May 25th (Monday)
-ITbM New Building Inauguration Ceremony-
Venue: ITbM New Building
-The 3rd International Symposium on Transformative Bio-Molecules (ISTbM-3)-
Venue: Toyoda Auditorium
-The 11th Hirata Award-
Venue: Toyoda Auditorium
-The 1st Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award-
Venue: Toyoda Auditorium
May 26th (Tuesday)
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-The 3rd International Symposium on Transformative Bio-Molecules (ISTbM-3)-
Venue: Toyoda Auditorium
9:00–9:50
9:50–10:20
10:20–10:50
10:50–11:05
11:05–11:55
11:55–12:25
12:25–13:45
13:45–14:35
14:35–15:05
15:05–15:35
15:35–15:50
15:50–16:40
16:40–17:10
17:10–18:00
18:00–18:05
Makoto Fujita (The University of Tokyo)
“Crystalline Sponge Method Updated”
Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi (Nagoya Univ.)
“Looking for novel peptide hormones in plants”
Takashi Ooi (ITbM)
“Molecular Design of Organic Ion Pairs for Asymmetric Catalysis”
Coffee Break
Gregory A. Voth (University of Chicago, USA)
“Revealing Molecular Features that Modulate Mesoscale Biomolecular Phenomena”
Shigehiro Yamaguchi (ITbM)
“New Fluorophore Skeletons for Bioimaging”
Lunch Break
Wolf Frommer (Carnegie Institution for Science, USA)
“The next generation of fluorescent biosensors for monitoring enzyme/transporter activity in vivo”
Hiroshi Abe (Nagoya Univ.)
“Synthetic Biology of Circular Oligonucleotide”
Florence Tama (Nagoya Univ.)
“Hybrid approaches to characterize structure and dynamics of biomolecular systems from single molecule experiments”
Coffee Break
Christopher J. Chang (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
“Molecular Imaging Approaches to Studying Chemistry in the Brain”
Takashi Yoshimura (ITbM)
“Understanding the mechanism of seasonal time measurement and development of transformative bio-molecules”
Sean Cutler (University of California, Riverside, USA)
“Chemical Control of Plant Water Consumption”
Closing Remarks: Tetsuya Higashiyama (Vice Director, ITbM)
9:30–9:35
9:35–9:45
9:45–9:50
9:50–9:55
9:55–10:00
10:00–10:15
10:25–10:40
10:40–10:45
10:45–11:30
12:40–12:45
12:45–12:50
12:50–13:20
13:20–14:10
14:10–14:20
14:20–14:50
14:50–14:55
14:55–16:10
16:10–16:25
16:25–16:40
16:40–16:45
16:45–18:00
18:00–18:15
18:15–20:00
Opening Remarks: Kenichiro Itami (Director, ITbM)
Opening Remarks: Seiichi Matsuo (President, Nagoya Univ)
Felicitations: Toshio Kuroki (WPI program Director, JSPS)
Felicitations: Yutaka Tokiwa (Director-General, Research Promotion Bureau, MEXT)
Felicitations: Daniel Woolf (Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Queen’s Univ., Canada)
Briefing: Keiichi Wakisaka (Nagoya Univ.)
"Design Concept of ITbM’s New Building: Breaking the Walls and Mixing"
Unveiling Ceremony
Group Photo
Tour
Opening Remarks: Hideyo Kunieda (Trustee, Nagoya Univ)
Opening Remarks: Steven Liss (Vice-Principal of Research, Queen’s Univ., Canada)
Overview of ITbM: Kenichiro Itami (Director, ITbM)
Yoshinori Fujiyoshi (Nagoya University)
“Structural physiology of channels”
Coffee Break
History & Overview: Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Vice Director, ITbM) and Jeffrey Bode (ITbM; ETH, Switzerland)
Awarding Ceremony: Daisuke Uemura (Kanagawa Univ.; Professor Emeritus, Nagoya Univ.)
Award Lecture: Ashraf Brik (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
“The Ubiquitin signal: Where chemistry makes a difference”
Coffee Break
History & Overview: Kazuo Shinozaki (Director, CSRS, RIKEN)
Awarding Ceremony: Tsuneko Okazaki (Professor Emeritus, Nagoya Univ.)
