatty-acids act as alarmones that directly signal to the BarA/UvrY two-component system the entry to stationary phase of growth"
By Prof. Dimitris Georgellis, Associate Professor, Instituto de Fisiologia Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

16:15-16:20  Q&A

16:20-16:40  Coffee Break

16:40-17:05  "Direct observation of steps in rotation of the bacterial flagellar motor"
By Prof. Akihiko Ishijima, Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary, Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University

17:05-17:10  Q&A

17:10-17:35  "Molecular mechanisms of self-assembly and motion of the bacterial flagellum"
By Prof. Keiichi Namba, Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University

17:35-17:40  Q&A

17:40-17:50  By Prof. Georges Dreyfus, UNAM

10:00-12:00  Visit to the National Anthropology Museum

12:00-13:00  Lunch Break

13:30-15:30  Visit to Labs at Instituto de Fisiologia Celular of UNAM

13:30-16:00  Visit to Labs at Instituto de Fisiología Celular of UNAM

16:00-17:30  Meeting with the Researchers and Students at Instituto de Fisiología Celular of UNAM