Award Lecture: Feng Zhang (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA)
“Development and applications of CRISPR-Cas9 for genome editing”
Group Photo
Reception Party (Toyoda auditorium)
May 25-26th, 2015
Toyoda Auditorium, Nagoya University
May 25-26th, 2015
Toyoda Auditorium, Nagoya University
Move to the entrance of ITbM new building
Hosted by:
Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University
Supported by:
The Chemical Society of Japan
The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry
The Molecular Biology Society of Japan
The Japanese Biochemical Society
The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists
Japan Society for Cell Biology
The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
Japanese Society for Chemical Biology
The Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan
Japanese Society for Chronobiology
The Biophysical Society of Japan
Program for Advancing Strategic International Networks to Accelerate the Circulation of Talented Researchers
Registration:
Free of charge
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Lecturers for The 3rd International Symposium on Transformative Bio-Molecules (ISTbM-3)
Makoto Fujita
The University of Tokyo
"Crystalline Sponge Method Updated"
Hiroshi Abe
"Synthetic Biology of Circular Oligonucleotide"
Nagoya University
Yoshinori Fujiyoshi
Nagoya University
Structural physiology; Structural and functional study of channels and receptors by cryo-electron microscopy
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"Structural physiology of channels"
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Wolf Frommer
"The next generation of fluorescent biosensors for monitoring enzyme/transporter activity in vivo"
Carnegie Institution for Science, USA
Florence Tama
"Hybrid approaches to characterize structure and dynamics of biomolecular systems from single molecule experiments"
Nagoya University
Gregory A. Voth
"Revealing Molecular Features that Modulate Mesoscale Biomolecular Phenomena"
University of Chicago, USA
Takashi Ooi
ITbM, Nagoya University
"Molecular Design of Organic Ion Pairs for Asymmetric Catalysis"
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Identification of novel peptide hormones and their receptors in plants
Dissection of posttranslational modification mechanisms of peptide hormones
Functional analysis of arabinogalactan proteins
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Selfassembling molecular systems utilizing transition metals
Chemistry of isolated nanospace
Coordination polymers
Chemical Biology of nucleic acids
Development of bio-imaging probe
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Mechanisms and regulation of sugar transport
Mechanisms and transport of nitrogen-containing molecules
Application of biosensors for systems integration of transport processes
Computational Structural Biology
Hybrid approaches (computational modeling and experimental data) Dynamics and function of biological molecules
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Biomolecular and liquid state phenomena
Novel materials
Organic ion pair catalysis
Molecular recognition Molecule activation Pharmaceuticals
Christopher J. Chang
"Molecular Imaging Approaches to Studying Chemistry in the Brain"
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Metals in biology, particularly in neuroscience and signal transduction
Energy catalysis and green chemistry
Molecular imaging
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Fluorescent molecules Molecular design Physical organic chemistry
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Biological clock Systems biology
Animal production Pharmaceuticals
Shigehiro Yamaguchi
"New Fluorophore Skeletons for Bioimaging"
ITbM, Nagoya University
Sean Cutler
"Chemical Control of Plant Water Consumption"
University of California,
Riverside, USA
Chemical Genomics; Analysis and Exploitation of Natural Variation Using Small Molecules
Takashi Yoshimura
ITbM, Nagoya University
"Understanding the mechanism of seasonal time measurement and development of transformative bio-molecules"
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Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi
"Looking for novel peptide hormones in plants"
Nagoya University
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Lecturer for The 11th Hirata Award
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1) Chemical and semisynthesis of posttranslationally modified proteins
2) Studying the ubiquitin and ubiquitin like modifier signals
3) Developing assays, activity based probes and novel inhibitors for deubiquitinases
1) Elucidation of genetic basis of neurological and psychiatric diseases
2) Development of novel therapeutic strategies that address the root cause and not just the symptoms of diseases
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Lecturer for The 1st Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award
Feng Zhang
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
"Development and applications of CRISPR-Cas9 for genome editing"
Ashraf Brik
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
"The Ubiquitin signal: Where chemistry makes a difference"
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